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New comment by mgoetzke in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

mgoetzke — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:23:47 +0000

For Valerian he should have been better at casting people that had chemistry and felt real

New comment by mgoetzke in "Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste"

mgoetzke — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:44:09 +0000

As someone who never liked writing anything C++ since 2000+ (did like it before) I cannot agree with this. C++ and Rust are not comparable in this sense at all.

One can argue Rust is what C++ wanted to be maybe. But C++ as it is now is anything but clean and clear.

New comment by mgoetzke in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

mgoetzke — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:02:17 +0000

Considering that I doubt most normal office-user people even use features in Word other than changing fonts etc I doubt that will be a big issue anyway.

New comment by mgoetzke in "Pi.dev: There are many coding agents, but this one is mine"

mgoetzke — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:56:53 +0000

I only discovered PI after reading https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/.. and its the first coding agent that makes using local llms and switching to commercial options really fast and well behaved.

Still testing it, but I have to say so far I am extremely impressed.

New comment by mgoetzke in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

mgoetzke — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:30:48 +0000

considering cameras can create reliable enough distance measurements AND also handle all the color reception needed for legally driving roads it was always a ridiculous idea by a certain set of people that lidar is necessary.

New comment by mgoetzke in "Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System"

mgoetzke — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:36:07 +0000

Didnt russia cause a lot of debris due to one of their tests and endanger the ISS crew ?

New comment by mgoetzke in "The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)"

mgoetzke — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:44:24 +0000

The fact that canadian lumber companies seem to be switching their machinery to metric is funny though. https://woodcentral.com.au/canadas-sawmills-weigh-metric-swi...

New comment by mgoetzke in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

mgoetzke — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:02:05 +0000

The main problem was that it was and is twice as expensive with less range as they said it would be with seemingly no push to address either.

It seems to be a good product (with compromises as any product) but its not a slam dunk to choose that as a Model 3/Y is.

New comment by mgoetzke in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

mgoetzke — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:32:27 +0000

Dont get me started on the number of times Signal/formerly Skype opened up a dialog in-the-midst of me typing and me accidentally accepting a call because i happened to write 'space' at that moment in time

New comment by mgoetzke in "Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres"

mgoetzke — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:06:33 +0000

That depends a lot on many factors and thus I dont like generic statements like that which tend to be more focused on a specific database pattern. That said everyone should indeed be aware of the potential tradeoffs.

And of course we could come up with many ways to generate our own ids and make them unique, but we have the following requirements.

- It needs to be a string (because we allow composing them to 'derive' keys) - A client must be able to create them (not just a server) without risk for collisions - The time order of keys must not be guessable easily (as the id is often leaked via references which could 'betray' not just the existence of a document, but also its relative creation time wrt others). - It should be easy to document how any client can safely generate document ids.

The lookup performance is not really such a big deal for us. Where it is we can do a projection into a more simple format where applicable.

New comment by mgoetzke in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

mgoetzke — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:52:00 +0000

THe first example they showed is quite the turn-off though :)

New comment by mgoetzke in "Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth's atmosphere"

mgoetzke — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:55:18 +0000

It matters because it helps the "Elon Bad" storyline, that seems to be the connecting thread between all these "reports" whether about SpaceX or Tesla by some news outlets which dont even do the due diligence of putting the stories into any kind of perspective or try to find out if the implied premise of the headline is true or should even matter to the casual reader.

New comment by mgoetzke in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

mgoetzke — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:58:52 +0000

So it wont work in Europe where its needed most ?

What else is it going to do ? Translating Californian to New York English ? Help with ordering from Taipei-Palace ?

New comment by mgoetzke in "Open models by OpenAI"

mgoetzke — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:29:54 +0000

Try changing the names of the objects. eg fox, hen, seeds for examples

New comment by mgoetzke in "MacBook Pro Insomnia"

mgoetzke — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:19:58 +0000

Yes Chromecast at work. One would think answering it once would shut it up for a long time, but alas that is not to be.

New comment by mgoetzke in "Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020)"

mgoetzke — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:03:21 +0000

Would love to have a look at that show based on that description. Alas, as is the way in 2025, no streaming services here have it, looking for it on Amazon was not helpful either (and offered some embarrassing suggestions instead).

New comment by mgoetzke in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

mgoetzke — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:52:57 +0000

Substance being ?

New comment by mgoetzke in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

mgoetzke — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:38:30 +0000

LLMs can be baited, small changes to system prompts can cause this quite unexpectedly just like many big companies found out by accident.

we fix it and move on.

New comment by mgoetzke in "OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine"

mgoetzke — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:37:35 +0000

Markdown integration would be really great.

New comment by mgoetzke in "Tesla sedan hit by train after autonomous driving error"

mgoetzke — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:46:03 +0000

FSD is VERY annoying when you do not look at the street ahead. Not even sure FSD was on to be honest