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New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

pepperoni_pizza — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:10:34 +0000

It is fascinating that you look at design choices that Chinese Volvo copied from American Tesla (except for the speed limit) and declare that European cars are the problem.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland"

pepperoni_pizza — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:01:35 +0000

Today we sail

On the Solar Rail

For there's much we just don't know

So farewell with a kiss

Then it's fast for the mist

Till we're sleeping in the cold below

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "This blog is written in en-GB"

pepperoni_pizza — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:07:21 +0000

According to wikipedia, there's 128 millions of en-IN speakers, of which only few hundred thousands are native - while there's 248 million native en-US speakers.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Doing a masters while working in Spain"

pepperoni_pizza — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:27:32 +0000

You can reapply as a new student and get your finished classes accepted as finished in the new study.

My friend was in a similar situation as you, the same school, possibly, except it was "Electric Circuits 2".

On Wednesday he failed the last exam, Thursday he applied as new student, on Monday he was 1st year student and by Friday he was 3rd year student with all classes accepted. Still had to do the Electric Circuits 2 of course.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

pepperoni_pizza — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:06:29 +0000

Cars replaced horses. AI replaces humans.

The carriage owners in this metaphor are the capital class.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

pepperoni_pizza — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:09:27 +0000

> By what metric?

By the metric of Denmark being the leading force being Chat Control, Palantir driven panopticon and worse.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

pepperoni_pizza — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:29:22 +0000

Why do you think they left, then?

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

pepperoni_pizza — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:04:03 +0000

> Sorry, but how was that murder successful?

There's many anecdotes of people who managed to get lifesaving or lifechanging treatments in the panic after the CEO got murdered. Obviously, anecdotes aren't data - but it is highly likely that even though one life was lost, many were saved.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

pepperoni_pizza — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:00:32 +0000

Terrorism very much does work. The Basque and the Northern Irish terrorists / freedom fighters have gotten a so many of their demands for autonomy met that they disbanded (in one case formally, in the other almost) because they weren't needed anymore. Taliban also got the US out from Afghanistan pretty handily with mostly terrorism.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Your brain was never designed for this much bad news"

pepperoni_pizza — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:56:28 +0000

My favorite is having beer with friends in a restaurant car. It's like going to a pub but with awesome view!

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Your brain was never designed for this much bad news"

pepperoni_pizza — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:47:30 +0000

Depends on which powers for each specific choice.

Electric cars don't run on Saudi-Trump-Putin juice, so they're pretty good step in screwing those, for example.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Ten years of ClickHouse in open source"

pepperoni_pizza — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:44:57 +0000

I think that is just the nature of the open core business - but like most such businesses, they're not very clear about how that is what they are, pretending to be open source business instead.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

pepperoni_pizza — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:20:39 +0000

I think it also depends on other stuff. Spain gets bunch of sun even when there's the deepest winter in Finland but even if they are technically part of the same grid, the challenge is getting the energy there.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

pepperoni_pizza — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:17:44 +0000

Can you share where those numbers are from? I'd like to run a similar calculation on my own country.

Also I'm curious if you know how geography fits into this (like sunlight hours and stuff).

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

pepperoni_pizza — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:56:30 +0000

There is a few, from web browser games that still simulate the physics [1] to serious ones that include ropes, navigation and crew management [2].

[1]: https://www.sailrhythm.com/

[2]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/794860/eSail_Sailing_Simu...

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

pepperoni_pizza — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:41:03 +0000

Capitalism us a way to manage resources in a civilisation. A way that assigns enormous resources to Elon Musk the nazi climate denier and minimum resources to climate scientists.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

pepperoni_pizza — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:14:41 +0000

Nobody is getting charged for this in any way.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

pepperoni_pizza — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:26:50 +0000

At this point I just consider anyone taking Russian nuclear threats seriously a Russian propagandist (knowing or otherwise).

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"

pepperoni_pizza — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:11:40 +0000

Ultimately China and US (and anyone else in the world for that matter) are doing the same thing - helping their domestic industry compete domestically and internationally, because they want prosperity for their country. They do it via different means - China via massive subsidies and US via bans and tariffs, but the end is the same.

If someone tries to tell you that these are somehow morally different, and one of them is the good guy and the other is the bad guy, they are pushing propaganda, knowingly or unknowingly.

New comment by pepperoni_pizza in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

pepperoni_pizza — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:11:57 +0000

This is true for fruit pickers or uber drivers or whatever but it is ridiculously out of place statement for software engineers.