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New comment by segfaultex in "Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)"

segfaultex — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:53:56 +0000

I wouldn't, the A380 is designed to fly with just one operational engine.

New comment by segfaultex in "Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended"

segfaultex — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:52:53 +0000

With open-weight models getting closer and closer to parity with frontier models for specific tasks (coding,etc) the frontier labs are trying to make moats via their software.

Personally, this is why I foresee Anthropic/OpenAI/Google taking a bath once their creditors come calling. I think the individuals most attached to a specific app are the ones least willing to pay the true cost of inference. (IE: your grandma using chatgpt to ask for recipe recommendations probably isn't going to pay $400/mo).

New comment by segfaultex in "Volkswagen planning to cut up to 100.000 jobs globally"

segfaultex — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:02:50 +0000

BYD sure, but I have serious long-term doubts about teslas ability to capture any significant market share. They’ve dropped to their lowest level in the US since ~2017 and frankly their products are awful.

We just bought an EV last year and tried everyone. The teslas were the second worst in our opinion. The worst were the rivian products, just horrible UX, poor engineering, poor assembly, clear rent-seeking behavior, etc.

BMW, Ford, and GM make better vehicles and better EVs.

New comment by segfaultex in "EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA"

segfaultex — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:20:34 +0000

The overwhelming majority of local businesses around me don't have websites, just a FB page. If you want to look at upcoming events, specials, restaurant menus, etc. you either have to hope FB doesn't throw up the "you need an acct to see this page" blocker, or sign up.

New comment by segfaultex in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

segfaultex — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:07:54 +0000

You think making the biggest breakthrough in battery tech is easier than monetary incentives?

New comment by segfaultex in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

segfaultex — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:05:55 +0000

>The native integration knows about car's battery state all the time and auto-suggests stops.

CarPlay does this on my F150 Lightning. It manages state, preconditioning when routing to a charging stop, will suggest charging stops as I'm routing, etc. etc.

There's really nothing special about GM's implementation IMO, except that they charge you monthly to access it.

New comment by segfaultex in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

segfaultex — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:03:36 +0000

We bought an F150 Lightning instead of a Sierra EV mainly because of this. I'm not interested in 'cars as a service'.

New comment by segfaultex in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

segfaultex — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:53:23 +0000

Deleted mine months ago. Altman is one of the slimiest tech ceos out there, which is saying something.

New comment by segfaultex in "This time is different"

segfaultex — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:10:00 +0000

Yes. I see it hallucinate method names for 3rd party libraries constantly.

It’s useful, but when users here say they’re vibe coding 98% of their work, I have to think they’re not working on anything complex.

New comment by segfaultex in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

segfaultex — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:16:13 +0000

Conversely, I have yet to see agentic coding tools produce anything I’d be willing to ship.

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

segfaultex — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:39:21 +0000

If I had to bet; they'll put their 3.7L V6 in and run it on the miller cycle with a fixed drive to hit @130+kW or so.

The changes for cooling, etc. will be substantial, but the problem space is already well-known by the team, so the time to market probably won't be as long as we think.

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

segfaultex — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:25:40 +0000

Also bought a Lightning. I use it for plenty of truck related things that don't involve towing and it's great. I like to target shoot on family farm land, and it's awesome to toss my steel targets and equipment in the bed and offroad to the area I shoot on (there's an area pretty far in with a sharp elevation change that's created a large berm). Or going to lowes to get a ton of fertilizer/plants/gardening equipment for my spouse.

I also use it to commute, and it's even better at that (part of that is mine being the Platinum trim). Quiet, smooth, powerful, has Android Auto/CarPlay (unlike GM's products), etc.

They really are a fantastic vehicle for those who don't need to quickly tow heavy trailers 400 miles. Especially on the used market.

I think the issue was that Ford wasn't making much margin on them and they weren't moving sufficient volume to make up for that. (around 20K/yr avg)

New comment by segfaultex in "Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well"

segfaultex — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:23:33 +0000

That’s not what I’m suggesting at all.

New comment by segfaultex in "Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well"

segfaultex — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:18:36 +0000

Sounds like an argument for better hiring practices and planning.

Producing a lot of code isn’t proof of anything.

New comment by segfaultex in "Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well"

segfaultex — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:16:18 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. Shitty companies steal art and then put out shitty products that shitty people use to spam us with slop.

The same goes for code as well.

I’ve explored Claude code/antigravity/etc, found them mostly useless, tried a more interactive approach with copilot/local models/ tried less interactive “agents”/etc. it’s largely all slop.

My coworkers who claim they’re shipping at warp speed using generative AI are almost categorically our worst developers by a mile.

New comment by segfaultex in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

segfaultex — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:49:14 +0000

Or the Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, iPad, etc.

They’ve made plenty of things. I liken them to the Lexus of consumer electronics; expensive for what they are, thoughtfully designed, and conservative in their approach to adopting new trends.

New comment by segfaultex in "Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too"

segfaultex — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:00:31 +0000

Why not both? And that's a good point, there are a LOT of incentives to make things arbitrarily complex in a variety of fields.

New comment by segfaultex in "Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too"

segfaultex — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:54:32 +0000

Not the original commenter, but I 100% agree that it's weird we have so many ways to describe dictionaries/hash tables/maps/etc. and lists.

New comment by segfaultex in "Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too"

segfaultex — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:53:14 +0000

Yeah, I don't want to be uncharitable, but I've noticed that a lot of stem fields make heavy use of esoteric language and syntax, and I suspect they do so as a means of gatekeeping.

I understand that some degree of formalism is required to enable the sharing of knowledge amongst people across a variety of languages, but sometimes I'll read a white paper and think "wow, this could be written a LOT more simply".

Statistics is a major culprit of this.

New comment by segfaultex in "Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities"

segfaultex — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:17:02 +0000

I'd argue that placing faith in any large institution is folly. Especially when that institution has a bunch of perverse incentives to act immorally.

Any nation with any amount of leverage has abused it.