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New comment by sheepybloke in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

sheepybloke — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:58:59 +0000

My uncle works in the industry and was getting a new car recently. His two options were all electric or all ICE, because from his experience, EHEVs have the problems of both ICE and BEV vehicles.

New comment by sheepybloke in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

sheepybloke — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:07:13 +0000

> But it seems that the pinnacle of human intelligence: the greatest, smartest, brightest minds have all come together to... build us another ad engine. What happened to superintelligence and AGI?

While we all knew it was inevitable, I think this quote from the article sums up the feeling nicely.

New comment by sheepybloke in "Laptops with Stickers"

sheepybloke — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:15:32 +0000

That's why I always have a clear case on my Macbook I cover with stickers. That way, I can take them with me when I leave, or take them off if I have a big meeting/presentation!

New comment by sheepybloke in "State of Embedded: Q4 2025 Overview"

sheepybloke — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:54:35 +0000

A lot of the chips have started including NPUs. How are applications supposed to access that acceleration now with embedded Linux? Does linux handle this for you, or do you need to leverage some specific drivers like CUDA?

New comment by sheepybloke in "Wireguard FPGA"

sheepybloke — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:37:38 +0000

Exactly. We've looked at using Wireguard at my company, but because it can't be made FIPS compliant, it makes it a hard sell. There is a FIPS Wireguard implementation by WolfSSL, interestingly enough.

New comment by sheepybloke in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

sheepybloke — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:19:13 +0000

It was interesting to see that they didn't show the robot folding laundry; rather, just it laying out the clothes.

New comment by sheepybloke in "Why haven't local-first apps become popular?"

sheepybloke — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:39:51 +0000

> Switch to someone who won't? And who would that be?

The issue is that it's not as simple as just "switching" and giving another company your money. How would you migrate your 5-10 years of Confluence pages and Jira tickets if you wanted to switch from Atlassian? You're going to put all of your members through the hassle of switching a booking service/payment process? You know you're being screwed, but the cost to switch is often more than the increased cost. The modern economy is balancing cost increases to your customers with the cost to switch to a competitor.

New comment by sheepybloke in "Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum"

sheepybloke — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:45:57 +0000

For me, it's the first true upgrade in the design of a phone in a long time. It's not a slightly better CPU or battery, but a different way to work with this key device in my life. I think it will be the default phone format in ~5 years, especially for younger people.

New comment by sheepybloke in "The Storm Hits the Art Market"

sheepybloke — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:29:07 +0000

As mentioned by others, I think the art world has reached a major schism where there are two types of artists: those who target rich collectors and those who are more grassroots. I've been to a lot of the larger art shows in the US and it's always amazing to me how expensive so many of the pieces are. I couldn't even justify buying a cheaper piece I want on a software engineer's salary. Instead, I've found that local art fairs have been where so much of the growth is at. Things like Cherry Creek Art festival or the myriad of smaller markets around, you can find amazing artists selling interesting and beautiful works. Between markets and social media, there's a path to being a sustainable, working artist. And personally, I think being a collector of smaller artist's prints and works is more fun than the expensive ones!

New comment by sheepybloke in "Kenvue stock drops on report RFK Jr will link autism to Tylenol during pregnancy"

sheepybloke — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 01:16:05 +0000

That's what our genetic councilor said as well. It's important to note autism is a spectrum and quite varied, some of it genetic and some of it related to other factors.

New comment by sheepybloke in "How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ"

sheepybloke — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:52:36 +0000

The take away from the teacher graphs were very different than my take aways. The author was bullish because ~55% used AI to help prep lessons. However, looking at the graph, I would be very bearish about the adoption of AI. Most of the graphs show that a vast majority of teachers aren't using AI. This leads me to see a huge discrepancy between real world usage and the amount of money that's being invested.

New comment by sheepybloke in "The death of partying in the USA"

sheepybloke — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:20:12 +0000

As a zennial, there are a couple things that contribute: 1. No one has a car when you're younger unless your parents are well off. Most people I know didn't have access to a car until college. Makes it hard to get to parties when only 1 of your friends has a car that fills up instantly. 2. Most of your friends are online anyways. You're going to hang out with friends every night because they're on discord, waiting for you to get on and play your social game together. Why would you hang out in person if you can hang out online? You can't get to their house anyways. 3. Similarly to that, none of my friends live near each other anymore. We all moved to different cities for different reasons. So many people I've talked to are similar. It also makes it harder to find new friends, since everyone has their friends. They're just not near.

New comment by sheepybloke in "Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?"

sheepybloke — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 22:17:44 +0000

One of the coolest ones in my opinion is Xiphos Systems. Lots of cool space hardware!

https://xiphos.com/

New comment by sheepybloke in "TIL you can make "GIFs" with SVGs for GitHub README.md files"

sheepybloke — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:12:37 +0000

Also looks like this is supported in Gitlab as well!

Example from the Mariner repo[1] after doing a quick google and finding a link to the site.

[1] https://gitlab.com/radek-sprta/mariner/blob/master/README.md

New comment by sheepybloke in "macOS Icon History"

sheepybloke — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:48:05 +0000

I agree. Honestly, looking at the most recent icons, they look like what I remember the icons from 2024 looking like. I weas surprised to see that they were not the icons I remembered.

New comment by sheepybloke in "Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout"

sheepybloke — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:02:26 +0000

This has been happening in the US for the past 10 years. The big switch has been away from coal and some slower natural gas generators towards more nimble natural gas generators. Coal and other natural gas generators take a while to start up and shut down (think on the order of a day), which don't work well for coordinating with renewables and are much more expensive to operate. So companies have been switching to faster natural gas generators that start up in minutes to hours to support when demand is higher.

New comment by sheepybloke in "Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship"

sheepybloke — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:48:17 +0000

In LEO, there is a lot of testing and mitigation you can do with your design to help reduce the chance and impact of radiation single events. For example, redundancy for key components, ECC for RAM, supervisor hardware, RAID or other storage tooling, etc.

New comment by sheepybloke in "Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship"

sheepybloke — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:43:57 +0000

The caveat to this is that that this also dependent on where in the lifecycle of the satellite you are at. For example after launch, you might just have your survival heaters on, which will keep you within generally an industrial range (e.g. >-40c), and you might not reach higher temps until you hit nominal operations. But a lot of the hardware specs for temperature often are closer standard "industrial" specs rather than special mil or NASA specs.

New comment by sheepybloke in "Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship"

sheepybloke — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:35:32 +0000

The biggest difference is radiation. Even in LEO, you will get radiation-caused Single Events that will affect the hardware. That could be a small error or a destructive error, depending on what gets hit.

New comment by sheepybloke in "Show HN: SecureBuild – Zero-CVE Images That Pay OSS Projects"

sheepybloke — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:13:02 +0000

How does this compare with something like IronBank? Looks like that could be a great partnership!