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New comment by stronglikedan in "Tesla Roadster"

stronglikedan — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:56:10 +0000

Just cuz you're not impressed doesn't mean only bots are. That's a hell of a demo, and a sweet looking ride to boot.

New comment by stronglikedan in "Tesla Roadster"

stronglikedan — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:54:31 +0000

I hate to be the one to tell you, but you probably pass at least one very explosive tank of something very volatile each and every day on your commute.

New comment by stronglikedan in "Tesla Roadster"

stronglikedan — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:38:16 +0000

Right, which is exactly what someone that only wants to spend 25k is looking for.

New comment by stronglikedan in "What on Earth Is Dekton?"

stronglikedan — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:35:53 +0000

Considering how much she paid for it, my jaw dropped when my mom first scolded me for putting a hot pan directly on her brand new quartz counter top. I'll take my cheap (probably fake) granite any day over such a useless counter. Like your Dekton, it just brushes everything off.

New comment by stronglikedan in "New 'Super Ice' 10 Times Stronger, Bringing It Close to the Strength of Concrete"

stronglikedan — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:42:02 +0000

> The faster you go, the more the shielding matters.

Unless of course you just bend everything around your private bubble with your warp drive.

New comment by stronglikedan in "The Folders Programming Language"

stronglikedan — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:44:07 +0000

> The names of the folders are ignored

Oh good, cuz naming things is hard!

New comment by stronglikedan in "Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses"

stronglikedan — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:52:10 +0000

> Why didn't it evolve like that in the first place?

It did, just in Arabic.

New comment by stronglikedan in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

stronglikedan — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:16:48 +0000

As someone who still pays for usenet, the benefit of torrents is anything older than a couple of days, since stuff gets pulled from usenet servers almost as soon as it's posted. Of course, if you have everything pre-configured to find and grab everything you're interested in, you won't even notice, but sometimes I just get an itch to watch something older off the cuff, and that's where torrents shine.

New comment by stronglikedan in "Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges"

stronglikedan — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:15:08 +0000

counter counter point: go as fast as is safe, and don't get caught (speed limits are generally well below what is safe)

New comment by stronglikedan in "Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges"

stronglikedan — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:13:48 +0000

At first, most do. After a while, it's only a few. The limits are only increased when most people are doing it. It pans out eventually.

New comment by stronglikedan in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

stronglikedan — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:11:31 +0000

Even those in slavery when the BoR was created?

New comment by stronglikedan in "Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold"

stronglikedan — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:55:27 +0000

Of all the questions I didn't expect to encounter today, this was one of them.

New comment by stronglikedan in "How Tabasco Became the World's Hot Sauce"

stronglikedan — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:11:09 +0000

Cholula can't be beat for Mexican food, but I'd prefer if more restaurants offered Crystal.

New comment by stronglikedan in "How Tabasco Became the World's Hot Sauce"

stronglikedan — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:09:51 +0000

To me, it can't be beat for eggs and oysters, but for everything else, there's Crystal!

New comment by stronglikedan in "TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material"

stronglikedan — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:25:47 +0000

Maybe their "backup system" was Onedrive and it was deleted with the local copy.

New comment by stronglikedan in "Hiking the world in search of rare cheeses"

stronglikedan — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:26:42 +0000

Sorry, I consider cheese to be bacteria poop only, with no additional "processing". Casu martzu is just fly shit.

New comment by stronglikedan in "Show HN: How Random Are You?"

stronglikedan — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:53:40 +0000

And all that GOOG-411 data!

New comment by stronglikedan in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

stronglikedan — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:17:08 +0000

> The problem is that if you take away the LLM, all of a sudden you can't do any of the things you "learned".

Even if that were true, LLMs aren't going away, so that isn't a problem.

New comment by stronglikedan in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

stronglikedan — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:13:52 +0000

Linus Tech Tups tested this and determined that it's nowhere near ready for professional use. It's good enough, or even great, for amateur stuff though, so it has it's place. However, that won't even make a dent in Adobe's books, since the vase majority of their licenses go to professionals.

New comment by stronglikedan in ""Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill"

stronglikedan — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:36:03 +0000

The author's a sucker. YT premium pays for itself many times over.