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New comment by tass in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

tass — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:42:48 +0000

Sounds like they’re using a treadmill, and yes this is about the most boring way possible to exercise

New comment by tass in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

tass — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:39:17 +0000

The risk is that beyond hobbyists technology will stagnate. It’s already much more productive using one or two frameworks over the rest of what’s available, and without training data it won’t be able to advance beyond those current popular frameworks.

New comment by tass in "Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet"

tass — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:49:11 +0000

If you’re using the same adapter successfully at a supercharger, you have the wrong adapter for AC (level 1/2) charging.

New comment by tass in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

tass — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:54:21 +0000

I agree that vinyl is technically worse than others modern formats, but it often gets mastered with greater care and therefore can sound better than CD or other digital formats.

Read this thorough rundown of one of the more famously over compressed albums where the vinyl release has better sound than even the 24 bit release: https://buttondown.com/rhcpsessions/archive/me-and-my-friend...

New comment by tass in "Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter"

tass — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:59:58 +0000

I use it to enable voice control (turn on the coffee machine), quick actions on iOS devices and for the simpler and faster Home ui for basic controls.

It’s also handy in that you get remote access with no extra port forwarding.

New comment by tass in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"

tass — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:26:33 +0000

Possibly obvious point, water softeners add salt to the water.

New comment by tass in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

tass — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:23:04 +0000

Vinyl, for whatever continuing reason, often does sound better than digital formats but only because it’s mastered with more care.

It could be that it’s physically impossible to master vinyl for extreme loudness, but whatever the reason is you can absolutely pick up a vinyl copy of an album and find it sounds much better than the streamed or CD version.

New comment by tass in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

tass — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:08:26 +0000

Not the op, but you only commit to what you already did in this sprint.

So this sprint shows what you delivered 2 sprints ago, next sprint will be the work you just finished.

New comment by tass in "DIY Soft Drinks"

tass — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:18:35 +0000

I’ve done this for years and never ruptured a bottle, I set the regulator to 60psi.

I’d like a metal bottle too but haven’t found one - I presume spraying some co2 into it would be enough to get the plain air out since you obviously can’t squeeze the air out.

New comment by tass in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

tass — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:35:16 +0000

Try a corporate laptop. Every stupid thing you don’t need except to know it’s running is there, but you don’t know it’s running because they may just be hidden.

Jamf, zscaler, virus checkers, etc. need to all go to hell with this crap. I’m glad Tailscale are removing theirs.

New comment by tass in "747s and coding agents"

tass — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:08:14 +0000

Yeah I learn from reading other work too, but it doesn’t stick as well as when I work through it.

The problem now is the pressure to use llms means creating more code but understanding so much less.

New comment by tass in "747s and coding agents"

tass — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:45:53 +0000

I interpreted this as not as good a way to learn.

I learn the most from struggling through a problem, and reading someone’s code doesn’t teach me all the wrong ways they attempted before it looked like the way it now does.

New comment by tass in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

tass — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:52:03 +0000

I'm not sure it's been codified, but I was told I would need to understand how to use the VOR and autopilot if the plane I was in had one.

In the fleet at the school I was learning in (Cessna 162) only one plane had an autopilot, which meant nobody practiced with it, so they never scheduled this plane for a check ride.

New comment by tass in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

tass — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:40:04 +0000

This would be more like they enabled cruise control, hit the brakes, and sued the manufacturer because they were rear-ended.

New comment by tass in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

tass — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:37:10 +0000

I don't mean a reasonable pilot. Would a reasonable person expect autopilot in a plane prevents a plane from crashing into something that the pilot was accelerating towards while physically overriding the controls. The claim is that autopilot should not have been able to crash even with the driver actively overriding it and accelerating into that crash.

To me, it's reasonable to assume that the "autopilot" in a car I drive (especially back in 2019) is going to defer to any input override that I provide. I wouldn't want it any other way.

New comment by tass in "Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says"

tass — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:02:56 +0000

I’m not usually an apologist, and I’d agree with this judgement if the car was left to its own devices, but the driver of the car held his foot on the accelerator which is why it blew through those stop signs and lights.

In regards to the autopilot branding, would a reasonable person expect a plane on autopilot to fly safely if the pilot suddenly took over and pointed it at the ground?

New comment by tass in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

tass — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:02:13 +0000

A person can get mistakenly (or not) flagged for special screening and get it over and over again - it happened to me many years ago.

I fixed it by filling out a form requesting a review, after which I received a “redress number” which could be entered into my booking information. It reliably stopped after that.

New comment by tass in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

tass — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:00:03 +0000

Tailscale allows you to disable the expiration time - I do this for my gateways.

My other simplifier is having everything at home get a .home dns name, and telling Tailscale to route all these via tailnet.

New comment by tass in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

tass — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:56:11 +0000

You mean, with Microsoft 365 Copilot App (there’s no more Office)

New comment by tass in "An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)"

tass — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:44:35 +0000

According to a related article: https://www.discovermagazine.com/why-its-nearly-impossible-t...

The death was caused by an "unknown pre-existing condition" but doesn't elaborate further.