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New comment by zwily in "What if database branching was easy?"

zwily — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:48:25 +0000

Planetscale has better performance and uptime. But the branching keeps me going back to neon…

Yes planetscale can branch too, but it takes longer and you pay individually for each branch

New comment by zwily in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

zwily — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:20:58 +0000

Weird. Works great in cities for me. It’s been more than fancy cruise control for awhile.

New comment by zwily in "Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network"

zwily — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:25:05 +0000

But Starlink satellites are low enough that we don’t worry too much about Kessler Syndrome at that altitude, right?

New comment by zwily in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

zwily — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:19:52 +0000

Those threat researchers and their autonomous agents caught this axios release.

New comment by zwily in "Put the zip code first"

zwily — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:57:01 +0000

I'd be fine if it autofilled one city from the zip code, which for me is always wrong. I can tab to the field and type in the correct city. Don't even need a drop-down with the possible cities. And if I don't fix it, it doesn't really matter for USPS. They just care that the ZIP is correct.

New comment by zwily in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

zwily — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:13:35 +0000

My daughter one day told me that her Tesla said it needed oil maintenance. I scoffed and tried to mansplain to her how EVs don’t need oil. Then I checked the car, and sure enough, it was asking for oil. One of the contained oil systems had sprung a leak. That’s on a 6 year old Tesla Model X.

New comment by zwily in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

zwily — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:55:26 +0000

You don’t have to take your shoes off anymore!

New comment by zwily in "One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day"

zwily — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:46:52 +0000

Starlink satellites aren't geostationary.

New comment by zwily in "The untold impact of cancellation"

zwily — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:12:06 +0000

The reason is listed in the second half of the block you quoted.

New comment by zwily in "If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)"

zwily — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:30:44 +0000

Read up on time dilation and special relativity. Time absolutely does pass slower for you as you accelerate.

New comment by zwily in "New tools for building agents"

zwily — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 01:43:53 +0000

I can’t find that text in the announcement. In fact it sounds like you have to use a specific model with the chat completions endpoint to get web searches.

New comment by zwily in "Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game"

zwily — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:00:32 +0000

Wow... thank you so much. I actually couldn't get that way to work, but adding RunAsInvoker in the registry worked for us. I can't believe all it took was one registry entry.

New comment by zwily in "Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game"

zwily — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:24:40 +0000

I have a related question for you... my kids like Marvel Rivals, but I also use Microsoft family tools to limit their screen time so they don't have Admin accounts. However, the Marvel Rivals anti-cheat makes me enter my password every time they launch. Is there any way for me to create a shortcut or something so Rivals will launch without my password?

I'm not a Windows guy and trying to figure this out has been extremely frustrating...

New comment by zwily in "Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy"

zwily — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:39:32 +0000

He never actually said what it was. I think some people floated theories, but the book never reveals the answer.

New comment by zwily in "Starship Flight 7"

zwily — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:24:20 +0000

New Glenn lost its booster yesterday. Space is hard, tests will have failures.

New comment by zwily in "Starship's Sixth Flight Test"

zwily — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:54:46 +0000

Do you really believe that they “can’t” get out of low earth orbit, as opposed to “haven’t yet”??

New comment by zwily in "Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back"

zwily — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 16:27:59 +0000

Given TSLA’s last earnings, lots of people are.

New comment by zwily in "I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock"

zwily — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:02:00 +0000

And a parametric design requires you to buy the commercial Fusion license.

New comment by zwily in "How on-the-wrist sleep apnea detection works"

zwily — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:48:27 +0000

Yeah, you’re right.

New comment by zwily in "How on-the-wrist sleep apnea detection works"

zwily — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:03:25 +0000

They still don't have the regular oxygen monitor mode back yet because of a patent dispute. That might be part of it.