If you are interested in more about how mechanical watches work in general this is a pretty amazing set of animations: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
Readit NewsGhostVII commented on The Valjoux 7750 chronograph movement monochrome-watches.com/va... · Posted by u/Pamar
GhostVII commented on Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals techcrunch.com/2024/04/19... · Posted by u/sarimkx
In cyber trucks shifting to neutral requires a tap and a gesture on the touch screen. It’s a really great and safe idea.
Putting shifting controls on the screen was dumb for many reasons, but doesn't really cause a problem in this case - the cybertruck will disable the accelerator when you hit the brakes, accomplishing the same thing as putting it into neutral.
Instead of artificially boosting adoption, why not just price gas and electricity to match the negative externalities, and then people will just naturally choose the most efficient option. If heat pumps are cheaper, people will use them
It's only been ~one year since input prices have fallen, according to the article - seems like thats not enough time for prices to stabilize. If margins stay higher than they have been historically, I'm sure some new competitors will enter the market and undercut the high margins - but it takes more than a year for that to happen. Could be a good thing in the long term though, more competition
The US interceptor missiles are something like 3 million dollars each. The Houthis drones are closer to 20 thousand. Eventually they will win on economic grounds.
Id imagine the marginal cost is a lot lower than that though
GhostVII commented on An underground delivery train comes to the Atlanta suburbs bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/contingencies
How is this related to the transit in any way? It's solving for speed of delivery, not congestion...
GhostVII commented on "I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1" twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/s... · Posted by u/isp
I also found it fun to ask it to write a python script to determine what car brand I should buy - it ended up telling me to buy a Chevrolet if my budget is between 25k and 30k, but not in any other case
GhostVII commented on "I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1" twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/s... · Posted by u/isp
The only correct user of generative ai is one that can evaluate the results. Which is why it’s not a tool for non subject area experts.
That’s the conclusion I’ve drawn anyway. So it’s a good tool for the customer service team not a replacement for it
It's also useful if you restrict it to only providing information verbatim (ex. A link to a cars specifications) vs actually trying to generatively answer questions. Then it becomes more of a search tool than actually generating information. The Chevrolet bot tries to do this, but doesn't have strict enough guardrails.
GhostVII commented on I don't know why so many devs avoid a GUI for Git twitter.com/hanspagel/sta... · Posted by u/keybits
For me at least I do all of my development on the command line, so it's just much easier to use the git CLI instead of switching between applications. And regardless, basically all the commands I run (moving between commits and rebasing, mainly) can be done just as fast or faster with the CLI, with the added benefit of being able to see and retrieve your command history to easily redo actions.
I kind of have the opposite question - what benefit does a GUI have for git? If your tree gets super complex I get how a GUI makes it easier to navigate, but if you only have a couple branches it seems easy enough to just view in terminal.