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_ea1k commented on The Codex App openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

samstokes · 8 days ago

Bit of a buried lede:

> For a limited time we're including Codex with ChatGPT Free

Is this the first free frontier coding agent? (I know there have been OSS coding agents for years, but not Codex/Claude Code.)

_ea1k · 8 days ago

That depends on whether Gemini CLI counts. I've had generally bad experiences with it, but it is free for at least some usage.

_ea1k commented on Termux github.com/termux/termux-... · Posted by u/tosh

Aachen · 9 days ago

(it's unreliable, see second edit)

Does it? I've looked at it only briefly (like enabled it, waited a while for it to download something big, then got a basic shell) but it seemed much less capable than Termux. Can you get cell tower info or copy to clipboard for example, or use other Android APIs?

Edit: looked into it a bit more, /etc/issue says it's a Debian 13 (latest stable), apt works with sudo (this is a locked-down device where I don't have root permission on, why does it need a fake sudo to use apt?) but of course programs like wavemon are useless because Android doesn't let you access the WiFi interface. There's no settings besides port forwarding and resetting the "partition". I don't see any documentation or info on how/whether you can interface with the rest of the system in any way. Looking on the web for Android terminal or "Linux developer environment" (as the system settings calls it) is predictably useless and only results in Google's unrelated Android SDK or other terminal emulator apps

Edit 2: okay, beware of it: I was curious if the same "you can't make the OS not kill your script" problem also happened in this OS terminal and.. it's worse. So I ran `while true; do date >> latest.txt; sleep 10; done` to see how long it'd stay alive and then did some other tasks like turning the screen off and on, opening a navigation app and zooming into a dense city, and loading a few websites. Locked the screen once more for good measure and then unlocked and opened the terminal. Guess what? It's broken. Not just crashed: I simply cannot start it anymore. The only "error handling" (Fehlerbehebung it says) step it offers is to delete all data and start with a clean system. The stack trace says there's a nullpointer in TerminalWebViewClient, with the next line being in Trichrome. It's a web browser apparently

_ea1k · 9 days ago

YMMV, but I've had pretty good luck with just force closing it and launching again when getting errors like that. It doesn't necessarily mean the whole environment is corrupt, even though that is the recovery option that is presented.

It is very unreliable though. I hope Android 17 improves it, as other than the restart issues, I've generally found it to be very functional.

_ea1k commented on Self Driving Car Insurance lemonade.com/car/explaine... · Posted by u/KellyCriterion

_ea1k · 11 days ago

You know what's weird? This is a company that has been using the fleet api for quite a while now to monitor non-professional drivers using FSD on their daily commute, often while distracted doing other things. The latest versions even allow some phone usage.

And yet people are skeptical. I mean, they should be skeptical, given that the company is using this for marketing purposes. It doesn't make sense to just believe them.

But it is strange to see this healthy skepticism juxtaposed with the many unskeptical comments attached to recent Electrek articles with outlandish claims.

_ea1k commented on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/breve

overfeed · 11 days ago

> That needs extraordinary evidence.

Waymo studied this back when it was a Google moonshot, and concluded that going full automation is safer than human supervision. A driving system that mostly works lulls the driver into complacency.

Besides automation failure, driver complacency was a big component[1] of the fatal accident that led to the shuttering of Ubers self-driving efforts - the safety driver was looking at her phone for minutes in the lead up. It is also the reason why driver attention is monitored in L2

_ea1k · 11 days ago

Sure, but we now have millions of miles of Tesla autopilot and FSD data in the hands of untrained and often semi-malicious end users as well. Out of that data, we've gotten flawed reports from Tesla claiming that it is dramatically safer, as well as independent renormalization that showed it to be at best about the same.

None of those millions of miles resulted in a smoking gun showing the cars to be even 2x worse.

And yet a badly written blog thinks they've shown them to be 3x worse with professional monitors? This is indeed an extraordinary claim.

_ea1k commented on Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers wpr.org/news/4-wisconsin-... · Posted by u/sseagull

timmg · 12 days ago

Do data centers in space actually make sense? I can’t figure out how that’s possible. But some people seem to believe they do(?)

_ea1k · 12 days ago

I've always assumed that the answer to this would be no. However, I also always assumed that a huge space-based internet system would be both expensive and impractical for bandwidth and latency.

Starlink has largely defied those expectations thanks to their approach to optimize launch costs.

It is possible that I'm overlooking some similar fundamental advancement that would make this less impractical than it sounds. I'm still really skeptical.

_ea1k commented on Code is cheap. Show me the talk nadh.in/blog/code-is-chea... · Posted by u/ghostfoxgod

vb-8448 · 12 days ago

> Software development, as it has been done for decades, is over.

I'm pretty sure the way I was doing things in 2005 was completely different compared to 2015. Same for 2015 and 2025. I'm not old enough to know how they were doing things in 1995, but I'm pretty sure there very different compared to 2005.

For sure, we are going through some big changes, but there is no "as it has been done for decades".

_ea1k · 12 days ago

Yeah, I remember being amazed at the immediate incremental compilation on save in Visual Age for Java many years ago. Today's neovim users have features that even the most advanced IDEs didn't have back then.

I think a lot of people in the industry forget just how much change has come from 30 years of incremental progress.

_ea1k commented on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/breve

_ea1k · 12 days ago

TBH, the comments here amaze me. The claim is that a human being paid to monitor a driver assistance feature is 3x more likely to crash than a human alone.

That needs extraordinary evidence. Instead the evidence is misleading guesses.

_ea1k commented on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/breve

z7 · 12 days ago

The comparison isn't really like-for-like. NHTSA SGO AV reports can include very minor, low-speed contact events that would often never show up as police-reported crashes for human drivers, meaning the Tesla crash count may be drawing from a broader category than the human baseline it's being compared to.

There's also a denominator problem. The mileage figure appears to be cumulative miles "as of November," while the crashes are drawn from a specific July-November window in Austin. It's not clear that those miles line up with the same geography and time period.

The sample size is tiny (nine crashes), uncertainty is huge, and the analysis doesn't distinguish between at-fault and not-at-fault incidents, or between preventable and non-preventable ones.

Also, the comparison to Waymo is stated without harmonizing crash definitions and reporting practices.

_ea1k · 12 days ago

Good analysis. Just over a month ago, Electrek was posted here claiming that Teslas with humans were crashing 10x more than with humans alone.

That was based on a sample size of 9 crashes. In the month following that, they've added one more crash while also increasing the miles driven per month.

The headline could just as easily be about the dramatic decline in their crash rate! Or perhaps the data is just too small to analyze like this, and Electrek authors being their usual overly dramatic selves.

_ea1k commented on Tesla ending Models S and X production cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla... · Posted by u/keyboardJones

_ea1k · 13 days ago

It is sad, but big sedans do not sell well and the X really needed to be replaced with something completely different. There are now several other 3 row EV SUVs competing with it, and even low volume ones (eg, R1S) outsell it easily.

Don't be surprised if something else takes its place as they do need something larger than Y and less expensive than X was.