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bangaladore commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade? sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx

mft_ · 7 days ago

It’s not a pedantic correction, it’s a relevant anecdote to the contrary.

I'd disagree for a couple reasons:

1. We in English can mean different things, from you and I to a broader group. Focusing only on that word without addressing the actual point comes off as a language correction.

2. The original comment made several claims about degradation, pack engineering, and industry history. Ignoring those to focus only on wording misses the main discussion. If the responder focused on a given claim that they refute, that's perfectly fine. They didn't.

bangaladore commented on Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust github.com/epicenter-so/e... · Posted by u/braden-w

IanCal · 8 days ago

> All your data is stored locally on your device, and your audio goes directly from your machine to your chosen cloud provider (Groq, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, etc.) or local provider (Speaches, owhisper, etc.)

Their point is they aren’t a middleman with this, and you can use your preferred supplier or run something locally.

bangaladore · 8 days ago

The issue is

> All your data is stored locally on your device,

is fundamentally incapable with half of the following sentence.

I'd write it as

> All your data is stored locally on your device, unless you explicitly decide to use a cloud provider for dictation.

bangaladore commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn

mvdtnz · 8 days ago

It's certainly not marketed as though it's going to be cooked,

> Our saku is sushi-grade and is perfect for dishes like sushi, crudo, and ceviche

https://www.wildtypefoods.com/our-salmon

bangaladore · 8 days ago

Because from a quick search this isn't what people refer to when they think of lab-grown meat/fish. This is some mix of stuff that includes some amount of material that is lab-grown. It won't behave like you expect Salmon to.

bangaladore commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade? sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx

bangaladore · 8 days ago

Care to provide constructive feedback/information then rather than a pedantic correction?

bangaladore commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade? sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx

bangaladore · 8 days ago

I think we (sorry I) have seen that degradation has not the concern, it's the pack engineering that is an issue by a large margin.

Tesla's packs first produced in 2017/18 for the model 3 represented largely the industry's first mass produced packs that will largely fail naturally, not due to pack engineering issues (failed cells, leaks, cooling, etc...). Before that required a much higher pack replacement rate, and other manufacturers have the same issues.

bangaladore commented on Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software · Posted by u/bobwei1

bangaladore · 11 days ago

This is a more general question, but:

What company would be comfortable with giving out schematics, source code, etc... to third parties like this or AI Model providers like Anthropic, etc...

Privacy policy aside, this just seems like a statistical guarantee at some point to leaks sensitive IP (not specifically pointing at this company, but in this space in general). Or does nobody care?

bangaladore commented on PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again servethehome.com/pcie-8-0... · Posted by u/rbanffy

jchw · 13 days ago

The voltage is always going to be the same because the voltage is determined by the transformers leading to your service panel. The breakers break when you hit a certain amperage for a certain amount of time, so by installing a bigger breaker, you allow more amperage.

If you actually had an electrician do it, I doubt they would've installed a breaker if they thought the wiring wasn't sufficient. Truth is that you can indeed get away with a 20A circuit on 14 AWG wire if the run is short enough, though 12 AWG is recommended. The reason for this is voltage drop; the thinner gauge wire has more resistance, which causes more heat and voltage drop across the wire over the length of it, which can cause a fire if it gets sufficiently hot. I'm not sure how much risk you would put yourself in if you were out-of-spec a bit, but I wouldn't chance it personally.

bangaladore · 13 days ago

Could you not just run a 240 volt outlet on existing wiring built for 110v? Just send l1 and l2 on the existing hot/neutral?

bangaladore commented on Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos video.golpoai.com/... · Posted by u/skar01

metalliqaz · 13 days ago

My suggestion would be to re-think the demo videos. I have only watched most of the way into the "function pointers in C" example. If I didn't already know C well, I would not be able to follow that. The technical diagrams don't stay on the screen long enough for new learners to process the information. These videos probably look fantastic to the person who wrote the document it summarizes, but to a newbie the information is fleeting and hard to follow. The machine doesn't understand that the screen shouldn't be completely wiped all the time while it follows the narrative. Some visuals should be static for paragraphs, or stay visible while detail marked up around it. For a true master of the art, see 3blue1brown.

bangaladore · 13 days ago

> For a true master of the art, see 3blue1brown.

I agree. Rather than (what I assume is) E2E text -> video/audio output, it seems like training a model on how to utilize the community fork of manim which 3blue1brown uses for videos would produce a better result.

[1] https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/

bangaladore commented on Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos video.golpoai.com/... · Posted by u/skar01

poly2it · 13 days ago

The creator tier ($99.99/mo) lists "15 seconds" as a perk. Does this mean the maximum video length is 15 seconds?

bangaladore · 13 days ago

Given that the next tier up is "Create longer/more detailed video (up to 4 min long)", I'd guess you are right.

Seems like this is pretty useless unless you pay 200$ per month. Which may be a reasonable number for the clearly commercial / enterprise use case, but I'm just not certain what you can do wtih the lower tiers.

bangaladore commented on Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm thurrott.com/music-videos... · Posted by u/thunderbong

joshmarinacci · 14 days ago

Why has it taken so long to get the Windows ecosystem fully on ARM? Apple’s transition only took a year or two.

bangaladore · 14 days ago

Simple answer: the Windows ecosystem is vastly larger than Apple's in hardware, software, and use cases.