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baseballdork commented on Yadea is coming to the Western market newatlas.com/motorcycles/... · Posted by u/breve

Retric · 6 days ago

The fast ones can which is the only thing that matters in this comparison. Just as there are plenty of slow ICE bikes, but again they aren’t part of this comparison either, this is about 200+MPH bikes like the Lightning LS-218 vs Ducati Panigale R etc.

baseballdork · 6 days ago

Hmm. That’s not “the fast ones”, that’s specifically and purposefully built for the purpose of hitting a high speed. Can’t seem to find 0-218 time to see how it would compare with a geared ICE motorcycle. I’m not convinced it’s getting to the top fast enough for gear shifting to matter.

baseballdork commented on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hksVv... · Posted by u/walterbell

tasuki · 6 days ago

Does Pixel somehow have a good keyboard? I use GBoard and find it atrocious: for English it's ok, but it doesn't know basic declensions in Czech nor Polish and autocorrects them to something nonsensical. This happens every time I try to type something, so I avoid writing on the phone.

It's the age of LLMs! Language has been solved! LLMs are great at both Czech and Polish. This problem is orders of magnitude easier. Why doesn't my keyboard even know these words exist?? Is there an Android keyboard that actually... knows basic forms of basic words?

baseballdork · 6 days ago

Please, for the love of god, do not pull LLMs into the mix. I just want the keyboard to display what I'm typing.

baseballdork commented on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hksVv... · Posted by u/walterbell

rconti · 6 days ago

I've never noticed the "censorship issue", but once it gets a word wrong once, it's game over. Editing is awful. If I'm trying to replace the word entirely, I inevitably do the "wrong thing" and fall victim to the editing again, or tap something wrong, or.. I don't know, but I either have an undiagnosed brain injury, or the "correct" thing to do to get the phone to just take the damn word you typed changes every day.

baseballdork · 6 days ago

> I've never noticed the "censorship issue"

Really? If you swipe "kill" and then try "yourself" or "myself" does it ever get it right or provide it as one of the options? Doing it right now myself and I can't get it to do either. I have manually entered those words and hit the "myself" in the suggestion box to try and convince it that that's an acceptable correction to no avail.

> I inevitably do the "wrong thing" and fall victim to the editing again, or tap something wrong, or.. I don't know

Every. Time. I like to think that I'm not an idiot and can generally pattern recognize, but it just feels so inconsistent that I'm always doing the wrong thing.

baseballdork commented on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hksVv... · Posted by u/walterbell

baseballdork · 6 days ago

Switched from pixels to iphone in the last year or two and the keyboard is the biggest pain point by far. I tend to use swipe, so this particular issue isn't something I've come across. What I do run into is weird censorship issues where I'm trying to type "kill myself" or something similar and the phone will do anything to not provide that as an option. Then, when I try to manually change it, editing is a nightmare. Inevitably trying to change the ending of a word results in the entire word being deleted. It inserts spaces where I don't want them.

Is this some sort of psyop to get me to use siri to send texts?

baseballdork commented on Yadea is coming to the Western market newatlas.com/motorcycles/... · Posted by u/breve

Retric · 6 days ago

Little point to owning a bike like that if you only ever go to 90mph. Transmissions with correctly calibrated gear ratios to the normal use case are useful things for ICE engines.

baseballdork · 6 days ago

But how many EV bikes can even hit 90?

baseballdork commented on Yadea is coming to the Western market newatlas.com/motorcycles/... · Posted by u/breve

Retric · 6 days ago

ICE engines lose power when changing gears, so they aren’t strictly grip limited.

baseballdork · 6 days ago

Sure, but when you can get to 90mph in first gear, does that matter?

baseballdork commented on Yadea is coming to the Western market newatlas.com/motorcycles/... · Posted by u/breve

tigranbs · 6 days ago

EV motorcycles are a huge struggle! I have been riding motorcycles pretty much my whole adult life, but after trying electric bikes a few times while in the EU, I felt they were like toys. Honestly, how can you ride a motorcycle that sounds like a kitchen blender? FYI: I understand they are more efficient and faster, but a motorcycle is not about efficiency; it's more about a hobby, fun. In the EU market, it is mostly deliveries because cities are built for them.

baseballdork · 6 days ago

Are they faster? I guess at some point it comes down to gearing, but a liter bike is hitting 300km/h and has more than enough torque to loop you from standing still. I'm not sure what an electric motor adds here for hobbyists or speed demons.

baseballdork commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber

dpark · 15 days ago

> In NYC, billionaires are like supervillains.

This is absurd to the point of being cartoonish. No one treats billionaires like supervillains. How many billionaires are in supermax prisons right now in New York?

> Nobody particularly likes them

This is not relevant, regardless of whether it’s true. A ton of people hate Thiel and Trump. Disliking a billionaire doesn’t take away their power.

baseballdork · 15 days ago

> This is absurd to the point of being cartoonish. No one treats billionaires like supervillains. How many billionaires are in supermax prisons right now in New York?

"Supervillains" are comic book entities who are rarely in prison

baseballdork commented on A new AI winter is coming? taranis.ie/llms-are-a-fai... · Posted by u/voxleone

HardCodedBias · 16 days ago

Two claims here:

1) LLMs have failed to live up to the hype.

Maybe. Depends upon's who's hype. But I think it is fine to say that we don't have AGI today (however that is defined) and that some people hyped that up.

2) LLMs haven't failed outright

I think that this is a vast understatement.

LLMs have been a wild success. At big tech over 40% of checked in code is LLM generated. At smaller companies the proportion is larger. ChatGPT has over 800 million weekly active users.

Students throughout the world, and especially in the developed world are using "AI" at 85-90% (from some surveys).

Between 40% of professionals and 90% (depending upon survey and profession) are using "AI".

This is 3 years after the launch of ChatGPT (and the capabilities of chatGPT 3.5 were so limited compared to today that it is a shame that they get bundled together in our discussions). I would say instead of "failed outright" that they are the most successful consumer product of all time (so far).

baseballdork · 16 days ago

> At big tech over 40% of checked in code is LLM generated. At smaller companies the proportion is larger.

I have a really hard time believing that stat without any context, is there a source for this?

baseballdork commented on Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany openpetition.de/petition/... · Posted by u/PhilippGille

Aurornis · 19 days ago

It’s not a separate topic. You have to structure the program so that abuse is disincentivized from the start.

In the T-shirt example if you left the program as-is but then decided that tackling abuse is a separate topic, think about what that would look like: Every maintainer would now not only have to read and close the spam PRs, they’d have to go file an abuse report for every single one of them. Now you’ve put even more work on the maintainers and created an additional burden of reviewing reports, all without clarifying the program to discourage abuse from the start.

This is why it’s necessary to structure a program clearly such that abuse-level or low effort inputs can’t easily claim the rewards.

baseballdork · 19 days ago

I mostly agree here, but the other side is now maintainers will be aware that not merging a PR could financially impact someone. I don't know that that's a great system, either.