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chrisguilbeau commented on Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment   waymo.com/blog/2025/04/wa... · Posted by u/ra7
doublescoop · 10 months ago
Hybrids are the only choice for the vast majority of the country that doesn't have the needed infrastructure to support EVs. If you never leave your urban enclave, then sure, EVs are great. But hybrids are perfect for _right now_, even if EVs are the future.

The Toyota hybrid engine is also rock solid and has been for more than a decade. They don't have a reason to abandon that right now when the industry is highly unstable and government funding for infrastructure that isn't Tesla's is being cut left and right.

chrisguilbeau · 10 months ago
I live in rural VT, 600 person town in national forest. Tons of us have EVs because you don’t have to drive down the mountain for gas and they drive great in the snow and mud.
chrisguilbeau commented on Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment   waymo.com/blog/2025/04/wa... · Posted by u/ra7
chrisguilbeau · 10 months ago
Mine drove me from my house to the airport without my ever touching the steering wheel so what exactly do you mean?
chrisguilbeau · 10 months ago
All I’m saying is that starting FSD from park in my driveway and having it drive to my destination with my hands on my legs and then having it park itself when it gets there seems reasonable to call “full self driving” to me. I pay for the subscription and I would continue paying if it never got any better. I do live in a rural state, so maybe that’s why it works so well.
chrisguilbeau commented on Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment   waymo.com/blog/2025/04/wa... · Posted by u/ra7
kevin_thibedeau · 10 months ago
What you're buying is not driving, by itself, fully.
chrisguilbeau · 10 months ago
Mine drove me from my house to the airport without my ever touching the steering wheel so what exactly do you mean?
chrisguilbeau commented on Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code   simonwillison.net/2025/Ja... · Posted by u/k__
jeswin · a year ago
> 99% of the code in this PR [for llama.cpp] is written by DeekSeek-R1

I hope we can put to rest the argument that LLMs are only marginally useful in coding - which are often among the top comments on many threads. I suppose these arguments arise from (a) having used only GH copilot which is the worst tool, or (b) not having spent enough time with the tool/llm, or (c) apprehension. I've given up responding to these.

Our trade has changed forever, and there's no going back. When companies claim that AI will replace developers, it isn't entirely bluster. Jobs are going to be lost unless there's somehow a demand for more applications.

chrisguilbeau · a year ago
I'm a developer that primarily uses gh copilot for python dev. I find it pretty useful as an intelligent auto-completer that understands our project's style, and unusual decorators we use.

What tools would you tell a copilot dev to try? For example, I have a $20/mo ChatGPT account and asking it to write code or even fix things hasn't worked very well. What am I missing?

chrisguilbeau commented on "Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" – A 40-year book-quest   davidallengreen.com/2024/... · Posted by u/ColinWright
chrisguilbeau · a year ago
I'll add my experience to the mix. I was in Thailand in the early 2000s and we were eating at a night market and I heard a song that sounded like something by the Beatles or another 60s band. I started looking for what it might have been when I got back to the states a year later; did it say doctor Jones? Friends and google were no help. Anyway, 20 years later I asked ChatGPT and it come back with "New York Mining Disaster 1941" by the Bee Gees... Simply incredible. I suppose there will be fewer of these decade long searches now!
chrisguilbeau commented on Comic Mono   dtinth.github.io/comic-mo... · Posted by u/rootforce
chrisguilbeau · a year ago
I've been using a comic sans based mono font now since the last time I saw it on HN (about a year ago based on my receipt). I use a paid version called Comic Code [1]

I find it very easy to read as well as fun. I had similar feelings about using Monaco in the past. I find it personally makes programming easier on the eyes and enjoyable.

I remember reading the font is similar to the letters that are taught in kindergarten which is a theory of why it's easy on the eyes.

[1] https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

chrisguilbeau commented on Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?    · Posted by u/jack_riminton
chrisguilbeau · a year ago
Late to the party, but I have a script called zbeep that takes command and args as arguments. Makes a sound before starting execution and has success and fail sounds. It’s great for those 5-10 min processes. For long stuff I have a similar zslack command.
chrisguilbeau commented on Jesus nut   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes... · Posted by u/Boogie_Man
chrisguilbeau · 2 years ago
The term made it's way into climbing too for building anchors when trad-climbing. (traditional as opposed to sport climbing)
chrisguilbeau commented on Mario Paint Masterpiece   charlieharrington.com/mar... · Posted by u/whatrocks
poisonarena · 5 years ago
I always wanted to play this, does it work well with emulation ? or is the sound all screwed up
chrisguilbeau · 5 years ago
I have it set up on a raspberry pi for my kids and it works pretty well even with the mouse. One problem I have is that the mouse gets out of sync because the resolution of the tv the pi is on isn't 4:3 like the emulated window. I think if I set the resolution correctly the issue would go away. I use retroarch with snes9x core. Here's the command I use to get it going: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-snes9x2010/snes9x2010_libretro.so ~/Documents/Mario\ Paint.smc

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