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cptskippy commented on Yadea is coming to the Western market   newatlas.com/motorcycles/... · Posted by u/breve
tzs · 8 days ago
First, that is wrong because Venn diagrams don't work the way you think they do.

Second, even if they did work they way they think they do it would still be wrong. :-)

Venn diagrams show all possible inclusion/exclusion relations between the sets they are showing. A Venn diagram of two sets is always two circles that partly overlap.

Even if the way they worked is that you could omit regions that are empty and redraw the remaining regions to be circular, it doesn't help because ending up with a single circle with both sets in it would mean you are asserting the the two sets are equal.

That is clearly false because pretty much everyone can name someone who likes to annoy people by being loud and obnoxious but does not ride a motorcycle.

cptskippy · 8 days ago
That was a lot of exposition to refute what was clearly a joke.
cptskippy commented on Yadea is coming to the Western market   newatlas.com/motorcycles/... · Posted by u/breve
givemeethekeys · 8 days ago
EBikes are quiet and awesome. People who like loud bikes and loud cars are, thankfully an extreme minority where I live.
cptskippy · 8 days ago
The Venn Diagram of people who ride motorcycles purely for entertainment, and people who like to annoy others by being loud and obnoxious is just a circle.
cptskippy commented on Yadea is coming to the Western market   newatlas.com/motorcycles/... · Posted by u/breve
tigranbs · 9 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.
cptskippy · 8 days ago
> ...after trying electric bikes... I felt they were like toys.

> ...a motorcycle...it's more about a hobby, fun.

I don't think you have successfully articulated why EV motorcycles are a struggle. If anything you've created further confusion.

cptskippy commented on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain   repebble.com/blog/meet-pe... · Posted by u/freshrap6
rarisma · 10 days ago
No charging: The battery lasts for up to years of average use. After the end of its life, send your ring back to us for recycling.

Apple hire this man.

cptskippy · 10 days ago
Given the silicone rubber covering over the button, I wouldn't expect the hardware to last much longer anyways.
cptskippy commented on Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons   molecularist.com/2025/11/... · Posted by u/felineflock
ghurtado · a month ago
No we don't.

I have dozens of Arduinos that I will never use.

With a similarly priced (sometimes cheaper) platform like the amazing rp2040 / rp2350 which is roughly 100 times more powerful, I have no idea what the niche is for them any more.

The way they dropped the ball with their IDE is amazing. It still looks and feels like something that was rejected during beta testing in 1993

Arduino is following roughly the same trajectory as BlackBerry, with the current phase being "rapidly fading into obscurity"

cptskippy · a month ago
I just made the discovery the other day that there are two Arduino IDEs, the old crusty one maintained by Arduino.org and the new hotness maintained by Arduino.cc.

I'd been using the Arduino.org version which had mostly driven me to use PlatformIO and ESPHome.

https://www.arduino.cc/en/software/#ide

Unfortunately, but perhaps fortuitously, I needed to use a Library only compatible with Arduino 3.0.0 which is incompatible with PlatformIO. That lead me to discover the Arduino.cc IDE which, while not on par with VSCode, is dramatically better than the Arduino.org IDE.

cptskippy commented on Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons   molecularist.com/2025/11/... · Posted by u/felineflock
sansseriff · a month ago
I remember 15 years ago when I was in highschool I really wanted to learn how to program 8 bit microcontrollers without Arduino. And everybody looked at me like I was crazy. There was barely any learning material out there about how to do this.

Now, I imagine the bias pushing everyone to learn on arduino is even more intense? Who out there is programming these chips in pure C using open source compilers and bootloaders?

Edit: Of course there's other platforms like Esp32; teensy; seed. But I've only programmed Esp32s using the arduino dev environment. Are there other good ways of doing it?

cptskippy · a month ago
> But I've only programmed Esp32s using the arduino dev environment.

Well you can use PlatformIO/VSCode and the ESP-IDF.

If you're ok with the Arduino 2 framework, then you can use PlatformIO as well. Unfortunately Arduino 3 support isn't there yet so a lot of libraries like HomeSpan won't work on PlatformIO at the moment.

https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32/issues/12...

cptskippy commented on Google is killing the open web, part 2   wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia... · Posted by u/akagusu
nwellnhof · a month ago
Removing XSLT from browsers was long overdue and I'm saying that as ex-maintainer of libxslt who probably triggered (not caused) this removal. What's more interesting is that Chromium plans to switch to a Rust-based XML parser. Currently, they seem to favor xml-rs which only implements a subset of XML. So apparently, Google is willing to remove standards-compliant XML support as well. This is a lot more concerning.
cptskippy · a month ago
> Currently, they seem to favor xml-rs which only implements a subset of XML.

What in particular do you find objectionable about this implementation? It's only claiming to be an XML parser, it isn't claiming to validate against a DTD or Schema.

The XML standard is very complex and broad, I would be surprised if anyone has implemented it in it's entirety beyond a company like Microsoft or Oracle. Even then I would question it.

At the end of the day, much of XML is hard if not impossible to use or maintain. A lot of it was defined without much thought given to practicality and for most developers they will never had to deal with a lot of it's eccentricities.

cptskippy commented on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla   manualdousuario.net/en/mo... · Posted by u/rpgbr
cptskippy · a month ago
> They’re calling it “Window AI.”

Was this intentional or just a complete lack of attention to detail? Even their own screenshot contradicts this.

Does it matter? Yes. "Window AI" suggests there is an AI manager, where as "AI Window" suggests an isolated environment.

cptskippy commented on IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products   ikea.com/global/en/newsro... · Posted by u/lemoine0461
ianburrell · a month ago
Many Matter products are running on Thread, which uses the same radio as Zigbee and has the same power savings.

Thread doesn't have accessible IP address. It uses IPv6 and the ULA space which is non-routable.

cptskippy · a month ago
Is there anything preventing a Matter product from also requesting an IP address from your DHCP server and getting a route out to the internet?
cptskippy commented on IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products   ikea.com/global/en/newsro... · Posted by u/lemoine0461
Ajedi32 · a month ago
I wasn't aware of that. One other concern I have with Matter is that, if I understand correctly, Thread+Matter devices get their own IP address with internet access, whereas with Zigbee all of that has to be controlled by the gateway.

In theory that's a win for Matter, but I'm a little concerned about the security and enshitification problems that might cause. I kinda like the idea that I can buy a cheap IoT lock off Temu and as long as my Zigbee gateway is secure there's very little chance of that decision coming back to bite me...

cptskippy · a month ago
Having network access is my primary concern. The protocol was developed by the largest adware companies on the planet...

I'm sure someone will chime in and say you can setup a VLAN and restrict all Matter devices from the internet yada yada...

You don't have to do that with Z-Wave or ZigBee. And with ESPHome you know exactly what the device is doing because you have 100% control over it.

u/cptskippy

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