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jljljl commented on Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car caricecars.com/... · Posted by u/RubenvanE

fweimer · 4 months ago

There are still emissions during production and decommissioning. And cars are sources of noise and light, and emissions due to component wear (tires and brakes, probably others as well). A specific car may be not as bad as others for the environment, but there is always some impact.

jljljl · 4 months ago

The term "zero-emission" has a specific meaning for the DOA, EPA, and CARB specifically referring to the tailpipe and combustion emissions produced when operating the vehicle.

https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric-basics-ev https://afdc.energy.gov/laws/4249

jljljl commented on Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car caricecars.com/... · Posted by u/RubenvanE

rtaylorgarlock · 4 months ago

1) Cool, i hope they get lots of orders. 2) We're not past the 'zero emissions' rhetoric? I get evals 'at the tailpipe,' yet i think we've come past that line of thinking (e.g. Fairphone's Cameroon country outline inside the phone, behind the battery cover) 3) Will be interesting to compare results to other cars, e.g. Slate, which approach a similar need/desire from a remarkably different angle.

jljljl · 4 months ago

What's the issue with the zero emissions rhetoric?

jljljl commented on Nearly 600 economists sign letter, defend independence of the Federal Reserve cnbc.com/2025/09/02/trump... · Posted by u/heresie-dabord

delichon · 6 months ago

> it keeps the board focused on long term performance of monetary policy instead of focusing on the next election.

The neutral dispassionate bureaucrat is a unicorn. One might exist but I won't bet on Diogenes ever finding them. It would be a strange alchemy for political appointees to transmutate into unbiased technicians. As with SCOTUS, a longer term is mostly a longer period to apply partisan values.

jljljl · 6 months ago

You probably can't eliminate any sort of political bias, but a single 14 year term puts you pretty much outside of any electoral cycle considerations, which is important for maintaining long term stability in monetary. Making them have to stand for election or make the president happy every 4 years would completely eliminate any ability for the board to focus on the actual technical issues. There's a reason why countries that eliminate CRB independence tend to see hyper inflation

It also isn't a lifetime appointment, and tenures are staggered so the board isn't fixed in place for generation like the Supreme Court

jljljl commented on Nearly 600 economists sign letter, defend independence of the Federal Reserve cnbc.com/2025/09/02/trump... · Posted by u/heresie-dabord

delichon · 6 months ago

That would be independence from accountability to voters. Should congress be able to spin off any number institutions insulated from democracy? Isn't SCOTUS enough?

jljljl · 6 months ago

Fed governors are subject to democratic accountability (nomination by the president and confirmation by the Senate), but their term is 14 years instead of 4. The Chairman is subject to the same accountability, but on a 4 year term.

There are good reasons why the board of governors is designed to turn over slowly -- it keeps the board focused on long term performance of monetary policy instead of focusing on the next election.

jljljl commented on Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good wired.com/story/apple-fin... · Posted by u/CharlesW

jljljl · 7 months ago

The ability to switch modes is going to be important. I'm on the latest iPadOS beta, and when I'm using it to do work across multiple apps the new macOS like window management is amazing. When I'm just trying to read a book, watch a movie, or do some other focused activity, it's mostly annoying.

jljljl commented on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor thepinknews.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/pentacent_hq

jljljl · 7 months ago

Is this avoiding politics at work?

jljljl commented on Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils tangled.sh/@oppi.li/journ... · Posted by u/icy

yjftsjthsd-h · 7 months ago

Yeah, if it included ex. nvim plugins then it would make more sense to me. It's just this particular combination is for installing tools that I struggle to imagine aren't default-installed everywhere, and version-locking some of the most stable programs I've ever used (though I guess neovim might make breaking changes?). Honestly it strikes me as most useful as a 'hello world 2.0' flake demo.

jljljl · 7 months ago

Bundling a little script into your path like that is pretty cool, just overkill to use a flake + nix for _just_ that

jljljl commented on All-In on Omarchy at 37signals world.hey.com/dhh/all-in-... · Posted by u/dotcoma

vitorbaptistaa · 7 months ago

From what I understood, the initial motivation wasn't technical, but related to Apple's practices around a closed app store and the 30% tax on every purchase. He explained it both on Lex Fridman's podcast at [1] and a bit on [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDi8u3WMj0 [2] https://world.hey.com/dhh/living-with-linux-and-android-afte...

jljljl · 7 months ago

Does that affect developer productivity at 37signals though?

jljljl commented on Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils tangled.sh/@oppi.li/journ... · Posted by u/icy

yjftsjthsd-h · 7 months ago

I don't see what nix is doing for you? There's vim, absolutely, coreutils (though I don't immediately see anything GNU-specific), and a tiny wrapper script that happens to be written in flake.nix but could trivially be factored out. I don't see anything that I wouldn't expect to run on, say, OpenBSD if you installed vim.

(That said, yes, it's a nice journaling system)

jljljl · 7 months ago

I was somewhat expecting that the flake would include nvim bundled with the vimrc in the folder.

You could then just open nvim in the `nix develop` environment (or even use something like direnv to activate it when you cd in) and have a minimal journaling environment

jljljl commented on That viral video of a 'deactivated' Tesla Cybertruck is a fake theverge.com/tesla/757594... · Posted by u/nosrepa

slg · 7 months ago

"The lie has value because it feels true" is one of the more disturbing trends I have seen gain traction on the internet in recent years. People are now unironically turning themselves in the Stephen Colbert character from The Colbert Report[1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

jljljl · 7 months ago

I think it is troubling to say “the lie has value”, but it is worth thinking why certain stories and hoaxes resonate. It’s similar to how sci-fi and horror can reflect the anxieties of their contemporary society