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kmlx commented on BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/20... · Posted by u/mikelabatt

TeeWEE · 15 days ago

The BMW neue klasse is far superior to the latest Teslas.

Both in software hardware and handing.

https://youtu.be/P-H-GJaGiUg?si=eq8YWy8gyJ5YS99X

I think it even surpasses Chinese brands.

kmlx · 15 days ago

i think they look absolutely horrible both inside and out. but, of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

kmlx commented on Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15 apnews.com/article/denmar... · Posted by u/c420

notepad0x90 · a month ago

I don't know much about the Amish, so I can't comment.

Teaching kids how to code isn't all that meaningful on its own. knowing what to do once you learn how to code is. If your plan is to teach your kid how to code, teach them to solve problems without code at that age. Unless you're serious about thinking learning at age 5 vs age 13 would make a big difference.

I think every kid 13 and above should have an rpi too.

kmlx · a month ago

> Teaching kids how to code isn't all that meaningful on its own.

it’s extraordinary meaningful as it helps in brain development.

kmlx commented on Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee 9to5mac.com/2025/08/21/me... · Posted by u/latexr

ceejayoz · 3 months ago

Same for Uber, which sends both important order updates and marketing as push notifications.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... says "before you send [marketing push] notifications to people, you must receive their explicit permission to do so".

kmlx · 3 months ago

> Same for Uber, which sends both important order updates and marketing as push notifications.

can be disabled via:

settings > communication > push notifications

but the worst part is when they add a new category (eg uber teen accounts) and surprise it’s enabled by default.

kmlx commented on Grok Code Fast 1 x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-... · Posted by u/Terretta

NitpickLawyer · 4 months ago

Tested this yesterday with Cline. It's fast, works well with agentic flows, and produces decent code. No idea why this thread is so negative (also got flagged while I was typing this?) but it's a decent model. I'd say it's at or above gpt5-mini level, which is awesome in my book (I've been maining gpt5-mini for a few weeks now, does the job on a budget).

Things I noted:

- It's fast. I tested it in EU tz, so ymmv

- It does agentic in an interesting way. Instead of editing a file whole or in many places, it does many small passes.

- Had a feature take ~110k tokens (parsing html w/ bs4). Still finished the task. Didn't notice any problems at high context.

- When things didn't work first try, it created a new file to test, did all the mocking / testing there, and then once it worked edited the main module file. Nice. GPT5-mini would often times edit working files, and then get confused and fail the task.

All in all, not bad. At the price point it's at, I could see it as a daily driver. Even agentic stuff w/ opus + gpt5 high as planners and this thing as an implementer. It's fast enough that it might be worth setting it up in parallel and basically replicate pass@x from research.

IMO it's good to have options at every level. Having many providers fight for the market is good, it keeps them on their toes, and brings prices down. GPT5-mini is at 2$/MTok, this is at 1.5$/MTok. This is basically "free", in the great scheme of things. I ndon't get the negativity.

kmlx · 4 months ago

nice review, thanks! how does it compare to claude code?

kmlx commented on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-g... · Posted by u/olieidel

oulipo · 4 months ago

The business owners are doing something very wrong. They are failing to recognize that their business is successful in large part because of the infrastructure in their country, the educated people they can hire, the healthcare, etc

So when you get money out of this, you pay your fair share of taxes, like everyone.

kmlx · 4 months ago

> their business is successful in large part because of the infrastructure in their country, the educated people they can hire, the healthcare

Germany has Europe’s lowest share of entrepreneurs to workforce. So i guess the infrastructure, education and healthcare are not really factors.

> So when you get money out of this, you pay your fair share of taxes, like everyone.

this is already happening. people are paying their taxes. but Germany wants more than it’s fair.

cherry on top: Germany has been in recession for… 3 years now?

kmlx commented on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-g... · Posted by u/olieidel

csomar · 4 months ago

> You're allowed to wind down a profitable company

I can't speak for all jurisdiction but on one that I worked in, this is not legal. This might be more defensible if the company really is just you but not if it has employees and can operate with a different CEO than you.

kmlx · 4 months ago

> > You're allowed to wind down a profitable company

> I can't speak for all jurisdiction but on one that I worked in, this is not legal.

which jurisdiction doesn’t allow you to shut down your own company?

kmlx commented on US AI Action Plan ai.gov/action-plan... · Posted by u/joelburget

Seb-C · 5 months ago

After winning the first cold war with a notable race to the moon, it feels now that the USA is doing everything to lose the second one with a race to the bottom.

As a non American, I just hope they don't take too long to reach it. While I'm thankful for the positive influence that the USA had in the last century, lately I feel like they only have a negative one, notably by poisoning our societies with unregulated big tech and social networks.

Whatever comes next, I can only hope that this wave of AI generated falsehoods is the last straw.

kmlx · 5 months ago

> lately I feel like they only have a negative one, notably by poisoning our societies with unregulated big tech and social networks.

do you feel like the censorship/regulation/big state mantra that european governments are fans of are also poisoning our societies?

> Whatever comes next, I can only hope that this wave of AI generated falsehoods is the last straw.

the AI wave is just beginning.

kmlx commented on UK to introduce online age verification checks this month bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/echelon_musk

kmlx · 5 months ago

my answer to these kinds of laws will always be VPNs until they eventually ban those services (and i'm sure they will). then we'll be in game of cat and mouse.

another hope i had was ironically the trump admin. my hope was that tariffs would be tied to internet freedom. i guess i was wrong.

EU: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-europ... https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-ver...

AUS: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-sear... https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/consultation-cooperation...

Texas: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd1xp2l4wno

kmlx commented on EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal old.reddit.com/r/europe/c... · Posted by u/nickslaughter02

kmlx · 7 months ago

how would those proposals work with these other initiatives that will go live in 2026?

EU Digital Identity Wallet: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/display/E...

EU Age Verification: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-ver...

kmlx commented on 'Significant amount' of private data stolen in UK Legal Aid hack bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/neversaydie

kmlx · 7 months ago

just in case people are not aware what "legal aid" or what "Legal Aid Agency" are:

> Legal aid is the provision of assistance to people who are unable to afford legal representation and access to the court system. Legal aid is regarded as central in providing access to justice by ensuring equality before the law, the right to counsel and the right to a fair trial.

> The Legal Aid Agency is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in the United Kingdom. It provides both civil and criminal legal aid and advice in England and Wales.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Aid_Agency