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mrich commented on Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard   ryanis.cool/cosmos/... · Posted by u/cdata
zdragnar · 8 months ago
I'm the trackball destroying cousin. I have yet to have one last two years in the last 10 or 12 years since I switched from mice.
mrich · 8 months ago
What is breaking? FYI, you need to remove the ball from time to time and remove the dust that might be blocking the optical sensors.
mrich commented on Tesla Robotaxi   tesla.com/we-robot... · Posted by u/iamwil
wg0 · a year ago
Elon has almost no credibility left for what he says.

It's basically just a website at the moment with bunch of 3D renders which you too could get done from a web shop.

Tesla has nothing new to offer and competition is catching up, EV adoption slowing down and such.

If I had, I would gradually drop Tesla stock because it's going to go downhill if not rock bottom from here.

mrich · a year ago
Tesla at a forward P/E of 80 is massively overvalued as a car company. You can get Mercedes or BMW at a P/E of 6, with a 9% yield. Sure, the EV market is still growing, but Tesla is not the only player. All brands now have EVs, there are both cheaper and more luxurious Chinese EVs, that's some massive competition.

The only reasons Tesla could be valued differently are FSD and Robotics, which Musk and Tesla-friendly analysts are heavily pushing. Since Musk has made massive loans against his Tesla stake you can expect that he will keep highlighting those narratives as well. A revaluation of the stock to sane levels would certainly cause him some financial difficulties.

mrich commented on Tesla FSD no longer offered for purchase   notateslaapp.com/news/224... · Posted by u/ado__dev
daghamm · a year ago
Some Teslas don't have the sensor hardware and the compute power to do road-safe FSD. This is something Tesla engineers learned the hard way.

Things may change in the future as we make advances in computing and AI, but right now it is not possible.

mrich · a year ago
So it's ok to sell a feature to customers if you only find out later it's not possible?
mrich commented on Wireless power transfer system achieves 270-kilowatt charge   ornl.gov/news/polyphase-w... · Posted by u/sharpshadow
tw04 · a year ago
Because, at least when there are magnets involved for alignment, it's easier. I've never ripped a charger out of the wall by picking up my phone in the middle of the night and forgetting I had a short cable attached to my phone.

Kind of like saying you don't understand why we ever had early keyfobs when you still had to carry a key to start the car. It's not about it being superior in every aspect, it's about ease of use.

mrich · a year ago
Can not recommend charging your phone all night wirelessly next to your head while you are sleeping.
mrich commented on Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta   arxiv.org/abs/2402.09171... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
dclowd9901 · 2 years ago
What if…

They knew that people would write coverage tests for getters and setters, and calculated that eventuality into their minimums.

mrich · 2 years ago
So you're saying they knew engineers would be wasting their time doing useless things, but still went ahead? (instead of mandating 75% and spending 1/100 of the wasted time to adjust the metric to filter out getter/setter)
mrich commented on Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD   reddit.com/r/webdev/comme... · Posted by u/mrbn100ful
mrich · 2 years ago
Worst experience for me was .us. I bought three, don't know if they mentioned it at checkout, but those can only be registered by US citizens, which I am not. I could buy them, but after a couple months I received an email from the registry regarding one domain telling me to prove I was an US citizen. I couldn't, Namecheap support told me they couldn't help either. So the domain was suspended. A few days later they suspended the other domains which they found since they belonged to the same contact. Partly my fault for not reading the registry rules I guess but definitely a bad experience.
mrich commented on Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair   theregister.com/2024/01/2... · Posted by u/Stratoscope
roenxi · 2 years ago
I agree with Mozilla, but they have bigger internal problems than external ones. They started losing market share back whenever and their response was to try and clone Chrome as closely as they could. So now the options are we can either use semi-Chrome with less resources behind it or real a Chrome-based browser (plug for Brave!).

They're in a strategic dead end, the reasons to pick Firefox are very slim. They should have committed harder to being extension-heavy. At least then they'd be interesting and even if niche they'd have a niche to operate in. Now it is just hard to see why they should be relevant. It is helpful to have someone complaining about what everyone else is doing wrong, but they don't need the budget they have to do that. I manage to fill that role on a pro-bono basis.

mrich · 2 years ago
What do you mean by extension heavy? In my experience, Firefox has the best extension ecosystem amongst all browsers. It took them quite long to get that to work on mobile, but even there you could use all extensions already on a developer build for years.

Especially with the manifest v3 changes, which will basically break adblockers on Chrome-based browsers, I can't imagine ever using something else than Firefox.

mrich commented on Portable EPUBs   willcrichton.net/notes/po... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
Symbiote · 2 years ago
Works fine in Firefox for Android 122.0 for me.
mrich · 2 years ago
Also loads instantly for me now, didn't make any changes.
mrich commented on Portable EPUBs   willcrichton.net/notes/po... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
mrich · 2 years ago
Ironically this did not render in Firefox on Android (just the spinner kept spinning) Worked in Chrome.

That said, epubs are great for reading books on mobile. The advantage for pdfs is that they contain highlights/notes, so you can directly import them into Zotero and all your annotations are there. For epub, you have to hope there is a way to export the annotations that are stored by the reader app, and then you have to process them further. Readera is a great reader for mobile that makes this possible. I'm currently working on a script that will convert an epub to pdf, extract the annotations from Readera, and mark them in the pdf. Then I can import the pdf into Zotero, while still retaining the great reading experience of epubs.

u/mrich

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