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occz commented on Long Range E-Bike (2021)   jacquesmattheij.com/long-... · Posted by u/birdculture
michaelt · 12 days ago
To me, that sounds like a task for your country’s lawmakers, rather than “Just don't call them ebikes”

Motorbikes need training, a license, insurance, registration, a minimum age, etc - and you’re competing with small petrol motorcycles which are cheap new, and plentiful on the used market.

E-bike makers aren’t going to volunteer for that - it’d destroy their business.

occz · 12 days ago
>E-bike makers aren't going to volunteer for that it'd destroy their business.

Arguably, complete bans will be even worse for business.

occz commented on Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died   dignitymemorial.com/obitu... · Posted by u/throw0101a
Aromasin · 14 days ago
Wow. I picked up a copy of Hyperion this morning while taking a random stroll through town - something I rarely do during a work day anymore. I popped into a book shop on a complete whim, and picked it up as it had been on my list for a while. The coincidence feels deeply uncanny.
occz · 14 days ago
And I just finished The Rise of Endymion a few days ago. Uncanny indeed.
occz commented on Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering   github.com/bethington/ghi... · Posted by u/xerzes
NicuCalcea · a month ago
I think they're only better for CLI tools that are in the training data. If it's a new tool, you'd need to dump the full documentation in the context either way.
occz · a month ago
This can be solved well enough by having the model invoke `--help`
occz commented on A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs   bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/1... · Posted by u/zdw
AndrewDucker · 3 months ago
Same with Edinburgh. Except that we also cap daily and weekly fees. So it's £2.20 for a single ticket to anywhere, maxing out at £5.00 per day, and £24.50 per week.

(And if you're regularly travelling more than that, then you can pay for a card that will give you unlimited bus/tram travel for £70/month.)

occz · 3 months ago
I'm a bit jealous of those prices, there are no caps on Stockholm transit if paid for on single tickets, and the price of a single ticket is 43 SEK (£3.45). The best deal available for period tickets is the unlimited monthly pass for 1060 SEK (£85).
occz commented on A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs   bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/1... · Posted by u/zdw
occz · 3 months ago
Public transit in Stockholm has in the last ten years done two things that make for a godlike ride payment UX:

1. Removed the concept of zones - everything is now covered by one single ticket 2. Introduced tap-to-pay support for debit/credit cards

This means that you as a user can always just show up with the overwhelmingly most common way to pay for things in Sweden - by card - tap once, and then you're done. No more actions required. Need to transfer? No problem, the virtual ticket you bought by tapping your card is valid for 75 minutes, no more money will be charged if you tap again within this window.

No fumbling with an app, no awkward QR code scanning, just one tap and go. Peak UX.

occz commented on Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?    · Posted by u/philippta
occz · 4 months ago
Easy, you reject it.
occz commented on Harnessing America's heat pump moment   heatpumped.org/p/harnessi... · Posted by u/ssuds
tgma · 5 months ago
Electricity is much more expensive than gas per J. You have to be ~3x more efficient to just break even.
occz · 5 months ago
As it turns out, you regularly get a COP of >3 from heat pumps, as they don't need to generate the heat, they steal it from somewhere else (outside)
occz commented on AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025   videocardz.com/newz/av2-v... · Posted by u/ksec
jeden · 5 months ago
I wait on new codec invented #AI
occz · 5 months ago
You'll be waiting for a long time then, probably. Making codecs is actually a hard problem, the type of thing that AI completely falls over when tasked with.
occz commented on AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025   videocardz.com/newz/av2-v... · Posted by u/ksec
olowe · 5 months ago
It’s more money and more user’s compute being thrown at the problem to get the streaming service’s CDN bill down.
occz · 5 months ago
While funny, that's not really what I would call accurate. Users get reduced data consumption, potentially higher quality selection if the bandwidth now allows for a higher resolution to be streamed, and possibly lower disk usage should they decide to offline the videos.

Better codecs are an overall win for everyone involved.

occz commented on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads   github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/... · Posted by u/phewlink
lyu07282 · 6 months ago
They already had the proper-DRM tech for youtube movies for years, why didn't they already turn that on for all content?
occz · 6 months ago
It's not really a matter of just turning it on when it comes to the kind of scale that YouTube has on their catalogue. It's practically impossible to retranscode the whole catalogue, so you're more or less stuck with only doing it for newly ingested content, and even there the tradeoffs are quite large when it comes to actually having DRM.

I think we can safely assume that the only content under DRM at YouTube today is the content where it's absolutely legally necessary.

u/occz

KarmaCake day1490March 6, 2020View Original