peebeebee (u/peebeebee)

peebeebee commented on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/breve

lvl155 · 14 days ago

I am so tired of people defending Tesla. I’ve wrote off Tesla long time ago but what gets me are the people defending their tech. We all can go see the products and experience them.

The tech needs to be at least 100x more error free vs humans. It cannot be on par with human error rate.

peebeebee · 14 days ago

Tesla was THE company that started the EV-revolution, while VW was actively manipulating emission data.

I don't like Elon and his politics, but I'm very grateful for Tesla to have shaken up the car industry. Everyone is better for it.

peebeebee commented on Where do the children play? unpublishablepapers.subst... · Posted by u/casca

Earw0rm · 3 months ago

It's cars. It was always cars.

peebeebee · 3 months ago

I’m Belgium it was Dutroux. It changed everything and is a cross generational trauma that still has its effects.

peebeebee commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale

peebeebee · 6 months ago

Yes. There were no families before carriages… /s

A carless society/city is way more family-oriented.

peebeebee commented on What happens when clergy take psilocybin nautil.us/clergy-blown-aw... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

lioeters · 8 months ago

Bad advice. Yes there should be at least one other person who knows what you're doing, but if you're experienced in the matter, solitude is the best practice. The emergency contact person could be a phone call away, just in case.

peebeebee · 8 months ago

problem is that when you are really in deep, you are not able to make that phone call. It is good advice to always take someone with you. It is like saying: more experienced bikers don't need to wear helmet. Yes, 99.99% of the time things will be fine, but it's still good advice to always wear one. Because that 0.01% can lead to severe consequences.

peebeebee commented on Show HN: A website that makes your text look cool anywhere online using Unicode fontgenerator.cool/... · Posted by u/liquid99

notpushkin · a year ago

Like others have already said, it’s an accessibility nightmare. On the other hand, it’s not like this is going away anytime soon – maybe screenreaders could learn to understand and read some such “fonts” (e.g. bold/italic at least)?

peebeebee · a year ago

For HTML, you can probably do the following:

  <span aria-label="my text">𖢑ꚲ 𖢧𖤟𖤗𖢧</span>

peebeebee commented on Half-Life filfre.net/2024/12/half-l... · Posted by u/dmazin

mft_ · a year ago

It’s a long time ago now so my recollection is likely very flawed, but with HL I didn’t like the feeling of a created path that must be followed, irrespective how of the interleaving of different aspects. There are lots of modern games like this too - which on the face of it are relatively open-world, but underneath the apparent freedom there’s a strict path to find and follow for success. (I’d definitely include one of the modern Doom games —I forget which it was I tried— in this category, - it was so linear that it felt but one step removed from the old-fashioned shooters where you’re literally on a conveyor belt and shoot whatever appears.)

In the original Doom, in contrast, the only requirement was to make it to the end of the level, figuring out the map and puzzles along the way. Anything else (did you chase 100% kill and 100% secrets?) was optional. I guess it just felt more… honest?

peebeebee · a year ago

I did not mind this linearity in Half-Life, because the story was engaging. You wanted to know what happened next. And I found the enemies did had some advanced "AI" for that time; like the first time the commandos came was a big moment. They were nothing like the enemies you had seen in other games.

peebeebee commented on The Future of Htmx htmx.org/essays/future/... · Posted by u/polyrand

buryat · a year ago

This is just people's subconsciousness fighting against the rolling progress. It's trying to avoid learning new things and trying to preserve the status quo where you can keep rolling using the already acquired knowledge. It's anti-thetical to being a hacker.

The modern way is to use LLMs to auto generate all this code and do some small corrections in the process. So you wouldn't have to worry about the underlying tech and would only be concerned about the core functionality and actual mechanics of the product rather than being interested and spending efforts on memorization of the specific instructions for the machine. The whole evolution of the programming languages is a process in that direction and new technologies that were embraced by the newer generation like React and Vue.js is the way to go. You can't run geosites forever.

peebeebee · a year ago

It’s about using the right tools for the job. FAANG and developer advocates made the web needlessly complex for most people. The over-engineered tools and frameworks became the “default” way of programming for the web, loosing some strong key features that were good about it: simplicity, transparency, and speed.

peebeebee commented on The Future of Htmx htmx.org/essays/future/... · Posted by u/polyrand

matharmin · a year ago

I view JQuery as similar to C in some ways: It's been around forever, it's mature, and it works. It gives a good experience to get something up and running quickly: it's lightweight and simple.

But if you're working on bigger projects: It is possible, but have have to be very principled in how you use it, otherwise you're going to end up with either a massive spaghetti codebase and lots of edge cases in your app that breaks.

Alternatives like React and Rust may add more complexity upfront, but the improved structure and safety it gives has big benefits in all but the smallest projects.

peebeebee · a year ago

Not so sure about that. You can easily write horrible code in React: Too complex, inefficient, and/or resource-intensive. If you don’t know the tools and have good theoretical programming knowledge, all code will be spaghetti code in the long run.

peebeebee commented on Typeset: An HTML pre-processor for web typography typeset.lllllllllllllllll... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

miunau · a year ago

You can print things off the web.

peebeebee · a year ago

Think of the trees! ;)

peebeebee commented on We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size jonathancreamer.com/how-w... · Posted by u/kwantaz

anon-3988 · a year ago

> For many reasons, that's just too big, we have folks in Europe that can't even clone the repo due to it's size.

I read that as an anecdote, a more complete sentence would be "We had a story where someone from Europe couldn't clone the whole repo on his laptop for him to use on a journey across Europe because his disk is full at the time. He has since cleared up the disk and able to clone the repo".

I don't think it points to a larger issue with Europe not being able to handle 180GB files...I surely hope so.

peebeebee · a year ago

The European Union doesn't like when a file get too big and powerful. It needs to be broken apart in order to give smaller files a chance of success.