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pstuart commented on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV   rivian.com/r2... · Posted by u/socialcommenter
bdamm · 21 hours ago
A friend of mine bought one. It ended up being kind of awful. 53mi of range for a 40kwH battery? That's abysmal. Where's all the power going?

He traded it in for a used 2023 Model Y. Does 9-hr road trips all the time. I don't think he's going back.

pstuart · 33 minutes ago
My refurb had a fresh battery that says I'll get 150 miles if I avoid my normal "enthusiastic" pace.

53mi is weak sauce, but that sounds like the battery was near EOL. I charge mine at home which definitely keeps the wear and tear down.

pstuart commented on The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)   feynmanlectures.caltech.e... · Posted by u/rramadass
shanemhansen · a day ago
I've thought of this quote a bunch and I came up with my own addon.

"Some people think that the magic of something wondrous is diminished when it's understood. I feel bad for those people." -- Shanemhansen

pstuart · 20 hours ago
"Magic is the inducement of awe." -- pstuart
pstuart commented on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV   rivian.com/r2... · Posted by u/socialcommenter
freetime2 · a day ago
Looks like a great car. As Marques Brownlee puts it [1], this is Rivian's "Model Y fighter". And I personally find the R2 to be much more appealing than a Model Y in terms of size, shape, and interior.

But we have been misled so many times about EV prices prior to launch, I think it's important to wait until we see what it actually costs for different trim levels before making comparisons to the Model Y. That $45,000 price they are throwing around could very well be for a trim that isn't even available at launch.

And anyway if I were going to buy a new compact crossover today, I'd probably lean more toward the RAV4 PHEV. It's an EV most of the time, I can refill it up with gas during long trips, it's got tactile buttons, and it has carplay.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfReqcUJfBU

pstuart · a day ago
> It's an EV most of the time

Nowhere on the Toyota site did I see anything about range on battery only. Still, I wouldn't mind having one.

I settled for a refurbed Leaf and have only needed an ICE vehicle twice, because of cargo capacity, not range.

pstuart commented on A brief history of oral peptides   seangeiger.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/odedfalik
rodarmor · a day ago
It would be hilarious if people wound up snorting or boofing their GLP-1s (≧▽≦)
pstuart · a day ago
Insufflation for medicinal purposes if it works and doesn't cause harm seem like a win. Less needles == more use.
pstuart commented on How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?   devblogs.microsoft.com/ol... · Posted by u/ingve
Brian_K_White · a day ago
Sony wasted several gigs of the very small (32g to 120g) and very expensive ssds of the time with 2 copies of a Spider Man 3 movie pre-loaded onto several different laptops. One copy in the normal installed fs, another copy in the recovery partition.

And you couldn't even watch the movie unless you also paid to unlock it.

You could delete the normal copy if you even knew it was there and then also used a disk usage util to FIND the actual file. But you couldn't do anything about the copy in the recovery image except delete the recovery partition and basically wipe & repartition the drive and do your own fresh install.

pstuart · a day ago
And somebody probably got a fat bonus for that shovelware.
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alright2565 · a day ago
Their website is all AI generated and as far as I can tell, the only thing of substance on it is this cube: https://www.scraplabs3d.com/_next/image?url=%2FPXL_20260114_...
pstuart · a day ago
I wouldn't know -- perhaps the HN Hug of Death™ is in play
pstuart commented on A brief history of oral peptides   seangeiger.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/odedfalik
abainbridge · a day ago
Yep, I think it is. The point is there's almost no history of oral peptides, other than stomachs destroying them.

FTA: "So to summarize the state of the art in oral peptide delivery: there are exactly two FDA-approved products that use permeation enhancers to get peptides into your bloodstream through your GI tract. Both achieve sub-1% bioavailability. Both required over a decade of development, thousands of clinical trial participants, and hundreds of millions of dollars."

pstuart · a day ago
Would a sublingual dose be possible/more effective? Research in other (um, yeah, medicinal!) compounds shows that it can be an effective pathway to the bloodstream rather than trying to survive the digestive system.
pstuart commented on Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial   techxplore.com/news/2026-... · Posted by u/geox
jerf · a day ago
Yes, because governments are so restrained in their use of propaganda.

What it is is the consequence of the power existing. 200 years ago nobody was arguing about how to hook people in the first 0.2 seconds of video, but it's not because nobody would have refused the power it represents if offered. They just couldn't have it. It's humans. People want this power over you. All of them.

pstuart · a day ago
> All of them.

At least an unhealthy amount of them. I have no desire to have power over people, except I would like it if my kids actually listened to me...

pstuart commented on Redefining Go Functions   pboyd.io/posts/redefining... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
pstuart · a day ago
Yikes, I don't see any legitimate use for this, other than hacking for the sake of hacking. Interesting read though.
pstuart commented on Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network   truthout.org/articles/sup... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
pstuart · 2 days ago
I didn't see the commercial but had it described to me -- it seemed like a brilliant bit of whitewashing the "oopsie we just added more surveillance state!"

The proposed solution is lovely. And having the tools of the surveillance state available for things like a lost child or tracking a porch pirate or whathaveyou should be nice things we should be able to have.

But we won't get those nice things, but Big Brother will whether we like that or not.

u/pstuart

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