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roelschroeven commented on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/jakub_g
watwut · 15 hours ago
Now to that stupid robot auto translation on non-english videos I never asked for and can not turn off.
roelschroeven · 15 hours ago
Those translations are not only unwanted but also ridiculously bad (which is part of the reason why they're unwanted, I guess). I have to translate back to the original English, as far as that's even possible, to get an idea of what the video might be about.

Who in his right mind thought this was a good idea??

I have a Firefox extension which tries to suppress the translations, but it only works for the main view, not for videos in the sidebar. It's better than nothing.

roelschroeven commented on Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates   crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
exoverito · 2 days ago
Disturbingly authoritarian impulses for a dubious prescription.

The climate goes through natural cycles, we are actually coming out of a global temperature low after the ice age. Cold eras are actually far more dangerous throughout human history, for example the Little Ice Age during the Dark Ages which caused widespread crop failures and famine in Europe. Warm eras are correlated with the golden ages of civilizations, such as the Roman Warm Period. Zooming out over geological time, the Earth is currently near an all time low in terms of surface temperatures.

Cryptocurrency functions as a decentralized means of exchange outside of the control of centralized powers. Governments have been feverishly debasing their fiat currencies, which has fueled inflation, pricing many young people out of owning a home. It would seem you would rather trap people in an inflationary monetary paradigm, justifying it with secular eschatology. Millenarian Marxists have similarly latched onto climate change as their justification for abolishing private property, policies of degrowth, and other anti-human initiatives.

Energy per capita is tightly correlated with living standards. We saw broad wealth increases up until about 1970, after which energy per capita flat lined, and income inequality started worsening. Europe has implemented many of the polices you want, and has achieved nothing besides deindustrialization and irrelevancy.

China's CO2 emissions are increasing dramatically, and they continue to build more coal and natural gas plants. The USA and Europe reduced their emissions mostly by offshoring manufacturing to China.

It seems you're deeply confused about how the world works.

roelschroeven · 2 days ago
If you think the rise in global temperature that's going on now is going to lead to the golden ages of civilization, you're deeply confused about how the world works.

Go to the Wikipedia page on the Little Ice Age, have a look at the graph Global Average Temperature Change, and explain to us how current climate change is at all comparable to the Little Ice Age, or the Medieval Warm Period for that matter.

Or have a look at https://xkcd.com/1732/ (scroll all the way down) to get an idea of the rate and scale of temperature changes throughout human history.

roelschroeven commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation   theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man
johnmaguire · 14 days ago
VS Code was not based on Atom's code base.
roelschroeven · 14 days ago
What EGreg is saying is that most development environments and UX used to be based on Atom, while they are now based on VS Code.

EGreg didn't mean to say that VS Code used to be Atom, or is based on Atom, though I agree his wording was a bit ambiguous and it could be interpreted that way.

roelschroeven commented on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords   blog.danielh.cc/blog/pass... · Posted by u/max__dev
ramraj07 · 19 days ago
I know not to click links on random emails but comfortably click links on emails I initiated from a website.
roelschroeven · 19 days ago
How do you know the email comes from that website? There are known cases of phishing mails being sent when people expect a legitimate mail.
roelschroeven commented on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords   blog.danielh.cc/blog/pass... · Posted by u/max__dev
DecoPerson · 19 days ago
The attack pattern is:

1) User goes to BAD website and signs up.

2) BAD website says “We’ve sent you an email, please enter the 6-digit code! The email will come from GOOD, as they are our sign-in partner.”

3) BAD’s bots start a “Sign in with email one-time code” flow on the GOOD website using the user’s email.

4) GOOD sends a one-time login code email to the user’s email address.

5) The user is very likely to trust this email, because it’s from GOOD, and why would GOOD send it if it’s not a proper login?

6) User enters code into BAD’s website.

7) BAD uses code to login to GOOD’s website as the user. BAD now has full access to the user’s GOOD account.

This is why “email me a one-time code” is one of the worst authentication flows for phishing. It’s just so hard to stop users from making this mistake.

“Click a link in the email” is a tiny bit better because it takes the user straight to the GOOD website, and passing that link to BAD is more tedious and therefore more suspicious. However, if some popular email service suddenly decides your login emails or the login link within should be blocked, then suddenly many of your users cannot login.

Passkeys is the way to go. Password manager support for passkeys is getting really good. And I assure you, all passkeys being lost when a user loses their phone is far, far better than what’s been happening with passwords. I’d rather granny needs to visit the bank to get access to her account again, than someone phishes her and steals all her money.

roelschroeven · 19 days ago
> “Click a link in the email” is a tiny bit better because it takes the user straight to the GOOD website, and passing that link to BAD is more tedious and therefore more suspicious.

"Click a link in the email" is really bad because it's very difficult to know the mail and the link in it are legitimate. Trusting links in emails opens to door to phishing attacks.

roelschroeven commented on Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong   seriouseats.com/meat-rest... · Posted by u/voxadam
misja111 · a month ago
> "Searing the meat seals in the juices" -- every chef on every cooking show.

This was debunked a long time ago. You do want to sear the meat, but only to give it a nice and tasty brown crust due to Maillard reactions. Searing does not seal in any juices.

I can recommend the book Cooking for Geeks, it has some nice scientific explanations about this and some other stuff too.

roelschroeven · a month ago
Or "On Food And Cooking: The Science And Lore Of The Kitchen" by Harold McGee.
roelschroeven commented on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars   modernengineeringmarvels.... · Posted by u/tzs
dubbel · a month ago
If you don't break hard enough, it might still be the recuperation doing its work.

Car producers can and do resolve this, e.g. iirc Audis don't use recuperation for the first breaking of the day. That way you don't have to remember to use the no-recuperation/break cleaning mode or break unnecessarily hard every now and then.

roelschroeven · a month ago
The manual recommends putting the car in neutral and then braking every once in a while to keep the brakes in good working order. Putting the car in neutral disables the recuperation and makes sure you really use the friction brakes.

(When I say "the manual", I mean both the manual of my previous car which was a hybrid Toyota Auris, and my current car which is a fully electric Volvo XC40.)

roelschroeven commented on Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars   modernengineeringmarvels.... · Posted by u/tzs
taeric · a month ago
This is less a hybrid thing and more a new transmission thing. It, of course, isn't free. The efficiency of a CVT is a good 10-20 percent lower than previous transmissions. That said, currently, the win from keeping the engine at either the max power or the max efficiency speed is substantial.

There are some really good videos out there going over how newer CVTs work. Looks like some people are working on ones that are teeth driven, to reduce the loss from being free belt driven. Borderline magical stuff, all told. (Obviously, not magic magic. But very very impressive designs.)

roelschroeven · a month ago
The post you commented on was talking about Toyota hybrids though, who don't use a CVT in the sense you're talking about.

They use a series-parallel hybrid transmission which is sometimes called eCVT, but works completely different from a classic CVT. There are no pullies, belts, chains, none of that. What they do have is a couple of motor-generators and a differential to link the system up with the engine and the drive shaft. No friction losses like CTVs have.

See https://prius.ecrostech.com/original/PriusFrames.htm, or look up "Hybrid Synergy Drive" on Wikipedia or Youtube or your favorite search engine.

roelschroeven commented on Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling   news.samsung.com/global/i... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
simonebrunozzi · a month ago
AFAIK, no one has tried to build a Peltier cell paired with a heat pump. I am not an expert, but I would imagine that it's a path that could bring higher efficiencies. Thoughts?
roelschroeven · a month ago
It seems to me that if you have a heat pump, you don't need the Peltier anymore.
roelschroeven commented on Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)   spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-im... · Posted by u/purpleko
no_wizard · 2 months ago
EDIT: I was wrong, and had PNG and JPEG formats backward. As others correctly pointed out PNG is lossless where as JPEG is lossy. PNG is better for marketing / UI / artistic imagery and JPEG for photographs due to the tolerance for JPEGs lossy encoding with photographs, seems to be the generally accepted opinion now.

Regardless, since the picture tag[0] was introduced I’ve used that for most image media by default with relevant fallbacks, with WebP as default. Also allows loading relevant sized images based on media query which is a nice bonus

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

roelschroeven · 2 months ago
It depends on the use case.

For archival purposes, where you care about not losing details is more important than image size, PNG is better (though often TIFF is used for that use case). For images with large blocks of solid colors and sharp edges (text, line drawings), PNG is arguable better (though JPEG can be acceptable if you're careful with quality settings). If you need alpha support, go for PNG since JPEG doesn't support that.

For photograph-like images, where image size is important, JPEG is preferred over PNG.

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