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vincekerrazzi commented on Feds order Washington power plant to keep burning coal   washingtonstatestandard.c... · Posted by u/geox
jmclnx · 2 hours ago
Simple solution, add a large state tax on coal fired plants and prevent the tax from being paid by residential consumers.

The Supreme Court ruled the federal gov. cannot override states taxes, so adding the very large tax will force the owners to do something.

vincekerrazzi · 2 hours ago
This feels like a great idea on the surface, but will likely be overcome by a federal government no longer playing by the rules, requires swift and decisive action on the state government’s side that has not been consistent across the US, even when there’s an obvious issue and solution.
vincekerrazzi commented on Jeep wrangler owners waiting for answers week after an update bricked their cars   thedrive.com/news/jeep-wr... · Posted by u/pseudolus
SoftTalker · 2 months ago
However, a second update has now been pushed that reportedly reverts the software to the previous version, and Jeep Cares cautioned that customers will not be able to tell which version they currently have by looking at Uconnect, because the problematic package doesn’t make any changes to the infotainment suite itself, meaning the version numbers will appear the same.

What kind of complete amateur hour operation are they running there at Jeep/Stellantis?

vincekerrazzi · 2 months ago
After working with them for nearly a year, it’s even worse than you think.

Half the team didn’t have basic understanding of git, and exactly none of the team designing the “smart charge” scheduling had or even had driven an EV.

The complete incompetence of every vehicle OEM team I worked with outside of Tesla and Rivian is part of the reason I left that job.

vincekerrazzi commented on A Crack in the Cosmos   drb.ie/articles/a-crack-i... · Posted by u/Hooke
hermitcrab · 4 months ago
I believe some meteorites were used a source of iron, as iron isn't easy to dig out of the ground with primitive tools.
vincekerrazzi · 4 months ago
Indeed, it’s fairly certain that Tutankhamun’s dagger is meteoric in origin. I’ve always found it intensely interesting that “star metal” was sought out for its qualities but rarely replicated until the modern age.
vincekerrazzi commented on You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB   chrispenner.ca/posts/view... · Posted by u/ezekg
vincekerrazzi · 4 months ago
I agree. So I did. And over the span of a year I was the only one that used them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
vincekerrazzi commented on 'Safety Today Is a Luxury,' Giorgetto Giugiaro Says After His Crash   jalopnik.com/1930930/gior... · Posted by u/rntn
mikestew · 4 months ago
I feel like there's very little engineering reasons why we can't...

It's not an engineering problem. One could cut new holes in the front bumper of an old car, add forward-facing radar, tack on a display and a computer to drive it all, et voila! Now you have collision avoidance! Except even in volume, you've probably spent more than the car is worth (labor will be the killer, not hardware), or enough that the person whose economics dictate an older car can't afford the upgrade.

Lane keeping? I don't even want to think about what that retrofit would involve.

vincekerrazzi · 4 months ago
I understand your premise, but I think the missing part of the cost function here, especially when it comes to safety, is the price of a human life. The US government has actually quantified it, and I think when we account for that it’s probably worth it. Though where exactly that money would come from is a problem.

Similarly, we know certain preventative medical treatments are costly but save money for the system as a whole when universally applied, yet we still don’t do it.

vincekerrazzi commented on Tesla's Cybertruck flop is historic. The brand collapse is even worse   dailykos.com/stories/2025... · Posted by u/01-_-
gruez · 6 months ago
>I remember when the "Tesla source code" leaked and I was a decent programmer, so I was curious and looked through some of the posted code... I have never sat in a moving Tesla vehicle since that day. Even if that code never drove a mile, the fact someone writing code for them saved it somewhere as progress scared me.

Have you looked at other car manufacturers' source code? AFAIK Toyota's source code got scrutinized as a result of the unintended acceleration lawsuits, and it was also criticized for sloppy coding.

edit: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_...

vincekerrazzi · 6 months ago
Unfortunately you have a very good point. After working with several car manufacturers I’ve come to the conclusion that very few good software engineers exist there.

Some of the most horrifying code and technical designs I’ve ever seen came out of Stellantis, GM, Ford, Toyota and Tesla.

vincekerrazzi commented on Tell HN: You owe it to yourself to understand nutrition    · Posted by u/prmph
Pooge · 6 months ago
I've read a few books on nutrition that are not in the same "ideological" agenda at all (e.g. How Not To Die, Why Proteins Don't Count).

The book I'm going to read next is called The Diet Myth. I wonder if some people here read it and could share their opinions. It's mostly because I'm physically active and would like to understand more how the body works (including nutritionally).

But, the more I read different ideas, the more I think that there is absolutely no consensus—for good reasons—on how to lose or gain weight. I'm expecting to get downvoted by the HN crowd because people don't want to hear anything beside "calories in - calories out", but I hope to start a polite discussion.

vincekerrazzi · 6 months ago
I found this book absolutely fascinating because it filled in a lot of gaps that traditional nutrition wisdom seems to ignore, or hasn’t adequately answered to my satisfaction.

Calories in calories out? Sure. But then why do genetically identical twins respond differently to the same food? A huge facet of this book is understanding the difference in effect between genetics, epigenetics and microbiome on our bodies.

It’s hugely focused on experimental results and meta analyses of the effects our micro biome has on us, and it’s compelling.

Anecdotally I’ve found a number of the suggestions in the book very helpful for my wellbeing.

Highly recommend the book, mostly because it’s a very different approach to a tired subject area.

vincekerrazzi commented on Amdash – Human only punctuation mark   theamdash.com... · Posted by u/wymerica
WithinReason · 7 months ago
If you're going to use a special font, why not use a font that completely scrambles the alphabet? That would actually be a challenge to AI
vincekerrazzi · 7 months ago
Interesting point, though perhaps a nightmare for screen readers and accessibility.
vincekerrazzi commented on New species of methane-producing archaea discovered in the human gut   phys.org/news/2025-04-mic... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
vincekerrazzi · 8 months ago
I love seeing this kind of thing posted but it’s not surprising in the slightest. We’re forever discovering brew bacteria in our guts that are apparently unique. When I had my gut bacteria tested a full 20% of what I had hadn’t been named yet, and some possibly hadn’t been seen before.
vincekerrazzi commented on Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own   kevintechnology.com/posts... · Posted by u/kcon
vincekerrazzi · 8 months ago
I had the same situation with my Polestar app up until recently. My solution was perhaps fewer moving parts? Worked well for nearly a year before I didn’t need it anymore.

-my backup phone connected to my NAS, running a signed in polestar app - a homebridge plugin that called a shell script that used adb to unlock the phone, open the app, grab the screen contents and parse it.

Boom, lock and battery status in homebridge and access to dozens of other tools for creating widgets and shortcuts.

u/vincekerrazzi

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