Gotta have that emergency döner

It bolsters my theory that LLMs are repacing brain usage by humans

Forbid anyone with political influence from using Twitter. Only allow funny remarks and shower thoughts.

I forced myself to use Claude Code exclusively to build a product. Three months. Not a single line of code written by me… I was proud of what I’d created.

Well you didn’t create it, you said so yourself, not sure why you’d be proud, it’s almost like the conclusion should’ve been blindingly obvious right there.

Does a director create the movie? They don’t usually edit it, they don’t have to act in it, nor do all directors write movies. Yet the person giving directions is seen as the author.

The idea is that vibe coding is like being a director or architect. I mean that’s the idea. In reality it seems it doesn’t really pan out.

I honestly can’t imagine where I’d want to go if EU turns further shit than it currently is trying to turn with Chat Control. Many beautiful countries in South America, but they have violent histories and you never know when there’s a dictatorship again, either with or without help from the US. South-East Asia maybe? Republic of China seemed nice a decade and a half ago when I was a teenager and didn’t know it would be endangered by People’s Republic of China. I just watched M13 ride his motorcycle on their roads on YouTube and it was beautiful.

I think currently the best bet for anyone looking to escape from EU if things go bad here (either corporations manage to take hold over too many EU politicians, or Putin attacks my tiny little border country) is Uruguay. I hear they have mostly sensible policies and are good for LGBTQ+ rights (not an issue for me personally, but still a positive because I’d still like my friends to feel safe visiting me if I move to another country and some of them may be affected)

Hungary is free to leave the EU if they want to and Medvedev gets exactly zero say in anything, tf he even opening his mouth for?

As far as I’m concerned, they can all go pound finely grained mineral particles.

Lol our far right praises everything Trumpler does. And there are also pedo suspicions about some members of the family running the far-right party in my country.

They haven’t been able to get enough power to go full Hitler, but all they really need is a few good crises. They want to get rid of all LGBT and POC too. Funnily enough they don’t want to ruin the welfare state though, unlike the liberals.

Uh we have our own far-right problem plus many people just don’t care about foreign politics.

So there’s different definitions of the word. In my language, there’s two separate words. There’s the more political one that has Europe and Asia separate, but the Americas together and then the one that more accurately reflects geography, where the Americas are two continents, but Eurasia is one.

In fact handegg players are more likely to suffer serious injuries because of it AFAIK. Particularly brain damage.

Put it this way, I don’t trust a corpo browser and never have. 2008 or whenever it was that everyone switched to Chrome, I stayed with Firefox, which I’d been using for a few years already. I remember upgrading to Firefox 2.0.

I’m interested when Firefox is pulling this shit and don’t give a fuck otherwise, because I already assume the others do this.

Idk if we’ll ever get anything decent out of the Servo browser engine. That would be ideal IMO. Mozilla is starting to become part of the problem.

There’s also the “each step of the food chain requires 10x more initial input energy” issue with predators. Here is mostly why we eat the animals we eat

Chrysler had hidden features before the merger too. The key dance showed drivetrain codes on my 300M. Holding specific buttons showed climate control codes

Must be newer VAG vehicles then, mine definitely needed a scan tool to put on service mode. Though it’s also pretty old. I had a newer Mercedes and that had a hidden service menu that allowed me to do the brakes.

It forces creativity, and sudden endings to things can be funny. I think it’s a better format than the long-ass “shorts” on YT or TikTok for short-form video content. Make it 6 seconds or make it 30 minutes.

My car legitimately takes less fuel at 90 than 30. It’s the whole accelerating to 90 part that takes significantly more fuel, but steady state, 90 is more efficient than 30.

This is all because of how internal combustion engines and transmissions with distinct gear ratios work. Even if you’re not moving, you’re going to use some amount of fuel to keep the engine running, right? The engine has a bunch of internal friction that needs to be overcome. That bare minimum is more significant at low speeds. And then to raise the engine speed, you’ll have to add a bit more fuel. When you shift up a gear, the engine speed goes down - and up to some speed, this is so significant that it affects fuel economy. Then once you get to higher speeds, the energy required to overcome wind resistance is the most important bit and that has a quadratic growth.

CVTs eliminate these sharp rises and drops in fuel consumption since they have no gears, but they have their own issues and even they don’t get rid of the baseline fuel consumption to keep the engine running. EVs eliminate all this nonsense altogether, which is one of the reasons why an EV is significantly more efficient in the city while an ICE is significantly more efficient on the highway (the other reasons are lack of idle and, of course, regen braking).

If you don’t want the issues of CVTs (which are essentially none if you lease a car and don’t give a fuck about it beyond the 3-5 years you use it and also aren’t an enthusiast), modern 8 and 9 speed transmissions are better than older transmissions here. They have more different speeds where the engine is in an optimal RPM range. You still don’t want to go TOO slow (think about it - fuel consumption of a car idling at standstill is essentially infinity liters per 100 km because you’re dividing X amount of liters by zero kilometers - as you approach zero speed, you approach infinite fuel consumption).

Realistically, the optimal speed for fuel economy with an internal combustion engine and no hybridization tech is probably somewhere between 40-80 km/h. The exact number depends on a bunch of factors.

Unfortunately that border town is likely to be in my country. Narva is chock full of Russian speakers.

Meanwhile my cold ass country is experiencing an abnormally warm autumn again.

D, but only if they’re tory voters

Ah okay, I’ll do my drinking after the hot tub then. Or instead of it since I don’t even own one