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22,495karma·2,985submissions·April 9, 2022
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Toyota TSS3 is in fact encrypted; openpilot users who have TSS3 have to manually extract decryption keys from their cars to be able to talk on the CAN bus.
1h ago·view thread
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Presidential security is a fascinating topic. See also the presidential motorcade's operating procedures: https://people.howstuffworks.com/presidential-motorcade.htm …
5d ago·view thread
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Ah, my bad. Thanks for pointing that out :)
6d ago·view thread
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What is the other company that you would never work for?
6d ago·view thread
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Yes, but even the cheapest providers on OpenRouter are charging at least 10x what DeepSeek does for cached input tokens, which is where DeepSeek gets most of the cheapness.
9d ago·view thread
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More precisely, originally submitted in 2025 but wasn't merged until this year
12d ago·view thread
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I would assume OP is asking if you would attend a DConf in San Francisco. By the way, big fan of D even though I don't get to use it much. Appreciate your work!
19d ago·view thread
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Well, I do hate the stupid upsells, but the entire Discord UI just feels... off. I can't really place a finger on it, but I just don't like it. (Maybe there is a bit of a UX nag causing thes…
19d ago·view thread
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Why do all the Discord alternative apps try to 1:1 clone Discord's UI? Half of my dislike of Discord stems from its UI.
19d ago·view thread
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Open weights, please? Otherwise Cisco's Antares models are more interesting to me.
20d ago·view thread
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Looks like this may have been based on the nillerusr Source engine, which is based on a 2020 leak of the Source sources. nillerusr's engine has also been used to port some Valve games to Android.
23d ago·view thread
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Certainly this will never go wrong in any possible way.
24d ago·view thread
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Yes, that is true. I just felt like this article hyped this one specific case as the financial ruin of all Americans, whereas I don't particularly care if a few cents of my taxes were spent subop…
27d ago·view thread
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Yeah, at $340,000/yr, this situation is costing individual Americans less than 1 cent per person per year. Nothing more than a rounding error.
27d ago·view thread
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18.8 tps on an 11th gen mobile i7 here.
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