cobalt's comments

On: Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (2012)

[cobalt]

And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5KW5d15J7I

On: Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level ant...

[cobalt]

and it is a cat and mouse game between cheat and game devs

On: BYD EV teardown in Japan reveals secrets to its af...

[cobalt]

Something not said, but China often lets others do the expensive R&D

On: How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft

[cobalt]

that doesn't state what uses linux, angular.io is also on there

On: Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]

[cobalt]

I assume it means that he used his free time + company time (w/out asking) to solve a company problem

On: BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First...

[cobalt]

most faulty by raw numbers or by %?

Also poor quality of what?

[nicce → cobalt]

By % of failing mandatory inspections in EU.

> Also poor quality of what?

Basically anything other than battery or motors. Interior build. One big touchscreen to make anything as cheap as possible. Brakes. Suspension.

EVs literally have less wearing parts by design and somehow they managed to made these few ones worse than on average.

On: US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agree...

[cobalt]

I think this was sarcasm

On: What would it take to recreate Bell Labs?

[cobalt]

Based on the book "The Idea Factory" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory), it sounds like the regulated monopoly forced certain constraints on their business, such that they had to prove they were a utility. This meant not having infinite profits, and that the engineers were generally allowed to think long term since any good idea in the future could benefit the company without short term profitability risk

On: Wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files

[cobalt]

man pages vary in complexity/readability, and for occasional use, is probably way more painful

On: Tesla owners file class-action alleging repair, pa...

[cobalt]

definitely not $4k, but what about oil changes, brakes?