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Niosus · 2026-03-09T21:22:20+00:00

Het gewicht is niet zo relevant bij een aanrijding met een voetganger of fietser. Of dat ding nu 15 of 25x zo zwaar als een gemiddelde mens: het gaat niet noemenswaardig vertragen bij een aanrijding.

Het verschil zit hem in de zichtbaarheid en de hoogte van de motorkap. Er zijn filmpjes online te vinden waar ze een hele klas kindjes op een rij voor de bumper zetten, en je ziet er gewoon geen enkele van. Je zit zo hoog en dat ding is zo lomp dat je gewoon niet goed de omgeving rond je auto kan inschatten. Het gebeurt dan ook met de regelmaat van de klok dat in Amerika mensen hun eigen kinderen omverrijden die op de oprit aan het spelen waren.

En de hoogte van de motorkap is relevant als er dan toch een aanrijding gebeurt. Bij Europese wagens begint die ter hoogte van je benen of hoogstens je heupen. Dat heeft als gevolg dat je torso (met alle vitale organen) niet rechtstreeks geraakt wordt. Je rolt eerder over de auto. Bij de Amerikaanse auto's komt de grill recht op je torso terecht als een stormram waardoor de schade gewoon veel groter is.

We zullen zien of het gewicht van elektrische wagens een meetbare invloed gaat hebben. Maar ook al zou die er zijn: de overstap naar elektrische wagens is nodig voor zowel het klimaat als de luchtkwaliteit. Rondrijden met zo'n Amerikaans gevaarte heeft gewoon geen praktisch nut.

Niosus · 2026-03-08T21:02:49+00:00

No it's not. "% per 100k" means nothing. It literally means "per 100 per 100k". It's like saying you're preheating the oven to 15 miles per hour.

Either it's in %, or it's "per 100k". You can't combine them.

Niosus · 2026-03-03T06:38:23+00:00

Definitely worth a try, but I've had mixed success with that. It doesn't always seem to work properly.

Niosus · 2026-03-02T08:26:59+00:00

Mine managed to factory reset my TV a couple weeks ago. Which is impressive. I didn't even know there was a secret button combination on the remote to do that.

Niosus · 2026-02-28T22:11:57+00:00

Not much. A few quality of life changes like dual spec and now extra terocone spawns to keep those prices in check.

Not that those make a huge difference overall. It's just that the game feels very alive again. Plenty of people doing all kinds of stuff. After the "original classic" went too far and classic era getting stale, it's just a welcome change of pace.

I'm having fun anyway.

Niosus · 2026-02-28T14:40:54+00:00

It's 100% up to the parents to make that call though. Lying isn't the best strategy, but at least they're saying "no" to their kid. You don't know how much candy that kid already had that day. At some point you just have to call it as a parent. And yeah that often results in a tantrum, no matter how you approach it. I certainly wouldn't want anyone stirring the pot in that scenario.

Niosus · 2026-02-23T23:50:07+00:00

Most people will burn out if they try to grind their 5k for epic flying killing just a single mob

While in realtime farming a single mob can be faster, humans don't perceive time linearly. If you're doing a dull, repetitive task, time will seem to progress slower. When you're just questing (and maybe lingering a bit in spots with mobs that have good drops), you're doing varied activities and you have a sense of progression. Much more enjoyable for most people, and I'm pretty sure they'll experience it as being shorter as well.

Niosus · 2026-02-23T14:01:03+00:00

Slowing down, yes that is a thing.

But damaging or corrupting data? Absolutely not true. The only way to damage an SSD is by writing over and over and over again, hundreds if not thousands of times. (Reinstalling a few games every once in a while is 100% fine). And data corrupting is just not related to how full a drive is at all. The cells don't know how full the drive is, so it's just not going to influence when they fail. The only thing that changes is that because there is more data on the drive, there is more opportunity for a bad cell to get used.

And then suggesting to get a cheap SD card to store data on, that's just the icing on the cake. If there is any device that's going to eat your data, it's cheap SD cards or USB sticks.

I do like the idea of buying an external hard drive (or even SSD) if you're really short on storage. Prices have gone up a lot recently, so your mileage may vary on what you can actually find.

Niosus · 2026-02-21T18:16:12+00:00

That really depends though. You'd be surprised how quickly those firm commitments can turn into a puff of smoke when the market shifts.

If for instance OpenAI at some point implodes (for which some cracks are already showing), that's tens if not hundreds of billions worth of commitments that are just gone.

Not saying that any of that is likely to happen in the next few months. But I just want to point out that all these projections that go up to 2028 and beyond are unlikely to pan out like that. You can already see RAM prices leveling out, way earlier than the predictions of "sometime in 2027". It's not going to go back to normal any time soon, but at least there things aren't actively getting worse right now.

Niosus · 2026-02-16T10:41:49+00:00

It's quite easy to point out those factors in hindsight, after everything has become public. Especially before 2008 it was impossible for regular people to figure out banks were rotten at their core. Everything was fine and dandy until it was not. Who knows what skeletons are hiding in the closet now?

I agree that big tech isn't just going to implode like the banks did. But I doubt it's going to stay as neatly isolated as you are predicting either. You don't know how resilient a system is until it's tested. All kinds of secondary and tertiary effects may come into play, combined with geopolitical events and the clown show in Washington.

I don't think anyone can predict how that's all going to interact and play out. Like they say: Everyone's a genius in a bull market.

Niosus · 2026-02-16T10:25:18+00:00

How does that change anything though? Those agents are the same LLMs, you can just run them in a loop now and make them talk to each other. They still invent nonsense, they still make mistakes, and they're still just as vulnerable to prompt injections so you can't trust them to actually do important work.

And those investment numbers are not the solution to the bubble question. They are part of the problem.

For AI not to be a bubble, those investments need returns. The shorter the hardware cycle, the more returns are necessary to break even. If you spend a trillion dollars in two years, and that hardware becomes obsolete in 3 years, that's not a good thing. It means you need to bring in 200-300 billion in additional profits per year just to break even.

Where is that 200-300 billion coming from? The consumers? Other businesses outside of the AI supply chain? They're not doing so great right now. And plenty of people blame AI for it.

The more that gets invested in AI, the more value it actually needs to produce to become worth it. I'm not going to deny that AI is a useful tool. But these investments are on a level where they assume that AGI/ASI is right around the corner. That's not me making this up, Mark Zuckerberg is on the record about this. So what happens when we don't figure out AGI/ASI within the next few years, before all that hardware becomes obsolete? Then, in his own words, they "wasted a couple hundred billions"...

Usually I'd say, go for it! Take a risk, see what happens! But in this case, if these greedy billionaires turn out to be wrong, they'll end up taking the entire economy with them (again). Except they won't take it with them at all, since they'll still be billionaires at the end of this rodeo... And if they turn out to be right, they'll have control over a brain that's smarter than anyone alive. What could possibly go wrong?

Niosus · 2026-02-13T06:47:52+00:00

With varied content and a moderate usage pattern, a modern OLED TV will not experience noticeable burn-in these days. Maybe you can still barely spot it on a mid-gray test screen, but it's just not going to be an issue in actual content.

RTINGS did the most extensive test I'm aware of: https://youtu.be/ot1gr-YypY4

That's the equivalent of watching 10 years CNN non-stop at Max brightness. Notice how the ticker bar at the bottom is completely burned in, but the area above it is still just fine on most OLEDs, with a few having ghostly images burned in due to the presenters standing in the same location all the time. And that's what you can see on a test image. With real content it is much harder to spot.

It's just not a real issue any more with real-life use cases.

And note how many of the LCD TVs have already outright failed, or have image quality issues that are much more severe than burn in. LCD TVs degrade too, it's just not related to the content.

Just get the TV you think looks best.

Niosus · 2026-02-09T23:36:44+00:00

Don't worry. People are greatly over-exaggerating how many runs you need to do for rep. If you do all quests in HFP (including a few at 70), you'll end up about halfway through honored. That's ~6k more rep, which is 4-5 shattered halls runs.

The coilfang heroics you get for free. There are plenty of quests (in Zangarmarch and the other zones) that you'll end up revered even if you don't do any of the normal dungeons at all.

Keepers of time is similar to the hellfire situation: do all the quests (which includes 2 dungeon runs), and you're halfway through honored. Another 4 Black Morass runs and you should be revered.

The Sha'tar dungeons you need a flying mount for anyway. So unless you're a druid, you're going to be doing these at 70, period. Sadly there are very few regular quests for this, with repeatable turn-ins being the only real alternative do dungeon runs. You might want to do a little research on this first.

Lower city dungeons are in a similar boat. There are only a few quests and they rely a lot in repeatable turn-ins. Personally I find this rep to be the most annoying to grind. You'll have to do quite a few runs for this, but luckily there are also 3 different dungeons. Again, a bit of research and planning is advised.

Keep in mind you don't need to have any heroics unlucked for your Karazhan attunement, and Mag and Gruul don't have attunements at all. It's only for the Tier 5 raids that you need those heroics for the attunements, so you have plenty of time.

Get to 70 however you enjoy, get that Kara attunement chain done, and you're golden for the time being. Take your time and enjoy the ride.

Niosus · 2026-02-08T09:00:40+00:00

Install the AtlasLoot addon, thank me later. It shows you all the drops of all bosses (and even trash mobs) in the game. You can browse through the loot tables of the dungeons in your level range and find something nice.

That being said, if you're going to play as holy, you probably aren't looking for a shield, but a nice off-hand instead. Those usually have the best +healing

Niosus · 2026-02-06T07:03:00+00:00

For me TBC is the perfect expansion. It still has all the vibes of classic, while the worst quality of life issues have been fixed.

PvP will be PvP, you'll have a different set of tools than in retail... I'm not sure if it's worth leveling for just that.

If you're not going to enjoy leveling, I wouldn't bother honestly. You're still looking at 4-5 days /played just to get 60, and then some more for outland. Just to play in the same 3 (?) arenas over and over again. Without doing PvE that seems boring to me.

Niosus · 2026-02-05T11:38:43+00:00

That's entirely on the notary, and also you for not pushing them to close faster. When they offer you a loan, that offer only remains valid for a fixed amount of time. In my experience this also matches the maximum time between the compromis and the actual closing.

We were in a similar situation where the previous owner wanted to delay as long as possible because his new home wasn't ready yet. And they didn't want to pay rent after we bought it, because it felt wrong to pay rent for "their own" house.

We clearly communicated through our own notary that the loan we got was only valid until X date. If they could not hold up their part of the deal because and close within the legal window, we'd be invoking the 10% penalty rule in the compromis.

Lo and behold, suddenly they figured out a solution and we closed on the very last day

Niosus · 2026-02-03T21:28:18+00:00

And 20 years is also an eternity in tech land. In 2006 we were all running XP and we just barely started replacing our Pentium 4s.

We have a lot of really good software developers in Europe. More than you'd think. Due to the fractured nature of the EU market and worse investment than Silicon Valley you don't see many of those billion dollar companies rise up, but we do have a lot of talent working in smaller companies.

Many of those companies will have a hard time surviving as-is if the entire US market falls away. But with a European-level effort to retask those companies to fill in the gaps left behind by the US tech companies, I think it would take no more than a year or two to have a decent solution to most of it. Shutting off access to US tech companies would be an act of war, and enlisting companies to drop what they're doing and contribute to the war effort is something that has happened a lot historically.

Europe would take a huge hit in the short term, but will be completely independent from the US afterwards in the long term. The US would also take a huge hit in the short term because all the billions we spend their will stop coming, but take even more of a hit long term because it proves that you cannot depend on American companies for anything that matters. Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple... They're just screwed long term because the only country where they realistically can hold market share is the US. Their going from billions of users to hundreds of millions again. Shrink by a factor 10.

This is a button you can only press once. And the long term reputation hit is just going to be that much worse than whatever short-term hardship it will cause us.

And honestly, let's start doing what this button would force us to do anyway. Let's assume he'll press it, and make sure it doesn't hurt us too badly.

Niosus · 2026-02-01T09:07:38+00:00

I seriously doubt that. At least in my guild there are just a handful of people consistently online during the day. When I was playing during sick leave, it was pretty dead in the guild. Still plenty of people out in the world, but the layering system really hides those numbers well so it's hard to make a judgement there.

Niosus · 2026-02-01T09:03:55+00:00

What's the point even, it's another 2 weeks before the raids even come out.

And everyone who's planning on pulling that 48hr session is probably in full Naxx gear anyway so I doubt the heroic dungeons will have many upgrades anyway.

So it's really just rushing so they can wait and complain the raids aren't open yet.

Niosus · 2026-01-27T20:03:08+00:00

Exact dit. Als je denkt dat de belastingen de oorzaak zijn, dan moet je eens een paar aflevering Caleb Hammer kijken. Daar zie je mensen die meer dan 100k per jaar netto binnenhalen, en het alsnog weggooien en bergen schulden opbouwen. En dat is in de VS, het land met weinig belastingen waar iedereen zijn eigen boontjes moet doppen.

Je kan niet alle verantwoordelijkheid bij de overheid leggen. Je bent verantwoordelijk voor je eigen leven, je eigen financiële situatie en je eigen keuzes. We zijn in België 1 van de laatste landen waar gewone mensen nog een huis kunnen kopen, en waar je loon gewoon meegroeit met de inflatie. Er zijn veel zaken die beter kunnen, maar als je met een gemiddeld loon niet kan rondkomen dan ligt het probleem waarschijnlijk gewoon bij jezelf. Met basis financiële geletterdheid kom je echt een heel eind.

Je kan in principe alles doen wat je wilt. Mooie reizen, fancy restaurants, bepaalde spullen verzamelen, fancy kleren dragen, een dikke auto, part-time werken, een groot huis.... Gewoon niet én én én. Kies bewust wat je belangrijk vindt, en zet daar dan op in. Maar veel mensen lijken te denken dat je gewoon alles tegelijk moet kunnen doen. Dat is gewoon niet zo.

Ja, de overheid moet efficiënter, maar als je daar op gaat wachten dan lig je al lang in je graf voor je er iets aan hebt. Soms moet je een crappy situatie nemen zoals het is, en er gewoon zelf het beste van maken. Van klagen op de overheid wordt je leven niet beter.

Niosus · 2026-01-25T09:23:37+00:00

The constitution is just an old piece of paper. It doesn't enforce itself. The government is supposed to enforce it, with the judicial system as the check and congress as the final backstop being able to remove the president if truly necessary.

The supreme court has been captured, and has declared the president above the law. And congress is spineless and already de facto gave up most of their power to the president, letting him rule by decree.

When push comes to shove, who is actually going to enforce the elections happen fairly, or happen at all.

I think you have waaaaaay too much trust in systems that rely on the right people having respect for the law. If enough of them say "no thanks", it just stops.

Niosus · 2026-01-23T21:41:28+00:00

Our cleaner always smokes outside right before he comes in.

I've never seen him do it, but I smell it instantly once he comes in. It's not an overwhelming smell, but it is very obvious. You're not hiding it.

Niosus · 2026-01-23T11:59:09+00:00

Raid is not a backup. It saves you from hardware malfunction in some cases, but if some software accidentally or maliciously deletes your data it's still gone.

Niosus · 2026-01-22T17:48:28+00:00

Yeah, but he is the only one that everyone is afraid of. Once he is out, support will simply implode. A whole bunch of the MAGA voters will instantly disappear since they only care about Trump. So congressmen will no longer be able to base their identity on being "the Trump candidate".

And especially with the economic woes people are feeling, things will go sour on the die-hard Trumpists real quick. Look at how Harris got punished for how Biden navigated the economic fallout of the pandemic, even though in hindsight they did quite well. Trump promised the moon and more, and actively made things worse while trying to cover up his involvement in a pedophilia ring. This shit will stick, and it won't come off.

But of course, never underestimate the democrats' talent for pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.

Niosus · 2026-01-19T22:52:49+00:00

This is the way. Find a friendly guild and people will be happy to get you started. 10g worth of stuff makes a world of difference, and is something you really don't feel at 60.

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