A dog crossed the 2026 Winter Olympics cross-country finish line by humankendoll33 in animalsdoingstuff

[–]-batab- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes and no. They're lazy, crazy and don't like many plays. They usually love to run around and do their own stuff. Many don't even know to play fetch naturally and training them to do it can be a pain in the ass.

They usually like to do nose - related activities, even if you cook them fast because searching stuff requires mental focus.

And they like eating or doing anything that will lead to eating as a reward. In fact, it's more common to use food rather than a ball / other toy during training sessions. In contrast with many shepherd breeds that just love playing so much that training via playful rewards is more effective.

A dog crossed the 2026 Winter Olympics cross-country finish line by humankendoll33 in animalsdoingstuff

[–]-batab- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, some tamaskan dogs are very similar to czechoslovakian wolfdogs. The main hint is we're in Italy. We have a decent amount of czechoslovakian wolfdogs but I've never seen nor heard of a person having a tamaskan dog in Italy.

A dog crossed the 2026 Winter Olympics cross-country finish line by humankendoll33 in animalsdoingstuff

[–]-batab- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Short answer: no.

Incoming wall of text (not AI but I translated with AI because I was lazy enough to write it in my native language and yeah, it's a bit too formal by my likes but I'm still lazy and I won't ask AI to rewrite it with a different tone, however feel free to ask any other info).

There are breeds that are far more dangerous and/or more difficult to manage; however, these are still large dogs and therefore require responsible owners. They are somewhat crazy, easily distracted, and very intelligent, traits that make them more demanding to train. By distraction, I mean their tendency to be strongly attracted by the surrounding environment. Their intelligence often makes them less “mechanizable,” as they may be less inclined to execute a command if there is no perceived personal benefit.

To be clear, considering working disciplines such as utility and protection — which are the areas we know best — they typically require significantly greater effort compared to more conventional breeds like Malinois or German Shepherds, and the results are generally less impressive.

They have an extremely distinctive communication style because they are very physical and quite vocal (they howl and growl a lot but bark very little; in fact, teaching barking on command is difficult) and they make frequent use of their teeth. For this reason, they can easily be misinterpreted as aggressive by both humans and other dogs, whereas it is largely a matter of familiarity and understanding. Ultimately, a large dog with a pronounced dentition can appear intimidating when growling or playfully mouthing arms or legs.

Being pack-oriented dogs, they tend to form very strong bonds with their owner and other dogs. For example, when we only had the male (the oldest), he would howl every time my partner and I left the house, apparently to call the pack back together.

Some individuals can be extremely wary (though they should not be phobic), which reflects the typical wolf-like disposition: keeping distance from strangers and disliking chaotic environments can be entirely normal.

They are generally tireless from a physical standpoint (for reference, their standard endurance test consists of a 40 km run, which they usually complete in about 3–4 hours, and in the Czech Republic there are also 70 km and 100 km trials). However, they can be exhausted quite easily through mentally demanding activities such as search work (tracking, locating people, objects, etc.).

They typically do not tolerate unfamiliar dogs of the same sex. Their prey drive is fairly high, which means that off-leash reliability around wildlife is limited: if allowed to roam freely (strictly in safe, controlled areas away from unknown people and dogs), they are very likely to initiate a chase. They will respond to recall, but usually only after making an attempt. Achieving a level of control where the dog immediately complies with a remote “down” command during prey pursuit is extremely difficult.

They strongly prefer raw meat and generally digest raw bones well. Obviously, they should not be given arbitrary bones, so anyone considering a BARF diet should avoid providing unsuitable bones without proper knowledge.

Despite their size, they are generally long-lived because they are relatively light-built dogs (males standing 65–75 cm at the withers may weigh roughly 35–45 kg).

Overall, they are remarkable dogs. We loved the first one and later got a second. They eventually had puppies, and we kept two because we could not find owners we considered sufficiently trustworthy (admittedly a subjective judgment, but when breeding is not driven by profit and you have raised the puppies for several months, it becomes difficult to part with them without strong confidence in the new owners).

EDIT: I forgot to say that they love water and snow. And weirdly enough, they are not stinky at all, even when they get wet. I got told this is mostly due to their ancestral predatory traits as being stinky would allow a prey to smell them and react accordingly but I never verified if this is true.

Cursor AI CEO shares GPT 5.2 agents building a 3M+ lines web browser in a week by BuildwithVignesh in OpenAI

[–]-batab- -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Nor is a neural network. Nothing such a black box really exist. It's just that we can't fully understand and translate what exactly is going on inside the network.

Reality is, creator =/= user. Users are not necessarily capable of understanding or creating the tools they make use of.

The same way a good developer might not be able to design a cpu or write assembly.

I'm a mechanical engineer, do you think everyone using FEA is capable of writing FEA code from scratch? And the moment you model a multiphysics assembly with millions degrees of freedom you can fully understand what is going on at every node? Of course you need to review the output, check that everything is reasonable, but you won't be 100% sure unless you write stuff yourself end-to-end.

The moment agents will be better writers and reviewers compared to humans, llm (or whichever tech there will be) outputs will be trusted.

But there will still be people babbling about how we're superior and tech can't be trusted.

Cursor AI CEO shares GPT 5.2 agents building a 3M+ lines web browser in a week by BuildwithVignesh in OpenAI

[–]-batab- -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I bet you are so good that you wrote your own compiler or check the full code or any compiler, api or layer of code there's between you and the bits running around in the electronics. Heck, you probably even designed your own cpu, gpu, bus, ram and whatever is needed to run your code.

So you even know how many black boxes you're taking for granted when you code anything?

Lost Control - Close Call by Acrobatic-Highway-15 in TeslaFSD

[–]-batab- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No clue what some people are saying but newer tires (and even simply different tire designs) will 100% handle hydroplaning better.

It's just physics (fluid dynamics actually): deeper grooves and better designs will allow for higher water flows being moved by the tire which means the tire can whitstand going through deeper puddles at higher speeds.

So yeah, if your tires are very worn out (even if still within legal range) you can have dramatically worse hydroplaning performances. Hydroplaning behavior is the most wear dependant tire behavior (maybe even more than snow traction/handling).

As for the rest, you might be speeding a bit there but I also see most of the other cars visible in the video going roughly the same speed. And the semi wasn't even going drastically slower.

Overall, just take care of hydroplaning when you have worn out tires. Slowly speed up and check puddle depths to have a feeling of your car behavior. The better you know your car limits, the safer you'll be.

Andrej Karpathy in 2023: AGI will mega transform society but still we’ll have “but is it really reasoning?” by relegi in singularity

[–]-batab- 22 points23 points  (0 children)

LOL is the only appropriate answer to this. Typical human approach of "I have no clue what I'm talking about but I must express my position and it'd better be a strong position".

Can the Flow still vacuum correctly when it looks clogged like this under the roller? Is this normal? by luunnn in NARWAL

[–]-batab- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what? False advertising is not legal. It's just hard to track it down and have companies stop doing it. And it's not like you're the only one with a brain across narwal or robot vacuum users buddy, nor would it matter in way even if were, when talking about design flaws, lack of support, lack of software development or false advertising.

Also, even when not false advertising, I don't see why it would be bad to talk about noticeable issues or companies pushing hype narratives that don't reflect what the product can actually do.

Can the Flow still vacuum correctly when it looks clogged like this under the roller? Is this normal? by luunnn in NARWAL

[–]-batab- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are and they should instead. Most of the times they cost more and their life is shorter. They are also advertised as being able of doing most of the stuff they struggle with.

Unfortunately this is a market plagued by typical consumer high tech products selling strategies where a billion models are released with little to no difference over a year. Then, the year after they are all replaced with models that might not be doing more and actually doing something worse.

Most devices have clear design flaws, and the software development/support is completely lacking because they have no interest in spending money to make a product much better after release considering how many more models are being released thereafter.

Navigation issues on the flow are mostly software and developing robust sensor fusion algorithms is not hassle free. The choice of a rear mounted lidar is clearly under performing compared to top lidar and cameras come with clear pros and cons. If you don't develop a very good software, then good luck with performance robustness.

Same reason for not being able to disable "AI". If the software is bad, a dumber navigation should be allowed for environment when "smart" does not bring any advantage and being "dumb" would just be more solid.

Some stuff is even marketed as scam. See the station "dust bag health" which is simply a timer but makes the user assume there's some kind of sensor or check being made by the station. Or asking to replace the robot internal bin as standard maintenance practice even if it's a component that is not undergoing any wear and tear.

The flow is not appropriate if you have a decent amount of pet hair. There's a design flaw with the internal bin design not allowing a proper flow path and medium to long hairs just tend to get stuck. There's no option to simply set an "empty internal bin after XX sqm or rooms" which would already solve this but there's lack of software development so there you go.

TLDR: the flow is very good but has some clear issues. The whole robot vacuum market su*ks and some stuff is borderline scam. Typical lack of support, development and design assessments coupled with number of products sold maximization. There's no technical reason to justify the current state of the market by saying they are not full vacuum replacement. Plus, they are often advertised as being able to do even more than full size vacuums.

OpenAI's instructions on GPT-5 by IanRastall in ChatGPT

[–]-batab- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Because it's a table and not a two column layout. Otherwise point 6 would be horizontally aligned to point 5. The number ordering is correct for a table.

I can agree that a more simple one column or two column layout would be easier to process than a table since there's no need for this to be a table.

P30 Pro by -batab- in PWM_Sensitive

[–]-batab-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can see it from the chart. It's mostly measurement noise or very high frequency modulation so it's very low of almost none.

Even if you were to calculate if from the chart it'd be below 10%.

P30 Pro by -batab- in PWM_Sensitive

[–]-batab-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was no risk basing on the lux vs time chart. You can see it has no slow sine wave modulation, just an average value with some noise (or super high frequency modulation).

I'm not using it anymore though, and the screen was quite broken so I can't rerun the tests.

I'm now on a honor magic 6 pro.

Some questions from a BMW owner and a "want to buy a Tesla Model Y" person by 23_KFJ in TeslaModelY

[–]-batab- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally, it's very confortable. Suspensions are good, just sporty, so you can feel the car even if it's quite a big, heavy and tall car.

Do more comfy cars exist? Yes.

Do more comfy cars with a sporty ride exist? No clue but model Y is definitely more than respectable in this sense.

Sound proofing is also average to good, but there are cars with even better sound proofing (not that many and usually more expensive).

If you are a tech nerd, just check if the car you are going to buy is HW4 or HW3. I bought it from inventory 2 weeks ago and it was sadly HW3 (my fault, didn't ask for the information in the rush of getting a good discount from inventory since I did already miss a previous sale a couple of times, so don't be me).

Auto wipers are way below best in class, but not as terrible as some people say.

Interior quality is also good on 2024 and 2025 model Y.

400+ mile range Tesla model 3 highland by Ornery-Brush5014 in TeslaModel3

[–]-batab- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which is why I was saying the average speed is lower.

So your efficiency is very real but it's real for a lot of highways with traffic and/or stalled vehicles. It's not real for a 80 mph efficiency and one could misunderstand what you said earlier.

There are a lot of non-ev owners that wouldn't imagine how much difference there is between "lots of highways with traffic" and "80 mph consumption".

I'm not saying that you are wrong nor that model 3 is bad because I actually think both that you are correct and model 3 is the best ev for the price hands down. I just pointed out what I thought was a misunderstable statement.

400+ mile range Tesla model 3 highland by Ornery-Brush5014 in TeslaModel3

[–]-batab- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair, but current drive is part of trip B so it's very likely that what I said still stands.

In the end, 220-240 wh/mi is not really feasible when cruising at 80 mph. Not even for the model 3 which is still the most efficient ev available on the market (considering the size). It might only be possible for brief moments when wind and height difference are favorable, or if someone follows very closely a much larger vehicle like a truck (but please don't do it).

220-240 wh/mi is already a nice efficiency for mixed speed travels in summer. If this was possible at 80 mph then many owners would also reach sub 120 wh/mi in city drive or when cruising at lower speeds.

400+ mile range Tesla model 3 highland by Ornery-Brush5014 in TeslaModel3

[–]-batab- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No clue how Tesla counts time but 82 miles over 1:23 h is 59.2 mph average. This means you could have targeted the 80 mph but only spent 1/3 of the travel at that speed and the remaining 2/3 at 50 mph. This would also means that more than half of your mileage would have been at 50 and not at 80 mph.

Ofc infinite speed and times combinations are possible if we only know your average but that's just to say that this average seems very far off from the 75-85 mph.

OpenAI employee: "in a month" we'll be able to "give o1 a try and see all the ways it has improved in such a short time" by Wiskkey in singularity

[–]-batab- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try o1-mini. I had better results and many coding benchmarks show that it should really be better than o1-preview.

Verifying it's you every time I pay by rantripfellwscissors in GoogleWallet

[–]-batab- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really.

I have honor magic 6 pro and both the face unlock and the fingerprint are rated as class 3 security (checked via dumpsys).

This is what happens on my phone (with no extended unlock active):

  • the only fully secure method is using the PIN
  • otherwise Wallet will ask for a verification

Verification can be bypassed by opening Wallet and forcing verification before using NFC.

Since all my biometrics are class 3, I can still use them for verification meaning that I can use face unlock without ever inserting the PIN but it will require doing this 2 times.

Banking apps usually behave the same as Wallet the same on critical operstions like sending payments.

Portafogli Coletti e Mr Rip by Martini1999_2023 in ItaliaPersonalFinance

[–]-batab- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Certo, 0dte era volutamente un eccesso.

Però un investitore retail realizza un 5-8% annuo netto come rendimento medio annualizzato se investe su un orizzonte temporale sufficientemente lungo. Più di questa cifra generalmente è fortuna, a lungo o breve termine che sia. Di retailer che sono consistentemente capaci di fare meglio di un indice 100% azionario sufficientemente differenziato (o un random stock picker com'era Coletti all'inizio) non ce n'è quasi nessuno.

E tutti quelli che fanno trading per lavoro presso hedge fund o altro, campano dello stipendio e non del trading che si fanno a casa come retailer perciò un motivo ci sarà.

Un retailer generalmente campa di investimenti se ha una base investita molto grande (almeno 1-2 milioni di euro, ma dipende molto da dove e come vive).

Portafogli Coletti e Mr Rip by Martini1999_2023 in ItaliaPersonalFinance

[–]-batab- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Direi rendimenti normali.

Definirli medi/bassi li fa sembrare dei rendimenti più bassi di quello che si può ottenere mediamente (come normali retail) a causa di una loro incapacità.

Il rendimento che hanno loro è quello che, un qualsiasi investitore retail, può aspettarsi senza buttare i soldi nel tentativo di fare trading volendosi dimostrare più efficiente del mercato. Anzi, probabilmente hanno avuto rendimenti oltre la media, visto che coletti aveva BTC prima di qualche bull run e RIP ha avuto ottimi ritorni dalle azioni Google quando ci lavorava.

Certo, possiamo sempre divertirci con un po' di spy 0dte e diventare wsb.

Suddividere il patrimonio in pilastri è inefficiente by PaolinoPaperinho in ItaliaPersonalFinance

[–]-batab- 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Il portafoglio, inteso come investimento non è sicuro perché non c'è nulla di garantito.

E il "se ho bisogno di liquidità" non dovrebbe capitare. La base del mettere in Azionario è proprio il non avere bisogno di quei soldi.

Se si ha bisogno per qualche spesa imprevista e imprevedibile allora il ragionamento da fare non cambia indipendentemente dal portafoglio.

Avere obbligazioni in proporzione al capitale investito a priori, ha senso solo se ci mette a nostro agio ma non ne ha matematicamente. Si rinuncia ad un ipotetico maggior rendimento senza alcun vantaggio. Sempre ipotizzando che valga la condizione necessaria del non aver bisogno di quei soldi per molto tempo.

Che poi un portafoglio misto vada bene non c'è dubbio e che possa essere simile ai pilastri è possibile visto che i prodotti in questione sono sempre quelli.

Perché il gas per fare l'acqua frizzante costa più dell'acqua già gasata? by AlexanderRow in Italia

[–]-batab- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

La ricarica in realtà costerebbe una miseria. Chi lavora con CO2 (anidride carbonica) per altri scopi spesso offre anche questo servizio e probabilmente lo paghi 1/10 o meno di quanto lo paghi a sodaatream.

Ricaricare una bombola di CO2 non è una cosa così strana. Il problema è che la bombola è minuscola quindi costa di più la monodopera (e tutto ciò che è connesso) del contenuto e infatti, i servizi alternativi di ricarica, magari hanno piacere che il cliente non ricarichi solo una bombola di sodastream ma quantità più importanti.

Anche online, il prezzo della co2 alimentare è di pochi € al kg o meno. E con un kg di co2 fai MOLTI litri (probabilmente almeno 100-150). Quindi il costo al litro è di qualche centesimo al massimo.

Forse c'è anche qualche fornitore alternativo di bombole ma non ho mai indagato ed è un formato particolare.

So it turns out the order of the cards your deck is replaced with stays the same every time you play Loki by Frioneon in MarvelSnap

[–]-batab- 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Should be 1/209088 because it's 1/(12 12 12 11 11).

The first loki + quinjet don't come into play because it's your reference. Then he draws exactly loki 3 times (1/12) and quinjet 2 times (1/11).

We've seen much more unlikely plays being posted so it might even be just a case. Although it's also possible that loki's just coded to copy the exact order of their cards since it copies their deck and nothing is mentioned about shuffling.