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by ageitgey 6mo ago
No, they are 3.5kW - 5kW standard EV chargers. But it's probably easy to install them using the existing power run. But you are right that standard wall charging is much more viable in a 230V system here than in the US. Some people jus
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by ageitgey 6mo ago
It's improving. There might not be much of a market for true EV supercars, but that market is so small as to be inconsequential anyway, with many models selling 10s of units and many of these cars never actually being driven significan
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by ageitgey 6mo ago
In my (generally affluent) zone 4 neighborhood in London, the number of green plate EVs had multiplied like rabbits over the past few years, but few houses have off-street parking. A huge percentage of the cars parked on street are EVs. But
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by ageitgey 7mo ago
It's very smart of them to recognize that. The world is full of these weird business cases where people aren't aware of the actual product, like how Starbucks US morphed from a coffee shop into an iced dessert drinks company that
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by ageitgey 7mo ago
The dark truth no one wants to say out loud is that 'real' cameras are dying to cell phones not just because phones are more convenient to carry, but because phones take 'better' photos for 99% of people than they can ma
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by ageitgey 7mo ago
Yes, or pickleball is American padel. They are similar games and have similar advantages making them popular. But in general, padel is slightly more athletic/intense than pickleball.
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by ageitgey 7mo ago
I'm posting this with my S26 Ultra. Is it just a lame rehash of the same phone from the last 4 years with a faster CPU and a screen privacy feature? Yes. But man, the screen privacy feature is so good. I expect that everyone will copy
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by ageitgey 7mo ago
People who make (mostly good) decisions and ship stuff as quickly as possible. Ideally while being nice people to work with. Your first hires need to be people who make the company faster, not slower. A single bad hire can sink the ship. So
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Google is serving straight-up malware as the top result for Claude Code(minimumviableposts.substack.com)
5 points by ageitgey 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ageitgey 7mo ago
It's 100% illegal to present a non-US passport at the US border if you are US citizen. The law is 8 U.S.C. 1185 - "it shall be unlawful for any citizen of the United States to depart from or enter, or attempt to depart from or ent
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by ageitgey 7mo ago
> There should always be web fallbacks for those opposed to smartphones or unable to use them. And there is a web fallback. And it's right there on the page. Honestly, I think they did a pretty good job.
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by ageitgey 7mo ago
Yeah, I really don't get this complaint either. I'm a dual US/UK citizen, and the US has always required citizens to present their US passport to enter the US. The UK is doing the same. It's not a big ask.
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by ageitgey 7mo ago
It's very hard to get a UK work visa normally (and getting a lot harder each year, like in the US), but if you are a HN type with a good tech, start-up, investor, or researcher career, they roll out the red carpet for you. https:&#x2F
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by ageitgey 8mo ago
Thanks for providing such a great service. I use it in a totally different free, OSS project, and it's really great to have this option available!
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by ageitgey 8mo ago
As a sidenote, Jim Waterson is doing amazing work at London Centric, single-handedly doing the kind of investigative journalism week after week via Substack funding that traditional media has abandoned. I highly recommend subscribing if you
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by ageitgey 8mo ago
> “Over the years I’ve found that when students read on paper they're more likely to read carefully, and less likely in a pinch to read on their phones or rely on chatbot summaries,” Shirkhani wrote to the News. “This improves the q
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by ageitgey 9mo ago
Kinda sad because I thought of a great, practical use of Cowork to demo to the company today to demonstrate how useful I thought it could be across a range of user types. Such is life.
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by ageitgey 9mo ago
This reads like a ChatGPT response
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by ageitgey 9mo ago
Many offices (public sector, commercial, etc) are full of people who write reports that no one reads. With AI, there is a strong incentive for the employee to churn out the report quickly and take Friday off, since no one is going to read i
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by ageitgey 9mo ago
I love that you were living in a hostel while having a £300+/month premium gym membership.
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by ageitgey 10mo ago
I've used GIMP and Photoshop for a very long time (close to 30 years). In ~1998, GIMP was not quite as good as Photoshop 5 and was more awkward to use, but you could see how it could close the gap. It had impressive underlying tech t
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by ageitgey 10mo ago
This guy's other video where he covers Clowncore's 'Computers' on computers is one of the most impressive, incredibly niche things I've ever seen on YouTube. He's a serious talent.
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by ageitgey 10mo ago
The most interesting part of this video to me is the editing. It feels like someone just watched Breathless by Goddard and really wanted to make a French new wave movie, but had a day job making films for IBM.
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by ageitgey 10mo ago
It's a test measuring outlier knowledge. By definition, most of the words will be words that never come up in common usage (and thus words of limited utility outside of reading classic literature). You shouldn't feel bad if you do
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by ageitgey 10mo ago
Sure, but a simple address database seems like a lot easier way to get there than robots roving around houses with LIDAR?
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by ageitgey 10mo ago
Calibre has had a comically obtuse and amateur UI for over a decade. I don't think anyone working on it is spending time on a grand beautiful UI redesign (which would be really hard, both in effort and in politics). So I don't thi
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The software job market is nearly nonfunctional with AI-driven applicant fraud(minimumviableposts.substack.com)
6 points by ageitgey 10mo ago|2 comments
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by ageitgey 11mo ago
> New land is created all the time. The netherlands has created an entire new province. You're 'technically correct' but the total amount of land being created is so small as to be meaningless in a global sense. Your argum
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by ageitgey 11mo ago
I feel like a narcissist would take the exact opposite approach and pump their namesake meme coin.
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by ageitgey 11mo ago
> The problem is that everyone wants a different 20% of the functionality. I'm not disagreeing with your basic take, but I think this part is a little more subtle. I'd argue that 80% of users (by raw user count) do want roughly

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