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The linked website carcompare.com was quite interesting in how clustered the data is. Pretty much _any_ EV car is better both cost wise and emissions wise than _any_ PHEV. The same…

I saw this a couple of days ago, here's the original article that broke the news, in Swedish: https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropa... It includes a short st…

The journal articles the chart is based on are referenced in light grey on the side, if you prefer to view the same data in a peer reviewed article format with a more serious font.…

> Until someone can reconcile these facts, and they can say distinctively that the rise in temperature we see right now isn't the same reason as before, I'm going to believe that t…

My father was a printer his entire life. I went with him to work one day when I was around 12 years old. He loaded up a box of, what seemed to me a random selection of flyers, book…

I run a company that have done over 200 similar studies for various NGOs and international organisations. In the general case, with some exceptions, we have found that two types of…

The exact wording in our contracts and the government guidance is “8% plus the Bank of England base rate”. They mean “percentage points”. https://www.gov.uk/late-commercial-payment…

Oh and another lesson! Ensuring that each deliverable invoice is small enough that it falls under the simplified claims procedure (in the UK it’s 10,000 pounds) greatly simplifies …

We’ve also learned this lesson the hard way. These are now the clauses we require in every project we do: - Payment is due X days after receipt of invoice, or immediately after the…

Funny you say that. I spent the last two days building this exact thing for our internal use. Managed to get a full RAG pipeline integrated and running with all of our company docu…

My experience has been a mixed bag. AI has led us into a deep spaghetti hole in one product where it was allowed free rein. But when applied to localised contexts. Sort of a class …

What model of cordless vacuum do you have?

We had this debate at my company and the end result was a ban on “random” service names. So we ended up with “auth service” instead of something like “Galactus”. The problem of cou…

> It just doesn't add up... Things I understand, it looks good at first, but isn't shippable. Things I don't understand must be great? It’s like the Gell-Mann amnesia effect applie…

I very much doubt the veracity of this claim. I worked at Coinbase for many years and this runs completely afoul of the culture there. Even leaving your laptop unlocked for seconds…

Is there any real drawback to just never giving your real name or address to service providers to minimise the chance of identity theft? Most likely it’s against terms of service, …

Me too!

EV popularity varies a lot from country to country. Stockholm is jokingly referred to as Teslatown these days. In the UK it’s pretty mixed between Tesla, VW, Kia, BYD, and BMW. Fra…

> This is the part I disagree with. It hasn't been true for years. Anyone with the free version of ChatGPT can pass a hacker rank today. It certainly still is true today. Anybody w…

It only appears that HackerRank/Leetcode isn’t good at filtering because you’re viewing it from your perspective, and not the perspective of the entire population that is tested. T…

It’s the latter, but my point is that’s a tired and weak argument to make. The blog poster could’ve asked, why does the manager want me to deliver the story points? It’s because Ja…

Thanks for responding. I see your point, but I think it is responding to something slightly different than the point I was making. If I may latch on to your first paragraph, my poi…

My wider point is not that the way companies are run is perfect and that we should stop the “innovators” (to quote the sibling comment). Each of these examples speak of corporate d…

These sort of stories seem to be dime a dozen and weirdly celebrated around HN and the software engineering community. We’re told of the hero, who goes against their managers and e…

I also had the Baywatch bug. Neo QLED right? Every time you’d start the tv it’d switch to the Samsung Baywatch 24/7 stream. So inappropriate for the children.