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https://porchweather.com/ - free app for notifying you when the weather is right for opening your windows. The idea is to save you a few bucks on using air conditioning as well as …

I've been working on a website that tells you when it's time to open or close the windows. You register with a location, your preferred method of notification, and the rules for wh…

Saw it too on first load of banksia. Loaded again and it went away. Chrome, Mac.

Ah, the entire site is static. That way nobody's personal financial data ever hits my server.

I've been working on and off for many years on https://ssa.tools/ - a site that helps folks figure out their social security benefits for retirement planning. I recently added and …

A lot of those are getting pretty close to 20 years ago.

Well voyager depended on a solar system alignment that only happens every 175 years(?) so it'd be a while before we get that same advantage again. The longer it takes the further o…

it. Not him.

> Who determines the "service life" of a conductive piece of metal with no moving parts? I think they move from the wind and eventually wear through. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/inv…

What would change if you wanted to do something like this but for an EV? You already have a large battery, you can make decisions like "I need to be full for my road trip tomorrow,…

There's value in rewinding both the code and the prompt to the some point in time.

Rooftop solar doesn't require additional land to be purchased, reduces the need for more transmission lines, and reduces transmission losses. I don't know how big these all are but…

Very well put together. If you are curious about the weighted version, I tried to explain it some here: https://gregable.com/2007/10/reservoir-sampling.html There's also a distribu…

> It's not a standard if it only works with one specific implementation. IMO, that's sort of what a standard is, but the words is not strictly defined. I think you are trying to ar…

I worked on AMP and AMP email for a while at Google, but these are just my thoughts. HN always pulled out the pitchforks on this topic, I'm not surprised to see the same again. I d…

Except you can't. Every browser on iOS uses Safari's rendering engine. Chrome/Firefox on iOS are effectively reskinned Safari. This is an apple requirement. The rendering engine be…

A large and growing fraction of this lumber is used for wood pellet production to be burned in the EU as "green" energy. Sure, these trees are technically renewable over decades to…

It was a massive climate change investment.

So in the limit, buying POW coins is using that money to consume energy. Selling the coins is taking that money away from energy consumption.

It slips both ways though. I suspect banning incandescent bulbs is probably a good change, even though there were people who obviously wanted them.

I sometimes am not clear on what the goal is. The article seems to argue that the goal is very narrowly to reduce the amount of plastic bags created/consumed and then claims a stud…

I think the suggestion is that it's a battery with low long term storage costs, not that it's 100% efficient round trip.

It's repeated in the URL path, not just the hostname.

How do the efforts compare? Does methanesat add anything beyond what these already do? Genuine question, im unfamiliar.

The amp version gets around the length by hashing the hostname if it's too long: https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/learn/amp...