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Because the US has some policies that make those currently more expensive than they should be while. A combination of tariffs, removal of incentives for local producers, etc. has c…

I like a good steak but setting off the fire alarms (plural) is a big risk when I cook them in my apartment :-). Scorching hot cast iron pan plus meat means some smoke is unavoidab…

Models without tools and harnesses are not really that useful. My observation is that the tool ux is driving most progress at this point. There are of course open source tools and …

I'm on Mastodon, Bluesky, and X. Most of my network seems to have abandoned X at this point. Bluesky has the most of my old network. Some of those are also on Mastodon. In terms of…

Depends on the weather. A lot of approaches to airports are GPS only these days. If GPS doesn't work and you are not in VFR weather, you can't fly those approaches. In bad weather …

Because they aren't going to be alone doing this for very long. Competitors will just undercut each other until just above the cost threshold. And people will simply pick the one t…

I created a simple git repository with company skills. Basically just a collection of skills around tools and practices we share. One of the skills is "update company skills" this …

A few years ago, I gobbled together some bash scripts around pandoc to build a site generator for my personal website. Works great. I use html templates, markdown for the content, …

There are 50K public chargers in Denmark. 7K of which are fast chargers. There's no shortage of public chargers and more are deployed as demand is increasing. Also, Denmark is a sm…

Batteries paired with the right inverters solve this fully. Buys you enough time for powering up backup power in the form of a good old steam turbine (gas or coal powered). No need…

There's a bubble around data centers, mainly. That's fueled by projected demand of AI and assumptions companies make about how the pie for that revenue is going to be divided up. W…

If you are already using agentic tools, making them crawl and summarize the news with some RSS feeds is super useful. If you use a vector database to store your feeds, you can do R…

Fun fact, youtube channels have proper Atom feeds that you can subscribe to from most feed readers out there. Here's @realcountbinface's feed: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.…

If you publish content, Atom is the superior format. All the parsers support it so there's no argument there against using it. You use it, everything should work just fine. There a…

Speaking of the eighties, special effects were still done without CGI and typically on the cheap. That didn't make the movies and television series any less fun to watch. In the en…

There's going to be plenty of work helping other companies make some sense of their vibe coded efforts. The value of individual projects might decrease, but there will be a lot mor…

Most languages simply don't have all the frameworks that were created specifically for use in an enterprise context. There's cobol and there's maybe C#, Java and then a long tail o…

Sodium ion batteries are already being mass produced in China. CATL actually just started producing their second generation sodium ion batteries. In the US, Peak energy is doing st…

There's a bigger trend that isn't going away any time soon. Basically we are at the beginning of what will be a decades long s-curve in terms of electrifying absolutely everything …

Discussions about baseload are meaningless unless you can articulate how much of it we're talking about (in gw, gwh, and $). Most discussions about this topic completely skip over …

The history is that Aurelien Pierre was leading some big changes in Darktable around the time the filmic module was introduced and the bigger switch from rethinking the internal ar…

> Darktable is however, bad at photograpy organization and collections. Something Lightroom shines at. It has a very clunky UX for this. But it actually has a lot of useful feature…

Was just watching a video about a guy who has a boat that runs on solar power that he drove all the way from Finland to the Mediterranean in Winter. Obviously in the winter he was …

It's not so much unavoidable as one of the things we're doing already with grey hydrogen (made from methane). It's about cleaning that up and using blue (grey with carbon capture) …

Brutalist buildings in Brussels. Not a great choice for a continent with 2000+ years of very rich architecture history.