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> I did say it's excellent at boiling water, didn't I? Indeed, sorry, long workday :)

I have stainless steel and anti-stick pans from a high end brand, and with one of the cheapest induction stoves a liter of water boils in literally 2m, compared to 10m+ of gas. Cas…

As a customer, thank you, Fastmail. I recall reading a few months back that this was rumored to be in the works, glad it panned out.

> The CLOUD Act authorizes bilateral agreements between the United States and trusted foreign partners that will make both nations’ citizens safer, while at the same time ensuring …

> I think this opinion fails to explain why Tesla is faltering so badly in China. Apparently not so much, the restyle and a consolidated assistance and charging network make people…

I stopped long ago buying brand jeans because there's literally none that will fit my build (fit guy with normal waist, huge upper leg, big but smaller lower leg), so I wondered if…

I daily drive Sonnet 5/medium because it gets most things right most of the time at first try, while costing a lot less than Fable. Opus can give better results on architectural/co…

I closed all my Reddit accounts after they instantly shadow-banned my 8+y main account after I shared a single gdrive link to reply to a user with actual data. I've been appreciate…

> Do you mean that the titlebar would be off screen so you couldn't move/close the window? Not just the title bar, but often also e.g. half of the settings and the Cancel/Save/Ok b…

> the OTAs break shit all the time Uh? I can literally count the times my Model 3 2019 software broke something on one hand: - when they redesigned the AC controls to make them mor…

> Actual link speeds of Starlink terminals don't seem to be published in the open, but it's at least throttled to up to 310Mbps down/44Mbps up for Priority plans. I had it last yea…

I guess things keep getting more features and complexity but all of it is 80% done because it's "shippable" and updates are cheap. This is most visibile for me on Windows/MacOS and…

> Ordinary plebs trying to prevent climate change is like subtracting $100 from a billion dollars - it does not make any meaningful difference. It stops making any difference if ev…

I think I saw a few years ago another version of this for IC and simpler CPUs. For me the takeaway is: - the libraries we use for chip design are small and reproducible, and we can…

> What about the losses in the electricity transmission and the batteries and the conversion to motive force in the motor? Is it way less than that 40%? And wouldn’t there be more …

I have the Fairphone 5, for which they picked the IoT equivalent of the mobile chipset so they could ensure 10 years of driver availability from the vendor (8 years of majors + 2 o…

> There's no way to verify the integrity of the system, and any malicious app can just grab your banking credentials or enable criminals to unlock and drive away with your car. I g…

> Sure people care about the environment, but it is always lower than all the other factors in their personal list of things they worry about. Emissions scale with performance, and…

Early adopter and subscriber (I think I saw the link here on HN), have been happily paying for 4 years now. It does one job and does it well, and you have additional features if yo…

> 2. Firefox's tab crash recovery isn't as solid. I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them I normally have 5-50 tabs open (so perhap…

> Solar is a massive maintenance liability that a majority of buyers will avoid My parents put up solar in 2005 when it was very expensive. The original panels, inverters, cables a…

Fair, I had a quick look, 600-700 is likely for the big cities areas.

Moved out last year after 10y in the Zurich area. There's always been a pull-and-push between getting skilled workers and protecting the internal labor market. Right-wing political…

Yeah, but while Belgium is basically a huge plain, Switzerland is 60% Alps. If you account for that, the effective density of Switzerland on the usable area is 600–700 people/km².

I had to start using noTunes years ago because whenever I accidentally touched or removed my (Sony / non-Apple) bluetooth headphones, iTunes/Music would pop up without fail. Appare…