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Note that I think the BYD quote of 29 or 30k euros is including VAT [1] which is 21% in the Netherlands. On the other hand the quote given above as the starting price in the US for…

Awesome, confirmed the link now works. On my (linux) machine I do see an issue with the jar after startup, I will submit a bug on your github page. I think this project would be a …

The link to that jar is coming from this page https://reportmill.com/SnapCode/download.html . Was just trying to download the jar to try it outside of the browser. The online versi…

Very cool! FYI the jar download link on your website is 404ing currently: https://reportmill.com/SnapCode/app/SnapCodeAll-2023.11.jar

Thanks for the comment -- added some CSS to help with that.

I find that brave search is actually pretty good these days. Has plenty of results from techdirt at least... [1] https://search.brave.com/search?q=site%3Atechdirt.com&source...

My laptop is a Dell Precision M4800 -- not the newest but is perfectly fast enough for what I need to do. I run KDE under X usually. Tried wayland for the first time recently and t…

NPR stations on average receive somewhat over 10% of their revenue from government sources [1]. [1] https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/03/16/station-revenues...

I followed the guide here https://quarkus.io/guides/building-native-image to set up a minimal quarkus webservice graalvm native image. Ran command 'time quarkus build --native' to …

I like KDE 5 very much, personally, and am a user of the KDE Neon distro. If you've looked again at KDE recently, what are your primary paint points?

Here is the rationale given in the source paper: https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/t... quoting from paper: Basket Component: One Semester of Public Colleg…

It is simple to see what energy source is pulling above its weight and what energy source is pulling below its weight. Go to here: https://www.eia.gov/beta/electricity/gridmonitor/…

https://hereistheevidence.com/ presents some evidences, up to reader to decide if credible/substantial or not

Researched each of those models -- none of them are actually available for purchase currently as best I can tell.

I prefer sct -- a very simple tool for setting the color temperature: https://github.com/faf0/sct https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/sct-set-color-temperatu...

I apologize for not making it clear that I intended this to be a parody illustrating the absurdity of a certain POV when carried to its logical extreme (most POVs are incorrect whe…

I meant this comic to be a somewhat tongue-in-cheek parody of positions I have seen people take, which I intended the ellipses to hint at. Clearly there are some genetic difference…

Race does not exist... therefore there won't be a genetic difference in average outcomes between different people groups. It is useful to think of variation from person-to-person b…

I feel that Windows 10 has an improved file explorer and file copying dialogs over Windows 7. In every other way I feel that I still prefer Windows 7 -- system stability, lack of a…

Just a note: turblety's comment does not make any allegations to the effect that you can't /run/ compiled lazarus apps on macs, just that it seems hard to set up a lazarus dev envi…

So? You did not address the argument or the information presented, but rather went straight to attacking the messenger. Seems to me that the central thesis that renewables are incr…