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I guess ditto most highly accessible SaaS tooling, eg Slack, Salesforce, 365 etc? Everyone's using it and paying big sums for it

Original title is far better

> You can charge your EV at night

Really shows how out of touch HN can be at times

The electricity market up until a decade or so ago worked well for almost every consumer. Fair, equitable prices for everyone, with the energy companies and government owning the concern about how to power a nation.

Now the reality people are trying to make happen is "just invest $10-30k and turn your house into a substation", and they don't see how absurd it is compared to the very recent past. A single mother working 50 hours a week and 2 jobs doesn't have $20k for solar upgrades and can't cook at 12am and doesn't have time to take out the clothes in the morning and doesn't have 3 hours for a heat-pump dryer to eventually dry the clothes

Look, I'm from the UK, I don't need to be told how precarious our (geopolitical) situation is with natural gas. But I don't want people getting screwed in the transition.

Those dollar figures, ouch.

The whole transition away from gas is a "never waste an opportunity" situation for the energy companies/billionaires. Through smart meters enabling 'peak demand management' (and other similarly innocuous sounding phrases), the masses are going to royally shafted.

> this is probably a problem with how your local electricity market is structured

Demand charges will come to everyone. It's clearly the end game. When everyone is bullied/tricked/enticed into smart meters, the temptation will be too strong.

> time of use charges can be managed

You responded to someone who mentioned dinner. Are people to cook dinner at 2am? People in apartments to ruin their sleep with the washer running at midnight?

> It won't allow you. You must give it SMS access to read the code

Just tested with latest version of Signal. Can't reproduce. You can just tap away all the prompts, and paste the code.

> Norway has one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world

There were signs in the article lol

Curious that the editor specifies American English, but not Brazilian Portuguese

I said /easier/ to pair up and I didn't say they shouldn't have their own friends.

I'm not a parent and a bit autistic so excuse the unemotional reply but surely there are other ways not to have anxiety about your children surely?:

Teach independence/self-defence/street smarts, encourage weight lifting for older kids, therapy/meditation for yourself (some anxiety is natural of course!), move to a safer city, have more children (easier to pair them up on adventures, plus less subconscious physiological fear of losing your one and only child), distract yourself and stay busy, go with them to places the first few times to assure yourself then take off your training wheels. Or just say no to certain things.

It doesn't seem to me a special case of anxiety that can only be addressed by spy apps and knowing you might be able to instantly contact them.

I don't know. I'm not from the US btw

AI is killing companies in all kind of evil ways

It's like the AI bros have handed out a cocktail of cocaine, benzos and fent to tech CEOs. They're hooked and going mad

You don't have to keep all your email there. Could keep recent emails, and archive the rest somewhere else. mbsync etc

No silly, more 'austerity' where national debt explodes but pretend we're making hard decisions and trying hard to do something about it.

See ~2008 onwards:

https://countryeconomy.com/national-debt/france

https://countryeconomy.com/national-debt/uk

It can be our children's problem !

What can be cut and by how much?

Just to clarify: Christine Lagarde hasn't quit as in quit today, rather, she announced she will resign in February, 9 months before the end of her term.

They've done clickbait for quite a bit longer. They love testing different headlines too. And pushing out a short article then updating it as they go

It's well beyond time to move on from holding up the BBC as the pinnacle of journalistic integrity. (I'm a Brit, not a Russian troll :)

The BBC keeps repeating this inaccuracy and at this stage I wonder if it's deliberate:

> The driver replies, "At normal speed?" To which the controller says: "Yes."

That is not how the conversation went. The driver reads back the order from the controller, saying "at normal speed? Hm okay agreed / understood" then the controller starts wrapping up the conversation

ie the driver did not really question the order and it was barely a questioning tone (I write without judgement)

You only need intermediate Spanish to understand that part of the clip. The BBC has no excuse to be honest as I'm sure they have plenty of native speakers on hand

Whether it's a material difference I'm not sure, but the BBC should be more accurate

A nice simple lineup, very easy to choose

- MacBook Neo

- MacBook Air 13-inch (M5)

- MacBook Air 15-inch (M5)

- MacBook Pro 14-inch (M6)

- MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5)

- MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5 Pro)

- MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5 Max)

- MacBook Pro 16-inch (M5 Pro)

- MacBook Pro 16-inch (M5 Max)

- MacBook Pro 14-inch with PROLED XDR Display (M5 Pro)

- MacBook Pro 14-inch with PROLED XDR Display (M5 Max)

- MacBook Pro 16-inch with PROLED XDR Display (M5 Pro)

- MacBook Pro 16-inch with PROLED XDR Display (M5 Max)

> a country with a notoriously poor lifestyle and equally poor diet involving foods full of additives

Is mostly true for the UK too

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I saw a 'diabetes isn't your fault' campaign poster at my GP surgery today. I shook my head! (no mentioning T1 vs T2, so the message is obvious)

Upgrade to the latest backdoors hah. In 2026, do we really still believe it's not baked in

Yeah they need another venue or to reduce attendees

Is this the PR cover for when thousands are later forced out? Because that's what companies do these days.

£700 here (VAT incl). That's ~$1,310 CAD!

> The cost to replace that screen: $1200.

That's Apple saying to you: omg, stop being so poor and wasting our time, just buy another one

Hear hear

It's a very crowded conference at a university campus a few km outside the city centre, in not exactly my favourite city in Europe, but don't let that put you off. Roll up your sleeves and embrace it!

Just think of the beer and waffles!

Apropos: I just realised I've almost never seen substack in a search engine result (logged out Google, DDG etc). Time to fix that

The heat-pump crowd never miss an opportunity to spread fanciful figures. They just take the power draw, assume they dry as quick as the old dryers, and multiply time by power to get a nonsense figure. [0]

In the real world, to get my clothes dry, my heat pump dryer uses ~1.5 kWh (at at least 2 hours) vs ~2-4 kWh with an older dryer. Yes, I've used watt meter.

I'm sure /yours/ is magic tough :-)

They're good at reducing peak load on the grid, sure, which is useful.

[0] The manufacturers join in the with this nonsense by lying about the clothes being dry, and gating the "actually dry" setting behind some advanced menu. They expect you to do the last 10-15% of drying in your wardrobe or something.

But the eco crowd keep telling me that electricity will get cheaper next year!

Hm, come to think of it, they've been saying that for quite a few years now.

Any year now, I'm sure

(I'm not pro-russia)

Five finger discount! Or wear some shabby clothes and go to a food bank :)