kposehn
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Might be worth giving Qelbree a shot as well. I switched to it last year and...yeah, it' was a complete game changer. Hard to get insurance to cover, but it's been well worth it.
Agreed. This is highly, highly useful. Going to integrate this today.
Posted by
kposehn on Sunday November 23, 2025 @11:53PM
from the youtu.be dept.
Wow. I love this! I actually have a specific, esoteric use for this: VSCode on iPad
Hopefully supports iPadOS one day.
Posted by
kposehn on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @06:14PM
from the simonwillison.net dept.
Putting my affiliate hat on here for a minute...
Very cool to see how you've aggregated so many products into one service. How do you plan to compete with FMTC and others that aggregate feeds together? Speaking as a publisher, I'd not want to share commission unless absolutely necessary and would prefer to just pay a fee so I can access the feed and not have an unknown amount of revenue lost between myself and the merchant.
As a brand running a program, I'd be very cautious about allowing my feed into your database if I didn't have any way to finding out who is featuring my products and where/how. Are you providing visibility to the brands since you're effectively functioning as a sub-affiliate network?
Those questions aside, great to see YC funding a startup in the space!
Interesting - I wasn't aware this covered tram-trains. I was under the impression it only granted the exception to lighter off-the-shelf EU equipment like Stadler FLIRT or Siemens Desiro.
You're correct. LIRR trains are built to a much heavier standard and thus are allowed on the same tracks as freight rail.
Unfortunately no. The main difference is mass - US trains are vastly heavier than anything in the UK so by the time you make a tram crashworthy it isn't a tram any longer.
That said, I believe the FRA did allow lighter designs such as the Siemens FLIRT for commuter lines so the rules are definitely less onerous.
> The low density of Charlotte means a transport network like Munich’s is not viable, but the city could take its pre-existing light rail network and join it up to the extensive network of railroad lines around the city that are currently used only for moving freight.
This is not a feasible option due to the vast difference in crashworthiness standards between US freight rail and other system types such as light rail. The FRA actually prohibits allowing these two types on the same network of tracks at the same time. However, they could use a line along the right-of-way were it big enough to accommodate another set of tracks.
Posted by
kposehn on Monday July 14, 2025 @10:45PM
from the tomshardware.com dept.
This is similar to something we've been doing for a while. Instead of individual agents we are creating many iterations and sub-iterations of spawned agents that are largely autonomous. A lot of the human-centric paradigms just don't really apply to LLMs/AI but people are used to approaching them that way.
Posted by
kposehn on Monday May 05, 2025 @12:04AM
from the uni-bonn.de dept.
I
think the app will be for plug-and-charge users, while they'll have credit card readers for everyone else.
I do agree that chargers requiring an app are a royal pain. We're an all-EV household and I don't bother with local chargers that don't have readers or support plug-and-charge. There's a lot of Shell chargers in our area that require an app to work and almost no-one uses them because of how clunky it is.
Glad to see Walmart going further with DCFC build-out, especially with 400kw chargers.
Very cool. If you could also make a smaller one with ~3kw output that fits on a locomotive frame you'd literally have the entire freight rail industry the world over as customers.
Posted by
kposehn on Friday December 06, 2024 @08:06PM
from the forbes.com dept.
> Some will be mystified how study of railways, maps and fish trading has anything to do with cognitive neuroscience and representing space.
Commenting as someone who loves railways, maps and fish(ing) this is both a novel thought and endlessly fascinating. I fear you've provided me another rabbit hole to explore. Thank you!
I've found that adding prompt elements such as "hi-fi", "sharp imaging" and "clear soundstage" have helped create a less compressed and generally cleaner sound.
Posted by
kposehn on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:39PM
from the forbes.com dept.
I've been using a 12.9" M2 iPad Pro as a daily driver for six months. It is almost perfect - the only big issue I have is a problem in WebKit where a two-finger-tap on a trackpad procs both the system contextual menu
and the web app context menu. It makes using VSCode, Google Docs, etc. highly annoying and remains unresolved.
Here's the issue in bugzilla: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260722
Outside of that, I love using it and actively prefer it over a regular desktop OS for all tasks outside of software development (and with the bug fixed even that would be better)
Posted by
kposehn on Friday December 29, 2023 @01:24PM
from the kristinposehn.substack.com dept.
Good point about sync. Probably could use iCloud Drive or Google Drive for data.
...I wish this was on iPad too! Very cool to see and I'll try it on Mac.
As another commenter pointed out, LA to LV is actually doable with a number of current on sale EVs, with a decent size range buffer left behind after the trip. Furthermore, there are several fast chargers on the route in Hesperia, Barstow and Baker.
I was just recently wondering when we'd see some new weather models released that keep pace with the development of machine learning. Now if I could just access the raw forecast data from MetNet-3...
While I'm all for doing a better job at reducing spam, this also will effectively drive a lot of those advertising dollars that go into bulk email straight into sponsored email products from Google and Yahoo.
The main webmail platforms do not benefit economically from spam. They have every incentive to turn it to their advantage by diverting ad dollars from bulk email and forcing it into their own ad platforms.
Posted by
kposehn on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:22PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.