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Re:Solar and batteries can power the world on Friday April 03, 2026 @11:24AM (#47627777)
This is a large pv system for what I assume is a single family home. Do you have resistive in floor heating or an electric boiler feeding radiators? I imagine you could easily run a half dozen mini-splits drawing 500-1000w each, or a centralized heat pump. Happy to help if you can give more details.
Is that correct only 1MW of power but 19,000MWh of storage? That would take over two years to drain it.
Re:What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? on Friday October 24, 2025 @07:35AM (#45693551)
If you replace the two prong plug on the AC adapter for a three prong cable, your MacBook case will be properly grounded and you won’t feel any vibration.
Re:Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:47AM (#45613944)
It’s available on the App Store and it will run on both iOS and Mac.
In my experience, as a normal non-unicorn employee at a large corp, I was able to have my contract modified. It required advice from an employment law lawyer that cost a few hundred dollars and a couple emails with the company’s general counsel.

You can change these contracts. Hiring people is difficult and once the company has made that decision they don’t want to lose you over a contract clause.

It’s not that difficult to have legal help with your contract. Call your local bar association and ask for an employment law specialist. It will likely cost a couple hundred for them to review your contract.
Re:Void: Open-source Cursor alternative on Friday May 09, 2025 @02:50AM (#43934403)
The continue.dev plugin for Visual Studio Code provides documentation indexing. You provide a base URL and a tag. The plugin then scrapes the documentation and builds a RAG index. This allows you to use the documentation as context within chat. For example, you could ask @godotengine what is a sprite?
>Were you using Macs before Jobs came back?

I think he was :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(video_game)

Re:Ask HN: What do you use to create diagrams? on Saturday March 15, 2025 @04:24AM (#43370961)
If you're looking for labeled shapes with connections, Apple's Keynote is a great free alternative to OmniGraffle.
Re:Ask HN: How to Avoid Microplastics/PFAS on Thursday August 22, 2024 @10:11AM (#41320506)
What would make a good replacement for a plastic cutting board for use with meat?
Is it possible perfection is preventing getting it done? Could you close the walls and enjoy the space as is?

Sometimes it is easier to work on someone else’s house because you are not seeking perfection. Do you have a friend that could help you? Or the electrician?

Re:The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022) on Thursday June 20, 2024 @04:16AM (#40736246)
Does it support dot net?
“Between 2022 and 2023”
Re:The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @02:35AM (#40571343)
This is an excellent real life detective adventure vividly recounted by the author.

To those familiar with his work, did he retire from writing? There was no update after Bill Ewasko was found.

Re:These states are basically begging you to get a heat pump on Friday February 09, 2024 @03:44PM (#39320276)
If you have lighting circuits that previously were incandescent but are now all LED, you might be able to combine some of them on a single 15 amp breaker.
Re:Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @08:37AM (#39027458)
This is a great story. Thank you for sharing.

Did he omit his current role from his resume? How did he not disclose where he was currently working?

Re:I built an offline smart home, and why you should too on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:51AM (#38965670)
I was in the same boat as a Leviton HomeKit switch early adopter. Between poor firmware and a critical Ubiquity UniFi AP multicast bug, it was frustrating. Eventually both were updated and the switches have been solid since.
Re:My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad on Thursday January 04, 2024 @02:27AM (#38864159)
Airstream has a concept trailer called the eStream which has electric assist.
iOS limits what you can do in the background with Bluetooth. At least one of the iPhones needs to have your mesh app running in the foreground to communicate with another iPhone that has your app. Two locked phones with your mesh app will not be able to communicate over Bluetooth.
Re:Ford cutting 2024 F-150 Lightning production plans by half on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @03:30PM (#38617979)
No, it's not an issue to charge on a basic plug for most people. You can get 5 miles per hour on 120v. When charged overnight it is plenty for the average commute.
Re:UniFi Express on Sunday December 03, 2023 @02:14PM (#38509833)
Are you using 2.4 or 5ghz? 2.4 will blast through walls, to an extent, where 5ghz will struggle. I’ve seen situations where the 2.4 band is completely saturated by neighbors and the solution was that every other room needs its own 5ghz puddle to achieve top speeds.

This kind of setup is easily achievable with UniFI POE gear, but will hit the 5 device limit of this router. The original USG didn’t have this limit.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) on Saturday December 02, 2023 @06:16AM (#38497778)
The .hr link says "Sorry, we don't currently have any open positions."
Does one need a motorcycle helmet when exceeding bicycle speeds?
I don’t understand the strategy because one would have to pay $800 per year to California for the LLC. Does this only work if you live in one of the handful of states that don’t have any minimum tax or annual fees for LLCs?
The cash back is 2% anywhere when you use Apple Pay. That’s pretty much the gold standard. Additionally, you get the cash back almost immediately. No points system is good in my opinion.
No, stocks are not tanking, but there has been a correction in consumer staples. For example, Vanguard Consumer Staples (VDC) is down over 10% from its high. Investors generally buy into consumer staples as a defensive move in the business cycle. But risk free money markets are paying over 5%...
Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is mobile web browsing awful? on Sunday October 15, 2023 @05:43AM (#37888377)
Tap the aA in the address bar. Tap Show Reader.
Re:Ask HN: Do you commit feature flags to Git? on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:09PM (#37833997)
Yes, exactly that. If there was ever any doubt about a feature and we wanted to roll it out slowly, we used the App Store tools.
Re:Ask HN: Do you commit feature flags to Git? on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @05:06AM (#37829921)
Yes, for our mobile app we implemented feature flags to avoid the problem of having large branches that could not be merged until they were ready for production.

We used a simple approach without any extra tools: the feature flags were constants that controlled whether certain code blocks were active in dev, test, or prod environments.

This enabled us to merge and test work in progress branches regularly before they shipped in the production app. It also made code reviews more frequent and easier.

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