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Re:'It's offensively cheap': Solar power is quietly becoming bigger th...
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:53AM (#50255831)
How common is it that these industrial/commercial buildings have roof-top solar? If not common, what stops it?
It's quite common in Australia for commercial and residential.
Re:EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @08:33AM (#49725983)
Context of this discussion is Canada (and Europe). It's not at all reliable for them.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @11:27PM (#49721769)
I found people suggesting Raycast to replace Spotlight search and that's been far better and more consistent for me since I switched.
Re:Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
on Monday September 14, 2026 @07:07AM (#49694925)
I wear this category for hiking rather than running (prefer sneakers over boots - less weight). Current shoes are something waterproof from Columbia that I've worn in snow and desert trails and quite like. Bought on special in the US just before heading into snow, so didn't research much. Previously had Nike Wild Trail. And many years back, I think it was Nike Trail that I bought in NZ, but never saw that moniker again.
I was looking at Nike ACG stuff recently, but the colourways in AU are black (clodhopper!), neon blue, white with khaki, camo, or an odd light brown. And on the side it spells out "All Conditions Gear" like you're an idiot who can't remember what your shoes are for.
Re:Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:19AM (#49693094)
Hoka is everywhere amongst runners in Australia; it got noticeable marketshare very quickly. I think they actively do trial sessions with public running groups?
Re:Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:17AM (#49693075)
I think they do have that - Nike SB for skate/street, Nike ACG for trail, etc. That said, I have twice gone to re-buy a trail-oriented shoe of theirs that I liked in the past, and found that it never stuck, and the new options in that space were garish or over-reliant on mesh which just lets in dirt and thorns.
Re:Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly ta...
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:05PM (#49653088)
Yes, I can't remember seeing a bathroom or laundry here that didn't have a floor drain. Seems insane for that to not be standardised. I briefly lived with a bathroom in the UK that was carpeted?!
Re:Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear ...
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:59PM (#49653041)
Not sure of their business split, but maybe it makes financial sense purely supporting their European customers.
Re:I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @08:51PM (#49636804)
"Asking the model such as question is a pointless endeavor."
It used a medical term that is not an actual term. I asked it to explain how and why it would do this, having a rudimentary understanding of the technology. I learned the technical reason. How is that a pointless endeavour to learn more about the tool I was using?
Using a term like "admit" assumes the reader (on a technical site) understands the context and what is being suggested. A bit like someone saying, "The landscape spoke to me." I don't reply to the landscape architect and say "Mate, the landscape can't actually speak" because I understand the sentiment and getting pedantic is pointless in that moment.
Re:Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to S...
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:59PM (#49636357)
Are you talking about South Park or Trump here?
Re:I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:24AM (#49624652)
I've had Claude completely invent a word, and then admit under questioning that it was because it seemed plausible.
Re:My Feed, My Way
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:26PM (#49619099)
Also Australian, and I think there's something worth doing in this space, but I don't know how effective this Albo plan will be. Maybe there's an angle whereby an algorithmic sort (other than chronological, alphabetical, etc) loses liability protection somehow so the media companies are discouraged.
On Instagram, I can opt-out of "suggested content" but it reverts every 30 days or so. I would vastly prefer the default be that I have to opt-in every 30 days...
Re:Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:23PM (#49618570)
They're asking if there's an end game. If the single family homes get rezoned to three storey blocks, does that just become 10-storey towers and then arcologies, each more efficient than the other.
Maybe the answer is that the current single family home is an arbitrary point on the scale too, and should just be evaluated on merits for current and future needs.
Re:Google WeatherNext 3
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:25AM (#49607280)
I never used that, but I like Rain Parrot in Australia. Not sure if it's similar. It will tell me that it's likely to rain in x minutes, then stop y minutes later, and it's almost always fairly accurate.
Re:Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go?
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:21AM (#49430191)
I agree.
A simple and unremarkable person could once upon a time have their basic factory job (or similar), make enough to own their home, and have a decent unremarkable life with their family. I think the pressures of housing costs or rent and other costs of living squeezed those people, often to distress. It's obviously not the entirety of a solution, but it's surely part of it.
Re:Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @08:00PM (#49381936)
Ha - yes, I've witnessed that when they "clean" bugs from the reverse of the mirror only to litter the useful side!
Re:Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @08:53AM (#49344924)
First bird I thought of and was surprised not to see get a ranking was the rainbow lorikeet, one of the more common birds in suburban Australia.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_lorikeet#/media/Fi...
Re:Colorado River plummets as lakes Powell and Mead drop to record lows
on Monday August 17, 2026 @07:44PM (#49339233)
Not sure if it's different over there, but farming in Australia (whether with questionable water reliance or not) is considered sacrosanct and pushback would be a political risk. Any foreign-owned alfalfa exporters would just throw lobbyists behind broader farming coalitions (small farmers, ranchers, locals, etc) to protect themselves. Residents will cop water restrictions before then, as has happened before.
Re:Retired man plants trees on forgotten land, now it's Sao Paulo's la...
on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:00AM (#49207699)
My family has volunteered a few times to spend a day planting trees on farmland given over to conservation in Australia. It’s good fun and very sociable. There’d be organisations that do this in many countries.
Re:Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @11:01PM (#49178087)
It's a tribute and he tells you that in the second paragraph.
"But now that Elise is gone I cannot restrain myself from telling the world something about the remarkable person with whom I shared the past 36 years of my life."
Re:AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest
on Sunday August 02, 2026 @08:45PM (#49149956)
Amusingly, there are 18 stars in the header banner of the poster. Missed opportunity!
Re:The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores
on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:00AM (#49119895)
I used to think you wanted to own the premises you operated out of, but you're probably just better off leasing it out and getting paid whether the business had a tough month or not.
Neglected software update caused widespread Telstra network outage
Life among the garbage mountains of the biggest city
Trump made more than a billion dollars from crypto ventures in first year back
Re:Show HN: Zanagrams
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @07:25PM (#48712861)
Bonus words for me just now included NITS and TITS! I think the explanation about them being lesser known just confuses; it's more that they're not essential to completing the puzzle.
Re:John Carmack on the mistakes around Quake that ruined id software
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:12AM (#48668787)
Same - loved those other games but Doom 3 felt miserly in comparison to the previous games where you had space to move and options to target. D3 felt like it was just random jump scares more than much else.
I didn't love Q2, but really enjoyed Q3A.
Re:A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:38PM (#48549859)
How does that not become a legal issue?
Re:Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture
on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:49PM (#48547485)
Dual vanities/basins (at least in an en suite) is not uncommon. (Edit: was looking at wrong bathroom - yes, very weird there.) Nor having separate bath and shower.
We had both in our last house which was a mid-range build and not overly expensive at the time (very cheap in hindsight).
Not commenting on the placements though. Looking at the floorplan, it’s a pretty silly layout that could at least be used as a starting point then tweaked, but at that point you might as well start with an off the shelf plan first. Reminds me of a procedurally generated dungeon game.