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bochoh··on Theion sulphur crystal batteries promise breakthrough in energy density
Yes exactly this, I bought a Kona Electric in November and on paper next to Tesla etc it’s not a great car. In reality it’s the best car I’ve ever owned (no hyperbole). I charged every other day for a ~60 mile round trip and never saw a gas pump. Although since then I’m full remote and it just sits in the driveway.
bochoh··on Economists say that high gas prices triggered the housing crisis in 2007 (2012)
Yes I don’t mean to target anyone with real uses for a truck, more those using them to commute. I personally find myself wanting one all the time as a homeowner but can’t seem to justify it personally for the two or three times a year I would actually use it!
bochoh··on Economists say that high gas prices triggered the housing crisis in 2007 (2012)
I know this is sarcasm but for those people with big pickup trucks (I should say vanity trucks, not real work machines), you’re looking at 26 gallon tanks @ 4.20/gallon. If they’re doing that once a week (conservatively) plus a presumably large truck payment, they could more than pay for a Tesla all other things aside. I personally lease a Kona Electric which after rebates and incentives costs me ~$350 a month
bochoh··on Largest bacterium ever discovered has unexpectedly complex cells
Chicken and ostrich eggs are both single cells that are quite large as well
bochoh··on Changing your diet could add up to 13 years to your life, study says
The best incentive for me to drastically reduce red meat was the marry someone who didn't eat it. I don't want to cook two proteins for dinner so mainly have already switched away from it.
bochoh··on Google to end support for OnHub routers in 2022
I could see them doing this if they hadn’t already migrated the OnHub devices to the new google home app that controls the new Nest WiFi devices. It’s not like the control plane is going away here - the hard work of migrating to their new cloud has already been done.
bochoh··on Tesla Model S Plaid just set world speed record for a production electric car
Perhaps the others are not considered production vehicles?
bochoh··on My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day
I’m also curious on this. My stack currently is a SQLite file -> ORM -> .net core on Linux on a single box
bochoh··on Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates if your CPU is old
I was just looking at their compatibility for my perfectly powerful laptop (Dell Latitude e5570 with i7-6820HQ) and was sad to see it won’t support Windows 11. Very sad
bochoh··on Download the FCC Speed Test App
I love that the app publisher for Apple is SamKnows - alluding to mass surveillance. Uncle Sam knows and is watching.
bochoh··on Speed Is the Killer Feature
I had a chance to play the demo round and it was extremely performant - well done. The only thing I'm not sure about is that on the first click of each piece it automatically orients itself to the final orientation as expected by the puzzle. Is this an "Easy / Medium / Hard" setting? Otherwise great!
bochoh··on Sosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in Ubuntu
I've attempted several times today but haven't successfully gotten KVM working with the custom kernel. Thanks for pointing me in this path.
bochoh··on Sosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in Ubuntu
I tried this, naively, on WSL2 and had no luck. May try again tomorrow.
bochoh··on I Downvoted Because
I like the system here where you cannot downvote until a certain aging process has occurred. Granted I’m not there yet, but not being able to downvote doesn’t impede the value I find on HN.
bochoh··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
Built a sms api to ease friction in getting sms into your application for MVPs etc. had low traction so never finished planned functionality

HTTPS://smallsms.app

bochoh··on Show HN: ThermOS – A DIY multi-zone homekit compatible thermostat
Not sure if this is your project or not OP - one thing to be aware of with those relay boards (learned the hard way) is that there are solid state relay versions and physical (clicky) relays that wear out in thousands of cycles. Given your application I’d consider replacing with the solid state version sooner rather than later. Cheers!
bochoh··on Coinbase hits number 30 in the top free apps on Apple's mobile store
And they're now down! https://status.coinbase.com/

edit: added status page

bochoh··on Ask HN: Has anyone purchased the base M1 Mac Mini for development work?
I'm always happy to see ngrok being used. I /still/ amaze my co-workers when I throw up an ngrok to an API that's still in dev and say here you go what do you think. Literal magic and an amazing project.
bochoh··on ACE: Apple Type-C Port Controller Secrets
I think we’re more likely to see a port-less (read MagSafe only) iPhone sooner than a USB-C version. I will say the iPad Pro with USB-C was a revelation for usability though. Not to mention companies like Flir being able to create one product line.
bochoh··on Bug drone for UK army that weights 196g, has 40 mins autonomy and 2km range
Apologies as I was ambiguous here. I find myself including both the GPS and flight controller computer/ carrier board in that 400$ price tag. I’m using Hex Cube Orange with Here gps units. This says nothing of cameras, radios, batteries, flight time, and live camera feed/control.
bochoh··on Bug drone for UK army that weights 196g, has 40 mins autonomy and 2km range
I have to concur. I built many drones with 400$+ flight controllers that look like trash next to my mini 2.
bochoh··on US Government adds DJI to commerce blacklist over ties to Chinese government
Does anyone have any idea what this means to end users who just want to purchase a DJI drone?
bochoh··on Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
The thing I still don't understand with Mac, even if you were to virtualize it, is that VNC is abysmal compared to RDP from Microsoft. How are people actually /using/ this hardware (short of command line x-code builds)?
bochoh··on 1MB Club
I tweeted about text.npr.org this morning. Excellent resource.
bochoh··on Introducing the next generation of Mac
It will only drive one 4k display at 60hz, I would imagine it would support multiple lower resolutions with no issues.
bochoh··on Introducing the next generation of Mac
I'm imagining the mac pro with n M1 chips such that you get the memory you want. Not dissimilar to how Ryzen memory access works.
bochoh··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
Ah that distinction was not made in the presentation. Thanks for this.
bochoh··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
Rosetta 2 is the newest version. The universal apps are just an export in XCode from what the presentation made it seem like. Developers exclaiming it took 10 minutes to do the universal app build.
bochoh··on We made our SaaS home page cookie-free
I think the whole point of being privacy focused is that you don't retarget and your product sells by its own merits.
bochoh··on Planet eBook – Classic literature publications formatted for popular devices
It seems to be required for goodreads integration so I can keep track of what I've read.
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