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jazoom··on Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity
That actually sounds pessimistic to me. My ROI for 18kW solar plus 42kWh battery will be under 3 years.

- Expensive electricity

- Government subsidy for solar and battery

- Much sunshine

- 3 hours free charging daily

Nearly $5000 yearly bill gone. $14000 installation cost post rebate.

jazoom··on Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
I haven't found Kimi to be all that good, but GLM 5.1 I find to be better than Opus 4.6 most of the time in web dev. Opus' only advantage is it's a bit faster. If you can't access GLM 5.1 (not fully released yet) try 5.0. It was better than Opus sometimes too.

I have a GLM Code subscription and it lasts much longer than Claude Code.

I use Pi agent so I use all agents in the same harness.

jazoom··on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
I just type "z p" in that case and that's enough to get me there.
jazoom··on Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app
There would be quite the difference in our patient demographics.

I have quite a few patients from the UK who have had several skin cancers. Invariably they went on holidays to Italy or Spain as a child and soaked up the sun.

Keep up the great work.

jazoom··on Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app
> most skin cancers are very obvious even to a non-expert and the reason they are missed are that patients are not checking their skin or have no idea what to look for

I am a skin cancer doctor in Queensland and all I do is find and remove skin cancers (find between 10 and 30 every day). In my experience the vast majority of cancers I find are not obvious to other doctors (not even seen by them), let alone obvious to the patient. Most of what I find are BCCs, which are usually very subtle when they are small. Even when I point them out to the patient they still can't see them.

Also, almost all melanomas I find were not noticed by the patient and they're usually a little surprised about the one I point to.

In my experience the only skin cancers routinely noticed by patients are SCCs and Merkel cell carcinomas.

With respect, if "most skin cancers are very obvious even to a non-expert" I suggest the experts are missing them and letting them get larger than necessary.

I realise things will be different in other parts of the world and my location allows a lot more practice than most doctors would get.

Update: I like the quiz. Nice work! In case anyone is wondering, I only got 27/30. Distinguishing between naevus and melanoma without a dermatoscope on it is sometimes impossible. Get your skin checked.

jazoom··on Zorin OS
DistroSea is amazing. I just tried it and it worked well. Though huge latency for me.
jazoom··on Perverse incentives of vibe coding
I created a script to pack it into a markdown file. Later I found this which does a better job, so I use it now.

https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix

jazoom··on Perverse incentives of vibe coding
It's not satire. Gemini is much better for coding, at least for me.

Just to illustrate, I asked both about a browser automation script this morning. Claude used Selenium. Gemini used Playwright.

I think the main reasons Gemini is much better are:

1. It gets my whole code base as context. Claude can't take that many tokens. I also include documentation for newer versions of libraries (e.g. Svelte 5) that the LLM is not so familiar with.

2. Gemini has a more recent knowledge cutoff.

3. Gemini 2.5 Pro is a thinking model.

4. It's free to use through the web UI.

jazoom··on Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
You don't need to apologise. You created something cool and my family enjoyed playing it.
jazoom··on Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
Looks like I also have to play "guess the timezone of the creator of this game".

I enjoyed playing it yesterday. It's now 11am today and it's still not open again. I have no idea when it will be.

jazoom··on Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?
Alpine CSP version works fine. You just can't write JS code in strings, which one may wish to avoid anyway.

I also didn't have a problem with CSP and HTMX.

Nor with SvelteKit.

I'm not sure why you think these are all equivalent to DataStar's hard requirement on unsafe-eval.

FYI, this is the reason I didn't try out DataStar.

jazoom··on ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)
I disagree. Doctors can't be expected to be available 100% of the time. The only doctor to see this patient's result was the pathologist (or should have been before being sent off to the requesting doctor). It had not yet been handed over to the requesting doctor in a fail-proof manner.

The pathology company I send my samples to contacts my clinic to ensure we received urgent results. This it's important because there's no guarantee the message ever arrived in the doctor's inbox. If you work in tech you should know this to be the case.

The only way to ensure timeliness is for the pathology company to contact the patient directly if they can't verbally hand over to the requesting doctor.

jazoom··on Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
I would assume he would use HTMX, being the creator of it.
jazoom··on Australian state sets minimum pay for Amazon contractors
Can you please link me to the source for this? I'm a GP and I've always found this a bit strange.
jazoom··on Australia has lost one-third of its koalas in the past three years
You're oversimplify it. You don't know where they are until they are already swooping you. They've drawn blood on me before when I was walking from my car into work. They are a menace for cyclists. A woman tripped over recently when being attacked by a magpie. She was carrying her baby. The baby died.

Sure, if you know exactly where they are on a regular route you might be able to avoid them by taking a different route.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-09/qld-baby-dies-after-m...

"People injure themselves panicking around Australian Magpies, far more than anything Magpies directly do." sounds just like victim-blaming.

In comparison, koalas just stay in their trees when you walk past.

Of course I'm generalising because the majority of magpies don't swoop and I like hearing their songs. But there are plenty of overly aggressive magpies that do real harm.

jazoom··on Australia has lost one-third of its koalas in the past three years
Koalas are fine. I don't know anyone who has ever been attacked by one. They just keep to themselves.

Magpies are much worse. I don't know anyone who hasn't been swooped by one.

jazoom··on ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
I'm interested but most search engines give terrible results for Australian searches (increasingly true for Google too, which used to be good at it). How does this one go at not being America-centric?

Update: I'll answer my own question. They didn't even let me sign up.

jazoom··on Inkscape 1.1
I liked using it too, but it's not on Linux and I don't use Windows anymore.
jazoom··on Are we screening too much for skin cancer? It's complicated
I'm a skin cancer doctor in Queensland. I find skin cancers in patients almost every day. In fact, I think there have only been a few days of working this year where I didn't find one.

This is from screening. People in Australia generally understand the importance of skin cancer screening because most people know of someone who's had skin cancer.

jazoom··on Could Google Really Leave Australia?
Ars Technica article suggested Australia's new laws also makes that illegal.

As an Australian, I think this is silly. Our current government really sucks with technological issues.

jazoom··on Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'
How can they possibly login without the password being available to them?
jazoom··on Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'
Doesn't that mean she knows the shared passwords?
jazoom··on Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
The experiment you linked was on mice.

Anyway, that's the opposite of what you said before. Treating heart to improve balding is not the same as treating balding to improve heart.

And finasteride is not a cure for balding. At best it slows it, with variable results among different people.

jazoom··on Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
Correlation does not mean causation. I'd actually be very surprised if fixing the hair addressed any correlated heart disease. The hair would be a downstream symptom, almost certainly.

I'm a doctor, if that makes a difference.

jazoom··on New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night
South Australia?
jazoom··on Show HN: Tobab, a poor mans identity aware proxy. “BeyondCorp” for selfhosters
And the rest

"the poor mans identity aware proxy, easy to use setup for beyondcorp in your homelab"

->

"the poor man's identity-aware proxy with an easy-to-use setup for beyondcorp in your homelab"

jazoom··on Secure email: Tutanota free encrypted email
It's pretty basic, but it gets the job done.
jazoom··on Ask HN: What seeds you sowed years ago that you are reaping fruits of now?
Also survivorship bias. We wouldn't be having this conversation if NVIDIA had a major catastrophe like Wirecard recently had and owner of basket was unable to sell shares quickly enough for some reason.

All eggs in one basket takes some serious bravery.

jazoom··on Ask HN: No major Australian bank even offers an option of 2FA for web, why?
BOQ forces me to use a specific non-standard (Symantec) app on my phone as 2FA, which I also find stupid, especially since I can just call them on the phone and they'll reset it for me. What's even the point?
jazoom··on When This War Is Over, Many of Us Will Leave Medicine
I'm an Australian doctor. We have some problems, but it's sure as hell better than what you just described.
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