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kirtakat··on BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada
Rivian as well - whether they're able to be successful long term or not is an open question.
kirtakat··on Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act
I wasn't aware that Ikea sold a charger, so I googled it - this is the very first result: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/customer-service/product-support/...
kirtakat··on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
I do this all the time in the winter as well when I'm wearing gloves that aren't really "touch screen" friendly
kirtakat··on Don't Download Apps
[Your Area Code]-867-5309 is what I always use - alas they are becoming wise to that
kirtakat··on The Whispering Earring
This is the story I keep thinking back to with the rise of LLMs, but I could not think of the name for it, so thank you!
kirtakat··on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
Man - I knew this in my teens - I just didn't DO it.
kirtakat··on The child-like role of dogs in Western societies
Not who you were responding to, but in your original statement you wrote "I do not think it’s healthy for adults to do this [sic] I think pets are wonderful for children"

By explicitly calling out that "[they] are wonderful for children" you are implicitly calling into question their value for adults. Whether that was your intention or not, it's certainly how I read your statement.

kirtakat··on College Students Are Using 'No Contact Orders' to Block Each Other in Real Life
Without any actual numbers given, this reads like any number of other hit pieces on younger generations that have been written up through the years. Especially coming from the editorial pages.
kirtakat··on I let lasers power my smart home – and I don't want to go back
I have one that I actually like, but it works a bit differently - instead of being capacitive on the faucet - which is infuriating, there is a sensor in the toe kick area under the sink, so if you wave your foot there it turns the water on/off.
kirtakat··on Built an app that solved our grocery budget issues - saves us $200/month
HA - I wrote the same comment, including the bit about "why is it in Reminders and not Notes?" - it really is just inexplicable
kirtakat··on Built an app that solved our grocery budget issues - saves us $200/month
This doesn't solve all the problems the app mentioned is solving, but if you're using iOS (based on the Apple Notes) - Reminders is oddly a solid grocery list tool:

- It can be shared with others - It can be updated natively with Siri voice commands ("Hey Siri - Add eggs to grocery list" works out of the box) - It gives other users notifications when it changes (this is also my major negative) - It "knows" it's a grocery list and tries to do some smart grouping/labeling (Dairy, Sauces, etc)

I'm just really not sure why that's built into Reminders and not Notes

kirtakat··on Microsoft's Quake 2 AI experiment sparks negative reactions
Currently this is a fever dream of non-Euclidean space - but the fact that it can reliably do this at all is extremely impressive.
kirtakat··on It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018)
It's funny how as soon as I read to Netherlands, my brain back-tracked to correct me on the pronunciation.

If anyone else is ever in the Netherlands and has a chance, due the tour in Gouda, it's delightful and you get to try a bunch of gouda cheese!

kirtakat··on Using Gorilla glass for home building
That's true for relatively new construction, but for instance, I have a 100 year old house with stucco. Replacing my windows is a nightmare job. Whereas my back deck was a far simpler project
kirtakat··on Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
I'd like to argue with you, but yeah - as much as I love OP, the restaurants are usually just okay
kirtakat··on Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
I'm amused to see so many of my neighbors on here - we could do a Hacker News Stoop at one of the coffee shops (Whirlwind is my regular, but it's not like any of the ones in OP are hard to get to!)
kirtakat··on Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
Gods, her "OK" at 30seconds is fucking heart wrenching.