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Might be worth giving Qelbree a shot as well. I switched to it last year and...yeah, it' was a complete game changer. Hard to get insurance to cover, but it's been well worth it.

Agreed. This is highly, highly useful. Going to integrate this today.

Wow. I love this! I actually have a specific, esoteric use for this: VSCode on iPad

Hopefully supports iPadOS one day.

Putting my affiliate hat on here for a minute...

Very cool to see how you've aggregated so many products into one service. How do you plan to compete with FMTC and others that aggregate feeds together? Speaking as a publisher, I'd not want to share commission unless absolutely necessary and would prefer to just pay a fee so I can access the feed and not have an unknown amount of revenue lost between myself and the merchant.

As a brand running a program, I'd be very cautious about allowing my feed into your database if I didn't have any way to finding out who is featuring my products and where/how. Are you providing visibility to the brands since you're effectively functioning as a sub-affiliate network?

Those questions aside, great to see YC funding a startup in the space!

Interesting - I wasn't aware this covered tram-trains. I was under the impression it only granted the exception to lighter off-the-shelf EU equipment like Stadler FLIRT or Siemens Desiro.

You're correct. LIRR trains are built to a much heavier standard and thus are allowed on the same tracks as freight rail.

Unfortunately no. The main difference is mass - US trains are vastly heavier than anything in the UK so by the time you make a tram crashworthy it isn't a tram any longer.

That said, I believe the FRA did allow lighter designs such as the Siemens FLIRT for commuter lines so the rules are definitely less onerous.

> The low density of Charlotte means a transport network like Munich’s is not viable, but the city could take its pre-existing light rail network and join it up to the extensive network of railroad lines around the city that are currently used only for moving freight.

This is not a feasible option due to the vast difference in crashworthiness standards between US freight rail and other system types such as light rail. The FRA actually prohibits allowing these two types on the same network of tracks at the same time. However, they could use a line along the right-of-way were it big enough to accommodate another set of tracks.

This is similar to something we've been doing for a while. Instead of individual agents we are creating many iterations and sub-iterations of spawned agents that are largely autonomous. A lot of the human-centric paradigms just don't really apply to LLMs/AI but people are used to approaching them that way.

I think the app will be for plug-and-charge users, while they'll have credit card readers for everyone else.

I do agree that chargers requiring an app are a royal pain. We're an all-EV household and I don't bother with local chargers that don't have readers or support plug-and-charge. There's a lot of Shell chargers in our area that require an app to work and almost no-one uses them because of how clunky it is.

Glad to see Walmart going further with DCFC build-out, especially with 400kw chargers.

Yes, I meant MW

I meant MW :P

Very cool. If you could also make a smaller one with ~3kw output that fits on a locomotive frame you'd literally have the entire freight rail industry the world over as customers.

> Some will be mystified how study of railways, maps and fish trading has anything to do with cognitive neuroscience and representing space.

Commenting as someone who loves railways, maps and fish(ing) this is both a novel thought and endlessly fascinating. I fear you've provided me another rabbit hole to explore. Thank you!

I've found that adding prompt elements such as "hi-fi", "sharp imaging" and "clear soundstage" have helped create a less compressed and generally cleaner sound.

I've been using a 12.9" M2 iPad Pro as a daily driver for six months. It is almost perfect - the only big issue I have is a problem in WebKit where a two-finger-tap on a trackpad procs both the system contextual menu and the web app context menu. It makes using VSCode, Google Docs, etc. highly annoying and remains unresolved.

Here's the issue in bugzilla: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260722

Outside of that, I love using it and actively prefer it over a regular desktop OS for all tasks outside of software development (and with the bug fixed even that would be better)

Good point about sync. Probably could use iCloud Drive or Google Drive for data.

...I wish this was on iPad too! Very cool to see and I'll try it on Mac.

As another commenter pointed out, LA to LV is actually doable with a number of current on sale EVs, with a decent size range buffer left behind after the trip. Furthermore, there are several fast chargers on the route in Hesperia, Barstow and Baker.

I was just recently wondering when we'd see some new weather models released that keep pace with the development of machine learning. Now if I could just access the raw forecast data from MetNet-3...

While I'm all for doing a better job at reducing spam, this also will effectively drive a lot of those advertising dollars that go into bulk email straight into sponsored email products from Google and Yahoo.

The main webmail platforms do not benefit economically from spam. They have every incentive to turn it to their advantage by diverting ad dollars from bulk email and forcing it into their own ad platforms.

What does "tech industry" mean in this context? There is an additional referenced article (https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...) that goes into more detail, but I still don't see any actual "big tech" companies (at least the ones that term is commonly associated with).

To my knowledge, Apple, Google, Facebook and others absolutely do not want breaking encryption to happen and lobby strongly against it, so who is "tech" really referring to here?

Very cool! While I'm not an Android user, I'm glad to see this released. The more tablet-friendly IDE's the better.

+1 to Code App. The developer has been super responsive to bugs. So far the app is the best IDE offering on iPad imho.

Yes. I have an instance running on the dev box. The only issue has been an issue with the right-click in Safari not properly handling PWAs like VSCode, causing it to show the iPadOS context menu over the VSCode menu.

It has been resolved in Webkit proper, but isn’t yet resolved in iPadOS, so I use a workaround to deal with it. I’m also enjoying trying out micro, helix, neovim and emacs as well for purely terminal based editors.

> The problem for them was mainly that the agency running their ad account counted "demo requests" as their top metric and mistakingly counted all demo requests that came in as attributed to the marketing spend. So they reported on faulty numbers during the entire year.

Oh man, that’s going to give me nightmares…

Re Hubspot: they’re going to miss people that see the ad and don’t click. That’s the lift I’ve found to be highly effective, if a pain to quantify.

Thanks for responding and I’m glad you posted the article

Interesting! That is not my experience at all. My only issue has been the right click contextual menu behavior being inconsistent with google docs and VSCode. I hate to say this but have you tried a fresh install? I did to that and it resolved the issues I had early on, and then once I restored my backup it was fine.

I was referring to tablets but thanks for pointing out the Librem. I’ll check it out.

I’m using iPadOS 17 and it is vastly better than 16, so once it comes out you should give it a shot. I can absolutely understand being unhappy with it before. What makes 17 so much better is that you have the freedom to move windows around where you want, but it also does a great job of managing focus and organizing them. I’ve used full-screen exclusively on Mac since Lion, but now I’m all Stage Manager all the way.

I do agree about file management, but I don’t really work with files at all on my device anyway - code is in the dev box I SSH in to, and everything else is in Google Drive.

For reference, 80-90% of my work is slack/gmail/gdocs/zoom. The rest is development work done using a PWA for VSCode, code-server on my dev box and Blink Shell for SSH (I would prefer Termius but I can’t have SSH port forwarding done automatically). This works quite smoothly and gives me access to pretty much everything I need.