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rsolva··on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
Weeel, actually! ... It dates back to the early days of the printing press, and has been a general convention since then.

Rules can be broken, but not without consequence.

rsolva··on Dear Tesla Shareholder [pdf]
From what I can gather, the institutional shareholders that has signed this letter controls about 1-2% of the Tesla shares (roughly). Add the Norwegian Oil Fund to the mix, which will likely vote similarly and has roughly the same voting power, and we are up to 2-4%. That seems quite small.

I guess they publish this in advance in an effort to persuade other shareholders to vote similarly?

rsolva··on Mod. 5140 - IBM's First Laptop Computer
Or a reMarkable with the addon keyboard!
rsolva··on The Art of Color... Science?
So I can make my own color profiles / LUTs and apply them directly to how JPEGs are rendered out from the camera?
rsolva··on Bluefin LTS Is Released
Yeah, I also prefer the default Silverblue, but would like some codecs on top, in addition to my own selection of packages. I'll look into the ublue-os/image-template!
rsolva··on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
I just started paying for Kagi. I'll use them as long as they stay ad free, which seems part of their core selling point.
rsolva··on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
I usually use the app store in Fedora and am used to finding what I want and having it installed within secounds.

Occasionally, I help people with their Mac's, and it can easily take half an hour to get something installed (finding their password etc), and on iOS, there are ads that buries the real results.

Then I am reminded how spoiled I am in the Linux world! No ads and quick access to a large selection of open source and commercial programs, no accounts or logins!

rsolva··on I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
The wattage matters a great deal to the grid! If a whole neighborhood charges at max speed, that can become a problem. Here in Norway, you can get a discount on your electric bill if you let the grid operator adjust the charging speed at peak hours to help them balance load, and I guess frequency. A sensible approach.

600W is not much, that is an average gaming computer running a somewhat demanding game. Nerds all over the world have this as a multi hour nightly ritual. I choose to charge my car now and then instead :P

rsolva··on I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
I always set my eUP to the lowest charging speed at 5A, which is less than many household appliances. No need for quicker charging if I get home in the evening and leave with a full, or close to full battery in the morning.
rsolva··on I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
Electric vehicles are the norm in Norway, and has been for many years. And you are right, advantages like driving in the bus/taxi lane is abolished during rush ours. The charging and parking provided by the municipality is only getting better however, and prices stay low.
rsolva··on I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
Yeah, me included, until we where going to NL and suddenly was left with no other option becuase our diesel car broke down.

I expected a nerve wreaking trip with the eUP, but got slightly more confident after some planning. Using abetterrouteplanner.com and a charging card from elli.eco, I could drop by almost any charging station and avoid apps or paying with a credit card.

Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands is flush with chargers, so a range of ~130 is actually more than enough.

After the first trip was a success, we have repeated the trip up and down several times, and will take the same trip this October. And by success, I mean a very respectable Wife Approval Factor and a pleasant trip all-around.

The only real downside I have found is that after the 7th or 8th charge, the battery start to get hot, and since there is no cooling the charging time drops from ~10 minutes to more like 18 minutes. But that usually only happens at the last one or two stops.

I know this is far outside the norm and I plan to get another used electric car with some more range at some point, but I'm in no hurry. Having tried what I thought to be almost impossible, I was surprised to find how painfree it actually was.

rsolva··on I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
Correct, but the time you can stay is surprisingly generous in Oslo, between 3 and 24 hours, depending on location. I used to dread driving to Oslo, but after I discovered that the municipality had repurposed an old bunker to fit hundreads of chargers/parking spost dead in the middle of town, I visit with gleeful joy :P

Here is a map of all charging points provided by the municipality around Oslo: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/2053e5d9f24c48c487e...

rsolva··on I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
It really depends on just how cold it is outside and how much (or little) heat you are comfortable with inside. For mild winter weather (+5 to -5°C) and 18°C in the cabin, the range drops to around 80km or so. On a sunny summer day, I can easily get about 130km on Norwegian country roads, probably more.

When driving to the Netherlands in the months between March and October, the consumption has been around 8.3kW/100km. The car is light and has little tech that consumes power.

Since the car has no heat pump, heating the cabin has a noticable impact on range during cold winter days.

That said, it is a really good car to drive in the winter as the cabin gets warm in no-time and the windows in the front and back are heated and melts away thick ice in about a minute, even in really cold weahter! When doing normal commutes, the shorter range does not matter at all. But I would probably not drive to the Netherlands in -10°C during the winter!

rsolva··on I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
Small, cheap electric cars are the best! Fun to drive, easy to maintain. I own an VW eUP 2015 model which costed me €4000 used. I do not know if they where for sale outside of Norway (I only see them here!), but it is the perfect car for 95% of our mobility needs.

I drive it to work every day (where I can charge it for free). I drive it to Oslo and can park/charge almost anywhere around town for really cheap, about €3/h, which is nothing compared to regular parking, which is usually ~€16/h.

I drive it to the Netherlands, about ~950km in two days, without a hint of range anxiety, thanks to abetterrouteplanner.com. Sure, I'm averaging 85km/h, and have to take a ~10min stop every ~2 hours to charge, but that is a welcome pause to visit the toilet or grab a bite.

I had to change a bearing that was getting noisy after 10 years of use, and it cost me €50 in parts and half an hour changing it. I was worried it was going to be a complicated affair, not having done it before, but it was as easy as changing a tire.

Oh, and there is physical buttons for everything! There is a little display that controls the music and shows consumption stats, but it is entirely optional and can be removed completely.

The battery has hardly degraded at all. I'm keeping this thing for as long as I possibly can, it is the perfect car!

rsolva··on Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0?
Do you have some example code on a code forge somewhere? I would like to know more!
rsolva··on Should the web platform adopt XSLT 3.0?
Oh, that would be something! All I want is to be able to make a website with some reusable elements and simple styling and keep adding content for decades, without having to think about keeping up with upgrades, dependencies and shifting framework paradigms.

I have made a couple of simple websites using PHP to bolt on reusable elements (header, footer, navigation), just because it is the solution that probably will work for ~decades without much churn. But XSLT would be even better!

rsolva··on Study: Social media probably can't be fixed
I like to think that humanity is starting to build up some amount of immunity and aversion towards algorithmic feeds. Non-tech friends and family in my life (Norway and the Netherlands) express a rapidly growing discomfort being on Google and Meta's platforms, and some have gone cold turkey, others are actively formulating an exit strategy.

I dropped out of these platforms some years ago and have been very happy having the Fediverse (and HN!) as my only social media. It is just the right amount of engagement and impulse for me. I do not check my feeds compulsively, but occasionally – and the people I follow is a diverse bunch, giving me food for thought and keeping me up to date with topics and software projects.

It is still a niche place to hang out, but I'm OK with that. Now and then, friends get curious enough to join and check it out.

rsolva··on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
Forgejo is hard at work, defining and implementing federation, adding cross-forge interaction, social functionality and discovery: https://forgejo.org/faq/#is-there-a-roadmap-for-forgejo
rsolva··on Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September
Vipps now works across the Scandinavian countries, but I doubt it will be adopted by any other countries.
rsolva··on Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second
What would the energy use be for an average query be, when using large models at this speed?
rsolva··on Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
Check out ente.io - it is really good!
rsolva··on A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995
I had one of these in high school when it was already considered old. I had gotten it from someone who had moved on to a newer laptop. I really regret not keeping this around, I did not realise back then what a special piece of hardware this was!
rsolva··on Basically Everyone Should Be Avoiding Docker
Everybody should use Podman instead :P
rsolva··on Saving energy with efficient code [video]
Just watched this talk and posted it to HN (sorry for the dupe!), Bert made a lot of great points in under 45 minutes!

There was some technical trouble in the first minutes, so skip to 4:46 (https://youtu.be/XntLynSlYjI?t=286) to get to the talk.

tl;dr: Measure the energy use of your systems! Both on the server and the client side. You could save energy and money, and also have a really good excuse to have fun optimizing your code :)

rsolva··on XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
I speak only for my self, but I greatly value having no dependencies or build processes. Just put the files on a web server and have it run for the next 20 years.

It might not scale for larger businesses, but for regular people on the web who just want to put something out in the world and have minimal churn keeping it up, it can have great value!

rsolva··on XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
I recently tried building a website using Server Side Includes (SSI) with apache/nginx to make templates for the head, header and footer. Then I found myself missing the way Hugo does things, using a base template and injecting the content into the base template instead.

This was easy do achieve with PHP with a super minimal setup, so I thought, why not? Still no build steps!

PHP is quite ubiquitous and stable these days so it is practically equivalent to making a static site. Just a few sprinkles of dynamism to avoid repeting HTML all over the place.

rsolva··on XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
Browsers support XSLT v1.0 only, and from what I understand, there has been talk of depricating it.

I would rather that they introduced support for v3, as that would make it easier to serving static webpages with native support for templating.

rsolva··on Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello
I threw it on a shared host and was up and running in notime. The UI is dated, but it is very functional.
rsolva··on Web dev is still fun if you want it to be
I accidentally started having fun while wipping up a new website for a non-profit with relatively simple needs.

I started out with Server Side Includes on a shared host, but converted to using PHP along the way to be able to make a base file with all the stuff that is repeated (header, main, footer etc), and then injecting the content from index.php, /contact/index.php etc.

Turns out, you get really far with HTML, CSS and a light sprinkle of PHP, and it is super fun and fast and you get things EXACTLY how you want it. No fighting other peoples opinionated decisions.

I have created many sites from scratch with Hugo, and generally enjoy the process, but this is even more fun, because ... I can do whatever I want!

rsolva··on Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)
This us the way! Quadlets is such a nice way to run containers, really a set and forget experience. No need to install extra packages, at least on Fedora or Rocky Linux. I should do a write up of this some time...
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