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Having worked in the industry for a bit, the reason people talk about "MW of batteries" is because they're usually designed to deliver the capacity for a fixed number of hours. Earlier batteries would do 1 hour (so a battery would typically be 1MW/1MWh) and newer sites coming online are usually 2 hours (so 1MW/2MWh). As battery deployment grows the money is increasingly just in energy arbitrage, so there's a lot of pressure for longer duration storage. If you see a headline MW figure it's a safe bet that it's between 1-2x that in MWh.

Honestly, having an experience of something as a kid gives you absolutely no insight into what it's like to be a parent. Not to mention that every child is drastically different and will react very differently to the same situation.

I thought the millenial journey of discovering their parents sucked through therapy was almost a trope at this point. Certainly the previous generations had more kids, and probably spent less time actively parenting them.

Yeah, give me the iPhone's hardware running Android please. I switched to iPhone because my Android phones kept dying due to hardware issues. Android has a far better keyboard and notification system. Give me it any day.

A really neat concept. It uses a special hinge design, a magnetic encoder and torque modulation to control the lift of the rotor as it spins. Completely negates the need for a conventional helicopter's swash plate.

The single motor does have the pretty major downside that it spins the moment it's in the air. I suspect a 2 motor drone with a tail motor would be a lot more practical. But I really like how mechanically simple the rotor hinge design is - it pushes all the complexity into the control algorithm.

It seems kind of strange that the entire meat industry exists and is tolerated, yet a few horses in Central Park are making people so angry. Surely these horses have far better lives than the cows did that everyone's tucking into over lunch?

Does anyone do this without the vendor lock-in? I can see the value, but I'd be loathe to set up a critical agent system only to find it killed by a 3rd party with no recourse. Is there a self-hosted option?

> does it _actually_ matter what the code looks like for a desktop app that’s useful to a small handful of people

Not really. But equally, I imagine most people have a similar experience of software development to me - complex, messy and confusing code also often has poor performance and a high rate of bugs.

This is so cool. I've got a couple of iPod Classics in a drawer - alas it doesn't seem to work for them (presumably the colour display adds complexity?). I was wondering if this was possible last time I fished out my iPod - mostly the extra complexity of modern music streaming isn't needed, but bluetooth headphones and casting are great.

It’s just very clearly not “just” $90 a month.

First you need to hire somebody who wants to do it. That costs more than $90 a month. Then they need to install whatever equipment is required to bridge the fridge controller to tailscale. Then finally you have a $90 a month cost.

I agree that corporate probably has the budget to do it properly. But the idea that the costs are just the monthly cost is Tailscale is laughable.

It's true. A person is ginger, but nobody ever says things are ginger coloured. Ginger isn't even really one colour - it's a spectrum of orange-containing hair colours.

I was confused because I thought I'd seen this before. It looks like this project was named fastpotify until 3 weeks ago, when it was renamed. It would be nice if they acknowledged that somewhere!

It's a great idea anyway, when I tried it a few weeks ago it wasn't all working but with the speed of vibe maybe it is now.

> I think where intuition fails a lot of us (myself included) is that in the software world if you have the code/documentation for something then building it is trivial. But in the hardware world, even if you have all the instructions and knowledge, actually applying that know how to create a working project is still very far away, through certainly nowhere near as far away as if you have started from scratch.

It's certainly true that you can build software if you have the code (well, mostly true. Modern frameworks suffer from quite severe bitrot). But I'm not sure that you can extend it.

Large software projects rely on people understanding them. If everyone who worked on the project is gone, it's very hard for someone to regain the architectural understanding required to extend or refactor things. Without any overlap, there's nobody to answer questions. As long as there's been a continuously overlapping stream of developers, that knowledge is more or less retained - but if all the developers leave, and someone picks up the project again later it's almost impossible for them to make meaningful improvements.

AI probably changes this completely.

This is basically how the rest of the world feels with US tech giants.

It's not necessarily a bad thing if there's balance to it. Maybe it's OK if Germans are great at industrial automation and Americans are great at writing word processors. But I'm not sure there's a nice balance to it. Especially if you're in a developing country which is good at neither of those things.