robinwassen

For that they would need to market it as a rolling spyware

I have tested this and they are very capable, replacing the modern windows calc (38mb mem) with an identical app (ux, looks, features, accessibility, localization) ended up with an app using 2MB memory.

You just need to point it in the right direction (c/rust/go etc) and be harsh with the requirements, especially memory usage.

If I was Microsoft I would use AI for this rather than badly embedding AI everywhere, a lot of power users would be overwhelmed by a win 11 update where OS apps/features dropped mem usage by 90%+

They kind do if you prompt them, I had mine reimplement the Windows calc (almost fully feature complete) in rust running with 2mb RAM instead of 40mb or whatever the win 11 version uses as a POC.

A handwritten c implementation would most likely be better, but there is so much to gain from just slaughtering the abstraction bloat it does not really matter.

Last maintenance I did on my Volvo was to replace the battery which should be quick for a non-mechanic as myself.

I spent more time building a make shift tool to detach/attach the battery than I did actual work. This due to them placing a bolt really bad so you can't access it with a normal wrench.

Not offering a paid upgrade to a 4G modem for the app features when they kill the 3G network in Sweden is also a bummer (they do in the US though, guess they are afraid of law suits).

I like the car in general, but they do some bad decisions that make me look at other brands when considering a new car.

Did a similar thing when we needed to do complex operations towards aws.

Instead of wrapping the aws cli command I wrote small Go applications using the boto3 library.

Removed the headaches when passing in complex params, parsing output and and also made the logic portable as we need to do the builds on different platforms (Windows, Linux and macOS).

I agree that this is spot on.

The last part missing is "build a flawed product and bake it into the contract so you charge high consultant costs to the customer to fix it" which is where the cash cow is for many enterprise / B2G products.

I would like to say thank you for posting this, I am currently building a similar toolkit in Lua and will most likely restart and just port your code instead :)

It is extremely clean and concise.

I am thinking of the more basic air/air units rather than this air/water.

One well placed air/air can reduce the need for direct electricity heating a lot, even though some might be needed to assist in a bedroom or so.

My parents installed a air/air unit in the middle of the house (180kvm) for $2.5k this summer and it keeps the whole house heated except one bedroom that needs some assistance from a radiator.

I do not understand why heat pumps are so expensive in the article.

In Sweden the hardware cost around $1k - $2.5k and installation $500 - $1000. It's not a complicated task.

Geothermal heating on the other hand cost around $15k - $20k.

Most people I know have one of these, direct electricity to heat is not really an option.

Not sure if you are to do any super sensitive work on the tablet or not.

But a home folder encryption rather than full disk might solve the touch input problem.

Daycares did not close during covid in Sweden.

On the topic there are a category of preschools in Sweden called "Ur och skur" which have most education outdoors.

Back in the 90s I know some primary schools in Sweden also had education outside, but I think that have changed with schools becoming more competitive lately.

The problem is most likely how do you know it's the ms source unmodified?