Ah, that makes sense. I just knew it was unavailable. Apparently .lan is fine to use, I think I’ll try that next time.

I don’t get why ‘.local’ isn’t a top level domain for LAN hosts.

They use different methods of putting heat into water.

A microwave turns the electricity into RF radiation that is absorbed by the water. To produce that radiation, the input electricity is converted to thousands of volts by a DC power supply. So regardless of whether it’s 120 or 240 input voltage, it all gets converted to the same high voltage DC to run the magnetron.

A classic electric kettle works by running the current from the outlet through a resistive heating element. Double voltage means double heat.

Induction heaters use a power supply to reduce the input voltage while increasing amps and frequency to heat metal through inductance. So, similar to a microwave, the voltage of the outlet is largely irrelevant.

Tl;Dr: microwaves and induction heaters change the supplied voltage to function, so they work the same in UK and US; resistive heaters work faster on 240v like the UK uses.

We can probably infer by the licensing that he’s cool with it.

A Nissan Leaf weighs about the same as a Prius Prime. Many EVs are way heavier though.

Nope. I mean I’ve replaced the tires once and windshield wipers a couple times, refilled the wiper fluid, but that’s about it. The thing that powers the car is a sealed electric motor, not too unlike the kind you’d find in a washing machine; it works for decades and hundreds of thousands of miles without service. It’s just magnets and wires inside, no explosions or soot to gum up the works.

Since the motor also works as a regenerative brake, you need to service the brake pads much less often. And since the 12v cabin battery is kept constantly tended and never used for cranking, it also lasts many years longer.

So yes, still some maintenance, but you save a ton of time and money long term.

I got my EV used, and in three years I’ve already saved more on gas than I paid for it.

EVs are so much cheaper to maintain and operate; no gas, no oil changes, no transmission, no sparkplugs or timing belts. If the sale prices are close, the total cost of ownership will be massively in favor of the EV.

I’m no fan of capitalism, but this type of electoral dysfunction seems to run particularly deep in America. There’s many other democracies in capitalist nations that have the basic sense to treat such brazen bribery as a crime.

Haven’t seen anyone mention Alacritty yet, that’s my favorite terminal emulator.

I don’t really see how that goes against it. If anything it shows that some people will totally disregard profit in favor of bettering humanity. See also: the patent for insulin.

Exactly, that’s why we’ll never have a vaccine for something like polio, it’s too profitable to make and sell iron lungs.

Alt-p? I use Mod+d.

Sway is bae.

Fuck Idaho. How about instead we go back to Washington Territorial borders and have the Evergreen State annex their whole crooked potato patch. They can have statehood back when they learn to behave themselves.

Wouldn’t it take more than an investigation? A grand jury would need to sign off on the indictments.

What about all the HD Zelda remakes?

You could say that about basically anything: it only takes one or two passionate people to [write a great novel, build a house, invent something new, prove a scientific theory, advance the field of mathematics] in a matter of weeks.

Those are rare and impressive exceptions, it’s not so simple in practice. The Mythical Man Month has some good insight on this. Big projects cost big money, and don’t necessarily get the job done faster.

Yes

The cost of hiring a team of programmers the size of a large class can easily cost millions of dollars. There’s a long history of school projects accomplishing things in computer science that would have cost millions. Look at BSD for example.

+1 for Pinetab. I got a Pinetab 2 this year and I love it.

If you think about it, a deli worker is sort of like a meat & cheese barista.