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iolo··on Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
This is exactly how our rooftop solar works. The inverter only supplies ac power if it can sync to the grid frequency meaning that the system disconnects without a live grid connection. Even if I had a battery, this would still be a requirement under local regulations.
iolo··on Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox
> Feels a bit out of place that the website tries to aggressively make me download Firefox

It's firefox.com, feels like the perfect place to encourage people to download Firefox. That would be like going to a car dealership and being put off by people trying to sell you a car

iolo··on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
I feel like a vw transporter 7 seater would suit your use case, maybe a vw caddy if you want something physically smaller.
iolo··on The Surprising Benefits of Talking Out Loud to Yourself
I've started recording loom videos of myself walking through features. It's turned into a great way of testing my own code as subtle errors are more obvious when you've effectively set up a spotlight and pointed a camera at what you've built. The voiceover on top them acts as a form of rubber duck for UX.
iolo··on Gross Apple Marketing
I feel there's a lack of respect for the person being interacted with in these ads. They all end too soon to show the consequences of transparent AI use and imply the other character has never heard of AI.

More accurate endings would be:

- "I thought we told Warren to stop uploading company emails to chatgpt."

- "A photo collage?!, after I spent a week building you that new console table for your birthday."

iolo··on Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript
> It's worth noting though that there's no dependency on a JavaScript backend - the same thing can be achieved on PHP, Java, Go, etc.

The only Javascript in the article is on the server side to handle the HTTP.

iolo··on Honda targeting 50% weight reduction with EV solid state batteries
Honda sell the Honda e [1]

[1] https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/honda/e

iolo··on Where our gasoline comes from
Gasoline and petroleum are different products as pointed out in the sibling comment.

You may be thinking of petrol, which is what gasoline is often called outside the US.

iolo··on Ask HN: Docker vs simple DLLs?
You can think of docker files and other manifests as a highly structured and more direct-to-machine form of communication. Instead of a developer informing other developers to ensure that the dev machines and servers are upgraded to the right version of the JVM via a confluence page or slack message, that developer has left machine-readable instructions in a consistent format in a readily accessible place.

This is a good way to fix those problems with communication/practices/documentation and processes.

iolo··on You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine
Pi 4 has a dedicated quad core ARM A72 @ 1.5Ghz and up to 8GB of RAM.

A $5 VM from Digitalocean has 1vCPU and 1GB of RAM.

iolo··on The Story of Sugru
Adding to that, it is very good for wrapping around the ends of cords like chargers and headphones to stop them fraying (Apple products were very prone to this for a while)
iolo··on Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
F5 was very much a hardware company in a world of software vendors. The high and low end of the hardware market has shrunk rapidly as cloud has taken over. At high end, cloud providers like Amazon, Facebook and Google are building their own hardware[0] and at the other end, companies are increasingly just using those cloud providers.

For any large company, the easiest way to enter a new market is to just buy some of the competition. Of Nginx's competitors, most are either not "enterprise-y" enough (Caddy) or are already part of the CNCF (Traefik, Envoy). Really, I think the only other option could have been HaProxy.

[0] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-wea...

iolo··on Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time
I wouldn't even trust a watermark. It'd have to be a cryptographic signiture on the file itself.
iolo··on Airlines want to cancel rule requiring them to refund fares for canceled flights
I imagine there is a lack of buyers in the current economic climate. I doubt any airline is currently expanding and in need of extra planes.