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johanvts··on Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML
Emacs ofc :) seriously it should not be too much work although org-mode syntax would be even easier, there is a markdown mode here: https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/ The email part is not something i have done myself but it has been a feature for a very long time and you can find plenty of guides online.
johanvts··on Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML
Use the browser reader mode, select all, right click send email. Is it something like that you want?
johanvts··on Honda is killing its EVs
I think EVs today are intended to last shorter than the battery. There has been examples of model 3s reaching 250k+ miles on the original battery, a number most cars (ICE or EV) do not come close to before being salvaged. There are also startups re-purposing battery packs for stationary use ex. from old Nissan leafs. So I don't think you should consider battery pack replacement costs as part of owning a EV.
johanvts··on Honda is killing its EVs
I think the fear of low-quality and dangerous corner cutting is a big reason Chinese evs have not been even more popular in the EU. However as some brands start to establish themselves for longer they gain trust. Also we have Euro N-cap tests which are pretty extensive and lots of Chinese cars have earned excellent scores.
johanvts··on Honda is killing its EVs
I assume you are coming from a US perspective, because smaller economical EVs are available in europe and dominate in asia. America car companies have managed to make a 50k+ truck the average new car purchase. They aren’t going to kill that golden calf voluntarily. Instead they have managed to lock out the competition. Why Musk elected to build another truck instead of the promised model 2 is beyond me. Besides, with EVs you really have to consider total cost, they are still slightly more expensive to buy in the EU as well, but you quickly make it back on fuel.
johanvts··on Honda is killing its EVs
Once EVs are economically attractive the transition can be very fast. I live in Denmark so I have seen it, it took 7 years to go from ~5% to 90+% of new cars sold. Both EU and US are now relying on trade barriers to keep Chinese EVs away from consumers.
johanvts··on The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ
Spotify is still bad for classical music because you can’t ex. search by composer or label of find alternative recordings of the same piece etc. If you know what album you want already its ok, but if you like classical you should really consider IDAGIO.
johanvts··on Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI
Fully agree, but it is also the buffer based navigation approach that is just fantastic. I wish other programs would adopt this. Most applications use dedicated areas for various functions, instead of letting me just hit a key to bring the function to where I am currently looking.
johanvts··on Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI
Emacs has multicursor, lsp and treesitter so from just reading the helix landing page idk what you gain? Bat sounds interesting, thanks.
johanvts··on Ask HN: How to be alone?
Granted, but fortunately things have improved since the middle ages.
johanvts··on Ask HN: How to be alone?
The Christian church has nothing to do with truth. Sure it might offer community, but it is a community based on dogma, on faith, not truth. Why was humanity banished from the garden? For eating from the tree of knowledge. Join a Promethean cult if you can find it OP.
johanvts··on Can a wealthy family change the course of a deadly brain disease?
Profitability works because it is/was a good proxy for utility. This breaks as wealth becomes unevenly distributed.
johanvts··on MacBook Neo
Not really, sure it is easier to find your cursor but that is not very hard using an external tablet, and you get much better ergonomics plus you can see what is under your hand.
johanvts··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
Makes sense, in my head an iPad is 11”, I don’t think I ever saw the 13” version IRL.
johanvts··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
By a wacom bamboo, costs next to nothing and works without charging the stylus. Of course if you are using it on the go it’s inconvenient.
johanvts··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
Do you mount it on a stand? my neck hurts just thinking about going through a full workday on an ipad.
johanvts··on Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative
Im not a hardware person either, but ex the button physically turns off the canera, and software polls for camera power and can respond
johanvts··on U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs
Next up, “American science”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
johanvts··on Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative
It could do both, but it does say “or whatever”, not “and”.
johanvts··on Ape Coding [fiction]
Are we not men!?
johanvts··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Ukraine is a democracy with a legitimate leadership that was not planning to acquire nukes and has no history of planning to remove Russia from the map. To suggest that this attack on Iran is the same as the Russian invasion of Ukraine is very misguided.
johanvts··on A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs
I think at least in EU most people don’t want to buy sub 200mile range EVs. There has been many options, especially from stellantis that have all more or less flopped. Could be other reasons but for me its nice to know that charging happens about when i need a break anyway, so about 4 hours of highway driving is nice to have. I dont need it for 95% of my trips, but I also want to be able to use my car for the last 5%. These new small range cars seems targeted at people who have another car for long trips.
johanvts··on A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs
I think only the ID 4 and up is, but it seems to be the same ballpark saving between the small and large battery version, ~20% cheaper. Idk if the US pricing is completely different, maybe they combine the battery with trim options that means you dont see this jump?
johanvts··on A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs
There are many smaller “city” evs hitting the market that offer this. Renault 5 and Hyundia Inster etc.
johanvts··on A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs
You can? Going from the 84kwh ID3 to the 55 kwh saves you around 17%
johanvts··on Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
I wish the Catholic Church would use that approach more often.
johanvts··on Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron
What javascript is in emacs? I often find myself wishing eww had javascript support, a lot of the web is unuseable as it stands.
johanvts··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
They only derived payment because other humans find value in the robots output. In the end it’s still benefiting humans.
johanvts··on Xbox UI Portfolio Site
Thanks, but that’s royalty free music which is not an issue.
johanvts··on Xbox UI Portfolio Site
Is there any chance the music section is legal? I would love to be able to put songs on my own pages, but I assumed it would be a legal issue? Is there a way to license songs at a reasonable price.
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