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by thedays 2mo ago
Ridiculous statement without any evidence. CATL and Changan Automotive are already making and putting them in EVs. https://electrek.co/2026/02/05/first-sodium-ion-battery-ev-d... Sodium ion batteries are safe
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by thedays 2mo ago
This is true - without Chinese manufacturing of solar cells and panels, solar energy would not be as cheap as it is today. Equally true is that Chinese manufacturing of solar cells is only partly possible because of Australian solar researc
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by thedays 2mo ago
Yes - the regulated offer is capped at 24 kWh per day but some retailers such as Globird and CovaU are offering plans which include up to 50 kWh per day of ‘free’ electricity. With a large enough battery and inverter you could just end up p
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by thedays 2mo ago
It wasn’t $40-50 billion. It was estimated to cost $116-$600 billion to build 7 nuclear reactors https://smartenergy.org.au/nuclear-fallout-116-600-billion-t... I think the likely cost would have been hundreds of billions c
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by thedays 2mo ago
This article is misleading as it implies that Australian energy retailers must provide every household with 3 hours of free electricity. This is not the case. From 1 July 2026, Australian energy retailers with more than 1,000 customers must
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Global recession and the end of the middle class: What 'AI exuberance' could do(smh.com.au)
7 points by thedays 3mo ago|1 comments
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by thedays 3mo ago
This seems like a very complicated way to maintain a menu on a static website. Have you considered using old school server side includes? It’s what they were designed for.
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Defend the rich: Enhanced Games founder turns to AI to challenge the media(smh.com.au)
4 points by thedays 5mo ago|2 comments
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Millions of renters hit by unlawful data collection(smh.com.au)
11 points by thedays 5mo ago|0 comments
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by thedays 10mo ago
The 30% battery discount in Australia is only available to households that also have solar systems. https://www.dcceew.gov.au/energy/programs/cheaper-home-batte...
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Google AI falsely named an innocent journalist as a notorious child murderer(smh.com.au)
24 points by thedays 11mo ago|0 comments
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by thedays 1y ago
Nice work! This is very impressive and you’ve shown real resilience and perseverance to work through the challenges you encountered while building this.
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Australian radio station using an AI-generated host(smh.com.au)
16 points by thedays 1y ago|0 comments
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by thedays 1y ago
The Economist recently ran an excellent podcast series on the scam industry called Scam Inc. https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/scam-inc
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by thedays 1y ago
The author of this article appears to be unaware that very high electricity prices have been the other key driver behind Pakistan’s solar boom along with the massive reduction in the cost of solar panels. This was covered recently in a gre
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by thedays 2y ago
dabbledb was awesome. Simple but powerful. I still miss it and haven’t found anything like it to replace it at a reasonable price.
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by thedays 2y ago
I am not a lawyer but this CDC order seems contrary to Trump’s recent Executive Order “RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP”. This Executive Order states in part: “Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a fre
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by thedays 2y ago
https://archive.md/1w5k1
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Melbourne's National Communication Museum is a trove of superseded technology(smh.com.au)
1 points by thedays 2y ago|1 comments
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by thedays 2y ago
Is Autotab able to scrape data from multiple websites with different structures and combine this data into structured data in one CSV or JSON file? Example: scrape interest rates offered on savings accounts from multiple bank websites and e
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by thedays 2y ago
Is Skyvern able to scrape data from multiple websites with different structures and combine this data into structured data in one CSV or JSON file? Example: scrape interest rates offered on savings accounts from multiple bank websites and e
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by thedays 3y ago
This sounds like a good solution. Can you provide an example or two of how you format the events in your calendar to allow them to be sent at a scheduled time by the Shortcuts app?
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by thedays 3y ago
This HN headline is misleading. The article makes it clear that sales of EVs in the US are still increasing but the rate of increase has slowed. It says “…sales of EVs keep going up — a record 300,000 cars sold in the US in the third quarte
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Legal challenges to AI traffic fine system(theguardian.com)
3 points by thedays 3y ago|0 comments
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by thedays 3y ago
Many people underestimate the risks from asbestos as the disease can take 20-40 years to develop after exposure but it shouldn’t be underestimated. Asbestosis killed over 3,600 people in 2015. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by thedays 4y ago
I find eSIMs are less convenient as: - there are far less providers that support eSIM and the ones that do generally charge more than providers that also support a standard SIM - it’s often not possible to create a new account using an eSIM
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by thedays 4y ago
eSIMs are less convenient and less flexible than regular SIM cards - will iSIMs be any different? How many iSIMs will a phone support? Will they support dual iSIMs or triple iSIMs so I can use one mobile number for work, another for my pers
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by thedays 4y ago
dang - this article on this same decision seems more informative and substantive and is also not paywalled. https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/18/klamath-river-dam-rem...
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by thedays 4y ago
Storage and transmission costs were included in this study as you could have easily found out yourself by reading down to the fourth sentence of this media release which says: “The 2021-22 report confirms past years’ findings that wind and
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Drone planting 40k tree pods a day in Australian Botanic Garden at Mt Annan(abc.net.au)
4 points by thedays 4y ago|1 comments

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