Hacker News: mapmap

New comment by mapmap in "U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982"

mapmap — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:39:46 +0000

Panels on every roof and batteries in every garage.

New comment by mapmap in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

mapmap — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:24:46 +0000

This is a large pv system for what I assume is a single family home. Do you have resistive in floor heating or an electric boiler feeding radiators? I imagine you could easily run a half dozen mini-splits drawing 500-1000w each, or a centralized heat pump. Happy to help if you can give more details.

New comment by mapmap in "The time has finally come for geothermal energy"

mapmap — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:34:52 +0000

Is that correct only 1MW of power but 19,000MWh of storage? That would take over two years to drain it.

New comment by mapmap in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

mapmap — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:35:44 +0000

If you replace the two prong plug on the AC adapter for a three prong cable, your MacBook case will be properly grounded and you won’t feel any vibration.

New comment by mapmap in "Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs"

mapmap — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:47:37 +0000

It’s available on the App Store and it will run on both iOS and Mac.

New comment by mapmap in "Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes"

mapmap — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:30:44 +0000

In my experience, as a normal non-unicorn employee at a large corp, I was able to have my contract modified. It required advice from an employment law lawyer that cost a few hundred dollars and a couple emails with the company’s general counsel.

You can change these contracts. Hiring people is difficult and once the company has made that decision they don’t want to lose you over a contract clause.

New comment by mapmap in "Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes"

mapmap — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:23:54 +0000

It’s not that difficult to have legal help with your contract. Call your local bar association and ask for an employment law specialist. It will likely cost a couple hundred for them to review your contract.

New comment by mapmap in "Void: Open-source Cursor alternative"

mapmap — Fri, 09 May 2025 06:50:55 +0000

The continue.dev plugin for Visual Studio Code provides documentation indexing. You provide a base URL and a tag. The plugin then scrapes the documentation and builds a RAG index. This allows you to use the documentation as context within chat. For example, you could ask @godotengine what is a sprite?

New comment by mapmap in "Apple shuffles AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri"

mapmap — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:06:19 +0000

>Were you using Macs before Jobs came back?

I think he was :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(video_game)

New comment by mapmap in "Ask HN: What do you use to create diagrams?"

mapmap — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:24:45 +0000

If you're looking for labeled shapes with connections, Apple's Keynote is a great free alternative to OmniGraffle.

New comment by mapmap in "Ask HN: How to Avoid Microplastics/PFAS"

mapmap — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:11:54 +0000

What would make a good replacement for a plastic cutting board for use with meat?

New comment by mapmap in "Ask HN: How to shift mindset from goal-oriented to progress-oriented?"

mapmap — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 10:25:13 +0000

Is it possible perfection is preventing getting it done? Could you close the walls and enjoy the space as is?

Sometimes it is easier to work on someone else’s house because you are not seeking perfection. Do you have a friend that could help you? Or the electrician?

New comment by mapmap in "The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)"

mapmap — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:16:02 +0000

Does it support dot net?

New comment by mapmap in "Silicon Valley: waves of layoffs and salary cuts invade the tech industry"

mapmap — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 06:37:52 +0000

“Between 2022 and 2023”

New comment by mapmap in "The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (2012)"

mapmap — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 06:35:34 +0000

This is an excellent real life detective adventure vividly recounted by the author.

To those familiar with his work, did he retire from writing? There was no update after Bill Ewasko was found.

New comment by mapmap in "Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps"

mapmap — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:44:24 +0000

If you have lighting circuits that previously were incandescent but are now all LED, you might be able to combine some of them on a single 15 amp breaker.

New comment by mapmap in "Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees"

mapmap — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 13:37:47 +0000

This is a great story. Thank you for sharing.

Did he omit his current role from his resume? How did he not disclose where he was currently working?

New comment by mapmap in "I built an offline smart home"

mapmap — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 08:51:09 +0000

I was in the same boat as a Leviton HomeKit switch early adopter. Between poor firmware and a critical Ubiquity UniFi AP multicast bug, it was frustrating. Eventually both were updated and the switches have been solid since.

New comment by mapmap in "My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad"

mapmap — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 07:27:11 +0000

Airstream has a concept trailer called the eStream which has electric assist.

New comment by mapmap in "Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network"

mapmap — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 15:51:03 +0000

iOS limits what you can do in the background with Bluetooth. At least one of the iPhones needs to have your mesh app running in the foreground to communicate with another iPhone that has your app. Two locked phones with your mesh app will not be able to communicate over Bluetooth.