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New comment by skc in "CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes"

skc — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:51:19 +0000

Battery and solar panel advancements have been the most interesting story in tech for going on a decade in my opinion.

Wish I could fast forward 50 years and see what the world will look like.

New comment by skc in "Cloudflare Email Service"

skc — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:53:57 +0000

Yep, and I'm both a Cloudflare and Resend customer.

I like Resend, a lot, but this is probably something I can't pass up, especially if it does what it says on the tin

New comment by skc in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

skc — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:21:16 +0000

It's humbling to see this image. I can't even begin to imagine what it must feel like to see this from the perspective of those astronauts.

New comment by skc in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

skc — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:08:11 +0000

Because Windows works just fine for me.

I'm a dev, I don't game. No issues.

Why people find this hard to believe is kind of puzzling to be honest. As if everyone's experience simply HAS to match your own.

New comment by skc in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

skc — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:18:38 +0000

That's actually pretty cool. What made you think of doing this in the first place?

New comment by skc in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

skc — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:39:09 +0000

As long as they keep using Macs, iPhones and Apple watches.

That'll show those pesky Americans.

New comment by skc in "Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes"

skc — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:36:31 +0000

Really disappointing. A lot of us have always considered Ars Technica to be the last of a dying breed of ultra serious, no-nonsense professionalism.

Obviously, we were rocked by the DrPizza scandal years ago...and now this.

Sobering.

New comment by skc in "Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks"

skc — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:18:20 +0000

Hasn't wild volatility always proved to be the very nature of Bitcoin?

New comment by skc in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

skc — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:09:38 +0000

The irony of building 'sovereign' software on top of Windows and MacOS.

Without a hardware or OS pivot, this feels less like independence and more like empty posturing.

New comment by skc in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

skc — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:24:40 +0000

Apple have enough customer behaviour data at hand to fully understand that there is very little they can't get away with.

So why not maximize profit?

New comment by skc in "Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English"

skc — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:25:37 +0000

Still think AI shines here. I find ffmpeg commands pretty arcane. Nowadays I just ask an LLM to generate the commands I need, test, and I'm done.

New comment by skc in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

skc — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:12:04 +0000

Bluesky still chugging along.

Just saying.

New comment by skc in "Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe"

skc — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:53:43 +0000

The fact that these drones are only appearing in NATO aligned countries makes it seem pretty obvious to me that it's one of two possibilities.

1) Russian sabre-rattling

2) NATO countries running "secret" drills in public in anticipation of 1)

The UFO community is of course running with a third option that doesn't warrant any seriousness.

New comment by skc in "What do we do if SETI is successful?"

skc — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:01:34 +0000

There's a wonderful scifi novel based on these themes, called "The Sparrow"

Pretty harrowing reading.

New comment by skc in "What do we do if SETI is successful?"

skc — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:04:05 +0000

If SETI is successful it would be a fascinating to sit back and observe the deeply religious.

New comment by skc in "Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules"

skc — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:05:51 +0000

Maybe I'm not thinking this through clearly enough but isn't this "just fine" for the current administration? From their perspective what exactly is the downside to this?

New comment by skc in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

skc — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:12:18 +0000

How likely is it that the end game becomes that we stop writing apps for actual human users and instead sites become massive walls of minified text against a black screen.

New comment by skc in "Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum"

skc — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:01:22 +0000

I was sceptical about this for factor seeing as it seemed like a gimmicky throwback to the early to mid 2000s.

But honestly, now that I've played around with Samsungs offerings I get it. Back in the day phones had quite a bit of personality, and Samsung really nailed that aspect.

New comment by skc in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

skc — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:46:38 +0000

I wonder how quickly the gunman will be found. I've always wondered if the authorities would ever be able to find someone who patterned themselves after a character like The Jackal.

New comment by skc in "Claude Code is all you need"

skc — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:29:38 +0000

Looks like the definition of boilerplate will continue to shift up the chain