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Re:Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:21PM (#50348028)
The integration between solar, battery, smart meter, charger and EV is a total mess right now and it’s suffering from a myriad of startups making just 1 more standard (currently: probably 400 standards).

An independent body or government needs to step in and make it law to fix it. Or; throw out the standards and make everything dumb as rocks, which as you mention might be easier, one plug is power in, one plug is power out.

Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:57PM (#50344426)
I’m guessing he decidedly didn’t change it as fast as he possibly could.
Re:Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:13PM (#50330882)
—- Types of V2G ——

V2H - charger inverts DC to grid AC

V2L - EV inverts DC to grid AC

In case of V2H it therefore doesn’t matter what supported EV you are using, rather what charger you are using.

In general for changeover during a black out, V2L is probably better, because with V2H the charger itself needs POWER to boot up and request V2G whereas V2L you can start from the EV itself.

Also, generally speaking V2H is designed to be grid-following and certified to half a dozen standards whereas V2L forms an isolated microgrid, and a lot of the rules are tossed out, which is what you want.

For V2L you just need a generator changeover to isolate your house from the grid (most commonly just a manual switch), and a reverse plug to connect EV output to switchboard input.

Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:38PM (#50280559)
So how’s Google for subscription and agentic usage?

Does their Pro plan have similar limits to OAIs $100 business plan for example?

Any equivalent for the 20x plans?

Yeah I think depends on the fidelity of the world model.

If you count “impales person with blue stick while distant asteroid is in position X Y Z” then yes, there are probably infinite, so it depends how you class a discrete method

I think because it stops only stupid people from voting for stupid leaders. It forces smart people to participate.
Voting for every little thing is compulsory in Australia and it’s honestly really annoying.
Re:This I Believe on Friday October 23, 2026 @03:06AM (#50205399)
I’m not sure I believe this anymore. Maybe around 2 years ago, I think.

But the trajectory, of everything it seems, has completely changed. And I have no optimism left.

The world would need to possibly take up arms against its leadership to recover from where it is right now. The problem is, I know the masses are pacifist and reasonable, and it’s the insane few that are either running everything or have all the money. That dreads me, because just as I wouldn’t take up arms, nobody else will either, so who will stop the descent?

Re:After automation: Solo founding will be the default on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:02PM (#50188277)
You can definitely do certain kinds of sales too early. Early sales should be website and brand creation, and talking to people about what you’re building to see if they’re interested, not necessarily closing deals. I’d say close 1 or 2 pilot deals (for pennies and/or free is good) and then pause it there, so that you have only a reasonable amount of pressure to build and steer a high quality product.

Otherwise you’ll be under such stress that you’ll become reactive and lose your Birds Eye View, and that’s a slow way to sink.

Re:After automation: Solo founding will be the default on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:18PM (#50187037)
Most who are running a successful (or) profitable startup know that sales is a day and night job in most industries, and that it’s completely unrealistic not to have separate cofounders for development and sales.

Sure, as a total fluke in a very specific industry, software might sell itself. Everywhere else, and especially in physical product and deep tech, someone has to fully own the sales side of the business including the really time intensive stuff like website, email marketing, conferences, merch, sales meetings and trade shows. Heck, even viable solo founder companies would probably sell a magnitude harder with a sales co-founder.

Anecdotally my company picked up a few big distributor contracts for software tools and deep tech products, stuff people want. The products are done, high quality, but they don’t sell themselves - we have to actively put effort into outreach for every sale. Think about that in the context of your own startup. Building the thing is not the end hurdle, it’s kind of like a dependency to selling the thing, which creates revenue.

Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:54PM (#50079428)
Looks at watch.

OpenAI release any time now

Well you probably need to find the intersection of what you are passionate about and what people will pay for.
I don’t recommend always using Astra for RE but in my experience I’d use Sol as minimum. As of recently, perhaps upgraded Terra is good value, but in general it seems like you want the smartest model that is economical to run 24/7 and Astra isn’t economical.
Nice website. A piece of advice, put yourself in the position of the user when you’re trying to sell something. Would you buy it? Do they have a lot of other better options from bigger companies?

Might be better to look for a “beach head market”, that is, a unique idea in a smaller niche market where there currently isn’t anything else.

This kind of AI assistant is quite overdone and there are probably more assistants than people who actually use them

It’s ridiculous because something as simple as the compiler picking different registers is going to make zero functional difference but give a false negative on assembly compare.

Yet the C code can’t pick what registers to use, so the poor agent is probably shuffling the code around randomly for hours or days until it matches.

That’s probably why the agent dropped down into inline assembly in the first place (the author complained about this), because I bet it’s thinking trace was that this is futile.

Compilers themselves are not even deterministic and running them multiple times creates different assembly.

The reason this cost so much is because the AI has the ridiculous goal of getting identical assembly output.

The agents would have had to mess around with compiler versions, optimisation options, and the phase of the moon as well.

If you just went for functional equivalence, it would probably cost 10x or 100x less tokens.

Another false economy was using Sonnet instead of a more intelligent model like Sol 6.1 (1), which would have cost more per token, but is 100x or so better at reverse engineering and coding and therefore can chew through the source code much quicker and make fewer mistakes, meaning less work needing to be scrapped.

In my testing doing a similar task, I ran multiple sonnet for weeks and burnt through ~$1000 in tokens to get 20% completion and output that was pretty bad. After switching to Sol 6.1, it finished the whole task in around 2 days, cost around $50, and it did it with zero supervision and a single /goal.

(1): struggle to use Opus for reverse engineering, too many safeguards. OAI has virtually none, and uses way less tokens so is more economical.

Is a code comment and ledger the best way? Should the agent just fill out a form or something and attach it to the sub issue. This is how the hospital would work.
Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:57PM (#50039068)
There are Pros and Cons. Cons: generated passwords have less flexibility, not being able to add custom fields (ie backup codes or PIN), can’t store key files (unless you copy and paste contents into Notes section, which doesn’t redact it), no independent master vault password like 1Password.

Pros: it’s free and will probably be free forever, can store and generate TOTP codes, biometric unlock, very easily syncs between devices, great integration on macOS and iPhone/Pad, easy sharing of password to family members without them needing a subscription.

I have been a 1PW user for 10+ years but earlier this year started the long transition to save $10/month for the rest of my life which turns out to be a non-insignificant amount.

This worked in Australia. People complained for like a month, and then just started using the food scraps bin and got over it.

Miracle is garbage doesn’t stink if you don’t put food in it.

Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:00PM (#50037620)
Apple Keychain (free Passwords app)
Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Saturday October 10, 2026 @05:59PM (#50037612)
Switch to free Apple Passwords and call it a day.
Re:Beauty in DVD Menus on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:45AM (#50016899)
It’s weird but kind of awesome to think that you think of DVDs like I think of vinyl
/goal spend at least 6 hours doing … works

The supervisor agent will keep the session in a loop until 6 hours have passed and eventually the agent will decide to use up the remaining time rather than fighting with it

Re:Claude Haiku 5.5 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:09AM (#50001748)
Make this the new benchmark please. The prompt is funny, the result is even funnier. I think the great part is there isn’t even a right or subjective way to draw it.
I think what you want is a legal avenue, like Trademark, Design rights, or patent.

If you have one of these, it’s possible that GitHub would honour it if you go via a lawyer.

Re:The future of independence is interdependence on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:55PM (#49970583)
I think people are either indifferent, or want kids, but a big house is just so damn expensive.

It’s a centralisation of wealth/greed thing.

Auto software engineer here.

It’s frankly because Motorsport software guys are pretty arrogant. They look down on road car and truck engineers, but reality is they develop stuff with virtually no processes and they usually have only very basic engineering skills, yet every day they are told Motorsport is at the forefront of technology.

“Motorsport grade” auto components usually means crappy, and everything requires a software patch or constant maintenance to work correctly.

Not surprised there was a bug, and not surprised they were able to develop and deploy a patch in 1 hour without V&V testing it or anything.

Re:ChatGPT Pro 500 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @06:15PM (#49901496)
Where’s the Pro 200 for business tier?

The highest is Pro 100 and it’s useless for codex.

Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @06:03PM (#49901354)
Astra requires multiple turns and fresh refactoring agents to produce good code.

Fable 5.1/Opus 5.5 isn’t different, but the first cut is better quality.

Astra is a whole order of magnitude cheaper than Fable, and the Anthropic usage limits are ridiculous. Layers on layers of limits that constantly trip.

We don’t really use Sol because Astra X High is cheap. Some have mentioned regressions but we haven’t noticed any with Astra.

Re:Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:20PM (#49852893)
Does that scale? Does a photo of a photo have antigravity.

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