dbeardsl

I designed / built / installed an 11kw system with 55kwh of batteries in 2024. It was a fun hobby for a year, I loved it. Grid buyback is only $0.03-$0.04/kwh (while cost is $0.37-$0.42/kwh) so, not really worth it. We live among tall trees, but still managed to generate 75% of our yearly solar needs last year.

Permitting was new for me and it was tough to navigate alone, but definitely possible.

What does the lightbulb have to do with the projection? Obviously the lightbulb is not the camera... nor the projector (nothing clear is getting through a frosted white shell). Is the lightbulb just a prop and imagined form-factor?

I feel like the demos are disingenuous because they suggest that the lightbulb is responsible for the entire thing.

My first query:

> Make it a little warmer in here.

The reply:

> "name": "set_thermostat", > "arguments": { > "temperature": 65, > "mode": "cool", > ... > "reasoning": "'warmer' implies need for cooling; set_thermostat with temperature 65 (typical warmth) and mode 'cool'.",

Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

> They were not allowed to do that

Incorrect as the article points out with an image of the contract:

> However, it was brought to my attention by site user @luddevig that Chrystal Law, the Bricks & Minifigs Salem-Keizer store's original owner, was able to pull the franchise agreement between her and and the B&M Corperation, that clearly states that consignment is allowed.

Propaganda? He literally performed nazi salutes at a high visibility event. Not to mention all the wacko stuff he posts on twitter. A brilliant innovator can also have significant mental health issues.

I appreciate the reply, but I was never under the impression that gaps in conversations would increase costs nor reduce quality. Both are surprising and disappointing.

I feel like that is a choice best left up to users.

i.e. "Resuming this conversation with full context will consume X% of your 5-hour usage bucket, but that can be reduced by Y% by dropping old thinking logs"

> and that's entirely the point of music

That's very reductive. Music, like writing or painting, is a medium, not a thing with intrinsic purpose. It can be a means of communication, sharing human experience, conveying emotion, evoking feelings, expressing a story, ...

Neither do cars until very recently. A tool doesn't have to be unsupervised to be useful.

"Technically"? It's just wrong and I'm not sure which they were intending. Similarly, "miles and miles per hour are different units, it's not just a technical distinction.

A journalist is reporting on something they don't understand.

I believe this is off by 5 or 6 orders of magnitude.

Looks like it's more like 200,000Twh / Yr

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption

That’s fair, it’s not ok to pretend desert has no life worth protecting.

However, there is a lot of it, and as far as impacted animals per acre, it’s got to be near the bottom. Thus of all the places to locate big solar projects, huge expanses of low life density flat land with lots have sun seems like it would minimize the harm.

I think you missed a 0. I've never heard of an AC unit for a house that's 400W. 4000W and above is more common.

Google:

> An AC unit's electricity usage varies by type, with window units using around 500–1,500 watts and central air systems using 3,000–5,000 watts, though usage can range from 2,000 to over 6,000 kWh annually for central units

Also, how much you use it during the year can vary hugely from 0 (when I lived near the coast) to like 10 hours a day for months in hot or cold places. There's not a standard, but 55kwh for a year means you live someplace that doesn't really need AC / heating.

I think this is incorrect reading of the numbers

I've never heard of `{number} {plural magnitude}` meaning `mag / number`. I've only ever seen it mean `number * mag`. As in 3-thousandths == 3 * 0.001 not 0.001 / 3.

7 * 0.001ms = 0.007ms or 7us or 7000ns.

I would say he's not in trouble for gaining access to systems, it's for extortion:

> He worked with Kurtaj and other members of Lapsus$ to hack tech giant Nvidia and phone company BT/EE and steal data before demanding a four million dollar ransom, which was not paid.

An FCC commissioner indicates that the FCC is yoinking the award because it thinks SpaceX won't hit the 2025 targets, yet many other award recipients have no service and no rollout and no speeds to even measure:

> What good is an agreement to build out service by 2025 if the FCC can, on a whim, hold you to it in 2022 instead? In 2022, many RDOF recipients had deployed no service at any speed to any location at all, and they had no obligation to do so. By contrast, Starlink had half a million subscribers in June 2022 (and about two million in September 2023). The majority’s only response to this point is that those other recipients were relying on proven technologies like fiber, while SpaceX was relying on new LEO technology.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf

Here's a dissenting opinion from FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington:

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf

> What good is an agreement to build out service by 2025 if the FCC can, on a whim, hold you to it in 2022 instead? In 2022, many RDOF (the award in question) recipients had deployed no service at any speed to any location at all, and they had no obligation to do so. By contrast, Starlink had half a million subscribers in June 2022 (and about two million in September 2023).

And this scathing conclusion:

> I was disappointed by this wrongheaded decision when it was first announced, but the majority today lays bare just how thoroughly and lawlessly arbitrary it was. If this is what passes for due process and the rule of law at the FCC, then this agency ought not to be trusted with the adjudicatory powers Congress has granted it and the deference that the courts have given it. -- FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington

This person (James Halliday I think) is a huge contributor to the node community. 1000+ node packages: https://www.npmjs.com/~substack

Sounds like you have taken this pretty far, do you have any example outputs? The only one I found via your website was a PDF with a low res image with no context.

Off by a factor of 10.

0.025mcg * 8000 = 20mcg

And restricted access to their data + cease-and-desisted anyone who wanted to augment the CL experience. They're still in business because they are shrewd and have the critical mass required to maintain their monopoly, not because they have a killer product.

For my team's (~20 people) uses, Github (and the tools we and others develop ontop of it) meets our needs amazingly well and literally would be 100% worth the price at 10X the cost.

I don't think the fact that others have built tools on top of github means that github is lacking features, in the same way that the existence of github doesn't mean that git is lacking features.

On the other hand, seemingly ignoring your adoring fans asking for small changes is a bad move.

https://www.ifixit.com announces iFAXit! On-demand repair guide delivery (to your fax machines! For free!)

Myself and a number of others have used this generic development and design contract: https://github.com/danielbeardsley/service_contracts

I negotiate the terms, make local commits, and include the commit hash on the print-out.

tldr;

During an npm install of the tar module I received this:

    npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/tar
    npm ERR! registry error parsing json
    npm ERR! SyntaxError: Unexpected token y
    npm ERR! ny-leone-porn-sex-scene/Sunny-Leones-deleted-sex-scene-from-Ragini-MMS-2/photostory/33010796.cms"})^@9"},"�������

Followed by the rest of the package.json from the module.

Something or someone injected data into the response I got from npmjs.org. The fact that it was Isaac Schlueter's account is particularly worrisome.

Is a plug really that offensive when the thing that's being plugged is a 100% community commons licensed repository of repair manuals and is described as exactly that?