djhworld

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by djhworld 16d ago
I might be misremembering, but I swear when Spotify launched it was a big revelation at the time because the client was super fast and playback was almost instantaneous. This was a big deal as other music players like iTunes were bloated. O
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by djhworld 23d ago
This was a fantastic read thanks for putting it together. I'm always fascinated by binfmt_misc, I remember fooling around with steganography a few years ago and putting executables inside images that could then be executed using a wrap
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by djhworld 29d ago
Sadly the materials in the lack changed over time, the insides are basically just cardboard honeycomb with a thin veneer around it. So if you want to follow the lack mods on the web, especially ones written in the 2010s, you need to make su
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by djhworld 1mo ago
I always wonder what motivates people to write posts on LinkedIn. Even before AI slop, it’s been the same for years with the cringiest posts somehow getting traction (“and the whole room applauded!”) - do people make money from the posts or
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by djhworld 2mo ago
It would be interesting to see the models work on a book it hasn't been trained on yet. I guess sadly that means any book released very recently. Definitely impressive demo, I do wonder though if the countless artwork, films, images et
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by djhworld 2mo ago
I definitely resonate with the "my software-oriented brain feels almost incompatible with this world of designing a home" I really struggle with visualising what things are going to look like. Even trivial stuff like choosing a co
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by djhworld 2mo ago
Are the HTTP headers for method/name etc even needed at this point and just use urls instead? e.g. mymcpserver.com/tools/call?mcp-method=search
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by djhworld 2mo ago
It's not quite clear from the video but it looks to me like you park up in the garage, and there's a garage door on the other side. So as you 'check in', I guess the 'human' side you drove in on, that door clos
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by djhworld 2mo ago
I doubt the robots have sufficient enough traction/mobility to navigate on any surface that isn't reasonably smooth like tarmac. Also I'd wager the car park the robots go to isn't that far away from the drop off location
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by djhworld 2mo ago
I always wonder with solutions like these how stuff like alarm systems on the car cope with the car being lifted, the vibrations encountered as its being towed. Unless they tell you to switch the alarm system off I guess.
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by djhworld 2mo ago
> Microsoft is never going to figure out gaming. I feel they kind of did in the Xbox 360 era. Maybe it was just down to luck because Sony dropped the ball in the early years of the PS3 and Microsoft got the jump on them a bit. The 360 wa
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by djhworld 3mo ago
I feel the physical disc died a long time ago, most games require heavy patching to fix bugs or download new content, or even in some cases download whole portions of the game, so they rely on PS servers to even function anyway. The only ad
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by djhworld 6mo ago
this whole saga is having ripple effects even in the second hand market. in 2020-2022 there was a glut of those 1L mini pcs on ebay and other resellers which were WAY better value than the RPi4 at the time which was in short supply due to C
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by djhworld 6mo ago
> That sort of mental overhead is crazy to me. I've been on the tariff for 2 years now, at first I was looking at the prices every day, but over time you get used to how it works and the price watching starts to tail off. The rule o
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by djhworld 6mo ago
I think freezers would definitely be a gimmick as they don't really use that much power. I can see it being a nice feature for higher-load tasks though, e.g. my dishwasher uses about 1.8kWh for a cycle. On this tariff it's trivial
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by djhworld 6mo ago
Some chargers communicate directly with the energy supplier and charge at the cheaper rates. You can do this yourself as well with home assistant (if your charger supports it) and some API calls. It's just a matter of telling the charg
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by djhworld 6mo ago
There is an element of truth in that if you go to the extremes, where it's almost definitely not worth it. I don't sit in the dark during the peak times, during the week I'm working during that time anyway and I still have my
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by djhworld 6mo ago
Exactly. For me I'm happy to avoid big power draws during the peak times, as I'm 'compensated' for it outside of those periods with a little planning. Downside is when the wind is not blowing AND disruptions to global en
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by djhworld 6mo ago
Explained above, I WFH, single (no kids) and have an EV - but I don't use the car for commute etc so I can be choosy about when I charge the car and take advantage of the ultra cheap periods. Fixed price advantage is you use power when
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by djhworld 6mo ago
....that being said, when you see stuff like this page and news articles about cheap renewable power etc, there are A LOT of negative reactions to it (even evidenced by the comments on here!) because for most people in the UK they never rea
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by djhworld 6mo ago
I'm on a electricity tariff where the per kWh unit price changes every 30 minutes, you're basically being charged at market rate or thereabouts, the prices for the next 28 hours are announced at 4pm every day. Generally the prices
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by djhworld 7mo ago
I think stuff like this really crystalises how people misunderstand how much energy stuff uses. My parents for example sweat the small stuff and go around the house turning LED driven lights off to "save electricity" even though i
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by djhworld 8mo ago
> A new house bought today could have 10 phone sockets and 0 Ethernet sockets. There is still no regulation that requires new build to get Ethernet wiring (as far as I know). I think this is true in the sense of there's no regulatio
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by djhworld 8mo ago
Awesome project & video, thanks for making it Where did you learn all the PCB design stuff to make your circuit boards that controlled the filaments?
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by djhworld 8mo ago
I remember playing with Gentoo back in 2004-2005, going through the installation procedure from "stage 1" all the way through to the working system [1] It looks like nowadays the handbook says just go from stage 3, which makes sen
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by djhworld 8mo ago
A few years ago this product would have just been called an ML Accelerator and marketed as helping accelerate ML workloads like object detection in images Hitching their wagon to the AI train comes with different expectations, leading to a
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by djhworld 8mo ago
https://djharper.dev just a personal blog really
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by djhworld 9mo ago
ehhhhhhh I don't think you need to go as far as reading dense accounting literature, I never have and I've been maintaining a beancount files for 7+ years. I just followed the documentation in here https://beancount.git
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by djhworld 9mo ago
I think there's definitely something in it around there's a huge learning curve. Double entry book keeping isn't that difficult but that's easy to say once you've been doing it a while I've been doing PTA since
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by djhworld 9mo ago
Nah not exposing the data to the LLM, just building the tools to help me manage the data, usually python scripts

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