eamonnsullivan

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by eamonnsullivan 2mo ago
This is actually a good link. Thank you. It's usage that is the big driver, and LLMs are a big driver in emissions and other damage to the environment.
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by eamonnsullivan 2mo ago
I won't belabour the point, but I think someone needs to correct their misconceptions. You're comparing a single, average person's usage of AI in a day -- not the billions who actually use it. Then you are comparing it to a
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by eamonnsullivan 2mo ago
Well, I doubt that. I mostly work from home. But also I live in a big city (London) with a working public transport system.
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by eamonnsullivan 2mo ago
The one thing that had me reading to the end was the mention near the top of the environmental impact of LLMs, but he never got back to it. I'm currently writing an onboarding doc for my team, encouraging LLM use for some tasks. (OK, w
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by eamonnsullivan 4mo ago
Clojure 1.6, Emacs 24.5... These are pretty old versions, at least of those.
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by eamonnsullivan 8mo ago
https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk Not updated much, though. Couple times a year, generally.
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Dynamicland Front Shelf(dynamicland.org)
2 points by eamonnsullivan 9mo ago|0 comments
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by eamonnsullivan 9mo ago
I got briefly excited about this one, but I've run into the same issue of needing the IT department to explicitly permit me: https://github.com/jgunthorpe/cloud_mdir_sync/issues/25
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by eamonnsullivan 9mo ago
I too am a bit surprised this made it on the front page. Mu4e is definitely niche, and I wouldn't crow about it like I do org or magit. I've only been using it for less than a month and it will be a while before I know whether it
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by eamonnsullivan 9mo ago
This was my second attempt to get email working on Emacs and I gave up the first time, too. I persisted this time and I _think_ it will pay off. There is the obvious danger of this becoming another "project", but I'll make a
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by eamonnsullivan 9mo ago
I tried both. The error from davmail suggests it was specifically blocked/prohibit and I failed using actual Thunderbird.
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Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e(eamonnsullivan.co.uk)
110 points by eamonnsullivan 10mo ago|54 comments
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by eamonnsullivan 10mo ago
This is an important point that I missed and didn't mention: My work and school life were really hard and chaotic. This is so intrinsically part of me that I didn't even notice, but has generated a lot of stress on me and my famil
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by eamonnsullivan 10mo ago
I worry about all of this labelling that we apply to various ends of the "normal" spectrum. Where does it lead us? Is it actually helping? I easily score as ADHD, but I'm in my 60s now and have never been diagnosed or treated
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by eamonnsullivan 10mo ago
I love these packages (like this, Spacemacs, Doom, etc.), even though I've used Emacs for over 30 years. I don't use them directly, but they give me ideas and alert me to packages I haven't heard of (eat?). And that gives me
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by eamonnsullivan 1y ago
I'm a principal software engineer with a degree in history. You don't need a science degree to understand most of these issues sufficiently to legislate them. But you need humility and a willingness to learn. That, sadly, is lacki
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by eamonnsullivan 1y ago
I absolutely understand that, but it seems concerned with the same things (preserving a minority language) and there are lots of initiatives in this area all over the U.K. Literally, right next door.
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by eamonnsullivan 1y ago
I find it odd that the article makes almost zero mention of how Ireland is doing with its very closely related form of Gaelic. Ireland has arguably been at least slightly more successful. Or Wales? Or other minority languages, such as Bas
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by eamonnsullivan 2y ago
So, I saw this link and immediately thought, "I bet the discussion will be about how we should use N100s, instead." I wasn't disappointed. Even on dedicated Pi forums, you see that happening. I guess I understand this point o
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by eamonnsullivan 2y ago
I think I've been operating this way for a long time: My notes, software and wiki are almost all in plain text -- source, markdown or org mode in Emacs, usually -- and open image/video formats (jpeg, mp4) and synced with a replace
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by eamonnsullivan 3y ago
I did pretty much the same thing. The issue wasn't cats (I have two, but they'll gladly let anyone pet and feed them), it was that I can't hear the doorbell from my WFH office. I wanted to flash the light. I already use Home
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by eamonnsullivan 3y ago
That's an excellent point. I don't think HA is anywhere close to being something that could carry a separate professional services industry, like many more mature projects (e.g., Redis, MQTT or whatever). It's just moving t
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by eamonnsullivan 3y ago
A section I cut out of the blog before posting was my experiences with Z-Wave. Most of my smart plugs are Z-Wave, which was part of my issue with Zigbee coverage/instability (smart plugs are good routers/repeaters). I like Z-Wave,
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by eamonnsullivan 3y ago
I keep it up-to-date religiously and rarely run into breaking issues, but I have occasionally. I keep an eye on the release notes ( https://rc.home-assistant.io/blog/categories/release-notes/ ), so I usually ha
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by eamonnsullivan 3y ago
Author here: Yeah, I cut that out at the last minute, but my feeling is that if you need to use the dashboard, the automation has failed. I put the app on my wife's phone, but she almost never uses it. She does use a touch screen on
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Home Assistant: Three years later(eamonnsullivan.co.uk)
276 points by eamonnsullivan 3y ago|189 comments
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by eamonnsullivan 3y ago
Here's the company's statement, which they've updated to accuse HA of, basically, DDOS: https://chamberlaingroup.com/press/a-message-about-our-decis...
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Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API(home-assistant.io)
1181 points by eamonnsullivan 3y ago|640 comments
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by eamonnsullivan 3y ago
Bloomberg? Comdb? If not, sounds very similar, anyway. Been there, done that!
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by eamonnsullivan 3y ago
Am I the only one who hears this in my head spoken by a character in Firefly, or maybe from the later chapters of Cloud Atlas?

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