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Balcony Solar: $1.74/watt direct plug-in solar(brightsaver.org)
28 points by teucris 2mo ago|41 comments
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by teucris 2mo ago
I love that there’s an organization nurturing this kind of experience in the UK - Immersive Arts[0] Are there any orgs like this in the US? 0: https://immersivearts.uk/
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by teucris 3mo ago
There are two things you can get from a degree: 1. Knowledge and skills 2. A network and a reputation While I don’t agree with “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” - both are critical and just having one without the other isn’t going
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by teucris 4mo ago
> In general, I have the feeling that we are hurtling towards a world with less intentionality behind all the things we experience. Everything becomes impersonal, more noisy, etc. You’re right - but that world is not the end of the story
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by teucris 4mo ago
> those variables were likely not known nor knowable during the design stage. But they could have included an error factor in the designing process. I thought this was standard for manufacturing. And they could have done more robust test
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by teucris 5mo ago
But agents do keep task lists and check the tasks off as they go. Of course it’s not perfect either but it’s MUCH better than an LLM can offer on its own. If you are seeing an agent missing tasks, work with it to write down the task list
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by teucris 5mo ago
My only real disappointment with Claude is its flakiness with scheduling tasks. I have several Slack related tasks that I’ve pretty much given up trying to automate - I’ve tried Cowork and Claude Code remote agents, only to find various bug
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by teucris 6mo ago
The article specifically notes the following: >We can get far without worrying about the last 5-10%. The solutions for the last 5-10% could be fossil fuels in the short-term, long-duration storage as it matures, or easily storeable e-bio
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by teucris 6mo ago
This article hits on an important point not easily discerned from the title: Sometimes good software is good due to a long history of hard-earned wins. AI can help you get to an implementation faster. But it cannot magically summon up a bat
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by teucris 8mo ago
> while eating ramens For many, even cutting their budget isn’t enough to pursue what you’re describing. Modern careers in software are very hard to reach for people who can’t afford to wait for a real paycheck, and it drives away a mass
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by teucris 8mo ago
You may be right if AI truly can never replace devs. But history shows many examples of inadequate technologies getting hammered on by industry until they work due to distorted perceptions of economic gain. I’ve heard stories like this rega
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by teucris 8mo ago
Software developers should be worried about their jobs, not because these tools are capable of replacing them or reducing a company’s need for human developers, but rather because the _perception_ that they can/will replace developers
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by teucris 8mo ago
> All of the "discoverability" algorithms are specifically and fundamentally about sifting through the millions to find the few that are preferred. They are fundamentally about finding the content that will generate the most re
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by teucris 10mo ago
I agree that it was in her philosophical framework to accept social security - apologies if my comment seemed in bad faith due to that not being clearer. The irony does not lie with her, but rather those that use her philosophy to eliminate
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by teucris 10mo ago
The hypocrisy lies in the fact that the philosophy of Ayn Rand - that an elite few held up society and the rest were pretty much just parasites - has been used at great length to justify the gutting of social programs.
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by teucris 10mo ago
I think of the foundational model like CPUs. They're the core of powerful, general-purpose computers, and will likely remain popular and common for most computing solutions. But we also have GPUs, microcontrollers, FPGAs, etc. that don
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by teucris 10mo ago
Not to be too pedantic, but code is a kind of specification. I think making the blanket statement "Prompt is code" is inaccurate but there does exist a methodology of writing prompts as if they are specifications that can reliably
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by teucris 10mo ago
I’m all for this movement provided it’s actually focusing on the rights of individuals rather than empowering corporations to own and operate massive amounts of computing power unchecked. When I first read the article, I frankly assumed thi
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by teucris 11mo ago
But this isn’t a suggestion to turn away from AI threats - it’s a matter of prioritization. There are more imminent threats that we know can turn apocalyptic that swaths of people in power are completely ignoring and instead fretting over A
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by teucris 1y ago
Really appreciate the detailed article! I was on the team that shipped D3D11 and helped with the start of D3D12. I went off to other things and lost touch - the API has come a long way! So many of these features were just little whispers of
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by teucris 1y ago
Yes! I work with the Modos team. You’re exactly right - ideally we want region-based refresh hinting. The SDK supports some region based features - we’d like to extend that functionality.
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by teucris 1y ago
That requires the operating system to “hint” to the display that there’s no refresh necessary and for the display to shut down during those times. That’s currently not supported as these kits just take a video signal, but it’s something bei
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by teucris 1y ago
Response time is on par with LCDs - the trailing you’re seeing is ghosting, which in most situations is not common but does occur occasionally.
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by teucris 1y ago
This is more or less how I came to the mental model I have that I refer to above. It helps me tremendously in knowing what to expect from every model I’ve used.
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by teucris 1y ago
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” Agreed - I picked certain words to be intentionally ambiguous eg “most likely” since it provides an effective intuitive grasp of what’s going on, even if it’s more complicated than that.
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by teucris 1y ago
I think there’s a bit of parroting going around but LLMs are predictive and there’s a lot you can inuit a lot about how they behave just on that fact alone. Sure, calling it “token” prediction is oversimplifying things, but stating that, by
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by teucris 1y ago
The screens included in these kits are glossy, however the board can support pretty much any screen up to 13”, including matte and flexible. On the ghosting - we’ve been thinking a lot about Wayland drivers and other software solutions. We’
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by teucris 1y ago
This has been tried so many times[0][1]… heck even I made an app like this once using WiFi direct. The idea is so solid and yet there are just enough pitfalls between Bluetooth reliability, platform differences, getting critical mass for ef
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by teucris 1y ago
Fantastic work. This is great example of how good execution is what really matters - not just good ideas. I’m sure I’m not the only one who had an idea similar to this at some point - mine was called “nanowriter” and was meant for NanoWriMo
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by teucris 1y ago
Lottie is quickly becoming the de-facto standard for UI animations, but live, long running vector animations aren’t really something I’ve seen much of - at this point, video compresses well enough that people will simply use an mp4 or webp

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