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I have a two panel system, and the panels are about 430 watts each. Given the current ToD rates for electric, it will take years to pay back. Microinverter: 400 Panels (used): 250 …

I was ready to hate on this article, but it's actually pretty good. Having implemented all of these, I have a few notes: Api gateway calls are limited to 30 seconds. This is obviou…

Small Caps were a thing when I was a typography fan. They aren't just smaller versions of caps, they were specifically designed for in-text use as opposed to display use. Fyi.

Going to try this on my M1 Ultra 128gb. The point of these engineering tricks is to see the envelope of what's possible. You can use these tricks to both run a bigger model on smal…

The important thing you need to do is specify which Mikrotik version you're using; apparently the syntax for some things changed between 6 and 7. It does pretty well, but you need …

Modern decor has been this way since the bauhaus. Saying simplicity transcends interior design makes no sense; it is part of interior design. The repeating patterns on carpet are a…

Maintenance employees are the weakest link. They aren't paid much and don't believe anything is important. Be nice to them and they'll be nice to you back.

I have a Studio 128gb, so it's not an issue.

FYI token speed is somewhat irrelevant for agentic development. You let it run, then you come back. The whole point is that it's asynchronous. If it takes 4 hours, 8 hours, 16 hour…

Using Pgsql for everything shows you've been drinking the internet kool-aid. And that site is like a creepy shrine saying pgsql is the alpha and omega. Like any tool, it works unti…

Certificate expiry is less severe than an untrusted issuer or a host mismatch. The former is most likely an administrative error (ie: someone forgot to renew, or the auto-renew is …

"nobody should be renewing their certificate within 90 minutes of expiration" You obviously haven't worked with hardware guys. "I mean, what's the point of those last 30 days if yo…

Anything that might fix brain plumbing would be welcome. Over time, everything breaks down. If this actually fixes some plumbing issue that would be great. Of course, it probably w…

"Epubcheck does basic CSS checking of course, but it can’t validate CSS against a renderer which is fundamentally broken!" According to the author, Kobo uses CSS from 2013. A quick…

Power on after a power failure has been a Mac feature for decades. Did it stop working at some point? Of course, it didn't work if you set your Mac to shut down if the UPS is runni…

Well, now that it's becoming "the community source" for LLMs it's becoming even more of a target for large-scale manipulation.

Yay, it's only taken them years to do this. Since the pool identifiers are static, how do you actually fail over? Oh, you need a custom domain that presumably routes if the primary…

That's how far s3 has come - it's replacing products that were the pinnacle of scalability back in the day. I have to look a bit, but it could probably replace Cassandra now as wel…

The article buries something interesting at the bottom: "Herd size is down, but U.S. beef production is steady" So the author talks about all this stuff, but probably the three big…

You don't really need clickhouse in this pipeline. And it's interesting (but obvious once said) that you can replace kafka with s3...at least in the "scalable and reliable destinat…

The only thing I can think of is to ask the AI "why this instead of that?" Every architectural decision is a tradeoff between something and another. Every technology choice is also…

At this point the models should just start improving themselves.

It's crazy that a bestseller (Grant) sold 382k copies. That's a rounding error for Mr. Beast. Who's buying? It could be their customers were boomers, who are dying. What are they d…

My dad was a lefty and played golf right-handed. It's a common enough thing. In golf, strength is overrated until you get to the pros.

In many parts of Asia they will 'correct' children who are using their left hands.