Tangentially related: if I do this frequently how can I frame it as a hobby normies can understand?
Knowledge explorer sounds too esoteric.
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Wait, can't you do that already?! I'm in my 30s but we've had pretty much instant payments as long as I've had a bank account (20+ years) in the UK.
Now try getting mobile signal on most of the underground, something every other metro in the world has had for 20+ years
I don't live in London and rarely go there, but everyone has to use banking...!
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#343Tangentially related: if I do this frequently how can I frame it as a hobby normies can understand? Knowledge explorer sounds too esoteric.
"Space Cowboy" makes it sound like you're in a cyberpunk future
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Nope, I'm about 15 years in and (unfortunately) deeply familiar with all of that. As someone else pointed out below, it was the use of ESM as a verb that threw me off. Thanks for taking the effort to type out a history lesson though, hopefully someone will benefit from it.
Sounds like we both got into JS around when node was released. Good times. I miss early JSConf and NodeConf.
Things have changed so much in what feels like a short period of time!
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MARSTEK VENUS E 5.12kWh. Got it in August 25 for 1050,00 EUR. It is awesome how open it is designed, I was able to activate and automate it without adding it to my local network (wifi) or using the Marstek App even once. I wrote a blog post here [1]. [1]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2026-01-11_marstek-battery-homeassi...
5 kWh for 1k€! Wow! Thanks for sharing Edit: and thanks for the writeup. This is exactly what I was looking for
Thanks for the kudos. Just note, I will add an update tomorrow - I optimized the automatic, it is now working pretty well. Before it was "overshooting" and the battery fed into the grid, or went into standby too often, just to start discharging again.
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#346Tangentially related: if I do this frequently how can I frame it as a hobby normies can understand? Knowledge explorer sounds too esoteric.
I've heard it as "my hobby is finding new hobbies".
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#347Surströmming, the Swedish can of fermented fish, is strongly recommended to be punctured while submerged in tap water. It is not pasteurized and is actively fermenting in storage, and the content will spray around if opened under atmospheric conditions. When transported on cargo flights, they are double packed as cans in a barrel in a crate, and considered UN classified "miscellaneous dangerous goods" with identifica…
reminds me ... I opened a can of Illy coffee today. It has a big red warning saying similar under pressure warning. I went...."pfhhh, how much pressure could be in this little can?" and it went ba-boom, coffee grounds all over me and my kitchen. I will heed the Sustromming warning if I ever come across a tin
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#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait, can't you do that already?! I'm in my 30s but we've had pretty much instant payments as long as I've had a bank account (20+ years) in the UK.
Now try getting mobile signal on most of the underground, something every other metro in the world has had for 20+ years
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Getting declensions right is a pain when trying to write Latin, but of reading it you can often just ignore them entirely and work it out from context. Of course you have to basically memorize the common things but those are all non-standard anyway.
Are you sure you are actually understanding the subtleties? I can definitely read latin and work out what is meant. But when I read my native languages, I can tell that there's A LOT of meaning hidden in subtleties that I would definitely lose if I were to analyze sentences only through etymological meaning of each independent word, to say nothing of the pain of having to parse ambigueties: e.g: Ambigueties: "Defende…
Yes, there's tons of subtleties (my Latin is mostly relegated to philosophical and theological texts, not known for unsubtle clear language!) - but they're usually restricted to the document and one or two for each given "phrase".
You become somewhat of a tokenizer and realize what the token means and can parse that way.
It's not day-1 wheelock and can read, but it's way sooner than "I can fluently ask Caesar to make me a hamburger down by the docks."
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Good question, if it is such. We keep a rabbit indoors, free roaming in the house, now for 7 years, I expect he will do 10+ Would you prefer to live freely for 6 months or have a hopefully comfortable life for ten times more. Before anyone jumping to say “freedom!” why don’t you do it already? Why are you keeping your body prisoner indoors?
YOU keep a rabbit indoors.
I do not blindly believe in a long life being a good life at all. Where is this argument coming from?
And yes I'm trying to use my time but I'm also from Europe and have 32 days of holiday per year and thinking about a sabbatical