MrsPeaches

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Co-founder at Open Energy Labs

https://openenergylabs.co/

Feel free to drop me an email: samson [at] openenergylabs.co

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Comment · 1 month ago
This comment reminds me that one of the features of technological revolutions is just the sheer number of people who are on the bleeding edge of use.
Comment · 2 months ago
Surely his post popular policy has to be :

* capping the price of a 99 flake ice cream at 99p

Comment · 6 months ago
This is me!

I’m semi-normie (MechEng with a bit of Matlab now working as a ceo).

I spend most of my day in Claude code but outputs are word docs, presentations, excel sheets, research etc.

I recently got it to plan a social media campaign and produce a ppt with key messaging and content calendar for the next year, then draft posts in Figma for the first 5 weeks of the campaign and then used a social media aggregator api to download images and schedule in posts.

In two hours I had a decent social media campaign planned and scheduled, something that would have taken 3-4 weeks if I had done it myself by hand.

I’ve vibe coded an interface to run multiple agents at once that have full access via apis and MCPs.

With a daily cron job it goes through my emails and meeting notes, finds tasks, plans execution, executes and then send me a message with a summary of what it has done.

Most knowledge work output is delivered as code (e.g. xml in word docs) so it shouldn’t be that that surprising that it can do all this!

Comment · 6 months ago
Loved this!

A bit deep to put district and circle as options on the same question. Don’t they use the same rolling stock and cover very similar stations?

I found Bakerloo was the easiest to identify.

Comment · 7 months ago
> For women, answering the questions is voluntary, as they cannot be required to perform military service under the Constitution.

Specially article 12a Paragraph 4: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.h...

Specifically it says:

If, during a state of defence, the need for civilian services in the civilian health system or in stationary military hospitals cannot be met on a voluntary basis, women between the age of eighteen and fifty-five may be called upon to render such services by or pursuant to a law. Under no circumstances may they be required to render service involving the use of arms.

Comment · 8 months ago
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

Douglas Adams

Comment · 8 months ago
The next frontier:

Draw a pelican on a bicycle ergonomically designed for pelicans.

Comment · 11 months ago
It's not ideal, but you can look at the bottom bar and get a sense of density of innovation over a certain time period.
Comment · 11 months ago
It’s a great project!

I’ve got some experience with small batch production and I’ve written an email. Check your spam!

Comment · 11 months ago
The UK is actually doing something(ish) about it now.

Innovate UK (the UK’s public innovation funding) recently had a bid out for maritime R&D but with a focus on clean tech:

https://iuk-business-connect.org.uk/opportunities/clean-mari...

Obviously, this is not going to make up for the loss of the broader ship building industry, but it does show that the UK is thinking about maritime technology as a key strategic area.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Note that mobile phone repair is the no. 1 service provided by repair shops in rural areas of many countries in Africa.

Like 50%+ of all repairs are mobile phone repairs

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