oakesm9

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Comment · 19 days ago
That price rise happened a few months ago. One theory at the time was that it was partly to soften the blow of the new price for the next generation.

Personally I didn't expect a new generation to be a full $100 more though...

Comment · 22 days ago
I can hear his laugh just reading this
Comment · 26 days ago
France is actually pretty cheap in Europe. About 15% more than average USA electric prices (but I know that varies a lot across the states so still likely much more than the cheaper areas)
Comment · 1 month ago
That's exactly what skills do.

The description in the front-matter (at the top of the skill markdown file) is the only thing in the context and used by the agent to determine when to read in the rest of the skill file.

Comment · 2 months ago
FFMpeg 8.0 came out August 22nd, 2025

8.1 came out 4 months ago on March 16th, 2026

Maybe you're thinking of VLC which has been stuck with a stable v3 release for almost a decade while work on v4 continue?

Comment · 3 months ago
You essentially see the desktop version zoomed out by default with tiny text. You need to zoom in, but the line length is still desktop sized so you need to scroll left and right as well as up and down to read it.
Comment · 3 months ago
I think the idea is that it gives a bit of time for the companies which run automated scans of new versions to run through and detect any issues with new versions before users install them en-mass.
Comment · 5 months ago
Why does it need millions of users to be useful to the individuals which use it? It's not a social media site, so I don't care how many other users they have as long as it's a sustainable business for them to keep providing a service to me.
Comment · 9 months ago
As someone who lives on a residential street right by a primary school in the UK, the majority of drivers are going over 20mph even at the peak time when there are children everywhere.

While in theory human drivers should be situationally aware of the higher risks of children being around, the reality is that the majority will be in their own bubble of being late to drop their kid off and searching for the first free spot they can find.

Comment · 9 months ago
This is great and similar to what I was thinking of doing at some point. I just wasn't sure if it needed to be specific to Sweep Local or if it could be a generic llama.cpp provider.
Comment · 9 months ago
If you lease a car the owner of the vehicle isn't the driver, but the lease company itself. Tesla was contacted to provide the drivers name (as is their legal obligation) and when they didn't they were fined.

Exactly the same is true if you own the car outright. You as the owner of the vehicle will be contacted and asked to provide the details of the person who was driving at the time.

Comment · 9 months ago
Would this be able to support TCP and UDP in the future?
Comment · 9 months ago
Yes, negative is rare, but I wouldn't say that it's overwhelmingly expensive.

The median range is 15p-20p (60% of the time in December) and the UK "price cap" is about 26.35p.

With a tariff like that, shifting usage outside of 4pm-7pm can lead to massive savings. With our usage from the Octopus API, I can see from OctopusCompare that in the past month my effective average unit cost would be 19.24p/kWh, and we don't do any specific load shifting.

Comment · 9 months ago
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