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Comment · 5 months ago
I have a similar project, I'm so overpaneled I bought an electric heater so I could actually see how many watts I brought in during a nice summer day. The victron UIs have an excellent graph history.
Comment · 9 months ago
It might. An electron app is always a compromise, everyone knows several native apps would be better, but that's 3x the effort and maintenance. If you have LLMs porting to other systems they may be kinda janky, but is that worse than an electron app?
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
I left this open for 4 days before reading it, does that count?
Comment · 10 months ago
A surprising amount of variation from day to day even.
Comment · 11 months ago
Add Affordable at the start of that sentence and it's accurate.
Comment · 11 months ago
First they are coated in copper, and second nobody bakes pie crusts at a temp that would cause zinc to offgas and third zinc fever is not a big deal unless you're breathing a bunch every day.
Comment · 11 months ago
There weren't even fish in the lake until 1888, it's likely this has occurred more than once in the past.
Comment · 1 year ago
I stopped reading as soon as I got to the word "tracking". Solar panels are so cheap it's always better to overpanel than add tracking. Then I re-read a bit and this is about adding solar panels in space constrained areas. Why would you do that? I guess maybe if some company needs to virtue signal rather than actually use the power and has a small lawn. Solar is amazing, but don't try and jam it into places it doesn't make sense.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've dealt with images in a database and it was a disaster, the transfer times are garbage.
Comment · 1 year ago
I just vacuumed up a bee hive that had taken residence in my siding. Just rigged up my shop vac at the entrance and left it on.
Comment · 1 year ago
Depends on the state/city. In Minnesota with cheap electricity and not a ton of sun it's still worth it, just takes a while to recoup. In places in california you can recoup costs in as little as 2 years sometimes because the rates are so high.
Comment · 1 year ago
I had a buddy go through the Canonical process, it's totally insane. They expect you to jump when they say, but then they may not respond for days or weeks.
Comment · 1 year ago
I was trying to find information on this on the internet and couldn't find any, thanks for providing. Interestingly enough Copilot coding agent on github.com repeatedly could not complete css changes correctly, when I switched to Agent mode in the project IDE with Claude 3.7 it was able to complete it in one round, so I assumed that there was a different model.
Comment · 1 year ago
Everyone should try running their prompts and see how over hyped this is. The results I get are terrible comparatively.

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