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rrr_oh_manon Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider

I yearn for the day of going back to make v. buy, not buy v. buy

rrr_oh_manon Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics

> Far better for the environment to lock all that up in a cow.

Don’t they just.. release it?

rrr_oh_manon Size-It-Up (Game)

Now with countries, hehe

rrr_oh_manon Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative

Is it really too much to ask to at least edit the slopscription?

  Kugelblitz shows the Earth and its neighbors as a globe and as an atlas you fly over smoothly like a pilot, even on an M1. Imagery, road map and topographic map lie on real terrain, joined by thousands of open maps from the Library. Everything comes from freely available geodata, straight from its publishers, OpenStreetMap from the Kugelblitz tile server; you need no account.
  Everything loaded stays in the cache, and Kugelblitz instances in the same network share it with each other if you wish. Status windows tell how far the view has loaded, where you are looking and where its data comes from, and every source is listed with its license in “Sources and Licenses”. Kugelblitz speaks German and English and uses the units of your choice.

rrr_oh_manon Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time

Not in a '97 Range Rover if you want to arrive on time

(theeheehee, I’ve got an old Land Cruiser, there's a bit of a friendly rivalry)

rrr_oh_manon Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM

Sometimes the infra team job feels easier…

rrr_oh_manon Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM

I feel ZDR is the same as the EU data privacy shield

rrr_oh_manon Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM

No, it would be hyped up even more for a pump & dump :)

rrr_oh_manon The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public

Sounds like president material to me

rrr_oh_manon OccupySaaS

It’s not easy and it feels like an unstoppable tsunami after seismic shifts thousands of kilometers away.

I was wrong about agents.

Hard pivoting into a different career, for the fifth or sixth time in my life, with a plan B of raising chickens. (Not kidding)

rrr_oh_manon OccupySaaS

[Thanks for the downvotes. I guess I'm supposed to be sorry for being honest and a realist.]

rrr_oh_manon OccupySaaS

I've been making people redundant all my life with automations, including myself, and willingly so.

It's only fair and logical that the redundancy machine has come for the job of the redundancy engineers.

rrr_oh_manon OccupySaaS

It's the NIH disease

rrr_oh_manon UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

> Russia still has good long term energy plans for Germany

What do you mean?

rrr_oh_manon UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does

I thought it was for distributed DBs?

rrr_oh_manon Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

You can also start a fire by letting your pan get too hot, but nonetheless you make your own eggs.

rrr_oh_manon LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale

> In general, the spec must be human readable, and I believe to achieve that we must do away with SQL

Eh. Carthago delenda est? Why?

rrr_oh_manon Most advice is right for the person giving it

A ton of YC advice (e.g. I remember a Mondo co-founder) is "We did X, and it really worked, but it was a really bad and dangerous idea, so don't do X" without stopping to think whether X might have been the reason the company survived in the first place. Basically: do as I say, not as I do / did.

rrr_oh_manon Most advice is right for the person giving it

> Once 30% of the country is on it, expect buffets to go out of business and restaurants to need to shift to smaller portions in response

It's funny how a buffet in almost every other country really just exists for the self-serving simplicity/cost-savings and a broad-ish selection for customers, not to trigger overeating.

rrr_oh_manon Most advice is right for the person giving it

Nah, the better analogy is "don't spend more than you make".

rrr_oh_manon If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

> It's just a somewhat narrow, (in this case) inconsequential, but also valid, nitpick.

YES. You got it, thanks! That's why I was referencing #386 :)

rrr_oh_manon If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

Possibly we are talking about different things. I am not prescribing or postulating anything. This is just reality.

  Average Revenues/Sales (¢/kWh)

  End-use sector    July 2026
  Residential           18.31
  Commercial            14.53
  Industrial             9.77
  Transportation        14.97
  --
  Total                 14.99

Source: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/end-use.php

The reason is mostly higher consumption = lower average price.

rrr_oh_manon If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

I didn't express myself correctly.

The analogy is false.

Domestic electricity is priced per kWh, wholesale electricity is priced per kWh, the latter is, as a rule, cheaper. It is not fixed vs variable rate.

rrr_oh_manon If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

> This is analogous to variable vs fixed rate electricity. Paying the real time wholesale price is a massive economic advantage if you can figure out how to control the demand side of the house.

Wholesale electricity is almost always cheaper.

Sorry, I have to be that guy... https://xkcd.com/386/

rrr_oh_manon How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

> But I’ve noticed that most people when faced with the same person can’t help but try and figure out what makes them tick, or their redeeming qualities, or if even anything can be redeemed. It seems to be a social equivalent of “nerd sniping”; most people just have a very hard time declaring “this person is worth 0 additional seconds of my time” and actually following through.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone put this into words.

Thank you. A very compelling thought.

rrr_oh_manon Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States

> Klamath

Don't Tread on the Bear!

rrr_oh_manon Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States

> fish cannons

It's absurdly funny/weird/scary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGzdOpCisnQ

rrr_oh_manon Porsche Mission S

Yup.

rrr_oh_manon Porsche Mission S

LLMsplaining in every second paragraph…

rrr_oh_manon Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

> Uphill battles are often worth fighting.

A number of military historians would beg to differ.