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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I found it quite a charming show but I haven't watched that many shows with autistic leads to see the tropes. It did seem to be trying to present a sympathetic portrayal.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You have to ignore the obsequious optimism bias LLM's often have. It all comes down to their training set and if they have seen more than you have.

I don't generally use them on projects I'm already familiar with unless it's for fairly boring repetitive work that would be fiddly with search and replace, e.g. extract the common code out of these functions and refactor.

When working with unfamiliar code they can have an edge so if I needed a simple mobile app I'd probably give the LLM a go and then tidy up the code once it's working.

At most I'll give it 2 or 3 attempts to correct the original approach before I walk away and try something else. If it starts making up functions it APIs that don't exist that is usually a sign out didn't know so time to cut your losses and move on.

Their real strengths come in when it comes to digesting large amounts of text and sumerising. Great for saving you reading all the documentation on a project just to try a small thing. But if your going to work on the project going forward your going to want to invest that training data yourself.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Famously shellfish aren't kosher so observant Jews wouldn't eat them. Not sure what the rest of the old testament says about them but given the observance of other rules it seems more of a guideline for Christians.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

It is great for unified images, for example if you want a test image for CI.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

My octopus rate gives me 15p per kwH I export. The overnight rate is 7p per kwH so it makes sense to export as much as I can and charge the car on cheap rate.

The gap between sunset and cheap rate is about 4-8 kwH so rather than getting a battery my next step is a bi-directional charger so my car can cover the gap.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

For Home Assistant? There are several about but this is the one that worked for me.

You need to enable it via the webconsole on the inverter. There is a magic reset sequence that will boot it up as an Access Point and then you connect via WiFi: full instructions

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I've got a SolarEdge system but I've enabled the local ModBus to get the data so I don't need to connect to the cloud for it.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

No - the inverter needs the 50hz signal from the grid AC to work.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From my recollection of the BTS in the special editions they built a lot of "bigitures".

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well Trump had a go in his first term but unsurprisingly didn't get far.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are you familiar with the Korean war? There was a massive conflict which got drawn out into a stalemate and everybody agreed a temporary ceasefire was preferable to even more destruction.

Trying to topple a regime that has nothing to lose and a highly indoctrinated population is not an easy ask. We can only hope that like most authoritarian regimes they eventually succumb to the weight of their own opression. It's better than torching the whole continent in the name of freedom.

 

Perhaps the biggest libvirt related piece of work here has been to reworking of the QMP API docs to make them easier to navigate. QMP is how libvirt probes for functionality as well as handling things like introspection of the machines and dealing with things like hotplug.

 

Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon despite its broken state. Hopefully this should be a wake up call to government about how it goes about large software projects.

In my opinion anything written for government should come with a full license for the source code (preferably open source) so they have the ability to change suppliers if there are any issues.

 

For virtualization there are improvements for VirtIO, vfio and Loongarch CPU hotplug. On the emulation side additions for Arm, RiscV and even some speed ups for x86 string ops. On the documentation side a whole bunch of work has been done on QMP API to make it clearer and more navigable.

 

I was trying to add a Matter device from my phone but it kept saying I needed to install the companion app from the Play store even though I was in the companion app (from f-droid). I've installed the Bluetooth proxy app as well but it made note difference.

Does anyone know what's going on?

 

It always seemed to me that QAnon was some sort of online LARP on 4chan that got out of control and metastasized. It's left a trail of broken families and swept into the mainstream with branding and everything. After the predictions of Trump's return to power after Jan 6th it seems to have fizzled out. Did QAnon stop posting? Did their adherents just glom onto the next crazy theory? How many followers now disavow the theories of QAnon?

 

This is an interesting article of the fish shells journey of covering to rust which I found quite interesting. I'm especially interested because of projects I work with that are currently experimenting with rust.

 

The long awaited Cass report has been published looking at gender affirming care in the NHS.

 
 

Are there any good recommendations for water control valves? I want to control a automatic watering system and need something to attach to the garden tap. Open firmware would be a bonus.

 

I found this post interesting for my layman's understanding of LLMs and some of the underlying architecture choices that are made.

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