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hugh

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Visual Effects, software development, and everything in between

Solar powered

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Edent, to random
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Would you like to play a based ?

Here's my attempt from a few years ago https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/05/the-great-british-shake-off/

hugh,
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@Edent I managed the singular achievement of getting every single answer wrong. That deserves a prize, surely?

Edent, to solar
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9AM and the spring sunshine is already pumping 1.5kW through @solar

Even in dismal, rainy, overcast Britain, works. We're generating more than we can use and have already filled our battery.

hugh,
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@Edent @solar are you in octopus agile for export as well as import? I was surprised to discover, when I called them to switch, that I could be on agile for import and fixed (15p/kWh) for export

hugh,
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@Edent This is the difference it made for me last month. We have a battery (5.8kWh), but also exported about 92kWh last month

foone, to random
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bad idea: A mouse cursor that's not just a simple floating pointer, it's a cat/dog paw... but it stretches all the way to an edge of the screen like it's a really long leg

hugh,
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@cstross @foone maybe you can have more legs, but after 4 they change colour/pattern

hugh,
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@cstross @foone and then lobsters, which, I’ve just learnt, can have up to 28 legs

hugh,
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@cstross @foone https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/december/first-millipede-with-more-than-1000-legs-discovered-Australia.html

hugh, to random
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@Edent what do you use for graphing and tracking of your solar and battery data?

I'm currently pulling data from various APIs into a Google Sheets doc where I've set up graphing (with variable start/end dates and periods), but I've only currently got about 2 weeks of data in there, and I can see it getting hugely unweildy very quickly

hugh,
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@Edent I’ve got pretty decent apis for all of the data I want to gather. Internet, APIs, smart plus with meters, solar forecast, octopus agile, carbon intensity.

I spent a chunk of this weekend changing them from pushing into Google sheets to now pushing into a database that has Grafana connected, so I’ve now got way more responsive graphs, which is nice.

hugh, to random
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This is a fun regression in (reported as RIDER-105780 - https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-105780/Database-view-fails-to-show-DateTime-values)

As of 2024.1 EAP4, when looking at a (Postgres) database, "timestamp with time zone" columns have their data show up as "com.intellij.database.remote.jdbc.impl.UnparsedValue@13e978cd" rather than the actual value.

Was fine in EAP3! And nothing touching on the database view in the changelog.

CC @khalidabuhakmeh

hugh,
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@khalidabuhakmeh Totally understand that. Still liking the changes in EAP4, especially the monitoring

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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I understand why folks might be against AI in their dev tools, but if you’re also hosting your code on a third-party site, using third-party issue trackers, and using third-party meeting software, then I’m not sure why one scares you more than the others.

hugh,
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@khalidabuhakmeh @heaths my concern is less “you’re trying to steal my code” and more “you stole other people’s code”

mekkaokereke, to random
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I don't trust anyone that skips the Bluey intro song. 🙅🏿‍♂️

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8nv1m-aTCZI

hugh,
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@mekkaokereke my wife pointed out to me recently that they’re playing musical statues. When the music stops each time, one person doesn’t stop dancing, then everyone says their name

stevegis_ssg, to random
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I want to rescue this from my account on the birdsite but I once got into arguing with TERFs (it happens, try not to judge me too harshly) and as a biologist I just wanted to push back a little on the "it's just biology" line, so I wrote the following:

hugh,
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@stevegis_ssg this is really interesting. Related, I’ve kept this image as a reference for a long time to basically explain the same things

sarajw, to random
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That feeling when you're home with a sick child and you would also rather just stay snuggled up watching the Octonauts, but you have to keep to some kind of schedule...

"We said this was the last one ! Oh wait, the next one's about a narwhal, oh erm, this one is the last one, then, OK?"

Curse those double-episode episodes. No time to spring up to stop the next one playing.

hugh,
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@sarajw mine have never been into Octonauts, but I’ve certainly cursed the double-episodes of Paw Patrol

Edent, to climate
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🆕 blog! “We pay 12p / kWh for electricity - thanks to a smart tariff and battery”

I love my solar panels. But the solar panels don't love the British midwinter. Most of the year, my panels produce more electricity than I can use. But in winter we're lucky if they produce 3kWh per day - and most of the time it is considerab…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/we-pay-12p-kwh-for-electricity-thanks-to-a-smart-tariff-and-battery/
⸻

hugh,
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@Edent did the battery communication with Octopus already exist, or is this something you had to develop yourself?

jenniferplusplus, to random
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Fun fact for everyone who really wanted to review my code snippet yesterday, it turns out csharp Linq actually does (sort of) have a not null extension. It's a kind of side effect from OfType<T>. Just specify T as non-nullable; ezpz.

So

new string?[]{null, "hello", null, "world"}.OfType<string>();

// ["hello", "world"]

Note that OfType casts to T and discards anything that won't cast. So, you still have to do it the long way if you don't want that.

hugh,
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@bradwilson @jenniferplusplus this is fascinating - thanks for sharing. I did the same thing - replaced my own WhereNotNull() with OfType() without checking performance - will be switching this back after seeing this

molly0xfff, to random
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My Citation Needed newsletter is no longer on Substack!

https://citationneeded.news/citation-needed-has-a-new-home/

hugh,
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@molly0xfff congrats on the move!
I took out an annual subscription back in October through SubStack. Should this transfer over to the new site? Is there anything I need to do myself on that front?

sarajw, to random
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Given the discourse floating around now I'm feeling much less bad about not using Firefox as my main browser.

I generally use Edge (I already use Windows and subscribe to 365 Family, better the devil you know and all that), but now I've just started toying with the DuckDuckGo browser on my phone...

hugh,
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@sarajw I’ve been seeing a lot of pushback on this. Starting here: https://hachyderm.io/@leftpaddotpy/111668100875439131

Also (more details in reply to that toot), that the CEO is of the Mozilla Corporation, which is the for-profit arm, not the Mozilla Foundation. (There are some org structure diagrams - it’s a complicated mess of relationships between the organisations)

sarajw, (edited ) to random
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I read the other day that the difference between wolves and dogs socially is very similar to the difference between neuro typical people and those with Williams syndrome.

I'm not sure what to do with this information but I'm finding myself looking at dogs really differently, now.

hugh,
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@sarajw I had never heard of Williams Syndrome until a couple of weeks ago when I saw this Matthew Baynton sketch (his nephew has Williams Syndrome) https://youtu.be/iky9lmzqU8E?feature=shared

sarajw, to random
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Eldest: "Mama, why do all these songs sound sad?"

Me: "They're not sad, they're Christmas songs.. wait, that one is, skips so's that one, skips and that one..."

There's definitely a strong ratio of sad/ballad style Christmas songs to the pure joyful ones. Lots of melancholy around - often for good reason.

Look after yourselves over the holidays ❤️

hugh,
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@sarajw shades of this sketch: https://youtu.be/xxX7QCll3oc
“This one is sad, and this one is sad. This one’s sad, this one’s sad. Did you write these at a funeral?”

hugh,
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@sarajw this one and cake or death are probably my most quoted ones. Oh, and the flags sketch.

sarajw, to random
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Hoo boy I've just written a huge somewhat personal blog post and now I'm worried it's too much

hugh,
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@sarajw my story is surprisingly similar to yours. Christian camps as a teenager (Minehead and Shepton Mallet, if you’ve ever been to either of those), and there was at least one “falling over” session where someone was praying for me, and definitely gave a little push. I don’t think I ever really fully believed, as much as I wanted to - it was more about the people and the community for me. I carried on through university (made some good friends who I’m still in touch with), but then when I left uni, I was questioning the institution more, and wanted to step away from the whole thing. It caused some friction in my (still very Christian) family, but nothing that didn’t heal, for which I am eternally(!) grateful)

Other coincidence with your story, I also had my second child 2 weeks into the first Covid lockdown. To be fair, I had my first child 2 weeks into the first lockdown too.

I don’t know many people with the same kind of story as mine, so this was good to read

hugh,
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@sarajw I was more referring to the Christian camps that happened in those places (Spring Harvest and Soul Survivor). Wasn’t sure if it was the same camps you went to (certainly sounds like the same kind of experience)

And yeah - twins, born at the beginning of lockdown. That was really tough for my wife - in hospital for a week with them and me not allowed to visit. I hope your experience was better than that!

_benui, to random
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It's fascinating watching my 4y/o kid's skill with video games progress. We played Snipperclips for the first time and they just knew what to do immediately. Jumping, crouching, snipping, even rotating using the shoulder buttons. Previous games took them a lot longer to get used to but a lot of other games have taught them these transferable skills.

hugh,
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@_benui thanks - I’ll take a look at those.

Edent, to politics
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When do symbols stop being political?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/01/when-do-symbols-stop-being-political/

hugh,
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@Edent there was a story the other day (and I’m paraphrasing here) where there was a board game called “Votes for Women” that Xitter wouldn’t allow adverts for because it is a “social issue”

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