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New comment by dabeeeenster in "Training our own AI models"

dabeeeenster — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:42:47 +0000

"Training won't start until June 29, so there's plenty of time to decide"

...except, we have made the decision for all the US customers already. Nice.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

dabeeeenster — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:13:14 +0000

Love my x4! I saw 1.3 allows you to bring in your own fonts - any suggestions?

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far"

dabeeeenster — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:54:15 +0000

Have you tried using Browserless/similar to scrape around tricky hosts?

New comment by dabeeeenster in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 Polymarket bet"

dabeeeenster — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:51:56 +0000

The ingredient you are missing is fraud

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com"

dabeeeenster — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:01:16 +0000

How curious. Are they trying to throw security shade on running open source? Very odd.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

dabeeeenster — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:15:16 +0000

I don't see where they are going to draw the line. If I run 4 sessions in tmux, all connected to claude code, is that OK?

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

dabeeeenster — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:58:44 +0000

I'm on a similar tariff in the UK and just had a 10kwh battery installed which is just amazing for shaving off all the load between 4-7pm. Whole system installed was ~6k GBP and I think my payback time is going to be < 5 years which I'm super pleased with.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Celebrating Interesting Flickr Technologies"

dabeeeenster — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:19:43 +0000

They didn’t mention feature flags! Their blog post on feature flags was seminal.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

dabeeeenster — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:26:23 +0000

> It could be a management issue, though

Or, maybe it's just hard?

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

dabeeeenster — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:10:27 +0000

I got this https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/high-resolution/viewfini... and am pretty happy with it. I got it fairly cheap with a student voucher (I think ~650 GBP).

It had some coil whine initially but that has gone. There's a load of nonsense software in it but I just have it disconnected from the internet and only use it as a monitor. The web cam is not useful but I don't use that either.

This was a couple of years ago - I think that there are a lot more options available now?

New comment by dabeeeenster in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"

dabeeeenster — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:02:39 +0000

I just had Solaredge battery installed in my house in the UK (Had a solaredge PV and inverter so made sense even tho it was more than other setups). If you are up for a challenge https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/ is AMAZING and basically optimises when to charge and discharge your battery.

I've got a heat pump and think my paypack period is going to be about 6 years.

Hit me up on bluesky (in profile) if you want more info!

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect"

dabeeeenster — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:43:45 +0000

Oh no, I cant annoy everyone in a 500m radius for 20 minutes once a week by blowing all the leaves that have fallen into my garden into my neighbours garden. Did I get it right?

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs"

dabeeeenster — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:54:40 +0000

I’ve told people this before as I distinctly remember it being a thing and no one ever believes me!

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"

dabeeeenster — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:42:05 +0000

https://jccpalmer.com/posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibr...

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Cloudflare was down"

dabeeeenster — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:06:43 +0000

3?! When was the second>

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Django 6.0 beta 1 released"

dabeeeenster — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:29:13 +0000

I think the bigger use case is being able to (backoff) retry failing API calls to 3rd party services. AFAIUI the new tasks package doesnt offer this in v1 which is a deal breaker for my project, at least.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?"

dabeeeenster — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:23:08 +0000

The CEO thought it a good idea to take a beaming selfie with Netenyahu and then post it to X

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Git, JSON and Markdown walk into bar"

dabeeeenster — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:57:29 +0000

The drive by shooting of Gruber in this article is sort of weird?!

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

dabeeeenster — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:12:05 +0000

This will never happen in the UK.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Waymo for Business"

dabeeeenster — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:19:11 +0000

“Meet Sustainability Goals: Waymo’s fully electric fleet helps organizations advance their sustainability targets”

Taking a private taxi to commute to work or school is easily the worst thing you can do environmentally in a city. Doesn’t really matter that you’re not burning dinosaur juice.