Gasp0de

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by Gasp0de 2y ago
Super cool, I just used your app to figure out where to place my clothes drying rack so it'll get sun sooner! Okay, I already new the result mostly, but still fun and useful!
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
Wow, I didn't know that! In Germany, everyone get's at least 4 weeks of PTO, most jobs get 6 weeks off.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
I'm European too, and I also usually don't spend more than 2000€ on holidays per year, but when I compare myself to friends and colleagues, I always had the impression that how we go on holidays (camping, traveling by bicycle&#x2F
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
100$ for four beds including breakfast? I live in Europe, perhaps that's why the prices feel off. I pay around 100$ per night without breakfast here in most places, for 2 people.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
I was very surprised by the holiday budget. Less than 2500$ for 80% of the population? Does that mean that no one from these 80% stays in a Hotel or AirBnB for longer than a week with their family? No one travels overseas, or if so, only ev
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
I have an ebike and a trailer, and it absolutely removed my need for a car. My neighbors are a family of 6, and an electric cargo bike allows them to live without a second car.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
So uptimerobot.com is complicated for you?
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
I assume you work in your freetime, besides your actual job.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
My Forerunner 255 is now 3(?) years old and it still gets new updates with new features, so what you say isn't really true.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
You must have gotten a weird Garmin that doesn't suit your needs then. Why did you get a Garmin with a touch screen, when you really wanted buttons and Garmin offers watches with buttons? And I believe the GPS sync is necessary when yo
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
My Garmin Forerunner has everything the author claims doesn't exist except the hackability: Long (10 day) battery life, reflective screen (plus background light), physical buttons, all the features (step count, notifications, music con
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
Taking video can protect against police brutality or false claims by the police. Although I agree that it also is dangerous.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
Why would cloudflare ever operate a data center that only one user at a time is ever near?
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
It could be worse, Elon Musk could be involved with it.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
It doesn't make less sense than burning it just so the power company can't have it. By giving it away, I at least reduce CO2 emmissions further.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
While it sure looks like fun, it doesn't really seem useful. All the use cases the author makes are more gimmicks than anything really useful. Actually, the thing influencing compasses seems really annoying. You'll never be able t
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
Unless it processes images on the fly to do some sort of image-based steering or target recognition, an Arduino or comparable microcontroller should be beefy enough [1]. In mobile applications, power consumption of a RPi quickly becomes an
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
At $120 it's just not a very attractive price. You can get more powerful mini-pcs for $150, and microcontrollers with as many GPIOs for $5.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
I don't know, all my use cases where I needed GPIO are better satisfied by an ESP32. If I need more compute, I connect the ESP32 to my server via the internet.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
Cryptominers are way more expensive than the solar system itself, it is questionable if they will recoup their cost even with free electricity, and afaik, it would not be easy to select an arbitrary power consumption. Power can easily vary
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
No, if 1% of them produce 400w that is actually only 320 Megawatts.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
800w is the maximum being produced, and not all of it will be fed into the grid. And it is unlikely that millions of households have all installed powerplants which are all oriented in the same direction and not shaded.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
A battery isn't profitable for me atm, and I have no problem giving the electricity away. Do you have a source that shows that shutting down nuclear power plants has in any way influenced German power import? I'd doubt that. Power
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
Actually, this is not the case in Germany, as we do not have net metering (feeding into the grid does not give you as much money as consuming from the grid costs).
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
I forgot the coolest thing about this: We are currently transitioning from a demand-driven grid to a supply-driven grid. Previously, when more power was consumed, power plants upped their production by burning more coal, oil or gas. Now, th
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
It won't. These systems are quite large (a single solar panel is approximately 1.2m by 1.7m (4 to 6 ft ?) and even if you put it outside with direct southern exposure and no shade it takes 2-5 years to recoup the investment cost. In th
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
Well the inverters with which these solar systems work switch off within milliseconds when grid power goes down, so the problem you correctly identified is taken care of. There are also multiple redundant components to ensure this behavior.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
I'm German, and have installed a small (1.8kWp, 800W inverter) system myself. It's really pretty cool. It was really cheap (our system cost 750€ including installation material for the roof) and saves a lot of money (130€ since Se
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
Although 800w per household shouldn't make a difference for the grid.
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by Gasp0de 2y ago
Instead of using a fixed backoff, just use a token-bucket algorithm. Try a few requests every now and then and have each successful request enable another retry.

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