Readit Newsstadeschuldt commented on Balcony solar is taking off theguardian.com/environme... · Posted by u/mcp_
I live in Berlin, I have some friends that bought some panels just because they could. I'm considering myself even though I don't get a lot of sunlight on my balcony. I only pay about 60 euro per month. But these kits only cost a few hundred euros. So why not? If it saves me 10 euro per month or so, it would earn itself back in 3-4 years under ideal circumstances. It's not a huge saving obviously.
> My concern is what happens when there’s a power outage? I’d then be feeding power into a system that’s “denergized”.
This is Germany, they would have studied that topic thoroughly. In short, the certified inverter that you must use for this would indeed shut down in case of a power loss. This is usually called "anti-islanding protection" and not an optional feature for this.
In Berlin, you could get it for free through the SolarPLUS[1] subsidy program. My setup (2 panels, inverter and mounts) cost less than 500€ and was fully subsidized.
stadeschuldt commented on GitHub Copilot is now available for free github.com/features/copil... · Posted by u/ksec
Has anyone who uses an IDE (e.g., JetBrains, not a code editor) moved to Cursor? I've downloaded it a few times because everyone raves about it, but I've always come back almost immediately because editors can't reliably make changes across projects (among many other things)... What am I missing?
FWIW I use GoLand w/ Supermaven, currently.
I've been using https://www.codegpt.ee with the Jetbrains IDEs (mainly PyCharm) and I'm pretty happy with it. You can also bring your own API key.
I've had a great experience using the IntelliJ plugin called CodeGPT (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21056-codegpt). What I really like about it is that it allows you to bring your own API key for various providers like Anthropic and OpenAI.
Additionally, CodeGPT supports local LLMs, which can be useful if you're concerned about data privacy or want to work offline.
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stadeschuldt commented on Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/rustoo
The parents of Gen Z are the baby boomers, right?
According to Google, the average baby boomer has $1.2M in assets.
If they had given 10% of that to their newborn and invested it in software companies, the child would already be as wealthy as the parent now. And could focus on asset allocation.
Instead of spending decades with other stuff to then finally come to learn about asset allocation.
Wouldn't the parents fall into the Gen X?
stadeschuldt commented on Sparkle: A software update framework for macOS github.com/sparkle-projec... · Posted by u/nateb2022
I switched to MacPorts after becoming tired of Brew tainting my filesystem.
MacPorts keeps things clean in /opt/.
https://saagarjha.com/blog/2019/04/26/thoughts-on-macos-pack...
Nowadays Homebrew keeps its stuff under /opt/homebrew/
Opus 4 beat all other models. It's good.