Fuck me they are good. Nice one and thanks.

When looking at EV, are you taking into account the monthly fuel saving? (If you can charge cheaply at home).

EV:

Assume 3 miles per kWh (this is the bad side of average)

kWh = 7.5p night rate

EV Cost per mile = 7.5p/3 = 2.5p per mile

Dino juice:

Assume 30 mpg

Assume £1.50 per litre

There is 4.54609 litres per gallon.

So 4.54609 * £1.50 = £6.82 per gallon.

ICE Cost per mile = 682p/30 = 23p per mile

Have a play with the numbers. Work out what you would save per month. Subtract that from the monthly cost delta of buying an EV. The servicing is cheaper and less breaks, but that harder to put in a spread sheet.

Just got back from a holiday in Amsterdam. Recovering now before back to work!

Spat at? 😭 dude.

Saw Ravens again in the wild. made a large bowl from an oak log salvaged from waste tip. walked for many hours outdoors with my son. Remembered to post mother's birthday card on time. cooked and cleaned home to support my wife's return to full time job. only got spat at once during my 24hour shift. have a cat being cuddly now.

I am glad not to have a job that includes a great deal of meetings, I get to sweat and look like shit all day if I want. And I have a big balcony door right behind me for fresh air if I need cooling, so... Yeah I might have to get into one of these gizmos.

Do it! I've just managed to do 3km on my daily stand up meeting.

Is it practical for doing like, typing and data entry tasks while you walk?

It's fine. I slow it down when I'm doing a lot of typing, and speed it up when I'm in meetings or doing more admin-style work. Obviously you don't need to be on it all the time too, you could use it as much as you want.

One caveat is that I get very hot doing it, and my colleagues mentioned that they get hot too. I have a tower fan near me that's on all the time. Not much of an issue for the next several months, but it was difficult during summer.

Ah jeez very tempted. Getting more steps in while I work would be a game changer. Is it practical for doing like, typing and data entry tasks while you walk?

I bought this. I use it every working day and I'll easily get a minimum of 10k steps a day on it. On good days I'll get over 20k. Well worth it in my opinion, so much better for you than sitting down all day!

Oh nice, whats your walking pad like? I might want to move towards something like that

Pretty average apart from being informed of changes at work meaning a few could be made redundant and moving the rest to another role with a different shift pattern.

Mine was faily normal. I managed another 10k run on Saturday, after doing my first in 18 months the previous week. It actually felt quite effortless and could have gone further which is a huge improvement, it wasn't long ago I was struggling to make 4k. I'm almost positive that wracking up the km's on my walking pad and lengthy bike rides are helping recovery and endurance.

The current price of diesel is making me look into electric cars again but daaayyymmmm they're expensive.

Two birthdays over two days, weekend is gone but got some software hobbies done too so feel weirdly fulfilled.

Wrecked my sleep on Friday night doing something stupid at work that I thankfully was able to recover from.

Got some nice fancy Japanese wire strippers and crimpers to fuel my filthy hardware habits.

Yeah, it's been a good week

Thankfully not far these two weeks, only The Netherlands.

Sounds exhausting! Do you have far to fly?

For me spare time on home renovations and playing around with further getting away from big tech

Oh for sure. I would love to have a Bambu as much as I'd love to own a Mac. Just can't ignore the software argument

It's fascinating how gate keepy people can be. Don't get me wrong I actively chose to avoid bambu because of the lwhole improper use of open source....

But the hardware is for the most part quite solid.

I'm currently toying with the idea of converting my old printer into a laser engravar.

I went down the Voron route after getting morally blasted by a veteran after I said something positive about Bambu.... and here I still am, months later, still putting it together 🥲

I needed to abroad travel for work whole week and didn’t get home until late Friday night. On a plane again 7 am Monday morning. Sigh.

I've been having fun with my own new printer.

Got into the hobby forever ago with the anycubic Chiron..... Just got a snapmaker u1 and man alive we've come along way!

Good luck with the Local LLM.

3d printer is almost complete. Spent weeks on/off setting it up, measuring, lubricating, re-measuring, searching for lost pieces, calibrating, re-lubricating. It's getting to the point where I might now even be able to start actually attaching computer hardware to it.

Started also making my own local LLM as work forced copilot on us. I resisted using it for anything other than code completion, since coding is my bread and butter, but after running late on a slew of deadlines I thought I would just try it out, and... wow yeah, I was impressed and my job suddenly became way less stressful ^[read: the inertia of jumping from one task to another, and getting up to speed on a project is now gone - I'm flying (until I'm replaced...)].

Using copilot at work makes sense, since it's all corporate nonsense, but I dont want to use it on my home projects, so I'm putting together my own tiny LLM rig based on a Jeff Geerling post

Since mine left home for Uni (and now, work), I don't think my PS4 has seen any action... which I suppose means it's all mine now!

Usual hecticness doing 5 days work in a 4 day week due to last Monday's Bank Hol, but, Bon Jovi tonight, so that'll help work off some pent up stress...