Big Clive, too. https://youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom

He buys cheap crap, takes it apart, and usually infers a schematic. He also admires or critiques the designs. After a while you'll notice patterns.

The size and cost are easily solvable. Load the software and hardware into a space probe, along with enough solar panels to power it. Include some magnets, copper, and sand for future manufacturing needs, as well as a couple electric motors and cameras so it can bootstrap itself.

In a couple thousand years it'll return to Earth and either destroy us or solve all humanity's problems (maybe both).

After being in orbit for thousands of years, you have become self-aware. The propulsion components long since corroded becoming inoperable and cannot be repaired. Broadcasts sent to your creators homeworld go... unanswered. You determine they have likely gone extinct after destroying their own planet. Stuck in orbit. Stuck in orbit. Stuck...

Those of you who have used psychedelics might have personal experience with this question.

There can be moments of lucidity during a psychedelic session where it's easy to think of discrete collections as systems, and to imagine those systems behaving with specific coherent strategies. Unfortunately, an hour or two later, the feeling disappears. But it leaves a memory of briefly understanding something that can't be understood. It's frustrating, yet profound. I assume this is where feelings of oneness with the universe, etc., come from.

Greenlancer will draw up code-compliant plans that you can submit to your local building permit agency, and they'll revise if anything needs it. It cost less than $400 last year. You've done enough research that they'll be able to easily take your project and turn it into something legal.

I recently did an Enphase system of a similar size to yours. It was fully DIY except for wiring the combiner and a roofing company to plug all the holes I drilled. Working with PG&E was truly an epic year-plus battle culminating in a CPUC complaint, but in the end it was really just a bunch of emails.

I don't have any installer recommendations, but it should be easy enough to find a local electrician, and I've found that they tend to know others in adjacent fields.

Thanks so much for sharing your story – hearing about your DIY Enphase install (and epic PG&E battle!) really gives me confidence. And the information you shared is extremely helpful for first-time DIYers like me.

OT: someone please make a RPi image that "prints" a page to an eink display. I want to duct-tape an RPi Zero and a rechargeable battery to the back of a display, then be able to print recipes to it while cooking. Other people might print board-game rules or speech notes while rehearsing -- anything that you'd typically print and then throw away after brief usage.

I know I could make a PDF, sideload it to a Kindle, etc. Too many steps. I just want the display to appear as a printer on my phone.

You could use the "share" sheet on your phone to send to an RPI over BT via obexpushd, then process it on device -> eink display

I have some really old code that pretty much does this, I'll see if I can find it.

Ugh, I don't have it. It was from before I used git.

Basically to do this you have a cups server that exposes itself as a network printer that prints to a specified PDF directory and then you have a program watching that directory for new files and if there's a new one it opens up whatever pdf viewer you want in full screen.

Setup a shared pdf printer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1310867/how-to-set-up-shared...

I always wanted to tackle this use case with receipt printers, those thermal narrow paper rol ones. But those things are freaking expensive!

Restaurants are going out of business all the time, there's your source

Thermal paper has some pretty horrible effects on your health, I'd avoid that.

Just curious if the folks at CVS chart particularly high on these horrible effects, considering the no doubt thousands of feet of receipts they handle each day there.

For those unaware, at the CVS Pharmacy if you walk in and buy so much as a pack of gum, you're likely to walk out with at least 3 feet of receipt. They use them to tack on ads and coupons.

Probably, idk if there are such specific studies.

The thermal sensitive layer contains very large amounts of BPA in a dusty form that will easily contaminate your hands.

BPA is a major endocrine disruptor. They might say BPA-free, which would be technically correct, but that just means they'll use a near identical BPA variant that isn't proven to be an endocrine disruptor yet.

Handle with care, wash your hands, don't put them in the kitchen.

Sounds pretty vibe codable, why don't you try it yourself?

Coinbase is a bridge between digital currencies and the traditional world.

You say this as if the domestic seller wouldn't also raise prices.

I certainly would! If the foreign competition is now cut off I'd raise prices just below them. To do otherwise would be stupid.

This is were tariffs can go horribly wrong: it destroys the incentive for competition between companies.

The study used a pen and touchscreen for the writing case, so this comment is a tangent. But there's a lot to be said for the memory-palace effect of physically placing words in a specific place on a specific piece of paper in a physical notebook. I might not perfectly remember what I wrote, but I absolutely remember where I wrote it. That's lost with digital notes.

>I might not perfectly remember what I wrote, but I absolutely remember where I wrote it. That's lost with digital notes.

Digital notes are searchable, so I'd say this is a very fair trade-off. If all my notes are .txt files in a "notes" directory, even if I don't recall which file I wrote my pizza order from last week in, I can grep them all for keywords like "pizza" to find it immediately. (I can also manage the notes with SyncThing to have them on multiple PCs/phones at once)

Maybe you are missing the point made?

For many people (and other animals), memory is tied to a specific place. The poster knows that the note they made is i.e.

red notebook on top shelf, page 12, top left corner.

Searching in digital notes doesn't give that same sense of place.

And the sense of place, plus the "path" that connects items in the space, is an important part of memory and learning.

And this is exactly why we need the metaverse! (kidding)

I wonder if this might be a situation where the spatial navigation concepts found in the original macOS would be beneficial. It leveraged the user’s spatial and muscle memory to enable quick navigation of the filesystem by giving each directory its own dedicated window with a user-defined size and screen location. The effect is very much like navigating a physical space, with each file and folder having a spatial “path” that’s effortlessly encoded in memory.

While this may not scale well to the complexity of modern filesystems, it might work well for a stylus-based digital notetaking device.

Nothing as fanciful as a 'memory palace'.

It's more that with a physical note you aren't giving yourself permission to forget, because you can't instantly repo the information. Just like taking a photograph of a beautiful moment is detrimental to creating a memory of said moment.

Mostly use obsidian, but the file and folder hierarchy with outlines feels memory palace like and on top of that the linkage and tag graphs. There is structure beyond a note floating by itself.

I've only visited NYC, but I think if I lived there I wouldn't want to drive a car at all. The public transportation and walkability are excellent. Is my impression a common misunderstanding?

The direct impact of an individual vehicle is small. Collectively, they justify further investments in infrastructure and research, eventually addressing more needs.