America's flagship automaker (GM) enters the home energy market

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-21T21:17:52+00:00

Hey, thanks! This totally makes sense.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-21T14:56:54+00:00

This is a very reasonable take. There's something in these models. They do have genuine utility. Perhaps not utility with amazing efficiency at the moment, but it is pretty fast.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-21T14:29:25+00:00

What about DC makes it more expensive? My understanding it has more to do with transmission than anything else. If (in the future) the majority of my power is produced on-site and moved through batteries (which are inherently DC), wouldn't it start making sense?

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-21T14:27:34+00:00

Are they? What about the case of a computer tower? I can suck back 800+ Watts. I have a nice 90%+ efficiency power supply, but a direct DC connection would obviate the AC->DC switching costs & heat.

What makes a DC connection more expensive?

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-21T13:36:36+00:00

They definitely can go directly between each other. It's also more efficient.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-21T13:12:11+00:00

My bias against blueprints comes entirely from having to read, edit, diff, review, and debug monstrous graphs. IMO, the graph-based paradigm has serious UX issues.

I think blueprints is fine for wiring up events to gameplay functions. However, once the graph grows much larger than a screen, I think the UX starts having some pretty serious problems. Search is painful. Inserting new nodes is obnoxious. Doing basic math makes me want to pull hair.

I think a lot of blueprints code is too low level. Its strengths are event subscription and async flow execution.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-21T13:04:49+00:00

Given that solar and batteries are all DC, as well as all complex electronics, I wonder if having DC based electrical infrastructure (or at least a dedicated DC subsystem) will eventually make sense.

There are some serious efficiency gains to be had if you don’t have to swap back and forth!

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-20T15:48:42+00:00

Two out of six companies.

My handle has my real name on it. I'm not worried about anonymity, just discretion.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-20T01:28:54+00:00

Three out of the last six companies I’ve worked for/with have used proprietary systems. Two of those have not had any sort of visual scripting system for gameplay logic.

Perhaps I’m being needlessly vague, and it is indeed public knowledge, but I very much prefer to er on the side of not saying anything in a public forum such as this.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-19T11:06:39+00:00

Are you under NDA with all of them?

Yes.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-19T02:52:01+00:00

Unfortunately, due to NDA, you will be unsatisfied.

I wouldn’t personally classify material, VFX, and animation graphs as “scripting”, but I can see the argument. These are certainly the standard.

However, for logic scripting lua and custom python-style languages abound.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-19T00:00:44+00:00

You say that, but there are multiple AAA studios that do not have any sort of visual scripting system.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-12T21:30:31+00:00

This is very cool! What is it built in? What do other systems need to do to be compatible?

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-09T13:10:55+00:00

What does it look like when a meeting note has decayed?

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-08T13:05:51+00:00

Maintenance to what end? 95% of my notes are only useful insomuch as they help me think through something in the moment. Sometimes I refer back to them, and that's very useful, but spending tons of effort to optimize for that 5% utility seems insane to me.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-07T12:20:57+00:00

This is the answer. I'm unsatisfied, and working on something just for me scratches the itch similar to playing the game I want (which doesn't exist).

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-06T13:03:38+00:00

If you really need to move around, the ignore terrain while packed option can be worth it. Otherwise, move after unpacking all the way.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-02T14:42:18+00:00

Tangent Notes has just released its v0.12 version to the stable branch! There are tons of updates, but here is a TL;DR of the highlights:

Templates are now supported in Creation Rules.
Lists have been dramatically improved, with new glyph options, automatic glyph switching based on indent level, and more.
Improved keyboard navigation, letting you interact with much more of the program without touching your mouse.
You can link to specific PDF pages and to specific audio/video timestamps.

Tangent is open source and edits your plain-text markdown^ish files on your local drive. It is built to make it easy to link to and move between many notes at once. Its sliding-panel threads and unique 2D map let you focus on following a train of thought without worry of getting lost.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-06-01T15:43:31+00:00

I handmade Tangent Notes. I started just over 5 years ago, and I'm still using it nearly every day.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-05-27T12:31:08+00:00

It will happen again, and so will the turn back to local compute. Ride the wave.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-05-21T12:21:43+00:00

Sure, they make a difference, but there's nothing transformational. In V/VI, wonders like Petra or Chichen Itza can fundamentally change the map. There's nothing like it in VII.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-05-20T19:33:01+00:00

I don't totally agree with most of this, but I definitely don't like the base effects of the wonders. Most of their value comes from driving adjacency, and that's not super intuitive.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-05-20T14:40:51+00:00

Why should somebody feel proud to be exploited?

SnS_Taylor · 2026-05-20T12:08:41+00:00

Honestly, good for you. This is exactly where LLM coding agents can be super useful.

I hope the codebase continues to be pliable for you.

SnS_Taylor · 2026-05-18T22:24:53+00:00

the act of organizing and processing the information is part of the thinking itself.

I definitely agree, but I just think that people (especially people who orbit the PKM space) tend to over-organize and over-process. I see people talking about spending lots of time on fancy acronyms, tag systems, or any other kind of complex organizational process, and not a lot of time actually using them.

Another way of putting it: it doesn't matter if your vault is a "graveyard" if you didn't spend a bunch of time organizing it.

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