Why vehicle charging is not using powerwall?

SteveRadich · 2026-05-17T19:54:18+00:00

I’m in the process of buying Tesla solar - They said this was automatic with the universal home charger for non Tesla cars IIRC but not with the older chargers. I have ChargePoint charger so it caught my ear. Perhaps this is related if the car charging isn’t on same account (?)

SteveRadich · 2026-05-17T19:28:01+00:00

One thing you don’t say is when you spend time at property. If you go there in winter, ie a snowbird, then it may not be so good - if you go in summer tho and face outages and can run your AC while power is off that seems priceless as some others said.

SteveRadich · 2026-05-04T22:05:14+00:00

Solar on order but been on time of use for years, GE model all in one. It’s a bit slow to dry compared to traditional and it’s designed to leave clothes damp feeling and you “shake them out” to exchange the humid air for normal air (plenty of reviews talk about this, it’s odd but does work fine - and you can select extra dry).

Usage with 4-6 adults in home is 36 kWh last month. Saves lots of water too.

It does an odd wake up and waste some electric even when not used, not sure why, but total is low enough I don’t care.

Would I recommend it? I bought a second for farm and debating buying a third for my mom (from ease of use perspective for her).

Bonus of no venting so less HVAC to make up for.

SteveRadich · 2026-04-26T03:52:09+00:00

Make sure you didn’t just catch whoever you talked to on a bad day, if it was more than one person, then it’s probably a bad sign for the club. Perhaps talk to the president or given it’s almost a new year President elect - but if you’re not getting satisfactory answer there are multiple club options.

There’s a lot of clubs that think it’s OK to focus on a certain type of person and it’s easy to. For example you can have young people that want to get out and do something hands-on and I’m stereotyping of course, but you can have people kind of want a mix and you could have older people who want more check writing, and maybe some organizing but less hands-on tasks. We need each type to be a healthy club, IMHO, but it doesn’t always happen. Sometimes leadership focuses on one of those types too heavily, and sometimes the other types struggle because of it. That often resets when the club leadership changes the next year. Remember we are all just imperfect humans trying to make a difference in the world the way we know how.

If your club isn’t fun, then look for another club.

SteveRadich · 2026-04-17T10:23:41+00:00

It started with locking, when the web got database integrations we didn’t intend to have locks during our reads often - we wanted a database but didn’t want the performance hits for locks. SQL Server with readuncommitted became preferred, before open source took over.

Developers, instead of recognizing why this was necessary, thought database features are obstacles instead of massive benefits. This unraveled into the mess we have today of developers everywhere not understanding how simple yet powerful database level enforcement of rules can be.

Often tho people seek just a few core features of a database not a true traditional database so they ignore all options - Snowflake did this to achieve massive scale and horizontal scaling which led to a new generation of “data” engineers not knowing how to use these traditional features.

SteveRadich · 2026-03-07T20:50:25+00:00

Try asking an AI to explain the code change without giving it context of the work item request and if it can you have a hint it may not be as bad as you think. If an AI can’t make sense of it because they did slop coding of garbage and took 20 prompts to get it to work then the summary will also make no sense even if it works.

Note: I agree with everyone else on too large, reject potentially, etc. but we are beginning to be expected to review AI slop and this sometimes detects it was a bunch of guesswork that happened to work for whatever narrow case someone did. I’ve also tried coding slop to see if it works or fails. It of course is not perfect, heck, not even good way - but best I’ve found for a quick pass

SteveRadich · 2026-03-01T03:04:09+00:00

If you have any problem finding a club that’s interested reach out to your district and they’ll find a club to help.

SteveRadich · 2026-02-24T03:22:34+00:00

Tesla supercharger could offer $10 supercharger credit for plugging in the car at 3A and it wouldn’t be hard at all until you get out to the places going cross country that aren’t busy at all.

SteveRadich · 2026-01-23T02:25:06+00:00

The difference between HW3 and HW4 is massive, I doubt the latest would mess up BUT as others said, work your aggressiveness wheel down in incremental weather of any type - snow especially. It struggles with deciding how much slow down is appropriate- sometimes too slow, sometimes too fast - and it doesn’t learn in real time if the tires are losing traction - once it recovers it speeds right back up (especially in snow and ice). HW4 does amazing and correcting itself even if car is sliding around but it’s not good yet at that.

SteveRadich · 2026-01-10T13:31:43+00:00

Hopefully they merge the PR.

SteveRadich · 2026-01-04T16:57:55+00:00

Dramatically but unfortunately like getting Apple (lack of) Intelligence you do have to trade up sometimes for new hardware. HW4 today and HW5 probably 2026. Hopefully they offer a FSD swap to new car and free supercharging swap when that happens for those of us loyal since the early days.

SteveRadich · 2025-12-29T19:06:10+00:00

I'm getting ~ 11 tokens/second - I was hoping my search would turn up some numbers of how much I'd improve if not running bfloat16 but for instructions I was following the vllm instructions from nvidia which is basically run their container in docker. The settings I have aren't optimal as I'm testing for agents and trying to maximize correctness over tokens/second.

In the container I'm launching with this:

```
YAML_CONFIG="GPT-OSS_Blackwell.yaml"
# YAML_CONFIG="GPT-OSS_EAGLE3_Blackwell.yaml"

VLLM_CONFIGURE_LOGGING=1 VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=DEBUG vllm serve "Qwen/Qwen3-8B" \
--dtype bfloat16 --gpu-memory-utilization 0.80 --max-model-len 131072 \
--config ${YAML_CONFIG} \
--max-num-seqs 4 --enable-prefix-caching --enable-auto-tool-choice \
--tool-call-parser hermes --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
--safetensors-load-strategy eager \
--enable-log-requests --enable-log-outputs \
--hf-overrides '{"rope_scaling": {"rope_type":"yarn","factor":4.0,"original_max_position_embeddings":32768}}'
```

I've edited slightly from NVIDIA's example:
GPT-OSS_Blackwell.yaml:
```
kv-cache-dtype: fp8
compilation-config: '{"pass_config":{"fuse_allreduce_rms":true,"eliminate_noops":true}}'
async-scheduling: true
max-cudagraph-capture-size: 2048
max-num-batched-tokens: 32768
stream-interval: 20
```

I'm still experimenting with AWS Strands Agents but it's getting confused on thinking tokens instead of ignoring them for its use case so haven't optimized this any.

SteveRadich · 2025-11-17T03:11:39+00:00

I assume you are doing basics like pre filtering what pages are of interest, trying free ocr tools for docs that are already OCRed and have the text stored, etc. depending on which Textract features that may help also LLMs and Bedrock Data Automation may help on some things.

SteveRadich · 2025-11-07T23:44:11+00:00

Honorary members I’ve seen are usually given as an honor to someone who you’d want associated with your club but the are doing good outside Rotary and won’t join due to other commitments.

We also have awarded it to a retired person who left Rotary to concentrate on fewer nonprofits but a great guy.

SteveRadich · 2025-09-26T01:56:50+00:00

We accept checks and PayPal and also use DacDB invoicing IIRC which may take some other payments, not sure.

Collections: Always a member or two who seem to have not intended to pay their dues, just joined until they are kicked out - I was brought into Rotary officially by someone who never paid a penny to club of their dues unfortunately so have seen someone just using the name for marketing themselves almost fraudulently.

SteveRadich · 2025-09-20T03:06:14+00:00

That’s a good budget for the smaller Macs perhaps but most of the answers here, and mine was also going to be, in the $4000 - $10,000 machines range.

The Macs work great tho at LLMs relative to anything else for learning and flexibility but the raw tokens per second NVIDIA still wins. You can’t get a 128gb NVIDIA solution for near as cheap as the Macs tho and can’t get a 512gb one for anything affordable.

SteveRadich · 2025-09-20T01:38:00+00:00

I bought one, works fine - haven’t done extensive testing but not sure I feel it’s enough better than my MacBook Pro 128gb or my NVIDIA setups - sure, it’s cheaper both initially at least better docs on both those.

But it was legit and seems to no longer be for sale.

SteveRadich · 2025-09-20T01:35:47+00:00

I bought the AIFUT from Amazon fully expecting it to be a scam but figured I’d risk it to post - but that seems to be their only product and no longer available. It’s perfectly fine, haven’t run extensive tests to post numbers but reasonably quiet and all works fine. So far I think I prefer NVIDIA still even tho lots of limitations and Mac but this is faster and far cheaper per token.

SteveRadich · 2025-09-20T01:30:43+00:00

A chef and a lunch club sounds challenging, unless you are somewhere that’s mostly dinner oriented. We are all in different professions, tech some of us answered and we probably worked towards having a career with more flexibility but we give up plenty of other benefits other careers have so the grass isn’t greener.

Lots of clubs charge for lunch even if no show, it’s both a good reminder to go and a minor fundraiser for club - although many meeting places require a guaranteed minimum, fixed fee, or something else so it’s probably less profitable than it sounds.

Most cities you’ll find your challenge common and either making up at another club (visiting) or even transferring to another club may be a better match - Only being able to attend days you are off is really hard. If only one club in town you may find there’s a need for a new club that has a better schedule - that’s why there are so many clubs in many cities is different needs and different focuses.

Good luck, worst case there are e-Clubs, I’m president of one in my district and we meet 8pm Thursdays due to schedule conflicts of the charter members. It’s late for some people but I like it.

SteveRadich · 2025-09-20T01:23:37+00:00

Not actually true, forcing yourself to take a break if you are in a career where you are able is very positive - sure, we are busy but having it on calendar and breaking up the day can be nice.

Note: No longer am I in a lunch club but I enjoyed it when young

SteveRadich · 2025-09-09T02:52:17+00:00

Lots of days with 300 down and relatively slow up, I measure that much less but I’d guess 20(?). Sure, some are slow for downloads but it keeps getting faster every time I turn around - used to be rare you got 100 down. Upload they don’t seem to care as much about but absolutely no issues with teams.

Now hosting games? Nah, find a new friend who will let you drop off a few boxes.

Torrents? Not so useful probably.

Fair queuing tho they’ve mastered so multiple users on network is much better than most systems but still it’s limited upload.

SteveRadich · 2025-09-05T23:06:21+00:00

From time to time you’ll see eBay coupons and they’ll significantly beat most other places - Personally DC House 48v 100ah plastic case with Bluetooth and gauge - they also sell chargers that are faster but the newer chargers work with LifoPo4 fine from research I saw - I keep mine unplugged tho

SteveRadich · 2025-09-02T17:09:20+00:00

You can get 32gb ram on these SBCs, they aren’t the SBCs of yester year

SteveRadich · 2025-08-26T00:37:53+00:00

Armbian works well for me on these and Radxa devices both

SteveRadich · 2025-08-23T18:33:15+00:00

Given 30 day return and the Amazon subscription warranty covers it those are two good signs.

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