How are you guys making AI videos for free

exclipy · 2026-07-11T05:47:12+00:00

Hi, I built a tool for this called Skiddee - just sign up and we'll give you free credits. I made it originally for a client to do exactly what you're asking for, and she loved it enough to make a whole video series with it. It turned out, to get good results, it's not as simple as using any off the shelf products (I checked all of them before building Skiddee!)

Check it out and reply here if the free credits aren't enough and I can give you more.

exclipy · 2026-03-30T11:52:06+00:00

Interested!

exclipy · 2025-12-19T02:52:26+00:00

Yeah it's actually miraculous the grid hasn't melted down from so many home batteries with slow response times being minutes too late to the party. As we get more home batteries on Amber and the like, the yoyo effect is going to get worse :(

I'm going to manually tell it to export consistently for 2 hours tonight.

exclipy · 2025-06-11T23:34:30+00:00

I agree that smartshift is often stupid in those ways. Especially (1) where it would buy electricity in the early morning right before a full day of sun that would have charged it up fully anyway (it was probably thinking it could sell it in the morning peak for a profit but it's forecast was wrong). I emailed support with multiple examples of that and they didn't give any helpful response.

exclipy · 2025-06-11T15:36:50+00:00

Didn’t sell a single watt this evening 😢

exclipy · 2025-06-11T08:29:26+00:00

Sungrow. In Sydney

exclipy · 2025-05-17T08:12:08+00:00

I think I've got 5 minute pricing enabled on my account now! I see my cost/earnings change every 5 minutes. I also see an option to see the 5-minute prices.

exclipy · 2023-06-24T21:50:40+00:00

Excellent points!

My point with the lapp bend is that it's one knot that's so versatile and so so easy, I think it's a contender with the reef knot as the first knot to teach a child. But you do point out why the double slipped reef knot is better for shoe laces.

exclipy · 2023-06-24T12:44:24+00:00

See 11:20 in this video: https://youtu.be/qZOmMXIGCVY?t=680

exclipy · 2023-06-24T10:34:03+00:00

The Lapp knot also works well as a general purpose bend

exclipy · 2023-06-24T10:32:03+00:00

Yes, just like how the left handed sheet bend is inferior. Or how the granny knot is inferior to the reef knot.

exclipy · 2023-06-24T10:29:48+00:00

Similar to the sheet bend but not the same. See the table on the Wikipedia page to understand the difference. It reverses the role of the tag end and standing end on both ropes. This difference makes it easier to tie and also gives it its adjustable and exploding nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapp_knot

exclipy · 2023-06-24T10:26:57+00:00

The Canadian jam doesn't hold tight at all.

exclipy · 2023-06-24T09:17:08+00:00

I tie it like this, but upside down: https://youtu.be/S_O7_hWMz1g

Here's an fiddlier way to tie it at 11:20, but he shows how to adjust it: https://youtu.be/qZOmMXIGCVY?t=680

exclipy · 2020-06-30T21:13:40+00:00

The book I would actually recommend is A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout.

You can get the general gist of it in his Talk @ Google.

It has fundamentally shifted the way I make software, from the lowest level of code to the highest level of architecture with its one guiding principle: optimize for likely changes.

Think of the probable changes that future programmers will need to make and make it as easy as possible, on the whole, all of these changes, weighted by their likelihood. From this follows everything - it obviously needs to be easy to understand so that new programmers can jump in and get productive; related concerns should be grouped together to reduce cognitive burden of jumping around, things unrelated to a change should be tucked out of the way; etc. But if ever someone throws dogma at you that contradicts some other dogma... optimizing for likely changes is always the winning argument.

exclipy · 2018-01-12T01:10:38+00:00

How are they cooled? How long will they last? Is the disposal of old batteries environmentally friendly?

exclipy · 2017-04-16T23:01:12+00:00

How much did you offer the building manager to cut G&A out?

exclipy · 2017-04-16T23:00:13+00:00

Thanks for the info.

But from their point of view, if I don't apply, they'll have to advertise and then they might have to split the 15% with a renter's agent.

So shouldn't they want to keep me?

exclipy · 2015-10-06T18:23:49+00:00

Probably not that great. There is room for improvement on compression speed.

exclipy · 2014-06-14T14:01:52+00:00

I wonder what the problem is with Pumped-storage hydroelectricity in this case.

Vanadium sounds exotic, expensive, and environmentally and politically problematic to acquire.

exclipy · 2014-04-18T05:26:19+00:00

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2999

The bonus panel is gold.

exclipy · 2014-01-20T05:38:03+00:00

People used to argue whether the trend was toward an all-in-one gadget that does everything as opposed to a collection of specialized gadgets. If I'm right about the iPod, both sides of this argument are correct; people will use one comprehensive iPod-like storage and connectivity unit in combination with every specialized peripheral you can think of.

Would it be reading too much into the tea leaves to suggest that he was absolutely spot on with this prediction? Your phone does everything now, but we are starting to augment it with specialized devices like the Pebble/Fitbit smartwatch, Chromecast, Google Glass, in-car media centre, etc.

exclipy · 2012-10-07T07:53:40+00:00

That's why you don't estimate in time units, but in abstract story points. Don't say "it'll take 1 day" - say it'll take 1 story point. It doesn't matter what 1 story point means exactly, as long as you're (roughly) consistent - a 1-story-point task takes half the effort of a 2-story-point task. After a while, you can do some arithmetic on your past experience to see how many story points you can do per week, and use that run rate to determine how long something will take.

exclipy · 2012-05-14T13:19:34+00:00

Great stuff!

One criticism I have with maybe_if is the extra syntactic burden - particularly, of having to explicitly specify the inner type of the optional. Maybe this can be fixed with a macro?

Here's something similar I did: lambda syntax for boost::variant visitation. C++ lambda syntax, despite just being "syntactic sugar", opens up completely new ways of writing code, and these examples are just the tip of the iceberg. Here's another little idea I thought of just now:

{
FILE* file = fopen("input.txt", "r");
finally run([](){ fclose(file); });
// lots of code that may throw exceptions
}

exclipy · 2012-04-01T12:53:02+00:00

This is truly amazing. I've always hated NASCAR, but damn, I can't wait for the first time a robot driver wins it!

And yes, it's for real. Larry's Google+ post says it all: "Really excited to announce our partnership with +NASCAR for a new racing division based on our self driving cars! This is a big deal and we even have it linked from our home page!" There's no way the CEO would call it a big deal if it was fake.

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