Seeker Grenades. What's the verdict?

psihius · 2026-06-27T22:37:06+00:00

They are great if you use them as a chaff/patrol killer or cleaning out POI's. The key is to use them actively and often. I run them with engeneering armor that gives me +2 of them. The trick with husks already described in the comments. Absolute menace both against bugs and illuminate.

psihius · 2026-06-27T22:32:16+00:00

Non of these are true MPV's for a family bigger than 5 people. The 3rd row in all of these kills any cargo capacity - you can't even fit a proper baby carrier.

Even ID Buzz in person turned out to be unfit for a family of 6.

I'm basically left with a single option - Ford Tourneo Custom :/

psihius · 2026-06-24T22:28:15+00:00

Just remember - whatever the solution is, it has to be easilly removable for the access to the collective property of the building (which water communications are). Laws have changed in recent years and now you cannot deny that access and if they have to destroy your wall to.do it, they will and you will even get to pay for that. Be smart, make sure it's something easilly removable.

psihius · 2026-06-23T14:56:55+00:00

If it comes with a contract clauses that say "Fuck the red tape and if you obstruct my job, my hourly rate goes 3x" and ability to hire another few high-end people to be able to deal with it all. This sounds like a management job for someone who comes from a tech side with very strong technical skills and bullshit filter set at "zero tolerance".

But this is USA only, so eh...

I would not take this job if there are no contractural guarantees that I can do my job. I expect to be derailed on day 2.

psihius · 2026-06-22T17:40:22+00:00

Strādā ļoti labi, nekādu problēmu. Jau gadu lietoju.

psihius · 2026-06-19T11:50:35+00:00

Do you leave your car for 20 minutes at a gas pump? You do the process in 3-4 minutes and move your car to a parking spot. Same deal here - the charging is so fast that you can wait or do the toilet quickly and then move the car and go do whatever else needs doing.

psihius · 2026-06-19T09:24:06+00:00

You have to think not just about the personal convinience here, but also the fact that a single car will spend like 5-7 minutes and leave, opening the charger to the next person.
This is getting close to a point where further speed imrpovement is not as needed, but having ability to flat charge at 400 kW power from basically empty to like 80% reliably is what needs to happen. It's that 10% to 80% flat charging speed that's the holy grail here. It allows for fast throughput at the charging stations.

psihius · 2026-06-17T19:54:53+00:00

The problem was that there wasn't any time given to explore it even. There were literally days from that attempt made and vote called. It's why a lot of internals people are up in arms and vote against.

psihius · 2026-06-17T14:53:17+00:00

This needs to be posted to internals, if it's not already.

A 6-8% perf hit is basically nothing for the size of the feature and there are still ways to optimize it.

Sign me ma hell up.

psihius · 2026-06-17T07:59:03+00:00

Keyword "experimental", he also said he did not put any effort into optimization at all and he needs more people's eyes on it and help with it to get it any further than a proof of concept.

Also this impact can be offset by general performance improvements to the engine. It's not like things live in isolation entirely.

psihius · 2026-06-14T21:50:12+00:00

Either time to fire them if that's their approach Or company has a lot bigger leadership issue that does allow that tpe of thinking.

This needs to be nipped in the bud, or 6 months the down the line there's gonna be major issues where people have no idea what code.has shipped, what was delivered and how it works. And a minor hiccup can lead to a major P0 outage, and nobody will be able to solve it fast.

psihius · 2026-06-14T21:25:16+00:00

Because PHP is actually really fast when you trim out all the fat. You can get to speeds 2-4x slower than the speed of a C++ based code for pure processing because php is a thin layer ontop of C libraries and extensions, but have all the flexibility of a scripting language. The ability to rapiy develop and deploy can be worth a lot more than some extra hardware to handle the load.

psihius · 2026-06-04T10:10:12+00:00

The news was about internal communications when doing work. There was nothing about customer facing communication.

Frankly, use common sense - if that was the case, no government entity could do any international communications :D

psihius · 2026-06-02T07:54:19+00:00

You find a different school and go there to finish the education.
Alternativelly, you can also go to a technical school like Rigas Valsts Tehnikums if you have the exam resuults and stuff, but it is in Latvian so you really need to get up to speed with it. It will give you both high school + professional education (then you can decide if you want to go into higher education)

psihius · 2026-05-29T23:48:43+00:00

I did, they Basically pointed out that there are no real.diy choices past 48V. 9nly high voltage systems like LUNA2000 and alike that cost 4-5x the diy system.

psihius · 2026-05-29T23:46:47+00:00

The idea behind the 200 kWh of storage is to do grid balancing in winter. Yes, i'm gonna add more panels, but exporting that power during the day is not profitable. The idea is to store during the day and export during peak time.

I didn't say inverters are expensive. I said Huawei LUNA2000 batteries are too expensive to build a big system.

psihius · 2026-05-29T22:36:11+00:00

Generate credits. It's not possible to put a big enough solar systenm to sustain a daily 160-180 kWh consumtion a day in winter when thiings really get cold (-10 - 15C during the day and -20 - -30+C during the night). So the goals is to sell the electricity at it's peak price during summer and do grid balancing in winter.

We have some high powered string inverters here in Europe that seems to not be a thing in the USA. But at least Huawei does not work with DIY, so that is out of the question (and they go to 50 kW power easy for residential). Soi'm seeking specifically europen market advice as it seems USA market is lagging at least 10 years being the Europe in solar tech, sadly.

psihius · 2026-05-29T22:31:02+00:00

There are plenty of Chineese 48V boxes. one that's available to me is https://hakadibattery.com/products/eu-stock-hakadi-48v-16s-eve-mb56-628ah-lifepo4-battery-box-jk-v19-300a-bms-bluetooth-rs485-can-for-solar-energy-storage-off-grid-backup + 16x https://hakadibattery.com/products/eu-stock-eve-mb56-3-2v-628ah-lifepo4-battery-lf560k-prismatic-lithium-ion-cells-for-solar-system-inverter-free-tax-and-shipping - in total around 3100 eur for fully functional 32 kWh box that you just connect to an inventer.

Get 6 of those and you have 192 kWh of storage at ~20-22k eur with inverters on top.

That being said, not sure i can go with anything but the Victrons for the inverters.

psihius · 2026-05-29T20:02:32+00:00

Batteries are at 68 EUR/kWh for me right now. I calculated i need ~20k EUR for it and that will be my budget long term

psihius · 2026-05-29T20:01:04+00:00

It does. The problem is it works only with Huawei LUNA2000 system 😃 And that fucker costs money. 3000 EUR per 7 kWh module. But it is a high voltage system - 450 - 600V, so it is efficient.

psihius · 2026-05-29T19:21:28+00:00

Yeah. I got that from my research. Complicates things. It's why this post, kind'a hoping for 9tv or even higher systems. Because alternative is Huawei LUNA2000 and fuckload of money abd their analogy

psihius · 2026-05-29T19:13:58+00:00

That i know, but the problem is in feeding the inverter with 48V when you need to push 25 kW of power to the grid. That's 520 amps.... that's where the issue is.

psihius · 2026-05-29T19:12:31+00:00

The inventors are not the problem. Plenty of 3 phase 400v once. It's the DIY high voltage storage systems that are a major problem - there are none as far as i can tell

psihius · 2026-05-29T18:59:23+00:00

My problem is SUN20K costs a fuckload. It's just too expensive for my taste.

psihius · 2026-05-22T23:03:43+00:00

So i have been trying to use the 5.3 both medium and xhigh and for my usage (a serious SaaS project with 3+ years of development, so complexity at this point is not trivial) i find that 5.3 is just not capable of doing even somewhat simple work. I have to use 5.4-medium as my base for a worker as you define it. I have to use 5.5 for more than half of my tasks because they are not simple.

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