I just run 120v extension cords from my EV during power outages (it has 2 15A capable outlets). I added a manual transfer switch to my furnace so it can be plugged into an extension cord, and I can power my furnace, blower, refrigerator and freezer, wifi and internet for a couple of days.
I really wanted to set up an automatic transfer switch for the whole house from my car in v2h mode, but I found it impossible to spend any amount of money and be confident that the system would actually work with my current EV (the wallbox quasar _sounds_ promising but I couldn't find any reports that it actually _works_)
Is that the transfer switch just for the furnace or the whole house? I was staring at my furnace yesterday, trying to figure out what to do if power stops and temperature drops below freezing. Doing the whole house transfer switch is too much, esp given o don’t have a 30amp power source, but it never occurred to me to do just the furnace.
Don't do this. Install a transfer switch. A simple plug and another power source feeds power back into the grid. It's absolutely against code. If you remember to flip the furnace breaker off before you do this, then it's not going to backfeed, but this isn't something you should rely on remembering to do. It doesn't cost much more to do it right.
I think they're proposing switching your furnace from hard wired to plugged, so you have the option to power it either from an outlet (grid) or solar/generator/etc. This can't backfeed the grid, and is very safe.
It looks like when it's against code it's "by default": if an appliance is not explicitly listed as acceptable for a plug it has to be hard wired. ND and OK have passed state level amendments allowing it, some places have done this locally, and in many places building inspectors allow it with their discretion.
Yeah, maybe I misread. Switching it manually via a plug such that it could only ever be powered that way is fine (well, "fine" insofar as it alleviates my concern). I thought the suggestion was to add the new plug in addition to the permanently-wired solution.
On a beast of a HVAC system, a simple 15A wall plug isn't going to cut it for powering the whole thing, but if the furnace runs off e.g. natural gas and you just want to power the blower off a 15A plug, that solves the problem of switching power sources.
It's not against code in all locations. You're essentially adding a power cord to your furnace and turning it's existing panel connection into an outlet.
Eg, in North Dakota
"If manufacturer instructions allow the use of not more than six feet of flexible appliance cord, it shall be permitted on permanently installed one hundred twenty volt twenty amp or less fuel-fired furnaces in residential dwellings."
Here’s how you’d set up just your furnace to allow a generator to power it in a permanent way.
For the transfer switch, you can use either a single-pole double throw motor rated switch for a 120V like a Leviton 1285, or a double-pole double throw motor rated switch like a Leviton 1288 for 240V. It must be motor rated.
You’ll also need a power inlet and a cord that connects between your generator and the inlet. Please buy a premade cable and the proper inlet, do not hack together a cord with two male ends aka a suicide cable that you plug into a standard outlet. Example of a safe setup: https://www.vevor.com/power-outlet-box-c_12116/vevor-30-amp-...
Wire the generator inlet to one side of the switch and connect the other side of switch to the utility fed circuit.
Label the switch positions so you don’t forget.
When the power goes out, flip your switch to the generator side, connect your generator to the inlet and turn it on. When the power comes back, flip the switch back to utility and turn off the generator. The center position of the switch is off and it’s impossible to backfeed the utility under normal conditions.
this stuff is a game changer for implementing workflows with some user-facing interaction. I was working on a desktop publishing webapp with a specific slant, the previous iteration of the graphical editor UI was not very good, in order to build anything you have to specifically instruct the agent how every little interaction works, and my recollection and description was often different from how the "standard" desktop publishing flow works (i.e.: this is the sequence of actions to expand a selected entity preserving the aspect ratio, here's how to preserve the center-point, here's how to multi-select, etc). I told the agent "take the frontend from vectorcraft, adopt this specific subset of tools, build it for wasm, and plug in my agent tools and storage backend" - and within a day of deciding to adopt it, I had a much higher quality editor interface that anyone with desktop publishing experience will immediately know how to use, plugged into my storage format.
I implemented css geometry properties for svg2 in resvg with claude. I know it works and I've read the relatively small diff. But I'm afraid to send a PR because it might offend a artisanal handcrafted free-range software enthusiast. I guess any other AI enjoyer who needs this feature, which is standard functionality in svg2, will just burn a few tokens and do it themselves to keep the luddites from smashing the factories.
Honestly, if it’s geometry-only and doesn’t acknowledge the existence of anything other than Cartesian coordinates, it sounds like the type of feature that’s more of a support-ticket bomb than otherwise.
If it does support projecting differing CRSs though, please can you point me at it? I’m a nobody and nothing to do with qgis but I would love to have a play with it!
I'm not sure if I understand the concern; for clarity, I'm just making a general comment about the state of contributing AI to open-source software related to resvg, not related to QGIS itself. svg2 spec says css geometry attributes only support cartesian coordinates.
Ah gotcha, thanks - I know next to nothing about css geometry itself, but was curious to play with it, and think I had an imagine in my mind that was different to what you've created.
For what it's worth, I just skimmed the MDN docs and e.g. DOMPoint is using the right kinda wording to sound like it's not inherently cartesian-only. Could be interesting, that. Thanks for getting it into my head!
I just implemented this with oauth - basically I have a tool that returns a signed URL that the client can PUT the file to. Works in ChatGPT Work mode. My use-case was to have the client generate an image and upload it.
Just finished a David Foster Wallace kick. I listened to the new 30th anniversary audiobook of Infinite Jest (twice) and then The Pale King (twice). Then I listened to "Of course you end up becoming yourself" which is a long-form interview with Wallace by David Lipsky, traveling with him on the Infinite Jest book tour.
I had to listen to the books twice because there are a lot of details that you won't get the first time through unless you're extremely intentional and detail oriented, but I found it was worth it to listen again. I'll probably listen to Infinite Jest again sometime soon, even though it's 64 hours long. IJ is actually really great sci-fi with some important questions for our time.
I attempted infinite jest and really tried to like it but I hated it. The prose is extremely smart, interesting and insightful and wildly connective. But the overall tone is so oppressively nihilistic I decided life's too short and put it down.
I have had about a hundred pages to go for three years now. I should knuckle down and finish it. It wasn't for me either. A shame because I have enjoyed some of Wallace's other writings.
I finished it and thought it was overall good but I don’t know if I would say it’s good “bang for buck” in terms of what you get for the time commitment
There are definitely long books I've read where I didn't feel like I got enough out of them for it to have been worth it, like I read (listened to) Gravity's Rainbow right after and a lot of the characters and plot lines just annoyed or disgusted me, but I'm sure that book means a lot to a lot of people. In the interview "Of course you end up becoming yourself," the author talks a lot about how in avant-garde literature you have to make the payoff good enough to reward the reader for doing the work, and that equation is going to be different for everybody.
Also reading IJ! Got to 50% this week, but it took me about 10 months. I’m a slow reader I think. However, I’m taking notes as I read to help me track how the different characters are connected.
I have become a huge fan of AudioBooks lately, but how in the /hell/ do you listen to Infinite Jest?? With the end notes? With end notes of end notes? With whole chapters hidden in an end note? It was challenging enough on paper. That would do my nut in.
The end notes are interspersed throughout the book where they're referenced, and then a bell rings before returning to the main text. That's why I listened to it twice. I remember towards the end of the first listen-through, I sort-of recalled some of the earlier end-notes, like for example Himself's filmography, which I had basically ignored the first time through, but listened to intently the second time through.
I love these! I recently designed a few decks of playing cards of mathematicians for my dad as a gift, my favorite part was designing the backs: a zeta function for the pure-maths deck, a Moore curve for the computation one, and two interfering waves for the physics one.
it's a weight-training app that helps you train along your "pareto frontier" of weight vs reps. The idea is to train at lower weight-higher rep, medium weight medium reps, and higher weight, lower reps for every movement. I tried to develop my own weight training program following bits and pieces of advice from bodybuilding forums and ended up injuring several tendons in my first year. So I did a bunch of research on tendon strengthening as well as what's most effective for hypertrophy (reps near failure) strength (reps near maximal load) and injury-prevention/frequency (not bringing yourself to failure too often) and designed an app to automatically prescribe and advance weights and reps based on your learned strength curve (Brzycki-like, with an added shape parameter)
The app is designed to make use of the free Cloudflare tier, so I can support thousands of athletes for just the cost of the domain name. I'm primarily interested in understanding the "Fatigue curve" - right now I have some basic per-set fatigue modeling (basically a log-linear strength dropoff) but I think it could be much better characterized with more data. I could go on and on about the modeling but my intention is to keep it free (maybe add some non-intrusive ads on content pages if it ever starts costing me a few pennies a month) but my primary interest is to be able to do statistical analysis on the data.
All 3 incorporate some form of RIR progression, varying rep ranges, program builders, and (at least in RP) some form of feedback mechanism to tell how impactful the last training stimulus was on recovery.
Not trying to bash it, but to either 1.) help you think through your offer or 2) help you realize there's already a lot in the market.
If you're really just doing this for you, and your interests then glhf :)
I don't intend to monetize, I only want to compete for data. I think it's an interesting field and I'd like to be able to contribute back to the science by using the data gathered. I think these workout apps try to be opinionated about what an effective program is, but they try harder to make money, so they generally bend over backwards to accommodate whatever program the paying customer wants to do. Mine is more opinionated. I think this is the best way to lift weights for a wide range of athletes who are interested in getting stronger and bigger with the least amount of wasted effort and lowest chance of injury, the simplest way to record it, and the best way to get a statistically defensible understanding of how your strength is changing over time. If you want to do something different, as you mention, the space is crowded with apps.
Ok, so if I'm synthesizing your words correctly, other apps are "Bring your program, any program" and you're really leaning on "We'll tell you exactly what to do based on Pareto frontier modeling" ?
I'm not trying to say that other apps don't also provide great advice (especially RP, I love watching Dr Mike and have learned a ton from him), but I think that a lot of the flexibility in the programs in these apps are primarily for marketing purposes (like are you really gonna look like Black Adam after following the Black Adam program? unlikely..)
My marketing is for a different niche - people who lift weights, see that they have variability set to set and day to day, and want a program that will help them quantify that variability and understand what it means. One thing that works really well in my program is detecting when you need a rest or deload, because the baseline comparison is rigorous and sensitive - if you have one bogey set, it might not mean much, but when you see that even your opening sets are at or below baseline after a stretch of workouts, that's a pretty good signal, and that's hard to get with most apps.
It looks interesting but as someone else noted, it needs more images and animations, way less walls of text.
There's a huge database of licensable animations that several apps I've seen use. E.g. take a look at the animations in Hevy. I forget the name of it now but you should be able to find it easily.
yeah, point taken, I do need to rewrite the user-facing documentation to be more accessible (and less obviously LLM-assisted, heh - although I did review and edit all of it). Workout design (including teaching a user how to do an exercise) and logging are two legitimately different tasks in a workout app and I wanted to focus on being the best logger. Maybe this is paranoid but I felt that saying "here's how you do a workout" introduced a little more potential liability than punting to "if you don't know how to setup a workout and learn to do the movements, hire a personal trainer to help you figure out movements appropriate for your fitness level."
Gave it a quick go as I'm looking to adopt some sort of fitness app. There's too much text/complexity for my taste.
The website could use some images/simplification to get going and then have more details and whatnot later on. It seems that you let the LLM generate the content itself (em dashes, emojis) - Personally I'd be skeptical of a fitness app that has most of its content LLM'izied.
On step 3 of the tutorial, it's not clear that you can scroll down and there's more there on a mac 16''. I was confused what to do. It didn't allow me to change to metric system either (which I later found in the user-settings). You can't 'esc' from the tutorial popup either.
yeah, it's a difficult balance to explain why this app doesn't work like every other weightlifting app and not inundate people with too much information. It actually is pretty simple once you start using it. I'll look at the tutorial scrolling issue, and eventually rewrite the content.
The tutorial can't be escaped because it requires a liability waiver checkbox at the end.
This is really awesome! I used to have an movement to tissue mapping in an earlier version of app but I opted to focus more on the weight-reps curve it because the tissue volume calculations added too much complexity to the interface, and it just encouraged me to do too many different movements. So exercise selection and tissue coverage is something I actually think about outside my app.
I had coefficients mapping each exercise to its tissue impact but it was kind of arbitrary and unscientific - even between athletes you will have different techniques on the same movement that will impact tissues differently. I do think that workout design is a super important area and I hope you crack it, it was too hard for me to do a good job on.
physiological papers. My main interest is contributing to the research by developing a fatigue model. My hypothesis is that athlete recovery factors like accrued fatigue in-day and cross-day can be used to predict workout log outputs of total tonnage, combination of weight and rep count, and proximity to failure. Eventually I hope to be able to link these recovery factors directly to provide targeted advice about your overall program's effectiveness, deload planning, etc. in order to most efficiently achieve strength, endurance, and hypertrophy goals.
I really wanted to set up an automatic transfer switch for the whole house from my car in v2h mode, but I found it impossible to spend any amount of money and be confident that the system would actually work with my current EV (the wallbox quasar _sounds_ promising but I couldn't find any reports that it actually _works_)
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