u/maurymarkowitz

I was going to get a pair of Tesla wall chargers, home and cabin. But they recently raised the price so I poked around here on Reddit and saw all these mentions of Grizzl-E and the Club option. It seems too good to be true, so I'm doing my due diligence. I looked at the links I could find on the web site, but several questions remain:

1. after the first charge, do I need wifi? The wifi at the cabin is... spotty, and turned off during the winter. Will anything at all not work?

2. if the Club part ends, or the company goes bankrupt, does anything stop other than the payouts?

3. am I missing anything, or is this as good a deal as it sounds?

And then one hardware question:

a) Is there any reason to pick a 40A over the 48A model? Size? Shape? Ease of installation? Anything?

In both locations, the panel is less than 6 feet from the charger location and the existing wire is #6 so I have tonnes of headroom. I can go to a 60A breaker, although both have 50A now (and my car is 32, so no need for anything bigger yet). So I can do the 48, is that a no-brainer? And I'm curious why they even have the 40, so maybe I'm missing something.

I'm trying ABRP for the first time in a serious setting. I am in the middle of nowhere in central Ontario making a trip to Quebec City. I have made this trip in my M3 before, but I have lost over 25 km of max range since then, leaving around 300 km at full charge, and I am concerned the routes I'm given.

The first leg of the trip is from the Algonquin Park area to the Superchargers in Ottawa. This is a hilly route and I know it uses a lot of energy, and it is around 250 km so I'm not sure this can actually be done. After that I'm OK, between Ottawa and QC there's chargers all over.

But I cannot figure out how to set this up in ABRP.

For one, how do I set the maximum range to my car's 300 km? I found a setting for battery degradation, but that is in percent. Percent of what? Is it using the original 389 rating, or one of the later battery tweaks? It does not seem to say. And what value do I put in when my current range is 300? 23%?

When I put in 25%, it selected a route along Highway 60, which is fine, but I cannot tell whether I can actually get to the charger it selected in Ottawa. Is there any way to see the distance of each leg? When I click on it it shows details for the entire route, and if I click on the list of items in the bar on the left, it only gives me details about the charger itself. I can't figure a way to select a single leg.

Can anyone offer some suggestions on how to get more detail and cure my range anxiety here?

Base model iPhone 13 running 26.5.2

Base model M2 Studio running 26.5.2

When I plug my iPhone into my Mac to charge, it also auto-backs. Almost every time, I get an error similar to:

>Some items including 'Halvana' cannot be copied...

I have no idea what this might be. I have no item I can find with a name anything like that, and cannot find anything in the App Store like that either. It did not occur when I just synched this time, of course, so it might be "Halavana", or some other minor modification.

Does anyone have an idea what might be happening and how to fix this?

I decided to try an agentic workflow for a project I've been meaning to work on for some time. Because I was using VSC, I used GitHub Copilot (GHC) and got the $10/month plan. Even after the recent pricing changes, I found I could juggle between Haiku and Sonnet and get quite a bit of work done and stay within the budget. This is my first full month under the new rates and I've used only 76%.

Then I ran into a rate limit. So I took the occasion to look at other options. Having such good luck using Sonnet, I got myself an Anthropic key, loaded in $20, installed Cline, and went to town. But even after one day I've blown almost $7. And I didn't do anything I wasn't doing before -- I was continuing to work on a bug I had been exploring in GHC for the two days prior with no changes to the overall workflow (generate files, diff looking for particular issues, fix, continue)

So, my actual question:

When I look at the Copilot pricing page, it shows the same $1/input $5/output on Haiku that Anthropic lists. However, in the GHC model combo, it says 0.33x. Am I correct in concluding they're actually charging 33 cents/token input, for instance? And that, according to the same rule, Sonnet is thus 9 x $3/M input?

Or perhaps there is some other reason for the higher usage? I'm not entirely clear on whether or not opening a new channel to Haiku, which happened when I used my own API key, would produce higher costs out-of-the-gate? My project is quite small, so it would seem the caching would not really kick in, but maybe I don't understand that.

My 2019 M3 SR+ is down to about 300 km on a 100% charge. Normally this would not present a problem, except for one thing... our family cabin is exactly 250 km from our home, and most of it is uphill so we burn 160 to 170 on the way up (and under 120 coming home).

So we can no longer make it without charging enroute. Luckily there is an SC near the cabin, about 50 km, but if the degradation continues as it is that will also be getting sketchy in a year or two.

I don't recall "the number" for when the battery warrantee is actually hit. I seem to recall it being around 280, so it's unlikely I'll hit that before hitting the 8 year or 150 km range limits.

So, my question: has anyone in the Toronto area performed a cell-replacement upgrade on their M3? They seem to be quite reasonably priced, but I am not sure what the process is like or what the expected outcome is.

Canada is about to select among two modern submarine design to rebuild its fleet with a major submarine component. The two contenders are the KSS-III and the 212DC. A very good article on the topic suggested it really comes down to the 212 being a better attack boat from a technical perspective, but the KSS is much larger and that gives it a very real advantage on long-duration patrols, like the arctic patrols this fleet will be used for.

My question is specific to the KSS-III. It is equipped with 10 VLS cells. It has been suggested they are Iskander based, so perhaps 36" in diameter. I cannot imagine that Canada would purchase Iskander (!!) and it seems unlikely they would buy the Korean 4-4 either. In fact, I'm not sure a conventional ballistic missile would be terribly useful for this fleet, although I can't pretend to know if there is some sort of force-projection mission in the future.

So what else might the VLS be used for? Are there "off the shelf" systems that might be put into a tube of around this size? Are those weapons not able to be fired from a standard 533 mm tube? Does the VLS really offer something useful if you don't have the 4-4 to put in it?

Someone suggested I use GI actions to do my windows builds for me, which is awesome because I'm on macOS and this turned out to be a great way to do it.

My code optionally builds against OpenBLAS. This works on macOS and Linux builds, but not Windows as it complains it can't find it. I tried modifying my makefile and yml to fetch it and link against it, but no such luck.

Has anyone done something similar and have any advice?

Code and script here:

https://github.com/maurymarkowitz/OpenNEC

We did track and tower on the weekend, which is my fav trail so it was nice to have a good day to to it so early before the bugs show up!

Anyway... on the way in, as you are walking along the side of the lake just before you reach the dam there are some concrete bits on the trail. There seem to be three (or more?) small pads about 2 feet by 2 feet square, with what appear to be large metal nails embedded. There's also a larger C-shaped bit that looks like it might have been a hearth?

Anyone know the history of these?

I have a simple CLI program that runs calculations on inputs from a text file and produces another text file for output. (I hope this isn't self-promotion, I can remove the link if its borderline!)

Unless directed otherwise, if you invoke it with filename.nec, it writes the output to filename.out. You can supply multiple files on the input line, or even a glob, so the automatic-name makes sense.

But it is also possible you might want to run it to stdout. This would be the default behaviour for most unix CLI programs (is that true?) I know there are some programs that automatically go to files, like gzip and such, and I'd like to match "the most standard behaviour" for this sort of thing.

Right now I have a -o flag so you can -o someotherfilename.out, and I re-wired that to allow - so you can do onec -o - inputfile.nec and then it goes to stdout.

Is that "right"? Or is there something else that people would expect?

We love our Q 1200 at the cabin, but we’d like something a bit larger for our home. Someone is selling a used Q 3200 but it’s been converted to natgas. Is it easy to convert back to propane?