Louis Opter

Random sysadmin and programmer, previously at Dropbox (Traffic SRE), Uber and dotCloud (Docker).

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@joeblowsworth @steeve @MszBednarski Nice try, but that would be an insult to the large share of people who don’t score 0 on the Kinsey scale. Most things aren’t categories and exist on continuum, unfortunately you would need more than two brain cells to understand it.

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@wang_seaver C’est de la folie ce type et son parti politique, tout le monde redoute un second tour des élections présidentielles en avril /mai prochain entre lui et l’extrême droite Le Pen / Bardella. 😵‍💫

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@joeblowsworth @steeve @MszBednarski lol, you are truly on the left of IQ curve, bless you heart 🫡

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@steeve Saw that earlier today, I couldn’t believe it, but it’s there…

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@IllinNoize @MatterTurbulent @NateSilver538 That’s what education is for?

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@IllinNoize @MatterTurbulent @NateSilver538 It’s great to learn with LLMs, it feels like having a private tutor, whether you decide to understand things from first principles or not is a personal choice orthogonal of AI.

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@rakyll Yikes, I guess due diligence pays off.

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@californiapuc Megawatts are not a storage unit ffs.

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@mitsuhiko Can’t have public transit without high(er) urban density. Something I keep wondering about is how many of those trips could actually be done via "light mobility", bikes, e-bikes, anything electric on wheels that one can lift really. I wish adoption could go much higher on those.

[Louis Opter @1opter]

Their non rack-formatted cloud gateways do have hardware acceleration for PPPoE but then lack PoE & 3.5” HDD slot for the NVR.

[Louis Opter @1opter]

I wish I had known sooner that all of @Ubiquiti’s UDM line doesn’t have hardware acceleration on PPPoE and barely achieve 1Gbps over those links on the older SoCs.

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@espie_openbsd @leloupceleste J’utilise une PS4 comme lecteur blu-ray, pas de chariot dessus, puis c’est une vieille avec une sortie optique c’est pratique pour brancher sur mon ampli analogique avec un petit DAC.

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@tqbf @Pinboard NoScript can help to some extent.

[Corentin Kérisit @corentinanjuna]

I finally was able to compile and build a real iOS app from Linux, using @bazelbuild and distributed Linux workers.

I used @Dimillian's IceCube app, got Codex to modularize it to allow parallel Swift compile actions, and let it loose on 100s of cheap remote Linux workers!

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@shazow I'm not sure we are gonna retrofit many homes and redo the distribution part of the grid in 15 years. Weather dependent generation being SOL on weather won't affect one or two people but a whole region, batteries get very expensive for those rare cases.

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@shazow Agreed, now to your previous tweet, how would you resolve this tension?

> I'd want to empower/embrace/subsidize the latter, recognizing it weakens the former.

How do you guarantee power stability/quality and uptime then? At what costs?

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@shazow @Alykkat 15-20% was for 3. transmission & aging infrastructure? I was counting a part of that (renewables-driven transmission) + section 2 "Policy-Driven "Cost Shifts" & Subsidies (12% to 30% of the Hike)".

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@shazow Can you tell me more about what you call a monolithic & homogeneous grid, and what newer concepts you offer?

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@shazow @Alykkat And then the question comes back to what it is the best "utility" format to manage the grid. I lean towards something quite centralized with long term planning. I am not defending PG&E per say, I believe breaking it up is a step in the wrong direction.

[Louis Opter @1opter]

@shazow @Alykkat I can see how wildfire mitigation and aging infrastructure is on PG&E, otoh NEM and renewables are/were public policies outside of their control? It almost look 50/50 wrt costs?