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They were pressured from somewhere to show results. They had to invent a metric to be able to prove they make results. It was easier to ask the neighbour what they are measuring, than to think it through and form a synthesis. If it works for the Jones', it'll work for us.

I'm starting to believe that AGI really will cause a singularity, even before the technology exists: it's the only thing that will be talked about in my circles. People will forget to eat, families will be divided and split apart, houses will be foreclosed on due to neglect to pay the bills. It will be technology's last and eternal heroin high. The one you never experience coming down from.

I'm renovating a house, and have been considering 24V or 48V DC outlets in a few rooms. Semiconductors become more expensive above ~32V, so 24V might be the sweetspot.

However, there's also PoE (24 or 48V!), so maybe that's the right approach. It's not like each outlet is going to run a heater anyway.


Lower voltage makes voltage drop across the line proportionally worse. Depending on the purpose PoE is probably the way to go since the wiring and hardware is all standardized and safety certified.

Unless you mean running AC and installing inverters in the wall? What is this even for? All my electronics are DC but critically they all require different voltages. The only thing I might benefit from would be higher voltage service because there are times that 15 A at 120 V doesn't cut it.


No, I meant running separate DC wires. I'm Europe, so it's 240 VAC vs 24/48 VDC. For small devices, 24 V would be useful in that you don't require an isolated SMPS, so cheaper endpoints are possible. Slightly less risk of burning down the house with some cheap Chinese AC/DC. 24 V is still high enough to use USB PD/PPS at 20 V, and I doubt I'll run enough current that the losses due to lower voltage would be a problem.

For PoE, I thought it was standardized at 48 V, but I see lots of cameras run at 24 V, and I think I've even seen 12 V. Seems a bit of a mess.


The escalation path is probably: have some relationship to an entity that doesn't care about you -> make sure that entity becomes your enemy -> the enemy now has an incentive to see you as an enemy -> you must now be afraid of your new enemy.

Could you summarize the easy and hard aspects? Have you had any unexpected benefits or downsides?

For me:

- SES was a big one. There was no affordable alternative at my (not big, not small) scale.

- I'm still waning myself personally of GMail. That dependency took decades to build and it will take years for all ties to sever.


What is the difficulty in getting away from gmail?

I did it a few years ago and I simply signed up for Fastmail and had gmail forward all email there. It forwards to a specific e-mail address so I can see if there are still people/companies that use the old email address. The painful part was going through all my accounts to update the e-mail, but you can do it in stages if you follow the above.


Maybe this comment downthread helps for the email problem? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489711

Have you checked out zeptomail by zoho? Not as low cost, but getting close. More basics build in.

Not EU.

> Zoho Corporation is an Indian multinational technology company that makes cloud-based office software.


They have EU datacenters and an actually staffed legal entity in Germany .

If so they are not good in mentioning this.

On the flip side, I _think_ there's actually less and less about Epstein visible, so I think WH is winning that war. Or at least successfully postponing battles.

Or the Python or Typescript Agent SDK libraries: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview

Or can you? It's my understanding that you cannot use your subscription with the Agent SDK, that's what the docs say:

> Unless previously approved, Anthropic does not allow third party developers to offer claude.ai login or rate limits for their products, including agents built on the Claude Agent SDK. Please use the API key authentication methods described in this document instead.

Though there was that tweet [0] a while back by someone from Anthropic that just muddied the water. It's frustrating because I feel like the line between the Agent SDK and `claude -p` is not that large but one can use the subscription and one can't... or we don't know, the docs seem unambiguous but the tweet confuses things and you can find many people online saying you can, or you can't.

I'd love to play around with the Agent SDK and try out some automations but it seems I can only do that if I'm willing to pay for tokens, even though I could use Claude Code to write the code "for" the Agent SDK, but not "run" the Agent SDK.

Where is the line? Agent SDK is not allowed with subscription, but if I write a harness around passing data to and parsing the JSON response from `claude -p '<Your Prompt>' --output-format json` would that be allowed? If I run it on a cron locally? I literally have no idea and, not wanting my account to be banned, I'm not interested in finding out. I wish they would clarify it.

[0]

Twitter: https://x.com/trq212/status/2024212378402095389

XCancel: https://xcancel.com/trq212/status/2024212378402095389

Text:

> Apologies, this was a docs clean up we rolled out that’s caused some confusion.

> Nothing is changing about how you can use the Agent SDK and MAX subscriptions!

> We want to encourage local development and experimentation with the Agent SDK and claude -p.

> If you’re building a business on top of the Agent SDK, you should use an API key instead. We’ll make sure that’s clearer in our docs.


Yes.

> Unless previously approved, Anthropic does not allow third party developers to offer claude.ai login or rate limits for their products

So you can't offer a product based on the subscription. I replied to a comment proposing to use the CLI with --prompt:

> you can also use Claude Code programmatically with the `prompt` parameter in the cli.

And I just informed that Agent SDK is a much nicer way to do that. For internal use or whatever the ToS allows.


Yea I am this exact boat - it's insane how unclear it is. Why have the -p option at all if they don't want it to be called by other processes?

If they only want people using claude code inside their harness, they could... just remove -p?


> I wonder what would happen if we “finished off” what’s left of the Iranian Terror State, and let the Countries that use it, we don’t, be responsible for the so called “Strait?” That would get some of our non-responsive “Allies” in gear, and fast!!! President DJT

That does not sound like someone who has this under control, which makes me wonder if his conclusion is valid. Does he really know the allies well enough to say how they will react?


It's one of the most widely used electronic circuit simulator. It's basically a graphical interface to wire up differential equations, together with physical models of components (mostly semiconductors.)

There are other SPICE implementations, but Linear Technologies provides this program for free, and lots of manufacturers provide LTspice models for their components (of varying quality.)


Cool, thanks.


Appendix 1 extracted with Claude: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/139mTTtNsdanE9SEpmYaB...

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