If you go to a Ford dealer, the salesman isn't going to recommend a Porsche. If you go to Taco Bell, they're not going to recommend Wendy's.

Lots of folks have experience installing gas furnaces. That's what they know. They don't know heat pumps. They could learn, but learning is hard. If they can keep selling gas furnaces, that's easier.

My home is made with cement blocks - just like most houses in the UK. It's a massive thermal mass.

I installed heat recovery ventilation which also helps hold heat in while maintaining a constant supply of fresh air.

Which means that temperature swings outside don't really affect me.

I don't plan to move. My roof is cement slate; it will last around 50 years.

In less than four years I've generated over half the money I put into it.

I've been using it for five years now. I'm aware how much electricity costs. But for me, it's discounted by 33% due to solar PV. And my heat pump is 150-300% efficient.

When it makes sense to replace the roof on my house I can double my solar capacity and I'll increase my electricity storage capacity.

So long term it will cost me way less. And, as I noted, the benefits go beyond cost. It's quieter, it's not spewing fumes outside my house, my home has less fire risk, etc.

I installed a heat pump back in 2021. It's fantastic in an Irish or British climate. Home's much warmer and much quieter. Don't need to have CO monitors in my house, don't need to remember to schedule oil deliveries, and so many more things. I can stand outside my back door and not get assaulted by fumes.

All the energy I use at this point is electric - heating, cooking, transportation, all of it. And I offset 33% of the electricity I use via solar PV. When I need to replace my roof, I'll put panels on my house and double my solar production.

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I’ve stopped arguing with people about it (mostly haha) for this reason. They’re either going to have to figure it soon enough without our help, or as you say be left behind.

4. Writing the first core version of a service or UI. I’ll typically use close to 100% of those generated lines, and then continue building with LLM assistance where it makes sense. It makes a big difference to development velocity.
5. Finding bugs. If some bug isn’t obvious to me, provide the code to an LLM and describe the problem. Its success rate is high.
6. Working with tech I’m not particularly familiar with (an extension of your #3, i.e. learning)
7. Writing documentation.
8. Reverse engineering existing code, i.e. describe some code to me so I don’t have to dig through it in detail.
9. Writing unit tests.

What do you object to, her support for equality or her opposition to genocide? Or is it that a woman stated an opinion?

So, the functional equivalent of reasoning?

Are you saying that ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseek etc. “make heavy use of external tools” to write code? Because they all write pretty good code, up to a certain size of program. Certainly far better than the average human, who can’t code at all; or the average software developer, who isn’t really very good.

He's not imposing tariffs on Russia so he's looking after his ally.

Prior to 2018 I drove a petrol car, used a heating oil (kerosene) powered boiler to heat my house and butane to power my stove top.

Including electricity and converting all the energy sources to kWh, I used between 50-60 kWh annually. Of that, 5-6 MWh was electricity.

Starting in 2018 and finishing in 2021 I changed to an EV, a heat pump, an induction stove top, added solar PV and boosted insulation. Now I only use electricity to power my home and transport.

I now use 16-18 MWh annually and generate between 5-6 MWh locally.

This is far more energy efficient than I was, which shows just how much more efficient electrical solutions are compared to thermal ones. However it also means that my need for electricity from the grid doubled. And it's actually worse than that because local generation largely offsets my electricity usage in summer but hardly makes a dent in my usage in winter - which is when my electricity demand is highest. So it's more like the grid had to generate 3 to 4 times more electricity in winter.

Now, I like in Ireland where wind generation peaks during winter. And if we'd do offshore wind around the island we'd have a constant source of electricity. So this is all *technically* doable. What we're missing is the political will/vision.

Yep, exactly. Having an EV made me learn that brake pad adhesives have a shelf life. I've never replaced brakes on my EV due to wear. I have replaced them due to the expiration of the adhesive.

What sort of conspiracy bullshit is this? Fuck off.