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261 points david927 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.21s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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theodric ◴[] No.43166479[source]
I walked away from tech and bought a farm. So:

I've built a large solar array on a repurposed mobile home chassis and have been digging a trench through rocky ground to lay the conduit for the cabling to backhaul the DC power to the shed where the inverter and battery bank will live. It's the rainy season in Ireland, and that field was marginal at best, so it's been swampy work and half of the digging is trenching additional drainage channels so the conduit doesn't flood and path water back into the shed. There's a housing order due to a bird flu scare, so I'm not running poultry on pasture until it's lifted (or until I can get the government to agree that my pasturing system qualifies as housing). Annoying, but that's farm life.

Oh, I'm doing some shit with AI also, but that's a secret :)

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1. jesserobbins ◴[] No.43188734[source]
I find the off grid power problem solving to be very soothing & entertaining. Like the same way people do crosswords or wordle. Just with 100amps. :-)