u/extrobe

dude ... I can pin down a transaction across a petabyte of transaction data in seconds these days. Even 15-20 years ago it might have been hours, but for any business who've moved to modern data architecture, this is a trivial exercise.

Oh I have some info related to this!

This was used in a lot of 'Energy World' homes built in a particular development in Milton Keynes in the 80's

Houses were built with all sorts of interesting techniques, like using Conservatories as giant storage heaters (passive solar?), homes built into the ground, straw for insulation, new heat capture techniques etc. ... a lof of it leading to national changes in building standards/requirements. This also led to Milton Keynes adopting much stricter energy efficiency standards that the rest of the UK. Shenley Lodge is full of quirky and interesting homes as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_World

This in turn followed earlier similar (and larger scale) developments in the 70's where they experimented with meeting Danish regulations as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennyland_project

I deal with the renewals for our business, since we started with SF about 5+ years ago.

I won't give specifics - they're commercially sensitive to us and much as they are to Snowflake, but getting 15% off $120K seems decent to be honest.

But a few other things that affect the discount...

* Discounts aren't as big post-IPO as they were before
* Better discounts only start to kick in once you're $1m+ p/a - this is especially true for Storage and AI credit costs, which are otherwise largely static.
* You get better discounts for multi-year
* You get better discounts based on the payment terms - upfront = bigger discount, quarterly terms = less, monthly = less again.

* Discounts are _usually_ agnostic of the region or platform you use - we get the xx% discount, but use various regions, platforms & editions. Things do get mirky when you start looking at thing like procuring via Azure Marketplace though.

This is really cool - esp as we've been battling the cost of Granola.

Interestingly, whilst Fathom always joined as a bot, Granola works I think in a similar way to yours - it doesn't join the call but monitors the audio on your machine whilst on calls. This means that until recently, it struggled with speaker identification (for this reason, I preferred Fathom TBH). This was more an issue with Teams that it was Zoom.

But recently, they (Granola) _did_ add speaker identification. I'm not 100% sure how, but my instinct is that Granola has access to see the Teams app, and able to look at who is talking at any point in time.

Nice, I’ll check it out. Does it support response TTS (from locally hosted tts model)?

My mum would be proudly rolling that up to use again another day :)

Milton Keynes was a tiny (and attractive) village until the 1950s

About 15 tiny & attractive villages (plus the larger towns like Wolverton).

And they're all still there. You can still walk around them, and still feels like you're in the middle of the countryside.

Yeah, it's a new town, it doesn't have a lot of history. You're not going to see amazing old buildings and stuff.

The ironic thing is that actually a lot of the grid squares do encompass the original villages, with their thatched cottages, old churches, cozy pubs etc.

Top of my head... Loughton, Simpson, Middleton, Shenley Brook End, Shenley Church End, Gt Linford but there are many more ... these are villages with ~1000 years of recorded history

It's pretty much the most walkable city in the country. 320KM of shared-use paths (red-ways) alone criss-crossing the city, never crossing a major road.

Most residential districts has local services (shops, schools, parks etc), so you can usually walk to get essentials. Larger facilities (secondary schools, larger supermarkets etc) tend to be destinations you might need to travel for.

How is a singer in a pop group "I'm not good with words" ?

Should be focussing more on a CANZUK agreement IMO

The irony of it all is that the trade deficit in the US actually increased sharply in July, rather than decreased. So it's not only not working, it's making the alleged problem he's trying to solve even worse.

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-trade-deficit-widens-july-capital-goods-imports-hit-record-high-2026-09-03/

I'm using Honcho locally, using a Qwen3 8b model to power it.

I love how it behaves and the improvements it gives to the output, but the demand on that model, and the impact it has on my primary model's performance is making me consider Mnemosyne, but concerned it might be a bit of a downgrade in utility, so not decided yet

Redact it yourself before you give it to the LLM/Agent.

Technically, you can create a redaction skill that redacts/obfuscates via a python function so the model never actually sees the data... but it's far from certain to behave how you want all the time.

I'm using the Hermes Conduit app on iOS, which ports most native functionality

https://apps.apple.com/il/app/hermes-conduit/id6790977764

use Hermes to create a 'new profile' skill so they're setup just the way you like it (eg, I have a self-hosted TTS provider that all new profiles include)

It’s not - they’ve been very clear this is just a UI layer on top of existing profiles. Only difference being the ability to set icons per profile/bot

Bots & profiles are essentially the same thing...

A bot is a Hermes profile — isolated config, memory, skills, credentials, and chat history under ~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/. This plugin is a UI over that primitive:

But i suspect 'bots' with distinct roles / tools etc but that can off to each other, is a slightly easier concept to grasp over _profiles_ .

As for the benefit...

Each profile is basically its own entity; it can have access to different models, tools, its own profile, objectives and memory.

Eg, I might have a 'Home' and a 'Work' profile, which no overlap. Or I might have a 'Code' and a 'QA', where one hands off to the other, but are tuned to their specific task

I’m literally on the final stages of this game … after 150hrs playing Witcher3, this was a welcome change of pace.

Chill game , no combat, can’t die - just explore, enjoy the narrative, solve some very light puzzles etc.

What was it about hindsight that made you prefer it over honcho?

I setup honcho a few days ago, so still a bit earlier for me to have a verdict on it. Like you, I’m self hosting the memory

3.6 27b is probably closer to a Haiku than Sonnet … and nowhere close to an Opus.

Usually for two different use cases.

"Memory", often referred to as Level 3 memory, is an extended version of your agents' knowledge about you; observations, preferences etc. This is automatically extracted from your conversations and processed into the memory (in my case, every 2-3 turns). Think of it as inferred knowledge.

"LLM Wiki", often referred to as Level 4 memory, and commonly in the form of an Obsidian vault, is a more verbose store of information. Playbooks, explanations on 'why', domain knowledge etc, and is queried / searched on demand. More of a Ground Truth store.

I think some people do combine LVL3 & LVL4 and do both within Obsidian, but unsure about the pros/cons of doing that. I use Honcho myself, but self-host it.

Would love to take a look - just getting started with Hermes, so could me a good kick-start.

Thanks, I might have a go increasing that setting then!

It’s 7.1.5-1-cachyos