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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 17/08/2026

I would hate to know what it costs after 6pm. Inflation is out of control.

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 30/07/2026

Just came back from the Odyssey. The 1968 space version remains my favorite.

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 28/07/2026

Alien, a 3 months kitten, sitting on my lap while I play Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg variations aria, BWV 988, in 2017. Alien is now 9 years old.

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 28/07/2026

Don't ask ChatGPT about baroque music. It thinks BWV 817 is in C minor rather than E major, and recommends a recording by Pierre Hantaï, who is one of my favorites, but unfortunately hasn't recorded it yet. It's been a while since I saw so many hallucinations in just a few prompts.

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 18/07/2026

Using Home assistant with Google AI backend. My name is not Dave. In case anyone still had doubts about LLM copyright issues. I have had longer conversations from the movie with it, but the LLM randomization makes it not 100% reproducible. Nevertheless, whole sentences still remain.

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 27/06/2026

Here is June daily kWh my Carrier heat pump used for cooling. It has 6 zones, about 3000 sq ft out of my 4600sq ft California home. Most of the time, only 1 to 3 zones are active. One has very large south facing bay windows. HP has only used 158 kWh for cooling since 2/20 install. 194 kWh heating.

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 24/06/2026

Nice to see another HA user. I believe my sauna got hotter :)

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 11/06/2026

Graph I forgot to attach.

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 10/06/2026

A Citroën Karin. www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/k...

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 31/05/2026

Natural gas use for March-May 2025 vs 2026 was divided by 3. And we were away for most of April/May 2025, but home for March-May 2026 ! What changed ? Our main furnace was switched to heat pump 2/211/2026. Main water heater switched to HPWH on 5/7/2026. 1 furnace + 1 WH remain gas. Big house.

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 31/05/2026

This is what bipolar does. Resmed is so cheap that only keep 30 days of CPAP data. A home assistant integration can now store the data indefinitely.

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 19/05/2026

Exported over 100 kWh to the grid Monday.

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 17/05/2026

Atom C124 micro controller, RS-485 base, connected to Rheem Proterra 80 gallon heat pump water heater. Using econet-esphome.

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 20/04/2026

Boy can never say no to a sauna session. L

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 05/04/2026

I take it your photo wasn't taken with a phone. DSLR ? Here is my all-time favorite photo, taken with my Pentax K-1 II.

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Julien Pierre @madbrain.com · 13/03/2026

Wrong, because it is based on labels such as left, right, center or moderate, without fixed meanings. If you talk about specific issues, you get this list. Moderate democrats overwhelmingly oppose #1, #6 and #7. IMO, the #1 issue alone is reason enough to never elect any moderate.