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hengestone | 2 years ago | on: Wells Fargo Says Flood of US Renewable Projects Risks ‘Breaking’ Power Markets

Late answer: we added $20k of solar panels to our roof in SoCal in late 2020. Get back about $1.8k from the utility every year, instead of $300-600 per month bill. All else staying the same, the system will be paid off in about 3 years (6 years after installation). FWIW There was a tax rebate of $5500 at the time.

hengestone | 2 years ago | on: Shingles vaccination may reduce dementia risk

Recovering from getting the Zoster vaccine yesterday. So, yay?!

hengestone | 2 years ago | on: 'Mississippi miracle': Kids' reading scores have soared in Deep South states

What gets measured gets managed - Peter Drucker

hengestone | 3 years ago | on: California passes law banning Tesla from calling software FSD

My brother in law works as an engineer for Tesla Palo Alto: according to him these features are all driven from the very top. Always at the expense of fixing bugs, or getting even basic things working reliably in ways that would make driving safer and more enjoyable. Make your own conclusions about buying one. I would steer clear, literally, knowing some of the bugs in there.

hengestone | 3 years ago | on: Waze Founder Noam Bardin is starting up a Twitter alternative

Haven't seen discussed yet, but for me the killer feature would be the ability they mention to be able to pay for individual "articles". I.e. maybe a federated micropayment news feed where i don't have to subscribe to NYTimes AND WaPo, AND (many others), but only pay pennies for individual stories.

hengestone | 3 years ago | on: Midwestern Teachers Reveal Why They're Leaving the Classroom

So are Midwestern school kids just really undisciplined and badly behaved?

hengestone | 3 years ago | on: DataRobot employee resigns over stock sales

Data point fwiw: the company I work for SOLD me some of their shares when I joined. I.e. not a grant. The company owns options to buy back the shares on the usual schedule of a cliff after one year, then monthly for 4 years. So no tax consequences until I sell the shares and pay capital gains. The caveat is that the valuation that they sold the shares at must be well below their last raise for it to make sense for me to buy the shares. So it only really works for early stage companies. After this early stage is over, selling me actual options works better.

hengestone | 7 years ago | on: Netflix’s ‘Love Death and Robots’ Is Hit, Miss and Extremely NSFW

Good, neutral and didn't care for? So, good neutral and neutral? Or is that millennial-speak for good, neutral and bad? Lol

hengestone | 7 years ago | on: A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm (2014)

The authors mention that the algorithm is not patented, and won't be. Wait, can algorithms be patented?!

hengestone | 7 years ago | on: An Elm compiler for the Erlang Virtual Machine

Kudos to Kofi for a nice project and a good write-up :+1: :)

Since you're not planning on continue the project, and are interested on 'Elm on the server', you might look at Purescript, which has a similar syntax, and compiles to Javascript, and also the BEAM: https://github.com/purerl

There are also C++ and C backends at https://github.com/andyarvanitis/purescript-native and https://github.com/pure-c/pure-c

If having a JS compile option is not a requirement, there are 2 more Ocaml/ReasonML-like BEAM laguages, https://github.com/alpaca-lang and https://github.com/lpil/gleam

(I'm kinda partial to Gleam, it seems really clean)

hengestone | 7 years ago | on: Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

Check out https://github.com/bettio/AtomVM which seems to be a similar project that's actively developed.