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Re:Wells Fargo Says Flood of US Renewable Projects Risks ‘Breaking’ Po...
on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @05:28PM (#36317686)
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.
Re:Shingles vaccination may reduce dementia risk
on Friday June 09, 2023 @07:20PM (#36265679)
Recovering from getting the Zoster vaccine yesterday. So, yay?!
Re:'Mississippi miracle': Kids' reading scores have soared in Deep Sou...
on Saturday May 20, 2023 @02:28AM (#36009810)
What gets measured gets managed - Peter Drucker
Re:California passes law banning Tesla from calling software FSD
on Sunday December 25, 2022 @03:03PM (#34130698)
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.
Re:Waze Founder Noam Bardin is starting up a Twitter alternative
on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:57PM (#33663918)
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.
Re:Midwestern Teachers Reveal Why They're Leaving the Classroom
on Saturday July 23, 2022 @02:01PM (#32205804)
So are Midwestern school kids just really undisciplined and badly behaved?
Re:DataRobot employee resigns over stock sales
on Sunday July 17, 2022 @12:25PM (#32128198)
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.
Re:Netflix’s ‘Love Death and Robots’ Is Hit, Miss and Extremely NSFW
on Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:55PM (#19477672)
Good, neutral and didn't care for? So, good neutral and neutral? Or is that millennial-speak for good, neutral and bad? Lol
Re:A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm (2014)
on Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:45PM (#19477617)
The authors mention that the algorithm is not patented, and won't be.
Wait, can algorithms be patented?!
Re:An Elm compiler for the Erlang Virtual Machine
on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:11PM (#18187457)
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)
Re:Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang ...
on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:36PM (#17296441)
Check out https://github.com/bettio/AtomVM which seems to be a similar project that's actively developed.