vastbinderj

Mastodon == good

Government regulation and call for facist authoritarianism == evil

Europeans do not have free speech and it is making it populace much poorer. Don't hold it up as a standard to aspire to.

Twitter wasn't ever close to making money - its IP wasn't even that valuable - hence the several clones that have popped up since Musk's purchase.

This is a straw man - like many other of the comments here. Full of emotion, but vapid in real substance.

A few points, my array was installed in 2018, so fairly recently. It still is one of the largest home arrays my installer, PES Solar maintains.

This amount of money I save on my monthly bill is the amount of money my local electric company pays me for the electricity the array generates. The way I was forced to install my array is such that it feeds the grid directly. They deduct this from my monthly bill where my home generally uses around 4500 kWh.

Now, I think they are not giving me fair market value for the electricity and I'm looking into purchasing either Tesla Powerwalls or another brand so I'm drawing from a battery bank and the array before drawing from the grid.

However, my conclusions at this time are that Solar is NOT ready for primary home usage unless you want to live a subsistence lifestyle.

I don't want panels in a field or on a lake for the same reasons I don't like our current versions of pavement or cement. Everything under it dies. Further, birds above the arrays are killed. This is not a reasonable alternative to energy dense fossil fuel yet.

We need to be more creative and realistic in our future energy sources.

I run a 46 panel array on my rooftop at my home in Florida. On a good day it generates around 80 kWh. On a cloudy day, 35-45 kWh. On stormy days it generates about 15 kWh. It cost me $40,000. At night, it generates no power, but needs a 20amp AC connection for the controller and 60 amps for the micro inverters.

I save about $50-80 a month on my electric bill. Solar in its current incarnation is not ready to power the world, it destroys the biome in which the panels are deployed, costs an awful lot to fabricate....

I am more interested in personal nuclear energy or recycled nuclear energy production. Solar is a distraction that when you start asking the right questions, feels more like gas-lighting than a solution to renewable sources of energy.

> I also don't understand how a single organization making a change to its testing package, in the interest of leveling the playing field, is somehow "pushing" your political beliefs in any one direction... It's your choice whether you want to align your beliefs more closely with any side.

Leveling the outcome is NOT leveling the playing field. And by keeping the algorithm secret, it is tyranny not justice.

Move on. I have already been in this situation twice in previous startups as the engineering leader. This is a situation you cannot control nor influence.

As you move on, do so by not burning bridges and leave on a good note. Don't make it your mission to point out the obvious.

Can you help me understand what you mean by vendor lock-in and how it is different from say, developing a plugin for Wordpress vs a plugin for Ghost? Aren't you still choosing a platform?

Or do you mean technology lock-in, because we built our API server in golang?

For the Store, we provide a reference implementation that is open source in AngularJS 1.x, but the store could be implemented in any JS framework. We have contemplated building a competing reference implementation in ReactJS, for example.

Understood.

To ease this concern we are hoping to ship binary pkgs for Ottemo once we have tested this in the post golang 1.7 timeframe. This would allow access to developers wanting to build add-ons in golang and allow us to keep our source code private.

Link to Cox proposal for 1.7: https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/2775-b...

It is the new backend for the Go Compiler

See: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1szwabPJJc4J-igUZU4ZKprOr...