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kenneth commented on Hello World   thecoder08.github.io/hell... · Posted by u/fbrusch
kenneth · 2 years ago
What I think is shocking is that 99% of the software engineering world these days would have zero ability to comprehend this explanation. In my opinion, you could not be a real programmer without the ability to understand what your program is under the hood. You might be able to get away with it, but you're just faking it.

And yet, 99% of the people I've ever seen in the industry have no idea how any of the code they write works.

I used to ask a simple interview question, I wanted to see if potential hires could explain what a pointer or memory was. Few ever could.

kenneth commented on Swiss satellite antennas make a comeback as solar powerhouses   reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/geox
JoeAltmaier · 2 years ago
Texas uses robot vacuum cleaners. Not a lot of rain. Definitely a sweet spot for them.

Anyway. I'd guess they'd do better to lay them on the ground next to those dishes, than the expense of climbing up there and fastening them to that massively expensive superstructure. Not to mention the danger to life and limb, climbing around up there.

Generally speaking it's just a mistake to mount solar panels in some difficult-to-reach expensive place.

Optimal: A large flat space near the existing grid, with generous road access and clearance. On cheap land and cheap supports. Where it can be serviced, not too far from the service center.

Those dishes fail on half of those metrics.

kenneth · 2 years ago
What you're describing doesn't exist in Switzerland, which you could tell by doing a quick Google Maps view.

Nothing in Switzerland is cheap, least of all land. Practically nothing in Switzerland is flat either. What little flat land we have is used for agriculture and cities.

kenneth commented on Swiss satellite antennas make a comeback as solar powerhouses   reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/geox
wkat4242 · 2 years ago
Good point! That would work yeah. The placement will have to be modified a bit to avoid shadows but that would work just as well.
kenneth · 2 years ago
With a dish that can be oriented to always face the sun, there should never be any shadows
kenneth commented on Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility   jacobbartlett.substack.co... · Posted by u/jakey_bakey
kenneth · 2 years ago
Is it really that hard to type the word "accessibility" that we need to come up with a silly shorthand version of it?
kenneth commented on Carta to exit secondary trading business   henrysward.medium.com/sho... · Posted by u/thewarpaint
foooorsyth · 2 years ago
Some VCs will withhold investment until you use a product like Carta or Pulley. Cap table in Excel carries major risk.

(And yes, Carta/Pulley are often portcos of those VCs pushing you to use them)

kenneth · 2 years ago
As a seed VC, I still see a majority of Excel cap tables over Carta. (Pulley / Shareworks is even rarer).
kenneth commented on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman   openai.com/blog/openai-an... · Posted by u/davidbarker
paulddraper · 2 years ago
I had a boss that did that.

"case doesn't actually matter, i'm not gonna waste my time hitting shift"

kenneth · 2 years ago
Why does he bother with apostrophes then…
kenneth commented on Costco gold bars are selling out within hours   cnbc.com/2023/09/27/costc... · Posted by u/walterbell
uptown · 2 years ago
Who would you sell the bullion to to cash out?
kenneth · 2 years ago
There are various precious metal trading companies that will buy the bullion from you at close to spot if it's kept in its original assay and has documentation. If not in assay, they will have to test its purity and potentially remelt it so that adds to the spread.

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kenneth commented on Costco gold bars are selling out within hours   cnbc.com/2023/09/27/costc... · Posted by u/walterbell
kenneth · 2 years ago
I used to buy gold bullion as a sneaky way to get credit card points on the cheap (and then use them for first class flights around the world). You could usually do the trade profitably and quickly and quite safely with insured shipping via USPS. $50k at a time. It was a bit sketchy to have that much in bullion at home, and I quickly got bored of it.

The things you do when you're young…

kenneth commented on 70 years ago, an Anglo-US coup condemned Iran to decades of oppression   theconversation.com/70-ye... · Posted by u/zeristor
kenneth · 3 years ago
So I'm basically reading this as putting blame for Iran's reprehensible regime and its crackdown on its citizen yearning for freedom on Britain and the US.

No… let's stop with this rewriting of history. The only party to blame for the awfulness in Iran is their evil regime.

u/kenneth

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