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25k per unit, assuming the battery lasts 5 years, is uneconomically high at $5k/year per home.

A 100kw generator can produce enough power for 100 homes, costs ~$50k all in, and ~$1k per day in fuel costs to run during an outage. Assuming the generator also lasts 5 years, that's only $100/year per home, 50x less than the battery solution.

Batteries are for the foreseeable future way too expensive.

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No. Companies just have to re-hire fired employees and pay lost wages and benefits. IMO Starbucks should pay a large punitive fine that gets split between the fired workers and the NLRB.

I've never seen anyone directly make this case. Most people seem to want their colleagues (many of whom are friends) to keep their jobs more than they want the stock price to go up.

I'm still not convinced VSCode is faster and better. My Atom setup was never slow, the only thing that wasn't instantaneous was code completion. For me, it felt like VSCode came out of nowhere and surpassed Atom for inexplicable reasons.

Twitter won't die, but it won't make much of a profit either. Elon Musk will find another buyer in 2 years for $25 billion and make most of his money back while leaving the company saddled with most of the $11 billion in debt financing.

Also a good reminder why exceptions and optionals exist. Bonkers that "I didn't get a response" defaults to 0.

I like Pixlr, I use pixlr.com/e. It's free and web based and has always worked well for me.

Did that happen recently? It says in Pixlr's site they're owned by INMAGINE.

These tools are amazing for prototyping. I had an idea for a promotional poster, and seeing my idea just by writing it felt like magic. The generated image had too many artifacts to use, but gave me a guideline to follow when creating the real thing in Pixlr.

AI content generation (text, image, source code, video, music) will be a huge boon for prototyping where applied judiciously.

I had the luck of getting to interact with Simon a little at my first real programmer job at Eventbrite. You would never know meeting him that he was one of the creators of Django, (and TIL querySelector!). He was infectiously curious and excited about programming in a way that bubbled over to most people he interacted with. He would also enthusiastically engage with what you were working on, even the beginner project I had at the time. I don't know him well, but my impression was not just of a great programmer, but a great colleague and an authentically positive person.

Congrats on twenty years!

Love everything about this. The 6+ lawyers of parallax background really make it feel alive.

Is the background generative in some way, or is each layer in a loop?