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greenthrow··on What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in source code examples? (2012)
That part of the comment is not true.
greenthrow··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
There's a reason i said "sun and wind."
greenthrow··on Ask HN: Kotlin SpringBoot vs. Python Django for Min Viable Product
Whatever you already know how to use is going to be faster. Obviously.

Second, you are worrying about all the wrong things. Nobody cares what language you use. What matters is are you building a useful product that actually fits a real need?

greenthrow··on Ask HN: Could Qualcomm Buy Intel?
No way this would go through even if it made sense for Qualcomm, which I'm not sure it does.
greenthrow··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
"Citation needed" is the lamest response. I am not your personal Google assistant. Nuclear proponents just like you cited Fukushima as a hallmark of reliability to "disprove" its dangers to me. There were articles highlighting it. These are obviously hard to find now with the digital rot of the last decade. Sorry I didn't print out copies to hand out to you many years later.
greenthrow··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
Bullshit. Sun and wind can be built everywhere. They're just more effective some places than others. But they are cheaper than nuclear everywhere.
greenthrow··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
Germany did not make a real effort at truly going 100% renewable. There are other European countries doing it for real and having wild success.
greenthrow··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
Focusing on deaths is a nice trick of the nuclear industry because the largest negative impacts of their disasters and even non-disaster costs of operation are still terrible but do not manifest as immediate deaths.
greenthrow··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
Get out of here with this lie. Before the disaster, nuclear proponents cited Fukushima as an example of how safe modern nuclear was.
greenthrow··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
It makes no sense. Bill Gates is a huge nuclear proponent for bad reasons and I'm sure somehow this is related, wherher it's just that Microsoft decision makers have read his bad takes or because he actually pushed for this terrible idea.
greenthrow··on Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal
This is nonsense. If you're going to cite arbitrary "N+1 days of bad weather" then I can cite "N+1 severe natural disasters" where the nuclear reactor is engineered to withstand N. And unlike the theoretical "disaster" due to extended bad weather taking renewables down, this has actually happened in recent memory with Fukushima. And this was a true disaster, not just a power outage.

Nuclear is not safe. Every time proponents say "new designs are safe" eventually a new disaster proves this lie. Then the nuclear proponents say "oh well that was an old design, new designs are safe!"

Nuclear is too expensive. Renewables even with storage are way cheaper! We can way over build renewables. We can distribute them, because "bad weather" is regional. All for much cheaper than nuclear.

Stop pushing this out-dated, unsafe and expensive technology. Its time has passed.

greenthrow··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
Investors love layoffs right now. It's actually to avoid paying severance.
greenthrow··on How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
The amount of bootlicking content in here is ridiculous. Nothing in this is special or has much to do with MrBeast's success. In fact, it has a lot more to do with damaging the brand which has happened recently. Thinking you will find success even remotely like MrBeast's by following the contents of this document is hilariously naive.
greenthrow··on Retiring from the idea of retirement
Author sounds young. As you get older your interests may change. I used to really enjoy writing software. 35 years into it, I no longer get any joy or sense of accomplishment. Even when I write new things that result in patents (so don't tell me I need more interesting challenges.)

Now what brings me joy is spending time with my nieces and nephews. This is not a thing that can or should be monetized. I need to build up a retirement so I can truly enjoy the things I care about most in life.

greenthrow··on A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs
There's more complicated software involved in DC charging due to the much higher power levels, plus more complicated monitoring of the system. AC charging is much more straight forward and simple.
greenthrow··on Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?
IANAL so i don't know the actual legality, but it certainly seems like it should be. Definitely immoral.
greenthrow··on Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7
I don't care about that vs the super slow install time and having to swap the disc to switch games. My time is worth more than $30. That's barely 2 fast food meals anymore.
greenthrow··on Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7
Anyone bemoaning the loss of the disc drive hasn't used a recent gen console with a disc drive. If you buy a game on disc you still have to install it to the internal storage because the disc drive is incredibly slow. But you also have the downside of having to swap the disc when you want to change games. It's completely pointless unless you have super slow internet speeds.
greenthrow··on ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention her
Uhhh yes they would and absolutely are. C-suite level people are falling for the hype and banking on productivity gains that won't be realized.
greenthrow··on When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work?
I'm well aware of the risks and the low probability the inverter company has great security practices. Still worth the trade off IMHO to be able to monitor and manage it remotely.
greenthrow··on ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention her
Much like when food ingredients are slowly made worse over time, consumers can't necessarily put their finger on how and why somethinng is worse, but they tend to notice that it's worse.
greenthrow··on ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention her
You're missing the entire point. LLMs are super overhyped and this is the 9000th example of how garbage LLM generated "content" is. It doesn't matter that garbage was being generated before. If LLMs were only being sold as "it might be better than the spam generator you're using today" we wouldn't have the current bubble where people are losing their jobs because C-suite clowns believe the hype.
greenthrow··on When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work?
That's 3 things.

Most people want modern infotainment systems in their cars with up to date traffic data in the navigation system.

I like having my inverter online, I can monitor it and change the settings from anywhere.

greenthrow··on Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
Anecdotally in multiple decades of jobs every single time I left it was for money. Sometimes as much as a 50% increase.
greenthrow··on Oakland's new school buses reduce pollution and double as giant batteries
In the abstract you are correct but in practical application, products sold as air conditioners and products sold as heat pumps are designed and sized very differently, resulting in different consumption/efficiency for the same home.
greenthrow··on Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
Ilya is going for AGI, which no one has come close to. So I'd say it holds.
greenthrow··on Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
Your estimate seems way off given Google already had their own compute hardware and staff. And if this company is going straight for AGI there's no way $1 billion is enough.
greenthrow··on Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B
I have this rock here that might grant wishes. I will sell it to you for $10,000. Sure it might just be a rock, but if it grants wishes $10k is a very cheap price!
greenthrow··on I was asked to leave an event for female founders because I had my baby with me
That's some crappy behavior by the YC partner at any event let alone one targetted at women. If the baby was screaming/crying ok sure. But come on.
greenthrow··on Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?
If you're sharing lots of passwords you are really messing things up. Rethink your approach.
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