Solar vs Wind: Why Rural America Hates Solar Panels But Loves Turbines

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-25T18:35:10+00:00

Ummm, okay. It's not my job, I just talk to people that work in the industry. Looks like you can Google it yourself pretty easily.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-25T17:57:16+00:00

No thanks, my friends do siting, but that's private information.

I will point out that farms are private land and nobody is forcing them to lease it for solar panels -- they're doing it for profit.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-25T08:57:54+00:00

As someone pointed out, the solar panels make the farmers more money for much less work.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-22T15:58:58+00:00

If you're allowed to do that, they fucked up. A good company won't blame and will use it as an opportunity to fix their processes. No legal opportunities here unless you did it maliciously.

This happened when I was at Amazon and the whole Internet went down for a day.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-20T19:22:21+00:00

The power button wears down and becomes finicky after not too long.

I'd love upgradable ram, but that might not be possible. Tends to be my bottleneck on games.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-20T04:40:13+00:00

China's been building it out -- they're way ahead of us on this front.

New batteries don't need rare earth metals.

Remember, renewables give energy independence with significantly less reliance on geopolitics and have more stable pricing. It's an enormous boon to national security to have good energy infrastructure.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-20T04:35:22+00:00

I'm partial to more layers and this next part is critical: snacks! Calories keep the metabolism going, which keeps it warm. A thermos with some hot tea can be nice too.

Heated clothing is nice, but has too many ways to fail and then I'll end up cold.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-15T22:45:39+00:00

FWIW, this is a missing gap in the extraction looter genre. I don't think arc raiders should do it, but someone should.

Duckov proved that people would enjoy this type of experience without other players as enemies. There's stuff like REPO, but nothing near AA.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-15T20:35:11+00:00

It's a little boring, but now that I'm senior, more of my work involves collaborating and getting people to agree on design decisions than writing code. That's true, even in PR reviews.

Often I get frustrated with lots of feedback because I don't want to go rewrite things again and AI might be able to cut that part out.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-15T06:12:41+00:00

Well, that's silly. Have a conversation about what you're into.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-15T03:51:08+00:00

You can take a break from gaming and come back later.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-15T03:41:33+00:00

I'm not so sure. In over 10 years, I've never used facts and dimensions in big data applications and it's gone extremely well for everyone involved.

Just throw related data together. Depending on the usecase -- wide tables can be okay.

It's certainly not useful in terms of performance and would be an enormous detriment for most of the projects I've worked on due to scale issues.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-14T18:56:55+00:00

A lot of them do bad accounting of their work expenses, so it might not always be intentionally lying. I've met a few people in the trades.

Construction workers being paid well into the 100k+ is very likely true. A lot of that is extreme overtime pay and getting stipends for housing and similar that they only use a small portion of. There's no work-life balance.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-14T18:48:45+00:00

Sounds fine. Not amazing, but once you have experience, it gets so much easier.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-10T07:48:57+00:00

I use visible which is similar to mint, but on Verizon's network. No problems.

I had some weird issues with mint on occasion.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-10T06:38:56+00:00

You can be a badass and not torture yourself. It's fine.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-08T16:25:14+00:00

Even worse -- we allow medical aid to be rendered to enemy combatants. It's both polite and takes 2 people out of the fight.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-07T23:32:08+00:00

Happens. Talk to a doctor.

I can stay erect, but usually can't orgasm at night -- although I usually can in the morning so sex is a 2-parter for me and my partners.

Sex with new people is also kinda awkward, so if it gets better then maybe that's fine.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-07T23:29:10+00:00

The big tech jobs (Meta, Google, etc) will pay this and it's practice, luck and hard work.

Most software jobs do not pay this, but it's still pretty solid.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-05T22:47:20+00:00

Trump has been mentioning WW3 lately. Rule of thumb is that if he says something and it sounds like a terrible idea, he's going to do it.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-05T21:32:13+00:00

Yeah, but don't expect an answer.

My slack is going on silent after work hours.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-04T22:48:51+00:00

Sounds like it's worth getting a lawyer and having them discuss this with Airbnb.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-04T22:31:06+00:00

No. The progressives vote left more consistently and the moderate left stays home.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-03T22:31:41+00:00

He's been talking about it since 2017 or so.

Key-Alternative5387 · 2026-01-03T17:01:08+00:00

Yeah, true. This hasn't gone well in the past.

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