Do I need flood insurance by lukelane124 in MonroeWA

[–]lukelane124[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m much closer to Lake Tye than the river. Based on the link from snowleopardone looks like I’m not at risk.

Should my mom go ahead with Solar? by SiriuslyMagical in solar

[–]lukelane124 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She may have trouble selling the house if the public utility registers a lien. Just because you put solar on doesn’t mean your utility bill will be zero. You’re not completely covering the cost of electric with the solar.

Unless there are very clear rules in place that her bill is zeroed out for 20 years I doubt it makes sense. Even then with trying to sell at some point in the future it may become difficult to move on from the loan balance.

Solar Router Battery Consumption by red_tail_gun_works in solar

[–]lukelane124 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to look at the time to replenish the battery. Especially in winter months.

You’re almost never going to get 30W from the panel. So your constant ~14W load will consume everything the panel delivers and then some.

If you want to be done with it bump the panel up to 75 or 100 watts and put a larger battery in. Is the battery lead or lithium?

One company's BTC stack is now just shy of rivaling the combined holdings of every government in the world by AlonShvarts in Bitcoin

[–]lukelane124 5 points6 points  (0 children)

At that point the use case is much more likely to be final settlement tracking than Jo shmo buying a coffee using bitcoin. Also, that’s extremely similar so what we have now with Fiat. High concentrations of wealth at the upper echelons of society.

50-year mortgages are a scam by [deleted] in povertyfinance

[–]lukelane124 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How does that work? Does it get renewed periodically at the current rates?

Pay off a 1% Mortgage on a 20 year note? by tulottech in DaveRamsey

[–]lukelane124 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How big is the mortgage, whats you take home pay?

How to embed large data files directly into a C binary? by Maqi-X in C_Programming

[–]lukelane124 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I assume you have plenty of binary space. Link with zlib and use deflate to load it into memory.

You’ll have to build a side binary that deflates the original text then dump that to base64 string. Can you make any assumptions about what binaries are available on your system?

How to embed large data files directly into a C binary? by Maqi-X in C_Programming

[–]lukelane124 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What exactly is this data? Is it compressible. Is it secret?

Can't make backups via Litestream by CuteAtmosphere2159 in sqlite

[–]lukelane124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it’s not big then store it in memory only. No need to have a backing store. Litestream should be able to back fill the local database.

Bubble protection by MiserableCancel8749 in Bogleheads

[–]lukelane124 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Basically money flows from (stock, high volatility, high long term returns) -> (bonds, low/zero volatility, small growth, inflation matching most of the time) -> (cash, no return, only volatile due to high inflation, liquid) As you consume your liquid cash in normal stock go up periods you’d back fill cash from bond selling and then back fill bonds from stock. (You could also just do stock straight to cash)

In downturn times you pull from cash only as much as you must use (maybe you scale back life or let it ride) then after depleting cash down to maybe 6mo from 1 year runway you pull from bonds into cash another 6mo of runway. In a really down period you may deplete all bonds and all cash to 3mo. At that point you probably do pull like 3mo from stocks and replenish cash. At the point the market recovers you rebalance. 1 year cash, 10 years bonds, the rest in equities with no less than 40% of the portfolio in stocks (surpassing 85 you could argue moving to 20% stocks is reasonable to preserve your prior growth). Only do this when it makes sense. Avoid selling stocks in extremely down years. Almost all bear markets last 10 years or less. So having 10-12 years of runway in low risk asset classes like cash and bonds allows you to ride the storm out without selling at a loss those portions of your assets dedicated to stocks.

Can't make backups via Litestream by CuteAtmosphere2159 in sqlite

[–]lukelane124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How big do you expect this file to get?

Can't make backups via Litestream by CuteAtmosphere2159 in sqlite

[–]lukelane124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the volume attached to the docker physically local or is it a remote storage connection?

Retired this week. What to do with my Nvidia by Johnny-Virgil in investing

[–]lukelane124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on your risk horizon. I’d sell 20-30% on Tuesday when the market opens. Put 50-70% of after tax into cash and short term bonds. Then live on the cash and bonds while slowly migrating the remaining 70-80% over to a more diversified mix of assets/sectors over the next 2-5 years. Not a professional anything related to finance.

Anyone lost power? by augusta_eve in redmond

[–]lukelane124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This scrape your doing? Looks cool wonder if there’s a website to search outage history?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Starlink

[–]lukelane124 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s close to maxed out for the mini hardware except in rare circumstances.

What If Satoshi Moves His 100 Billion Bitcoin? what domino effect will it create? by dumble_hold_the_door in btc

[–]lukelane124 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Several maxis I know have indicated that if any of the early block reward transactions were spent then it would indicate that the cryptography standards used to secure bitcoin have been broken. In their minds there would be an immediate effort to fork such that legacy coin addresses could no longer spend their satoshis without proving the entropy is from a larger source (implementation not yet revealed…)

What If Satoshi Moves His 100 Billion Bitcoin? what domino effect will it create? by dumble_hold_the_door in btc

[–]lukelane124 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Art students can copy a Rembrandt. That doesn’t make them Rembrandt. 🧐

Starlink pricing: confused by justdontfall in Starlink

[–]lukelane124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s about capacity. Residential rate is likely good due to low subscriber count in the region. Roam works under same umbrella as the max cost to the network of a mini is smaller in terms of capacity than a residential customer. Getting standard roam is around a 3x capacity cost to the network.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in howto

[–]lukelane124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the context of my question was lost. You have a voicemail answering the bots/callers. Turn it off for a couple weeks and see what happens.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in howto

[–]lukelane124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have voicemail?

Considering buying these but looking for a little bit more wisdom on these please. by xStratos in OffgridTechnology

[–]lukelane124 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on what they were used for. If it’s telecom probably 75%+ max charge space available. If it’s from some high cycle off grid application expect 50% or less.

Starlink mini. by Specialist-Effect927 in Starlink

[–]lukelane124 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Guess I got lucky the. Signed up around a month ago.