@ aol... so retro ;-) - sent you an email.
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Again, you're completely right. Talking about the disease is the first step.
My mistake wasn't acting earlier, because I had no idea what was happening. But thank you again for your comment. Thank you!
To see Sid use his motivation and resources to solve his own problem is the core message (IMHO) of the hacker community.
It makes me look at my own problem (Peyronies) in a different light; a disease which has affected my life in ways which cannot be overstated. Yet, all the money in the world right now can't fix Peyronies - yet in reading his journey my mind has been changed about this.
His slide title: "I'll talk to anyone, I'll go anywhere, and I can be there anytime" is certainly the mindset!
Thanks for posting this - I'm inspired to take similar action for Peyronie's. Anything is possible.
In my post above I talked about seeing the Vestas V164 in person, but I've also been on top of the tallest wind turbine in NL (manufactured by Lagerwey). The higher the nacelle and the larger the rotor diameter equal more power generation (the higher you go the more wind you'll find), but public acceptance has a lot to do with things.
I've seen in person how the Dutch can lose their mind over wind projects, I was in Drenthe in 2014 at a public engagement night (where the public sees visualizations of the turbines, and learns how they can benefit and so on...). At Drenethe there were hundreds of locals protesting, cops, drama. Super scary. I was involved on the public acceptance side of things and have come face to face with countless thousands of scared and angry people. I can't imagine what selling a HUGE turbine for their backyard might be like, but going back to your original idea - selling a classic looking windmill would likely be very easy. The tradeoff is that classic windmill would likely generate a negligible amount of energy in comparison. But cool idea anyhow ;-)
I used to work in wind energy in the Netherlands, it is only profitable there due to government subsidies. It was/is an enormously complicated system to understand on the whole. I was on the environmental impact side (visualizations) during the permitting process. It's high-risk & enormously expensive during the permitting process (i.e. getting permission to build the wind farm), and beyond that I understand it's a bidding process and again, super complicated on the energy trading side once you're operating. My experience was that the wind farm operators seemed to be doing well financially, but insanely lucrative? I'm not sure about that vs. non-renewables. Everyone I worked with (including myself) believed in green energy as a part of a larger mission to make the world a slightly better place. EU directives on renewables is what pushed the mission forward; the dutch on the whole (surprisingly), do not love wind turbines in their back yard.
"Hide my email" had indeed caused some drama in this case.
Many thanks to everyone involved at Stripe & BuyMeACoffee!
I want to add that BuyMeACoffee support just reached out as well, and I’m very appreciative of their response.
They acknowledged the edge case, passed the feedback onto their engineering/product team for review, and offered a solid fallback solution: if Stripe's process gets stuck, BMAC can manually disconnect the current Stripe account on their end so I can just reconnect a new one with a proper email address.
Current state of things: 1. Stripe reached out, arranged a call, and verified my identity over a recorded line. They are working on resolving it on their end (estimated 72 hours). Thanks to Paul & his team! 2. BuyMeACoffee has my back with a manual reset if the Stripe route fails.
It's been a frustrating edge case to fall into, but it’s great to see the support teams at both Stripe and BuyMeACoffee stepping up to untangle it.
I recall working on a few VR projects - where it's imperative that you keep that framerate solid or risk making the user physically sick - this is where really began using coroutines for instantiating large volumes of objects and so on (and avoiding framerate stutter).
ECS/Dots & the burst compiler makes all of this unnecessary and the performance is nothing short of incredible.
Please add https://www.classicvideopoker.com to the list...
Grateful that it made front-page Oct 4, 2023 - still getting HN traffic to this day!
I've been increasingly using LLM's to code for nearly two years now - and I can definitely notice my brain atrophy. It bothers me. Actually over the last few weeks I've been looking at a major update to a product in production & considered doing the edits manually - at least typing the code from the LLM & also being much more granular with my instructions (i.e. focus on one function at a time). I feel in some ways like my brain is turning into slop & I've been coding for at least 35 years... I feel validated by Karpathy.