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by derriz 2y ago
Thanks, I was struggling to understand the discussion here. I've bought fully into the Apple ecosystem - a bunch of iPhones, iPads, AppleTVs and Macbooks. I've also been paying a couple of creators via Patreon for the last year o
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Requires a correction: "about 9 mph or a pace of 6.6 miles per minute" should be "about 9 mph or a pace of 6.6 minutes per mile"
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by derriz 2y ago
To classify the anti-immigrant riots in the UK into the category of "nuisance protest" is disingenuous. These protests involved plenty of violence against random non-white individuals, arson attacks against homes and businesses a
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Cool - mystery solved!
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Could be. This overview from the end of 1986 - https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/Overview.... - fairly matches my recollection of the language and doesn't mention such a feature.
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by derriz 2y ago
I’m pretty sure Miranda did not allow the user to directly define term rewriting rules for algebraic data types. Obviously this is from decades ago so my memory could be faulty but I used it a lot for a year or two and do not remember that
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What I like about JO is that he acknowledges the deep flaws of Tcl. And there never developed an inward looking bubble of Tcl/Tk advocates - the users were largely driven by pragmatism; it just got the job done. This contrasted with La
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by derriz 2y ago
Indeed. Async runtimes/sytles are attempts to provide a more readable/useable syntax for CPS[1]. CPS originally had nothing to do with blocking/non-blocking or multi-threading but arose as a technique to structure compiler
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Buffet isn’t a passive investor. Berkshire Hathaway have often taken a very active role in the running of their acquisitions - appointing managers, setting strategy, merging/splitting off subsidiaries, etc. This is as much managing as
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by derriz 2y ago
I don't understand your point at all. A typical grid-storage battery will have enough storage to dispatch power at 100% of its rated capacity for 4 hours. Of course if you draw out the energy at less than full capacity, it will take lo
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It’s difficult to respond to someone who claims that “Sweden and Norway both have recently declined to expand their interconnects with Germany. They don't want their local markets to be swamped by cheap low-quality power during the sum
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You’re criticizing German for not already having the capacity in place to meet a future demand? It’s not enough that Germany is currently a huge net exporter? “So the plan right now is to replace the coal generation with natural gas genera
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That’s not true - the average storage duration for grid batteries used in non-stabalization roles is 4 hours - see https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51798 and that’s from a few years ago. Since then the
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I don't see why? Germany is part of one of the biggest most diverse synchronised electricity grids in the world - it sits at the centre of an international transmission system stretching from Ireland to Turkey and from the artic circl
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Germany has been the biggest exporter of electricity in the world in 8 of the last 10 years. Germany also has one of the most reliable grids in the world in terms of system interruptions - as measured by SAIDI - with less than 15 minutes o
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Battery storage systems generally provide 4 hours of full power output per daily cycle not minutes and are specifically designed to exploit the most typical daily demand cycle which has a 4 hour peak. You're mixing up the use of batter
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Could you name these metrics? Because, nuclear loses according to all of these metrics, for a start: 1. the cost of energy produced. 2. operational flexibility (ability to follow demand). 3. operational cost (the average nuclear plant in th
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by derriz 2y ago
It's been clear for quite a number of years that renewables in Europe no longer need any sort of government support. In any case, most of these support contracts have a "contract for difference" structure with a price establi
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I dislike these policies (despite benefiting from the Dutch equivalent for a short time). Why should existing tax payers effectively subsidise lower taxes for new arrivals? Both receive the same state benefits and both earn the same incom
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Modern wind turbines absolutely have shifted the paradigm - both in size, efficiency and durability. Across the globe, demand for new turbines in the market is insatiable. No other electricity generation technology (even nuclear in its he
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You really believe it would have been possible to construct a modern wind turbine with the materials available in 1950? Yes they do give a much better return than any thermal source according to any recent study of LCOE I've come acros
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I think a line from the end of the article - part of the bear case - "fusion is just another in a long line of energy technologies that boil water to drive a turbine" - should be at the start. The entire premise of fusion generati
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Clauses within clauses are not "recursive", no more than "let x = 1 in (let y = 2 in (let z = 3 in x + y + z)" represents recursion in some hypothetical programming language. Programming languages and human languages exi
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I think Chomsky is a linguist really more famous and respected among non-linguists than actual experts in the field. I don't think modern linguistics - particularly applied linguistics for example in the area of language acquisition -
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You're confusing the object language (human natural language) and the meta-language (formal grammars - ala Chomsky). Formal grammar theory relies on recursive formulae to define what is a a language (formally set of sentences), natural
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Actual human natural language isn’t recursive in any meaningful sense. Formal grammar - an (often futile) attempt to describe the structure of natural languages - is generally expressed using a formal mathematical system which features recu
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There’s official documentation for all Linux config files. Package managers are aware of config files and handle user changes during updates, if required. Config files are designed to be edited by humans and nearly all support some sort o
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That's because putting solar on rooftops makes little economic sense. The overhead in terms of installation cost was relatively insignificant when PV panels cost 20 times as much - as they did 15 years ago. These days, the cost is sw
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I don't think the expectation that you can save money with rooftop solar will be economically sustainable in medium or long term. Energy (and nearly everything) produced at scale is simply cheaper whether thermal, solar PV, wind, etc.
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Composing music in 1986: Atari 130XE, MIDIMATE interface, and MIDITRACK III [video](youtube.com)
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