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by gcr 3y ago
Alternatively, a better option: as a human need, maybe energy production shouldn’t _strictly_ follow market incentives and shouldn’t be _solely_ governed by supply/demand dynamics
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by gcr 3y ago
From the incentives, having blackouts is more financially desirable than overbuilding. This situation isn’t surprising. It sucks if you’re like, you know, a person living there, but in terms of finance incentives, it’s close to the best pos
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by gcr 3y ago
are you implying there’s been zero construction on the grid to increase supply _for three years?_
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by gcr 3y ago
isn’t it normal for supply to only barely exceed demand? That’s what’s most efficient. Out of curiosity, what did those graphs look like to you on previous years?
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by gcr 3y ago
even with incentives, it’s still cash-negative for the miners to buy electricity from ERCOT though, right?
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by gcr 3y ago
That’s a good point. On a re-read, the article does mention that the speculation of power plant failure is coming from outsiders on Twitter, so we don’t know whether the observability is there or not
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by gcr 3y ago
The article states that the sharp drop in reserves was being “investigated,” and that it is “suspected” that a large power plant stopped working. Is observability of Texan infrastructure so poor that the _power company_ doesn’t have a compr
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by gcr 3y ago
in what universe is an SSN public information?
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by gcr 3y ago
this is why women generally don’t post pictures to the Internet without a lot of thought behind it I know someone who was doxxed because the pattern on bedsheets that were visible in the picture uniquely identified her hotel. The picture on
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by gcr 3y ago
Yonatan Zunger writes about this! https://medium.com/extra-extra/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-prec...
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by gcr 3y ago
Turning ordinary consumers into audiophiles is a “market-opening” move. Effective luxury audio brands sell you on the solution, but the most effective sell you on the problem as well.
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by gcr 3y ago
Apps that aren’t “local first” don’t work on the NYC subway for example, which is prime paper reading/thinking time for me. Send a text on the subway? Text gets stuck at “delivering…” and times out minutes later after you forget it. R
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by gcr 3y ago
paywall link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230903112649/https://www.washi... ISPs routinely block customers who distribute spam and malware or violate AUP policies about hate speech, and this isn’t new.
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The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by gcr 3y ago|3 comments
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by gcr 3y ago
i used to do exactly this as an undergrad! i thought it made my writing sound whimsical or whatever, as if emulating the style of Lemony Snickett or _why the lucky stiff i've since replaced this (bad imho) habit with other bad habits,
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by gcr 3y ago
can't get those sweet sweet behavioral analytics and always-on location data from a webpage though!
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by gcr 3y ago
If you like this, you’ll also like Plover, an IME (input method) that translates chorded keystrokes to text. It can use certain gaming keyboards but people also sell custom hardware. Court reporters frequently use special-purpose chorded ke
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by gcr 3y ago
The problem is that my brain is too small to remember all the commands. You're inspiring me to make some flash cards -- that'll sort my concern out. (Thanks for your work on broot btw! It really is a great tool)
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by gcr 3y ago
DoorDash opens google maps by default even though I prefer Apple Maps. This is almost certainly a bug in Messenger.
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by gcr 3y ago
Both VLC and INIA work fine for opening .mp4 files from Finder. When you change the file association on OSX, be sure to also click the “Apply for all .mp4 files” button. Common mistake.
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by gcr 3y ago
As an academic researcher, I really like the idea of Muse. I see it as an organized workspace to read and annotate a bunch of semi-related PDF files. Here's hoping the core idea of the product can thrive with the incoming team. Muse&#x
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by gcr 3y ago
Koreader does awesome stats tracking into a SQLite database of every page you’ve read. You even get a calendar view for months showing what you’ve been reading. I have a code snippet that can generate a Bookantt chart[1] from the koreader h
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by gcr 3y ago
One important consideration is that unlike plex servers, it’s totally feasible to throw your entire library on a single device. Another important difference is that these devices are not pervasively connected to the Internet. Koreader comes
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by gcr 3y ago
Is Exxon saying that? It sounds like this article is combining Exxon’s profit forecast of “the world will use 25 billion metric tons of oil in 2050” with the IPCC’s “that won’t be enough to keep below 2 degrees” report, whether or not Exxon
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by gcr 3y ago
I misread LLVM as LLM and wondered what on earth language models have to do with Fortran compilation. (They don't. LLVM is a compiler framework.) Anyways, great work to the team! It's fun to see such a flurry of articles from the
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by gcr 3y ago
Most folks aren't used to that kind of back-of-envelope mental arithmetic.
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by gcr 3y ago
i think i can see the nitpick here: pi and e aren't representable as rational numbers, and aren't representable exactly in IEEE754
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by gcr 3y ago
Neat project! Thanks for sharing! "broot" also lives in this space, but is rapidly getting too complex for me to memorize without consulting the help page.
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by gcr 3y ago
is there any research linking this with alcoholism / smoking / other shortsighted comforts?
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by gcr 3y ago
question: how can space needed for swap be transparently released? When disk, RAM, and swap are all full, does write() sometimes cause the OOM killer to kill other processes?

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