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Ercot Report on Generator Outages During the February 2021 Weather Event [pdf](ercot.com)
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by gwoplock 5y ago
Location: Dallas, Texas Remote: Willing to consider Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C, C++, Python, Go, P4, network layers 2-4, Octeon processors, Linux, I2C Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j
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by gwoplock 5y ago
Other discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676266
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by gwoplock 5y ago
> Imagine you want to earn money and thus you need learn a skill. Which would earn you more money: learning to code or learning to weld? Highly skilled work is highly paid work.
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by gwoplock 5y ago
I think that's generally the idea. Extroverts drain their "battery" in isolation and recharge in social settings.
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by gwoplock 5y ago
Most are but they sometimes go to others. About a month or 2 ago, NASCAR went to COTA. Some of the pictures in the article are from that race.
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by gwoplock 5y ago
> Really? Which leaders? Haven't almost all countries affected by Covid reopened most of the way before the number of new infections reached zero? I don't think zero covid had any impact beyond being a talking piece. And how do
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by gwoplock 5y ago
>Why is this not "DuckDuckGo turned me into a serial killer", other than people hating on Google? I think it is mostly Google using his picture with the incorrect description below. I feel that is harder to catch for someone t
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by gwoplock 5y ago
Is this similar to the technology used for the US Wireless emergency alerts?
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by gwoplock 5y ago
I swear this happens every time I visit a form. Either the 1 image I need has been purged or every post links to some other dead form. I've had pretty bad luck with archive.org for these things.
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The conflicts at the heart of F1's TV graphics push(autosport.com)
2 points by gwoplock 5y ago|0 comments
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by gwoplock 5y ago
> one recommends "don't be a jerk" and the other recommends "complain enough" Those aren't mutually exclusive. You can complain a lot but not be a jerk. You just have to understand and acknowledge the situat
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by gwoplock 5y ago
> Right, but would that have helped? Transitioning a large codebase from Python2 to Python3 is a significant undertaking, there's no way around it. I haven't migrated from python2->3 however I've worked on projects in b
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by gwoplock 5y ago
> My counterpoint: companies shouldn't get to have their cake and eat it too, as in offering public content, but then preventing competitors from using that public content. I agree this case is taking an anti-competitive action and
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by gwoplock 6y ago
Alright, I'm going to be that guy. What's the other planet with more Linux than Windows?
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by gwoplock 6y ago
> Does that make the conclusions reliable? Not totally but more then other posters on HN that were making claims without research. The NERC report will be totally reliable but that will take 6+ months. And if my conclusions are wrong, t
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by gwoplock 6y ago
You are right that I should have been clearer about the nuclear plant. However, the reason reactor unit 1 went offline appears to be accurate. https://atomicinsights.com/south-texas-project-unit-1-trippe... > The trip re
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by gwoplock 6y ago
> Is the person who wrote this knowledgeable on this topic? I am not... "I am a software developer, and this is my best interpretation of the requirements I could find" > The way it is written it seems like they just did a
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by gwoplock 6y ago
> Second there may have been frozen wells but natural gas does not go directly from the wellhead to the peaker I agree that the natural gas does not directly go to the station. However, from what I could tell in the NERC documents they r
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by gwoplock 6y ago
> I'd love to see the engineering proposal to "winterize" ... a thousand miles of supply pipelines. That isn't really what's needed. If I understand the problems with the gas supply in these events, the issue is
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by gwoplock 6y ago
Fair. In the documents I've found, it's not uncommon for sensors to have issues with the cold weather and force the station offline.
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by gwoplock 6y ago
From what I've seen, you cannot keep 100% of generation online. However, in a properly designed and winter weatherized system stations should be able to come online to pick up the slack. In the reports I've seen this seems to be a
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by gwoplock 6y ago
I really appreciate that.
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by gwoplock 6y ago
> But none of the other states have giant winter blackouts like Texas had this week, and most of them have worse weather. Not exactly true. SPP the grid operator for OK and the area immediately east of Texas did have to go to EEA3 twice
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by gwoplock 6y ago
Yes. https://spp.org/markets-operations/current-grid-conditions/ > Feb. 16 at 6:15 a.m. SPP declared an EEA Level 3. System-wide generating capacity had dropped below current load of approximately 42 gigawatts
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by gwoplock 6y ago
If I'm reading http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_condi... right there is no power across the DC_L (Laredo VFT), DC_R (Railroad) and DC_S (Eagle Pass) HVDC ties. for posterity: DC
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by gwoplock 6y ago
> Texas regulators and indeed other regulators need to pursue more rigorous winterization in the southern states. Exactly. I'm not sure that even the new NERC regulations for winter weatherization go far enough. They seem to bring N
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by gwoplock 6y ago
>Those who reported 24-48 hour outages were probably victims of this rather than the rolling blackouts. I couldn't find specific instances of Texas load shedding devices having issues. However, there were instances of things like ci
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by gwoplock 6y ago
And the NERC report for the south east failure in 2018 talks about how many of the same issues identified in 2011 were still issues outside of ERCOT. See around page 92 in this: https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/f
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by gwoplock 6y ago
According to ERCOT in 2019/2020 there were 80 facilities checked for the requirements. Some did fail and were rechecked in November. There were plans, however it seems that the plans weren't built for sub zero temperatures.

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