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by jakewins 9mo ago
The most popular UK electricity retailer is Octopus Energy which is specifically focused on variable prices and flexible consumer demand. By what metric do you mean variable rate retailers are not popular?
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by jakewins 9mo ago
Intermittency is already handled by the price mechanisms, they are set quarter-hourly; if you’re not available when there is high demand you don’t get paid. The marginal price windfalls happen specifically when you’re able to deliver at a l
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by jakewins 10mo ago
I take trains like those for work, not to France but to Amsterdam, and I don’t speak German, French or Dutch.. if we want a train system that allows Europeans to use it there needs to be announcements and signs in the language 50% of EU cit
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by jakewins 10mo ago
I’m baffled that any other language would be considered - the only language that comes close to English in number of speakers is Mandarin, and Mandarin has nearly half a billion fewer speakers than English. We should be happy there is a l
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by jakewins 10mo ago
I tried Basel, Buck2 and Pants for a greenfield mono repo recently, Rust and Python heavy. Of the three, I went with Buck2. Maybe just circumstance with Rust support being good and not built to replace Cargo? Bazel was a huge pain - broke a
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by jakewins 10mo ago
You’re converging a lot of ground here! The article is about producing container images for deployment, and have no relation to Bazels building stuff for you - if you’re not deploying as containers, you don’t need this? On Linux vs Win32
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by jakewins 10mo ago
These are LCOE numbers we are comparing, so that is factored in. The fact that pumps, turbines, rotating generators don’t fail linearly doesn’t mean they are not subject to wear and eventual failure.
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by jakewins 10mo ago
> Energy Dome expects its LDES solution to be 30 percent cheaper than lithium-ion. Grid scale lithium is dropping in cost about 10-20% per year, so with a construction time of 2 years per the article lithium will be cheaper by the time t
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by jakewins 10mo ago
Can you give an example of a chip with software-defined IO coprocessors that is 1/4 the price? The pricing I’m getting on the RP2350 is 0.6EUR per chip. When I’ve compared to other dual-core SoCs with programmable IO, like NXP with Fle
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by jakewins 10mo ago
I asked Gemini the other day to research and summarise the pinout configuration for CANbus outputs on a list of hardware products, and to provide references for each. It came back with a table summarising pin outs for each of the eight prod
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by jakewins 10mo ago
These are, as far as I know, well tracked datasets. For the US the Bureau of Labor statistics tracks each annual cohort of new companies and the attrition over time: https://www.bls.gov/bdm/us_age_naics_00_table7.txt S
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by jakewins 10mo ago
I mean, I'm just some guy, but in my mind: - They are not making progress, currently. The elephant-in-the-room problem of hallucinations is exactly the same or, as I said above, worse as it was 3 years ago - It's clearly possible
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by jakewins 10mo ago
I’m deeply sceptical. Every time a major announcement comes out saying so-and-so model is now a triple Ph.D programming triathlon winner, I try using it. Every time it’s the same - super fast code generation, until suddenly staggering hallu
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by jakewins 10mo ago
I think this needs some nuance - this is definitely true in some domains. Most of the domains I worked in it was the other way around: using an ORM didn’t mean we could skip learning SQL, it added an additional thing to learn and consid
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by jakewins 10mo ago
Incident link at cloudflare: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q
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by jakewins 10mo ago
Better link: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/lfrm31y6sw9q
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by jakewins 11mo ago
Yeah agreed, CI infra provides tons of value. Ended up expanding this little quip into a blogpost to refer to in the future, feedback welcome! https://tech.davis-hansson.com/p/ci-offgrid/
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by jakewins 11mo ago
“Your own solution” should be that CI isn’t doing anything you can’t do on developer machines. CI is a convenience that runs your Make or Bazel or Just or whatever you prefer builds, that your production systems work fine without. I’ve seen
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by jakewins 11mo ago
Yeah exactly like hackitup7 says, it has a huge impact on both sides of the supply and demand equation. It both drives house heating and cooling, which has a massive consumption impact, and it drives solar and wind production. But knowing &
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by jakewins 11mo ago
Is anyone aware of good sources of higher resolution models? Hourly resolution like this model provides doesn’t help much now that energy markets have moved to 15-min and 5-min resolution.
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by jakewins 11mo ago
Very similar experience with several libraries. Wrote up a particularly pleasant one a few years ago: https://tech.davis-hansson.com/p/clickbait/
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by jakewins 11mo ago
The rats here at Lund University hunt pigeons, friend of a friend took a video of a successful hunt just the other week, totally nuts. They wait in the bushes below the trees on campus, pounce on the pigeons when they land on the ground.
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by jakewins 1y ago
That is not something that’s necessary for all CQRS systems, but maybe is something you’ve heard for the subset that people call “Event Sourcing”? There it’s a design goal that the system only records events that are occurring, so there’s n
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by jakewins 1y ago
The fact that “query” and “ask” are synonyms in English does not make the patterns the same. The key design goal in this thread was to create a pure functional core, which you can “ask” things of. That pattern is useful on both the command
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by jakewins 1y ago
I think CQRS is something different than what’s being described here. “Query” code in CQRS can still “do stuff”: call an external database, grab locks, audit trail recording etc. What’s being described here is something lower level, that yo
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by jakewins 1y ago
Can’t most of them? Certainly React and Angular can as well.
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by jakewins 1y ago
The earliest sunrise is that the sun does not set, which happens every summer for all the cities and towns north of the polar circle
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by jakewins 1y ago
This isn’t actually how it works though. Who pays the tariff is the same as who pays a tax: it depends on the price elasticity of supply and demand. If the demand curve is very price sensitive - like people might stop buying wool blankets i
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by jakewins 1y ago
There is a middle ground here though. I try, anymore, to make sure I’m very clear on which review comments are blockers for me and which - most - are style, suggestions, questions. Unless the code has some egregious problem I immediately ap
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by jakewins 1y ago
But this was very much the case with existing OCR software as well? I guess the LLMs will end up making up plausible looking text instead of text riddled with errors, which makes it much harder to catch the mistakes, in fairness

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