jakewins

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by jakewins 2y ago
Well, regression in that feature set, but it’s better in other features, many of which drove people off of Eclipse. When it worked, it was really, really good, agree. My experience was that it usually didn’t though, swap branches a few ti
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by jakewins 2y ago
Intermittent and unreliable are two different things. Renewables are intermittent and reliable; if a wind producer has bid into the day-ahead auction, you can expect with very high reliability they will deliver as bid. Nuclear is great, s
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by jakewins 2y ago
So don’t provide secrets to your service via environment variable, it can leak? Instead, expose all your secrets via a public API with IP filtering, then give the credentials to this service to your app - as an environment variable - and vo
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by jakewins 2y ago
Yeah, this reminds me a lot of similar practices in the JVM world with compile time annotation processors. Bugs in those systems are hell to trace. Coming to the Go world of “if you’re gonna do code generation, write a dumb program that gen
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by jakewins 2y ago
> and the downtimes are scheduled. Dayjob is in energy market algo trading and DER ancillary services in EU, and I can tell you with confidence this is far from true. And when the nukes trip for safety reasons - which happens multiple ti
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by jakewins 2y ago
> No battery farm can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of bad weather. I don’t understand why wind solar is subject to absolutes devoid of probability - “what if the sun and wind stop simultaneously for
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by jakewins 2y ago
Man I remember being bit by this in migrating to AWS - this had like snuck through on fast on-prem disks, but as soon as that /tmp was on RDS oh boy, it was a dozy.
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by jakewins 2y ago
If your definition of “censorship free” is “not allowed to remove CP and similar content that comes with criminal liability for the site owner”, then yeah they do “censor” things. What people normally mean when they say “free speech” is in
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by jakewins 2y ago
Volts had a really good recent episode on the state of perovskite PV panels and why they are exciting: https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-perovskite-solar Theoretically they can ~double output of silicon PV, b
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by jakewins 2y ago
Yeah like the popular answers are eg - Hydrogen electrolyzers - Some deferrable industrial processes (or processes that can switch between fuels?) - Batteries ofc - EVs - etc etc Generally it seems like you have this tradeoff between saving
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by jakewins 2y ago
The EU price is settled in a single daily mixed-integer quadratic solver run, so the prices directly affect each other when the solver runs. The goal is to reach a singular price across the system, theoretically, but like you say that becom
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Negative electricity prices in nordics nearly all day(data.nordpoolgroup.com)
5 points by jakewins 2y ago|6 comments
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by jakewins 2y ago
Windy days and low heating needs means consumers get paid nearly every hour tomorrow to take surplus electricity off the EU grid. Thought this is interesting for HN to discuss - the expansion of near-zero-marginal-cost production from wind
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by jakewins 2y ago
Respectfully the argument you’re responding to is clearly just saying: the level of outrage feigned here over translating the mileage specs and not rounding is out of proportion . Continuing the thread with rude pedantry is not adding anyt
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by jakewins 2y ago
Yeah was about to say - i3 solves this as well, and does so in a general way rather than each app having its own split pane implementation. Sometimes I want two browser session side by side. Sometimes I want a browser session next to Gimp o
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by jakewins 2y ago
The law applies to tiny chainsaws - 45cc or less - no professional fells a tree with a saw that small. The saw they show in the video and claim is banned is well above 45cc and entirely legal to sell in CA. In effect, they’ve banned the tin
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by jakewins 2y ago
This blog is nonsense - the gas saw in the video is 100% for sale, you can buy it today from any Husky outfitter in CA. What’s banned are much much smaller saws - 45cc and down - that are, just like the video shows, in the same ballpark as
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by jakewins 2y ago
I had issues like this as well, started using cleaner fuel (alkylate) and have no issues with my Husky since then; it sits in the shed, starts right up every summer, haven’t serviced it in 4 years now. I agree in general though - same for E
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by jakewins 2y ago
This sounds much less efficient than the current proposed path of electrolyzing hydrogen? Direct air capture of carbon has, as I understand, extremely low efficiency. What would be the benefit of capturing carbon over making hydrogen?
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by jakewins 2y ago
Questions like these are hit and miss tho - I can do this because I worked in a sub-field where “write a parser for that” was a common tool to reach for. In my current field I haven’t seen a single parser in any company codebase; a dev that
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by jakewins 2y ago
> If your not willing to have the other person shame you for your gift then you shouldn't be giving gifts That is antithetical to how I was raised to react to gifts; you never shame someone that gives you a gift you didn’t like unle
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by jakewins 2y ago
The failure mode here is usually caching, in my experience. Lots of data, all dying old.
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by jakewins 2y ago
> How is this complicated? Here are some ways: - As a junior programmer, it made the language harder to learn. Language complexity increases super-linearly as each new feature has rules of interaction with several existing features - Alt
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by jakewins 2y ago
I think if you think constructors in Java are easy, you are much, much smarter than I am or have missed some really, really subtle footguns. Eg: - Java constructors can return the object before they complete construction, finishing at a lat
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by jakewins 2y ago
Man I get vertigo reading this. Reminds me of trying to understand Java constructors and object initialisation. It’s been a while now, and at least in my experience so far Go and Rusts choice of not having special constructors really simpli
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by jakewins 2y ago
The opinion and dissent are actually relatively approachable and lay out exactly what the disagreement is about: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-124_8nk0.pdf It seems to come down to whether the sen
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Matt's Page of Connectors and Crimping(mattmillman.com)
8 points by jakewins 2y ago|1 comments
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by jakewins 2y ago
If you dig a bit you’ll find studies that show things like “95% of vehicles are driven less than <some number much smaller than standard EV 400km range> per day” So no, I don’t think range is a huge issue, and fast charging infra is a
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by jakewins 2y ago
Wait I’m so confused by this - this is the opposite of how I thought it worked? Go import creates exactly the symbol you mention in the import statement, like “import fmt” creates a symbol “fmt”? Can you give an example of what you mean?
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by jakewins 2y ago
That doesn’t seem at all obvious - this thing has to spend a ton of energy on keeping the payload away from gravity that a tractor does not. It also has a pretty high capex bar to clear - it can’t replace a tractor, the farmer needs that st

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