maliker

12 ms·

91.
by maliker 4y ago
For power systems, I like Blume's "Electric Power System Basics For the Nonelectrical Professional". It does a good job of introducing all the parts of the distribution/transmission/generation system.
92.
by maliker 4y ago
Hmm, but how often and for how much? If you could get $500 to discharge 50% would that make it worth your while? If you only did it once a month? There are price situations like that on the grid already.
93.
by maliker 4y ago
A friendly overlay is definitely valuable. The NOAA APIs are super confusing and badly documented.
94.
by maliker 4y ago
It's extremely annoying. The reality is, python can deploy or isolate any way you'd like, but because there isn't one canonical way to do it, everyone comes up with their own system. My best guess about why this is the case i
95.
by maliker 4y ago
I think it’s fair to say that in the age of the internet, everyone is sidetracked all the time. Another thing I like about automation is that it lets you think bigger thoughts. If I have to go in and tweak a report in Excel, I’m only going
96.
by maliker 4y ago
If the automation script is commented well, it also becomes the documentation for the procedure. So in that sense it helps you remember as well.
97.
by maliker 4y ago
Back when I worked in a software company, everything had to be in a single database. Top down control by a CEO with an engineering bent seems to be the only way the chaos gets tamed.
98.
by maliker 4y ago
Oh man I wish I could get my (non-tech) org to do this. Instead we’ve got a twisted hellscape of docx and pptx inside MS Teams and 3 other enterprise storage apps. If anything is documented at all, that is.
99.
by maliker 4y ago
Authoring built right in as a first class feature. Sure with that had caught on.
100.
by maliker 4y ago
Definitely a great strategy. I found it helpful to consolidate cloud storage too (i.e. not spread stuff across OneDrive, Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, etc.).
101.
by maliker 4y ago
That's a great point. Google and Github allow it, but it'll still be difficult for non-technical people if they inherit my account. Stunningly some banks don't allow 2FA backup code. Sigh.
102.
by maliker 4y ago
I keep a key for everything in my password manager, and the company has a procedure for giving access to next of kin when I die. 2FA is kind of screwing this up screwing this up though, adding another hurdle.
103.
by maliker 4y ago
Great and fun talk on the development of Viridis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
104.
by maliker 4y ago
Vice versa. Companies paid for a gmail + meet bundle that came in cheaper than gmail + zoom.
105.
by maliker 4y ago
I use SingleFile occasionally for saving and sharing interactive pages. E.g. ones with zoomable charts. Works great.
106.
by maliker 4y ago
I used hypothes.is for highlighting, but now that tons of sites (like this one) block external javascript I needed something with a good safari plugin to get around that without too many hacks. Raindrop fit the bill. I’m a very happy custom
107.
by maliker 4y ago
I wonder if any smart watch apps can reliably achieve something similar. I looked briefly for an Apple watch app that did it but no luck.
108.
by maliker 4y ago
Every time I read about folks surgically implanting stuff like this [1] I think... surely just wearing it would be better? [1] https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/north-sense-cybernetic-i...
109.
by maliker 4y ago
True. Some even argue that Germany's renewable build-out was so large that it significantly lowered renewable costs worldwide. But if Russian gas was as expensive and unreliable 15 years ago as it is now, I suspect they would have kept
110.
by maliker 4y ago
In case anyone was curious, Germany used to get 25% of its generation from nuclear (now more like 10%), and they had as many as 17 nuclear reactors as of 2010. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germ
111.
by maliker 4y ago
Better to miss issues that aren’t reported or scramble to handle near misses? Optimize for false negatives at your own peril.
112.
by maliker 4y ago
Great job by the author for looking more closely and clarifying this was not an issue.
113.
by maliker 4y ago
I think you're working on a super important problem. Having moved from a software company to a political organization, this kind of thing drives me crazy. Used to be hey, what's the most critical issue and who's working on it
114.
by maliker 4y ago
Someone tried to do a bullet point version but it got blown up recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
115.
by maliker 4y ago
Interesting research question: how to build features to make sharing control less chaotic and potentially moderate abuse. But the core experience is great. Works flawlessly even on an iPhone. Congrats!
116.
by maliker 4y ago
A phone call works great for a remote “pop-in”. Has worked for 100 years.
117.
by maliker 4y ago
Don't worry! I worked with a couple people right out of top 10 CS programs in the USA. One of them was way faster at writing good code than the rest, even people who went through the same program he did. I asked him how he got so good,
118.
by maliker 4y ago
When I need to expose jupyter notebooks to non-technical users I put them on colab.research.google.com. It's a free, interactive, hosted Jupyter environment. It's not as slick as a dashboard, but it just requires an upload instead
119.
by maliker 4y ago
I write cheatsheets. Just the bare minimum stuff needed to get things done. When I refer back to them it's a lot faster than looking things up again in (e.g.) stackoverflow. My pandas cheatsheet gets probably too much use (damn that AP
120.
by maliker 4y ago
My guess is that the Electron app is using a generic video codec that they got working reliably across Windows/Mac/Linux, but Safari is forcing a more efficient one that's well-optimized for Mac only.

More ›