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by mschaef 13y ago
I can't speak for Australia, but I know that both are true for US pose markets. Power is a big part of what's sold, but there are many other markets too. Black start services, generation capacity, and frequency regulation, just to name a fe
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by mschaef 13y ago
Modern nuclear plants have two cascaded cooling loops and run at about 33% efficiency. This means that a 1000MW plant has 3000MW of thermal energy to manage at full load and 2000MW of energy to dissipate safely. The systems to do this take
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by mschaef 14y ago
A couple observations about this situation: Yahoo will likely be better off with a an all local workforce. Having spent time working both locally and remotely myself, being local and present with the rest of the team has significant benefit
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by mschaef 14y ago
I've recently been doing a little bit of C hacking on a small app with a web based interface. I've missed the higher level collections and I/O facilities, but some parts of the experience have been really refreshing. There are mature tool
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by mschaef 14y ago
> a barely functional string type There's a string type in C? All I see are character arrays and a few (poorly thought out) conventions for using them.
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by mschaef 14y ago
Did you run Java embedded?
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by mschaef 14y ago
It's a >70 year old house, so it's a miracle when I can get wires anywhere. What we have in our favor, though, is that the boiler is in the unfinished basement, the air handler is in the unfinished attic, and our electrician ran some pu
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by mschaef 14y ago
My home has separate heating and cooling systems. (The heating is done with radiators and the cooling is a conventional AC.) Does anybody happen to know if Nest works in this type of system?
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by mschaef 14y ago
To take it back a bit further than he goes, I'm 31494 and registered sometime in late 97, early 98. What's interesting about the numbers he presents is that there's a definite increase in growth rate (~2x) around 2008-2009.
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by mschaef 14y ago
Same here... 31494, and I completely stopped reading Slashdot right around the time I discovered reddit. What did it for me was the much higher volume of stories on reddit. So much of the time, I just didn't care about the Slashdot front pa
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by mschaef 14y ago
> My choice of implementation would be to pass a discriminator function which takes an error and returns true if the error is recoverable. Conditions are close to exactly that + syntactic sugar. `handler-bind` lets you establish a dynam
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by mschaef 15y ago
There is an enormous difference between a 3G and a 3GS. My wife and I have one of each, both running 4.2.1. Her 3GS is usable, my 3G really isn't. The 3H suffers from lots of OOM-killed applications, and a huge number of 30-40 second p
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by mschaef 16y ago
I was eight. The year was 1983, and I was attending an elementary school that was participating in a pilot program that introduced Logo programming to third graders. I got exposure to Logo through the class, and because my mom taught at the
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by mschaef 16y ago
> Maybe it's just my mental model, or being new to the language. But while going through SICP - 'cdadadr', 'cddaadr', etc. never really "clicked" in my mind. Really anything past 3 levels (cadar, cddar, etc.) always slowed down reading
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by mschaef 16y ago
They should have been, since that's one of the best 'current benefits' of the names. (Were I writing the post now, I'd include that argument too.)