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by mschaef 3y ago
IIRC, the only US ISO without a capacity market is ERCOT (TX). They let the marginal rates go higher on the theory that it will create an incentive for construction of generation to address anticipated capacity constraints.
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by mschaef 3y ago
> Weren’t the California brownouts caused by Enron fucking with California’s supply to cause them to purchase electricity from Texas at insanely high rates. The Texas grid (ERCOT, specifically) is almost completely isolated, in order to
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by mschaef 3y ago
I tend to agree with the other commenters suggesting you just step away from the keyboard for a while. I've been programming for 40 years... it can be addictive, fun, and useful... but there are other and more important things in life.
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by mschaef 3y ago
> Off topic (and a bit "hijack someone's post") but I keep thinking about the inherent suckiness of visual programming and what needs to happen to improve it. Visual programming presents huge challenges. > Text coding b
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by mschaef 3y ago
> Amtrak is a nightmare. It depends on the route. Long haul trains like the ones you describe are a dubious choice. I've done that twice, and that was enough. I've also used Amtrak to commute on the Northeast corridor literally
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by mschaef 3y ago
> And if you still think it's bad anyways, you can always improve on it. But very few actually want to put on the enormous amount of work needed to improve YAML or create a new language. The issue is less about putting in the work t
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by mschaef 3y ago
Back in school (mid-90's), I made a point of taking a FORTRAN introductory class to go along with all the other work I was doing in Pascal, C++, Lisp, etc. For most of the class, FORTRAN felt mostly like a penalty box. It was full of b
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by mschaef 3y ago
> I feel like I got a little glimpse of that 90s power scaling when I upgraded from a hand-me-down PowerPC 603ev 200mhz Performa to a PowerPC 400Mhz iMac My first computer upgrade was from a 4.77MHz 8088 to a 16MHz 386SX. Easily over an
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by mschaef 3y ago
> I know, but windows 3.1 looked like windows 3.1. There were shells even available before Windows 3 that provided a folder style desktop metaphor. HP NewWave immediately comes to mind, and it ran on very limited hardware. > NT was so
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by mschaef 3y ago
> a lot of people ran windows 95 on 16mb even. that's a modern, multitasking desktop OS! I ran Windows 3.0 on a 16MHz 386sx with 5MB of RAM and a 40MB disk. That's with a graphical word processor, PostScript Fonts, and a set of
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by mschaef 3y ago
LIN bus also https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/lin-bus-protocol-intro-...
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by mschaef 3y ago
> The tooling makes XML fun. High praise indeed.
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by mschaef 3y ago
> The ability to create tag templates basically. You'd define tags that you could parameterize using attributes, and then within the custom tag "body" would be more tags definitions. Not sure how it might be supported in t
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by mschaef 3y ago
Agreed, but I find the JavaScript to be difficult to work with. (This is less about he language and more about the fact that the API is a little vague and errors are not well reported.)
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by mschaef 3y ago
They introduced this system with Visual C++ v1, which is also known as Microsoft C v8. (There are nuances, but that captures the gist.) The preceding version, MSC v7, was the first version of the Microsoft C compiler to support C++. It&#x27
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by mschaef 3y ago
> The Visual Studio 6 box had an introduction book to win32 and MFC ... Nothing made sense to me, a lot of boiler plate code was there without much explanation about why it was there. Some of this is a symptom of the fact that Microsoft
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by mschaef 3y ago
> When I was a kid I tried to build a windows app. Getting a notepad clone even kind of close was a triumph for me, I remember having similar struggles. Windows programming was a huge lift. Not only were there new API's to learn, it
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by mschaef 3y ago
> he, and many other core Windows engineers lined their pockets for years - write complex implementations, do the absolute bare minimum documentation, then take a 6 month sabbatical and publish a reference book that was absolutely requi
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by mschaef 3y ago
> as opposed to your faith in hubristic science? science that has been bought and paid for time and time again for big money interests? are those just red herrings and whataboutism as opposed to 'learn from history or repeat it&#x27
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by mschaef 3y ago
> I can’t get behind stuff like this. It just doesn’t seem easier to use than something like Whimsical or even Visio. Different people have different learning/working styles. Even if it doesn't work for you, it may well work fo
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by mschaef 3y ago
> It boggles my mind that a warm blooded creature that needs arable land would be upset about icecaps melting. The earth is a large system with lots of inertia. When some aspect of it changes relatively quickly, it's natural to be u
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by mschaef 3y ago
Because they don't at close to the necessary scale. This site shows a projected July load profile for ERCOT (Texas) in 2035: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights... Note that Storage c
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by mschaef 3y ago
Even VB1 was near miraculous for the time. It catches a lot of flack, but VB took Windows programming (which formerly required knowledge of C, $600 worth of tooling, and a multi-step build process) and made it a $99.99 drag/drop affair
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by mschaef 3y ago
> Yes, it was. I evaluated OS/2 1.0 professionally, when it was new; did you? I was 12, so just a user and programmer. (Dating back to Windows 2.11) > 1. Windows 2 had an edition built around 286 protected mode. ... In fact, Wind
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by mschaef 3y ago
> But there’s a nuance in that OS/2 1.x used 286 protected mode the way Intel had intended it, by booting into it and never returning to real mode ( OS/2 had the ability to run DOS programs in a DOS box. my recollection was tha
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by mschaef 3y ago
There were a couple things Windows did better regarding DOS when compared to OS/2: * Windows ran on a DOS file system, so data portability was transparent. * You could easily quit Windows to get back to something close to whatever DOS
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by mschaef 3y ago
>At IBM’s insistence it was designed to target the 286 protected mode. > Bill Gates grumbled a lot about that,... And he was right because no interesting applications emerged for OS/2 1.x 286 protected mode wasn't the issue.
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by mschaef 3y ago
https://www.mschaef.com Technical blog covering a range of topics. Some ongoing focus on Lisp/Clojure and recent musings on personal computing in the 80's and 90's.
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by mschaef 3y ago
> Can I shower in salt water? You at least need special soap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltwater_soap
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by mschaef 3y ago
Any recommendations on specific web based tools for this?

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