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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Interesting points. Thanks for pointing this out. I'm nowhere near your level of comprehension in either language, but agree that spending some time outside of curly brace land gets you more comfortable with other languages.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Forth is like lisp in that there are lots of implementations, but this effect is multiplied. In fact, most folks that learn forth roll their own which is what the inventor Charles "Chuck" Moore does for every project. Forth is uni
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Another modern Forth that has a cross-compiler to make Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, Raspberry Pi, and iPhone executables is 8th. https://8th-dev.com/ It comes bundled with the C++ based JUCE GUI framework, SQLite, ODBC, en
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
It does sound interesting, so please do.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Agreed, but the key difference is that this is not only massively expensive, but will require years of construction and the coordination of millions of people. To make that happen, FERC is trying to incent the right market conditions and so
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Now this is an expensive hobby. I spent this on my last car (a necessity where I live). It was a great read though and I'd probably buy one as well if I had the money, time, and space. They seem like underrated machines.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
If you Google around a bit, mainframes are pretty expensive, but have very high up times and other benefits.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I've never heard of that, but would've loved one. Kinda useless with cellphones, but I could see that being nice for backpacking if the battery lasts long enough.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Don't forget "Boktai The Sun is in Your Hands" for GBA. It came with a solar sensor on the cartridge that required the gamer to go outside to charge their solar gun in order to kill vampires. Very cool, but it grew annoying f
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
F* or F#? They are very different.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Yea, I almost exclusively do text games these days.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Population and load is only one piece to the puzzle. A larger country means a much larger and more expensive transmission grid.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
In the energy market things would be cheaper when replacing it with renewables, but spending billions on additional wind farms, solar, and storage has a steep initial price tag. You'd also have to spend billions on transmission to conn
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
The US has multiple states larger than Germany I think. Regardless, it is much bigger and requires more work.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
A combination of shutting down nuclear to just import from France's nukes down the road and use solar where they don't get much sun I would guess.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I sympathize with where you're coming from. There needs to probably be a unified response from each country to make this transition happen as soon as possible. Please keep in mind that building a coal plant wasn't a dumb idea 20 y
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
They are actually becoming increasingly involved in this area by mandating certain energy market changes like reducing barriers for energy storage. It's a process though. If I misunderstood some of the intent of the post I was respondi
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I'm sorry, but you seem to not understand the realities of how this industry works. Even if a utility wants to retire an unprofitable coal unit, they might not be allowed to do so (by the state) if they're still paying it off. Let
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Isn't VSCode & Ionide plugin good enough?
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
It depends on what you want to do as this industry is HUGE. Do you care about metering and working at the solar panel or wind farm level? Or maybe on the actual energy markets that commit and dispatch all generation in a region? Or maybe th
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I saw on the Adacore website a success story for another company that sells smart metering products, so it is nice to see all the work in this space. There are plenty of major vendors as well with smart meter products and the accompanying s
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I just bought Scott's book on Railway Oriented Domain Driven Design. So far so good. I am the domain expert though, so no revelation there. The modeling of state machines using types and functions is pretty revolutionary to me for wher
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
What type of numerical computing do you do? By that, I mean what is the problem domain?
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Sadly, I've mostly come to the same conclusion in that I at least need a MIP Gap to tell me how far I am from the optimal solution. My only issue with LP and MILP solvers is scalibility. You have none! Multicore doesn't really see
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Yea I honestly don't fully understand how many cores my commercial license uses, but every now and then it tells me that I need to register my license when it is already registered. After some digging, I figured out that I could only h
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I work with a lot of C# devs using Visual Studio for some things and VSCode for others. I assume it is not uncommon in industry.
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I will say that although most of the proprietary software that I use is closed source, one major provider has so little documentation that they're pretty much forced by customers to provide source and that is super nice. I can actually
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
I think this often happens anytime there is a large amount of legacy software written by folks that had software has a tertiary skill on their tool belt. The Matlab IDE is not bad though and is a lot like Python's Spyder IDE. Also, a l
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Yea, I was going to say that many solvers are closed-source and incredibly expensive and have very restrictive licenses (basically all the good ones).
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Yea, AutoCAD is huge for Civil Engineers and Matlab is also pretty big for many engineering students, academics, and research professionals. I think most of the heavier users in industry used it all through grad school and then brought it o

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