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EPRI Webcast of Initial Findings from April 28, 2025 Iberia Blackout(youtube.com)
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by nfg 1y ago
I’d be interested to hear more here - what CGM did you buy? What was your process for monitoring?
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by nfg 5y ago
> there is no other animal out there who […] developed some kind of societal system to expands its own resources beyond what's available in the wild. The trouble with this sort of quasi-dualistic general statement in my experience
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by nfg 6y ago
> For instance, I remember looking at a grocer's shop and the sign that said "Oranges", which looked very much like "Πορτοκάλια" in Greek. And interestingly to extend this chain of connections I just read your co
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by nfg 6y ago
‘After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000–5000 BC’ by Steven Mithen was excellent when I read it ~10 years ago. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674019997
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by nfg 6y ago
No, I don’t think you can fairly say a country is an archipelago unless it’s solely composed of islands all of which are entirely the territory of that state.
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by nfg 6y ago
The UK is not an island.
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by nfg 6y ago
> I know people who've kept Macs running for nearly a decade (e.g. 2011 Macbook Air) It’s no longer my primary machine but my 2009 MBP is still running just fine (new memory and disk 5 years back, battery is a bit shagged at this st
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by nfg 6y ago
I don’t see how it does at all - the point isn’t C versus Java, it’s native versus managed. Any reasonably proficient team running managed services needs to know how to deal with native dependencies, but the reverse is not true.
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by nfg 6y ago
You’ll note the word “likely” in my comment. And there’s nothing special about C in my argument - I was responding to a comment which used it as an example. The point is simply that one way or another any given team likely knows how to tune
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by nfg 6y ago
The JVM that Java shop is using is likely written in C, which should make you question the straight equivalence you’re setting up. There is an operational difference between getting a native executable and having something that sits on top
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by nfg 6y ago
> In practice, how many developers write C# on a non Windows platform? I'd say a very, very tiny minority. Plenty do - think of deploying c# web services on Linux servers / containers.
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by nfg 6y ago
Historically this just isn’t correct - for example in accounts of labour agitation and union formation in the 19th century it’s noted time and again that the organisers and ringleaders were often the cream of the workers in each industry de
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by nfg 6y ago
Not to go off on a tangent but this really struck me: “ KI There is a big difference between someone in my position and someone who has come from one of the countries that belonged to the British Empire. There is a very special and very pot
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by nfg 6y ago
We have “Iarlaith” in Irish which I believe is cognate with it.
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by nfg 6y ago
FWIW “Mary” is sort of the stereotypical female name here in Ireland, though I see from looking at the stats that its use has dropped off a good bit (#92 in girls names last year). I’d bet that drop-off is precisely because it’s seen as a v
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by nfg 6y ago
The one the drives me mad the most is when I type a word which it incorrectly autocorrects to a proper noun (which gets capitalised), I then use backspace to delete that word and type the - completely different - correct one, but it insists
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by nfg 6y ago
I can only speak for myself, but I’m in a group of ≈50 working on prime software R&D (as you term it) in a very trendy space in Dublin for a large multinational. I don’t want to say too much beyond that - and you’re probably right that
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by nfg 6y ago
What nonsense, firstly OP clearly is specifically referring to the budget outlay for education, and even if taken more broadly I can assure you throughout the world there are plenty of governments whose spending is constrained by current in
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by nfg 6y ago
> why would you expect Americans to know about it in the first place? I’d expect anyone making specific public criticisms of the GDPR to have a general understanding of it and the legal context it sits in.
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by nfg 6y ago
Perfectly sensible, issues like this are automatically detected and enforced in shipping codebases where I work. As a commenter on the issue says the result is frankly clearer and more understandable anyway.
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by nfg 6y ago
https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4
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by nfg 6y ago
> Yes, and over 24 hours, they are 12 hours in darkness: on a 90-minute orbit, 45 consecutive minutes are spent in Earth's shadow => half the day, they are in darkness. FWIW I don’t think that’s correct. The effect isn’t signific
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by nfg 6y ago
Thanks for the explanation - very helpful. I was wondering if you might have time to go into more detail on this: > A random sample of additional people also receive notification messages which their phones are able to discard as invalid
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by nfg 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics
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by nfg 6y ago
All I can say as a speaker of non-US English is that “Metallica is” and “Nirvana is” still sound completely wrong to my ear.
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by nfg 6y ago
Orbits can be quite unstable, for example read (one theory) or the early dynamics of the solar system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_model
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by nfg 7y ago
I’m keen to hear what problems you’ve had with AKS if you’ve got time to share them here.
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by nfg 7y ago
The poster said ‘a mass extinction’ which does not mean what you seem to think it does: “An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth.” https:/&
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by nfg 7y ago
Source here: https://www.nioz.nl/en/news/een-dam-dwars-door-de-noordzee-w...

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