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by ocschwar 9y ago
I'll admit it was not my best written comment I was rushing to catch a plane. BTW, here's a live picture of the New England power market, both real time and day ahead. Older nuclear plants require a day's notice to change the
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by ocschwar 9y ago
So, I work in this field, and I have to find it really annoying to see the NYTimes miss the big picture. The price for electricity tomorrow from 12 to 1 was set in the Day Ahead Market already, by all the participants (generator owners, uti
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Walking down an English high street with an intrepid 1 year old explorer was an eye opener for me. (Translation: a high street is a main street in an English town. They're usually car-free.) Every time my son bolted, I had a full 30 se
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by ocschwar 9y ago
I can tell you from experience that if you persistently ask newbie questions on the Rust help channels, they'll get enough information out of you that they can say "oh, just put X, Y and Z on line 22 of your code" and it will
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by ocschwar 9y ago
I do R code QA for a living now. And I can see why some people like R. They are end users for whom the language was explicitly designed, so they like the ergonomics (to use the term Rustaceans are popularizing.) The thing is, like Perl and
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Plumbers can't telecommute.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The thing is, Medicaid would be cheaper if instead of verifying income eligibility and having a long application process, we just enrolled everyone. It sucks enough to make sure middle class people will still get their own insurance, just b
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by ocschwar 9y ago
It's not the bureaucracy. It's the politicos sitting on top of the bureaucracy. The bureaucrats would rather do their jobs and give honest reports about it to the legislature and the public.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
I live in MA. We are ranked 25th nationwide for tax burden. Yes, you read that right. Schools are good. The trains are showing their age, but we got new rolling stock in production and coming on line. The roads are okay, but the big deal wi
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by ocschwar 9y ago
It's not just the ability to move. It's the ability to control bouyancy that's vital. Anything that compromises that, and the sub goes into an irrecoverable dive.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Submarines are just about the worst when it comes to the duration from the second someone goofs up and the second where everyone's doomed. And also the worst when it comes to the duration from the instant everyone's doomed to the
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The insurance mandate is what's kept those flood zone maps from being updated, so it's not as meticulous as you might think. And it's not so much the insurance as you having to build for the flood when you ask for a building
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The only real problem is that this was a decision made ad hoc. People whose neighborhoods are likely to be flooded by such a decision should know years in advance that they are designated for it.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Climate change is already making the earth too hot for SOME humans, specifically atoll dwelling people who are being forced to relocate. It could make the earth too hot for SOME humans, as in it will force the human population to decline, s
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by ocschwar 9y ago
> I don't know anything about chemical engineering but I've never considered chemical engineers to be magical. For a layman who's curious about computers, he can just go to a computer and try stuff. Worst outcome from the
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Ocean wind is much steadier, if not stronger, and it happens to be right near the various coastal cities.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
THis is not nearly as hard corre as it would have been in the days before Xen.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The bigger question is whether the Belgae, who were in southeastern Britain when Caesar arrived, were Celtic or German.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Caesar mixing his Celts and Germans also leads us to wonder if England really was Germanized in the 5th century with the Angle invasion, or if the east of the island was already Germanic when Caesar first visited.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Filipinos on the Mississipi? I don't buy it. They would still have to pay Illinois prices for food and coffee every time they docked. They could only take so much of a pay cut. Not that there isn't a place for the Jones Act. But i
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Glaciers, permafrost, and the like are the kind of low-pass filter that lets people observe the underlying signal without a Matlab window open. For me, it's the fact that the young children in my neighborhood have given up on hockey an
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by ocschwar 9y ago
What I miss about Slashdot more than anything was the editors and writers using the comments section to fact check the stories. Ye ghods, do I miss that.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
> One important difference between the CFC ban and carbon emissions caps is the availability of inexpensive alternatives: HFCs. A very important thing to note about the difference is that CFCs and HFCs are produced by the same corporatio
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by ocschwar 9y ago
PBR? People still drink that stuff?
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The problem with MIT is that while MIT students are well, MIT students, and MIT faculty are MIT faculty, MIT administrators are generic college administrators, hopping from school to school as they hunt chances at promotion.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
What boggles my mind is how this morphing continues 16 years after 9/11. WHile college freshmen get babied like this, others the same goddamn age are going into combat. Large numbers of them.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Turning the US into the kind of country where it is unsafe to drink the tap water.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Well, you do have a barrier island named Great Britain to protect against cyclone surges.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
The more you seal off your land with buildings, or pavement, or even patio tiles, the more the rain will wash off your land and flood people who live downhill from you. So the Dutch pay closer attention to the issue than other nations.
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by ocschwar 9y ago
Their survivorship, however, is mostly designed to come from mother nature, not from craftsmanship.

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