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by probablypower 3y ago
hah, cool to see this, I'm responsible for this data being available. As much as it would suck to lose a power plant (we are already on the edge of energy shortages), it is far worse to lose hot water supply to Keflavik. They'd ha
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by probablypower 3y ago
This is interesting, because I have the exact opposite response to these sorts of articles. I think any bias or personal interest should be declared upfront in media (articles, videos, podcasts, ...) rather than appear as a 'common con
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by probablypower 3y ago
How is the legality of residential chicken breeding relevant to this discussion on the environmental impact of lab-grown meat?
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by probablypower 3y ago
Unfortunately this is article fails to talk about grid stability, frequency control, inertia, and other important operational factors that keep transmission grids running. The grid the author is imagining would not survive more than an hour
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by probablypower 3y ago
This is absurd, and very american. Cute that you'd imagine an alien civilization to look at the Earth the same way you do. They may just as well look at humans as the white ants of a potential galactic bus stop.
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by probablypower 3y ago
I countered a post I found a bit cynical in the comments, but I figured I should also counter the overly rose-tinted substack post, as it lacks some context. > Iceland is also home to lots of "love refugees," tourists who found
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by probablypower 3y ago
I agree that the article has rose-tinted glasses, but your post has (cynic coloured)-tinted glasses. I am replying here not to attack your post but to provide an alternate perspective. > it's rare to break 1M isk a month (85 kUSD&#x
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by probablypower 3y ago
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland (Euro and Australian passports) Remote: Flexible Willing to relocate: Yes (and willing to learn new languages) Technologies: Python, SQL, datbase management tools, power system tools and analytics. Primarily in
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by probablypower 3y ago
My issue with this is that it feels less like a new toy to play with and more like a new worm that is meant to hook me, my workflow, and my data into their silo. I'd like to see better demarcation in windows tooling when it comes to ho
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by probablypower 3y ago
This article is really weakened by its failure to resolve the initial example. What was it in the initial A/B test that resulted in your 10% improvement in conversion rate to be non-statistically significant? Would applying a simple st
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by probablypower 3y ago
When you're in a transactional environment, it is expected. For example, if you are a car salesman and someone comes to you with a problem like "what car should I buy?", and your response is, "you should buy X because Y&
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by probablypower 3y ago
I guess the great game developers/designers are those who can convert their imagined fantasy fun into shareable real fun through games. Not easy at all.
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by probablypower 3y ago
This is kind of on the right track, but not correct. The breakdown varies wildly depending on which electrical market you're in, and where in that market you're physically located. The price you pay is mostly a combination of: - W
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by probablypower 3y ago
Always useful data. Important to note that electrical grids and markets are more complicated than "average levelized cost". The uptake of intermittent resources will increase the need for ancillary services, and skew the economics
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by probablypower 3y ago
This looks cool and is well made, but god do I hope my company does not let this become common place. We already struggle with company logic being buried in spreadsheets, brains and walled garden software. The last thing we need is to encou
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by probablypower 4y ago
As someone who comes here expecting a source of fresh high-quality content, it saddens me to see reddit style reposts on the top of the page.
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by probablypower 4y ago
Interesting service, this post comes at a convenient time, as I'm looking at different weather data services to bring into my company. I note that you state 8 years of historical data is available for one of the priced plans, and then
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by probablypower 4y ago
This article is of a man trying to carve out his slice in the self-help, productivity-hacking attention economy. If you squint, it looks like sigma grindset satire. The underlying advice in the blog isn't bad, but the formatting is awk
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by probablypower 4y ago
> Korzybski: The map isn't the territory. > This article: The map isn't the experienced territory isn't the territory. This seems over-thought and tautological. It just reinforces to me that Korzybski was wise. The arti
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by probablypower 4y ago
This seems odd to me. This is basically just ways of finding database-esque tables in spreadsheets to then leverage for vector/matrix operations. It is a non-problem for anyone who really cares about performance as they've probabl
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by probablypower 4y ago
No offense to the OP, as it is a well written article on a fairly common bad habit, but... I gotta say I'm sick of advertisements masquerading as blog posts. It is like tech bro astro-turfing, and frankly insufferable to see the owner
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by probablypower 4y ago
> "A Single Line of Code Brought Down a Half-Billion Euro Rocket Launch" Blaming a system failure on a single point like this dooms that system to repeat similar failures (albeit in another element) in the future. There are num
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by probablypower 4y ago
Great idea. Initial feedback is that the UI on the webpage seems busted, or at the very least poorly-scaled. For example the "Celebrity Picks" photos are way too large and pixellated, and the "Recommended Lists" title te
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by probablypower 4y ago
What was your motivation for the following function? function rotateLine(position) { if (position < halfabet) { context.rotate((-90 \* Math.PI) / 180); } else if (position > halfabet) { context.rotate((90
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by probablypower 4y ago
Location: Australia or Europe (I have Icelandic and Australian citizenship) Remote: Yes or No Willing to Relocate: Yes Technologies: Primarily Python and SQL CV: available on request email: probablypowerHN@gmail.com -- I have a PhD in elect
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by probablypower 4y ago
I'm not OP, but I can share how I did. I needed to do some soul searching into my excuses for not running. I'd always think to myself, "I'd like to run, but I'm tired", despite having done nothing physical all
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by probablypower 4y ago
You can get the same purging experience and feeling of lightness with a standard colonoscopy prep, which is done with over the counter medication. You don't get black eyes either.
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by probablypower 4y ago
They're Australian, they probably just think Balkan is term for countries between Germany and Russia.
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by probablypower 4y ago
Not to be rude, as I appreciate the motivation behind your work, but your post ironically followed SEO junk format: 1. Enter the discussion on a human level 2. Hook onto existing context 3. Argue issues with existing context 4. Present your
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by probablypower 4y ago
Thanks for the fun analogy. It is right on the money. Made me imagine the invention of the internet as the big bang, and that now we are watching the expansion of e-space as all the useful bodies rush away from one another and the light-yea

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