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by pyrale 2y ago
They could be optimistic because they didn’t get suckered by what tech has become. It is the same kind of optimism that can be found in Engelbart’s preamble to the mother of all demos. The idea that one could treat a program delivered by go
902.
by pyrale 2y ago
Also to make it a sports contest and not a pharma contest. It's the same reason there's a minimum weight for bikes used in the race: people tend to disregard security when making lighter bikes, and the cost of experiments means th
903.
by pyrale 2y ago
A slowdown already happened once (the original pace was doubling every year), and I believe it's widely accepted that we're not going to keep the current pace for long.
904.
by pyrale 2y ago
> Overall I don't think this is a fair argument against exponential growth. Do we still need to make a fair claim against unrestricted exponential growth in 2024? Exponential growth claims have been made countless times in the past,
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by pyrale 2y ago
I had the same questioning reading about haskell in this thread. And my search tool is so biased by past searchs that it won't tell me what else haskell means.
906.
by pyrale 2y ago
So, where do poor people live in that area?
907.
by pyrale 2y ago
> Carmel did not invest in poverty. Carmel pushed it out of town. Now it is extremely wealthy per-capita. I suspect this doesn't mean that everyone working there is paid handsomely. The city instead focused on being the rich neighbo
908.
by pyrale 2y ago
It has been complete for years, despite targetting an api that never ceased to evolve. Its bugs are not fixed, including todos in core libraries. Practically, it’s abandoned.
909.
by pyrale 2y ago
The historic elm library for unittests does emit js code meant to run on node. There is also a cottage industry of applications in elm that don’t target the browser like elm-review, and applications running elm code without using its js out
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by pyrale 2y ago
Because the UK was reluctant to give extradition based on the conditions offered by the US. Part of the reason the US is offering a plea deal is that it bypasses the need for extradition. Australia also asked the US to drop the case. So off
911.
by pyrale 2y ago
> So you can't just say "hey these things come from an ever-evolving oral tradition and this is just one more evolution". That doesn't accurately describe what is happening. On the other hand, why should people stop d
912.
by pyrale 2y ago
Sorry, I'm really not interested in a debate built on selective quotes and paywalled articles. As I said, the cost analysis is public. It was even translated [1]. If you're interested in reading a 432-page long cost analysis, have
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by pyrale 2y ago
Yes, my point is load in April, per the blog numbers, seems to be 15-20 GW down compared to yearly peak. Battery buildup is of course going to be more impressive when load is low. The first graph of the article shows batteries peak 2.5 G hi
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by pyrale 2y ago
I mean, 2023 is the worst year in your graph, 2024 data is as of April, when peakload happened in summer every of the last 25 years [1]. There is some interesting data about CAISO batteries, but this graph is not it. [1]: https://
915.
by pyrale 2y ago
These conspiracy theories are really annoying. There is no "hidden true cost", lifecycle cost analysis has been done including research and public financing. The data is public, everyone can check it.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> Many advanced large US Navy vessels have reactors. They are not built to be cost-efficient. The Navy doesn't really care about cost per MWh, they're after other metrics. The civilian energy sector is the opposite: we can affo
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by pyrale 2y ago
The part I love about paper-bases voting is the ability for anyone to visit the polling station and understand from A to Z how it works and how security is graranteed. If you have doubts about the system, you can just come and see.
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by pyrale 2y ago
The halting problem is not an actual issue. It’s a darling of computer science classes, but is you need to prove that your program halts, it’s not that hard to write it in a language subset that is not turing-complete.
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by pyrale 2y ago
For that you would need a proper, well-grounded type system and a language that doesn’t stray from it. Some fp languages are close enough to fit that bill; Rust too is going down this path: its type system was built to make a proof, after a
920.
by pyrale 2y ago
> Have you seen actually dysfunctional organization? I have yet to see an organization that is not dysfunctional. Some dysfunctions I can live with, though. I agree with you, if gaming the metrics wastes a reasonable time (say, 5 minutes
921.
by pyrale 2y ago
> In my experience, the average person I’ve worked with also believes in personality integrity and is guided by a sense of ethics. Individual aspirations are not enough, if your org doesn't shape itself in a way to prevent bad outco
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by pyrale 2y ago
> I was fortunate to find an employer that also believed in these values. Same here, it's not paying well, but it feels refreshing to know that babies won't get thrown into mixers if you stop thinking for 10 minutes.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Kafka is everywhere. But I guess there is a point where hyped new tech becomes boring and mainstream, and people stop writing about it.
924.
by pyrale 2y ago
That's the goal of the capacity market. https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/markets-and-consumers/cap...
925.
by pyrale 2y ago
State-fixed prices are rarely interesting though, as the price is calculated to be above-market.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Demand is not that flexible, especially intraday. Negative prices tend to be served by production program adjustments.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Afaik most of the energy is traded otc, spot markets are a tiny fraction of what gets delivered. But that fraction is still interesting: since p=c must be respected, and there is always some small delta that is hard to predict and has to be
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by pyrale 2y ago
Load scheduling driven by price incentives (namely hot water) is already the largest flexibility source in France iirc. I’m not sure that there is much difference between price-driven flexibility and smart grids though (in that most of the
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by pyrale 2y ago
By 2034, it will be at 100%. By 2045, the earth will be covered by solar panels so we will start tiling Mars. According to projections, the Dyson Sphere should be completed by 2117. Exponential curves are a hell of a drug. > I don't
930.
by pyrale 2y ago
> while all nonrenewables are decelerating. 2023 is the year we burned the most coal, the most gas, the most oil, etc... So far.

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