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by scblock 8y ago
While we're pointing out dumb fads, how about the video player and other pointless crap that popped up on the screen and blocked part of the article. A purposely user-hostile fad in web design.
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by scblock 8y ago
Next up: nonlinear timeline!
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by scblock 8y ago
You can look up Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP) data. Some Independent System Operators publish the information online. It varies pretty widely by region, and by time of day, time of year, condition of the grid, etc. ERCOT: http:/&#
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by scblock 8y ago
1) Power industry magazines, regulated utilities, mainstream newspapers, and others have 2) This source, regardless of bias, is reporting published public price information for long-term contracts, and comparing said published price informa
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by scblock 8y ago
No, not nationalism. Seemingly legitimate worries about security. I was just clarifying that I was speaking from an American perspective, where US government has published warnings against a specific set of manufacturers, not all Chinese pr
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by scblock 8y ago
Are they kidding? I know the Verge is run by strange people, but their top recommendation is a Chinese laptop with a design ripped-off of the MacBook Pro, made by a company that we are recommended to avoid right now because of questionable
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by scblock 8y ago
There was no software or hardware error. It didn't break, it worked exactly as it was programmed. Which is the problem, and one of the many reasons Uber is at fault.
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by scblock 8y ago
If that was the "initial core idea" it was never implemented. It was narcissism from day one.
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by scblock 9y ago
So, 'science' not science? Got it. That was a pretty quick Godwining, by the way.
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by scblock 9y ago
This app page says nothing. It's just a few screenshots and some generic text. Your "support page" is an email address, and doesn't actually contain any information on the app. If you're going to show us something a
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by scblock 9y ago
I am not even remotely trying to be clever.
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by scblock 9y ago
Is this the same oppressive regime that surveils, firewalls and filters the internet and other forms of communication that this idea depends on?
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by scblock 9y ago
iPhones, Android phones, music players, and other electronic things, if the weather is cold enough. Are we just trying to find anything bad to say about Apple so we can say it? Why is this on the front page?
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by scblock 9y ago
No.
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by scblock 9y ago
I am trying to clear up what appear to be hugely misleading assumptions about how PDFs work. Edit: and based on the information provided in these news reports, he was being a massive technology rube.
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by scblock 9y ago
Editing a PDF is relatively simple with the appropriate tools, and PDFs are not "flattened" by any of the typical definitions I am familiar with. Numerous PDF editors exist, and the standard is well documented (ISO 32000) and free
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by scblock 9y ago
In what way do you mean flattened? Authorship and metadata? No, that is often still present, and many tools will include author and software data by default. Layers? No, PDFs can have extensive layers.
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by scblock 9y ago
PDF/A is not typically the standard choice for exporting tools, and it is certainly not a stateless representation of printed documents. PDFs, including PDF/A documents, can and do store extensive metadata, and can include attache
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by scblock 9y ago
Agreed. While this is better than many services, which make it easy to upgrade on the web but impossible to cancel without a phone call, it is still user hostile.
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by scblock 9y ago
Well it certainly doesn't do that...
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by scblock 9y ago
While I am unsure about the different units for conventional vs. renewable energy, pricing for large scale power projects is generally reviewed on a per unit of generation basis, not a capital cost basis. That way the cost incorporates all
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by scblock 9y ago
This site completely hoses the back button, and doesn't give any kind of future look, rendering it largely pointless and annoying.
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by scblock 9y ago
Chrome only makes this effectively useless. Considering that the entire browser market is moving to a largely unified web extension format this is not that impressive. "Everywhere Chrome works" is simply repeating the mistakes of
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by scblock 9y ago
The only way I can see the title ending up like this ("Apple Will No Longer Be Developing CUPS Under the GPL") is someone with a bone to pick about GPL vs Apache chose it. The title of the blog post (which should probably be the p
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by scblock 9y ago
Is it just me or is the "onboarding" process too stupid to understand being run on a computer behind a proxy? I can't find any settings so I just get a fairly pointless failure message.
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by scblock 9y ago
Selling but not shipping. No word on actual ship dates on any of the three linked sites (direct, Best Buy, or Sprint) unless I'm looking in the wrong place. Edit: Sprint is currently estimating August 28 on their shipping page.
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by scblock 9y ago
The history of "innovative" renewable energy development ideas of this general type over the last 15 or so years. Wind energy is my field, and I pay close attention to these ideas because I find them interesting. It's also wh
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by scblock 9y ago
I feel like a broken record (to myself) because every time I see these concepts I immediately conclude they have no viable commercial future and are a waste of everything except enthusiasm. That's too negative, because that's how
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by scblock 9y ago
I have to assume that they meant megawatt-hours, a unit of energy, rather than megawatts, a unit of power.
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by scblock 9y ago
I probably missed something, but this reads like a mostly nonsensical rant with a clickbait headline.

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