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by spenrose 8y ago
https://twitter.com/sampenrose/status/944986515930624002 "Resolved: Apple should make iPhone for the human hands that hold it, not just the eyes and fingertips that invoke its software. ... Now we can update
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by spenrose 8y ago
https://twitter.com/ritholtz/status/1096449884180434945 The whole thread is worth reading (note he links to a counter-argument at the end).
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An issue with Go channels and high-performance networking from 2016: "There was one fundamental mistake made, however, which is that we shouldn't have used channels. ... First, they don't perform well enough. ... Second, they
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"it costs the firm between $500 and $600 to remove a metric ton of CO₂ from the air" Ricke et alia center their cost-of-carbon estimates at $417: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0282-y . Climeworks
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Oil Fail(tbray.org)
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"Much of this spending-installation correlation comes from investment in more expensive offshore wind, which generates more power per megawatt than onshore turbines. Also, onshore turbines are more efficient and produce much more power
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Solar and Wind Power Investors Get More Bang for Their Bucks(bloomberg.com)
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"The invention of the horse-drawn streetcar in 1853, followed by the electric streetcar in 1888, meant that middle-class families could now expand outwards into the first generation of suburbs, the streetcar suburbs. Enter the kit hous
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The Mail Order American Dream: An Introductory Guide to Identifying Kit Houses(mcmansionhell.com)
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What Elon Musk is proposing runs parallel to a train that costs $2.25(twitter.com)
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Wind and solar electricity are cheap, and EVs use 70% less energy than gas cars(twitter.com)
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The article begins by contradicting itself: "To deliver an electric vehicle that’s cheaper, safer and capable of traveling 500 miles on a single charge ..." That's not a "car". A "car", as driven by a bill
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LCoE for utility-scale solar-plus-storage is very roughly $30/MWh: " Xcel Energy in Colorado saw bids for solar-plus storage at $36 per megawatt-hour, compared to $25 per megawatt-hour for standalone solar, and NV Energy has seen
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If the existing nuclear units in the US can be kept operational despite the economic challenges they face, and technology can be developed to store energy generated by renewable technologies, which are currently intermittently available, &q
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by spenrose 8y ago
Summary: "cyclomatic complexity is a heuristic with degenerate cases, and some tools don't implement it correctly."
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No new nuclear units will be built in US due to high cost: Exelon official(spglobal.com)
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"I wouldn't have to recommend Python to beginners any more, and be on the hook for explaining e.g. why default values are mutable, or why nested generator comprehensions behave differently than nested list comprehensions." Ma
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"Officially China still sees nuclear power as a must-have. But unofficially, the technology is on a death watch. Experts, including some with links to the government, see China’s nuclear sector succumbing to the same problems affecting
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by spenrose 8y ago
This appears to be the source paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-018-0258-1 ... and NREL press release: https://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2018/nrel-identifies-where-n...
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by spenrose 8y ago
Sure. And many people new to skiing expect something like gussets to keep the snow out of their underwear when they fall. Issue is whether skiing is about clothing or moving over the landscape. Some focus on your clothes is appropriate, and
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"When I walk to the store, I intend for the ground to hold me up. My intention might be implicit, but it is always there."
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I think you missed the "unless" in my question. I am well aware that having chosen to treat types as a first class problem, a coder can leverage that intent. My point is simply that there is a populous, productive world of softwar
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Perhaps the programmer should be focused on the purpose the code serves, rather than the code as code object. Mental cycles devoted to thinking about types are, for most programs, overhead. It's perfectly reasonable to be a strong stat
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Why would a programmer have an intent about types to express unless s/he had been trained to think of programming in terms of static typing?
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"I would also like to see the environmental groups and the left in general stop branding coal as somehow immoral. How about instead trying to make coal compete on level ground: tax its carbon emissions, tax its particulate emissions, r
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"Lazard’s latest annual Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (LCOE 12.0) shows a continued decline in the cost of generating electricity from alternative energy technologies, especially utility-scale solar and wind. In some scenarios, alt
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Levelized Cost of Energy and Levelized Cost of Storage 2018(lazard.com)
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What the Times got wrong about kids and phones(cjr.org)
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This article should not have been written IMHO, though the reasons are not obvious: "This works more efficiently, potentially providing a boost of more than 20 percent, but ... [implementation would] involves balancing a lot of [curren
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Learn Git the Hard Way(leanpub.com)
1 points by spenrose 8y ago|0 comments

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