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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I've seen you on the Rebol/Red forums...do you get paid to write Rebol?
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I think Red could find some momentum with blockchain, but I'm not sure how many people will go for yet another ICO, although I'm very ignorant in that area. As long as they keep chugging along I'm happy though. One day I&#x27
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Seconded...good talk!
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
How is C++ more productive than Lisp? Sheer library power?
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Take a beginner programmer...I guarantee they will get up to speed in Python quicker than Perl. For example, python doesn't require you to remember that the list uses @, but when you want just one element of it you have to use scalar c
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
There's actually a ton of business software written in Smalltalk. I think 2/3 of the world's shipping industry is controlled via Smalltalk for example. It isn't super low level like C, so I wouldn't use it for somet
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Wolfram Language Book(wolfram.com)
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Sorry, I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm aware what a DSL is (like View dialect), but no clue how to start creating one other than it has something to do with blocks and Red's homoiconicity. There needs to be a specific s
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Perfect example is my mother in law bought one for her husband. They then have to have us set it up and after asking it a knock knock joke or two end up hating it. I've observed that a lot of the over 50 crowd get the weather + news fr
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Pumped storage is actually quite common where you have a lot of dams. The Bonneville Power Administration in the upper Westside of the US can essentially press a button and have quite a bit of power due to all the dams.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
How many 100 MW batteries exist and how economical are they? 100 MW is much better than 10 MW, but still small if you look at the current load in MISO, SPP, PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO, CAISO...etc. So we have a long time before we can get rid of al
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Nope, the main issue is indeed the fact that it can't store a whole lot of energy (also important that they can't maintain a high output for too long), but we still talk in MW as that is what we're primarily concerned with (M
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
You're correct, but in the industry we really just talk in terms of Power at the transmission grid level and usually in millions of watts or MW. So if a coal plant is currently generating 2000 MW and you have a battery that can only co
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Agreed, your comment is accurate. It will be quite a while I think before we get there (my guess is 20 years)
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Batteries simply don't really exist to store grid level amounts of energy. You have to stack lots and lots of batteries which costs lots and lots of money and still only stores something like ~10 MW when we have 1500 MW coal plants. El
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Negative prices occur all the time in the US. Not every day, but often enough when load is low and the wind is blowing. As more and more renewable are built, this will occur in increasing amounts. We still have to have non-green generation
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Agreed!
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I was just testing out the language a year or so ago, so it wasn't super high priority to get it to work. I didn't try very hard. I think you need to configure your email + password in the Rebol tool itself and it should work. Unf
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I've tried asking the community before and the response wasn't good. With that being said, the links you sent were pretty nice, so thank you!
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Interesting...sounds bad for reliability. Do you know why that is allowed?
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Hard to describe the beginner experience with FPC (nice acronym) + Lazarus and Rebol. Rebol has a lot of sites showing you how to build simple GUIs fast although some things are getting old (had trouble getting the native email functionalit
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I hope Red puts up a couple of really simple examples on how to build DSLs. It's one of the great things Red/Rebol has to offer, but it isn't obvious how to do it.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I've written a few minor Tk based apps in Python and if you look at Rebol (Red's ancestor) it is much much much easier to build a similar GUI. This Rebol guy has several sites where he builds dozens of small applications that are
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
I'm not sure how easy it is to do DSLs. You don't see this popup in the Red or Rebol docs for a reason. It is homoiconic like Lisp, so it should be feasible. I'd love to hear some of the core devs like doc respond.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Always glad to see Red get some more attention. I think these little lightweight apps are the way to go for sure. I like freePascal + Lazarus too, but I wish they made certain things easier. Red's syntax isn't a silver bullet, but
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
When a contingency happens (loss of equipment such as a generator), units respond pretty much immediately due to governor response in the unit itself (good ole' inertia). Most RTO/ISOs in the USA (I know AEMO is in Australia) have
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
That academy link is pretty "out there" and def hard to take seriously when you see consciousness and other things mentioned like that.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
How many species are at the hockey stick point is unknown...depends on what numbers you plug into the Drake equation variables. Could be rare or lots of us. I think the rest of your comment is plausible.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Haha...I'm in the same boat and need to stick with one.
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by throwaway7645 9y ago
Bioperl is specific to biology/genomics to my knowledge although you could probably use it for other tasks. I'd use PDL if it had more use and support and was easier to setup, but it's a pain in that regard. I've tried i

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