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we at energy&meteo systems https://www.energymeteo.com/about_us/company.php provide means for overcoming the fluctuation problem of renewable energy while offering some cool software services. Two main methods for achieving that are the virtual power plants and would class forecast of the productivity of wind and solar power plants. We're based in Germany but have customers all over the world including the US. Find out more on our website or contact us.
I always assumed this is just the result of the people who design the site not knowing what the company does.
There are some microbe that breaks down plastic. Maybe some sea life will form a symboitic relationship with with.
So, I'm confused. Is it the Uber of Facebooks, or the Facebook of Ubers?
Humans are, for the most part, terrible programmers.

I was just setting up https://github.com/karpathy/arxiv-sanity-preserver (By Andrej Karpathy no less) and the whole experience from spinning up a VM to deploying the code made me realize how pathetic computers are for casual use.

Computers are a hot mess.
Directly operating on structures would free languages from parsing, correctness checking and compiling could occur at every semantically correct operation.

Directly operating on structures would mean that you'd have to write an editor, which had to enforce correctness as well. And then you'd have to write a generator to save those structures in some kind of format that could be written to a file and passed around, and a parser to read such format. And check for correctness again, since who knows what generated that file.

As for constant compilation, that already exists, many IDEs have it. That's because parsing text is not actually hard, the other stages are.

With a rich structure editor that can do merges, the undo history of edit and refactor operations could be persisted and merged into the VCS. Currently this isn't possible.

Of course it is, you could write a plugin for any IDE that would record edits and refactor operations and save those in or alongside the text (much like they've have to be save alongside the AST). Of course, that doesn't help if the user does a manual refactor, but that's no different than they choosing a node in the rich editor, deleting it, then manually recreating it in its refactored form.
I never claimed that 'owning a pen is vain'. I said that one can only understand its cultural significance through careful sociological reflection. That is a truism to me.

"If any such claim relies on ethnographic or sociological studies, then wouldn't it be appropriate to cite those when making such a claim?"

I think you might have wrong end of the stick. I have no idea if there are any studies on the cultural capital of pens. The point is a general methodological one - we can only understand the 'status' that any given commodity is supposed to possess by first investigating the particular ways in which it functions in a definite social group.

"So does this notion only apply to people who demonstrate this status?"

Everyone is always 'demonstrating status' all of the time so I hardly think this is enough to condemn someone.

But to get to the point: obviously buying a $4000 pen is a conspicuous symbol of status by which to differentiate yourself from other people. IMO it is utterly grotesque: in a world based on radical inequality where billions of people live miserable, indigent lives, buying a pen for that amount suggests that you care more about appearing to be rich that about helping anyone. It is a farcical, individualist act of petty self-congratulation.
And also cetaceans, sea-birds and turtles.
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It's happening, slowly: https://platform-status.mozilla.org/#shadow-dom

And "XHTML experience" is now built in to browsers, no developer effort needed (implementation consistency, the ACID tests, strict mode for JS, and WASM for speed)

And see also http://ishoudinireadyyet.com/
Bezos was infamous for jealously controlling every pixel on the Amazon landing page. You could easily imagine a better design but at least you knew what to do.
As a banker, I am the first agree that banks offer an absolutely shit service, and the story in this article is only too common. But one should keep in mind that this is the direct consequence of over-regulation.

Regulations creates massive barriers to entry, through the complexity of the laws and regulation banks have to deal with and the amount of capital required to open a bank. As a result, no competition, and therefore the sort of monopolistic behavior that you normally observe in nationalized industries, where your bank doesn't give a shit whether you are satisfied or not.

In addition to that, most western countries deputized the banks to act as law enforcement under the threat of multi-billion fines. For certain banks, pretty much all profits from the past 5-7y have been nationalized through fines. As a business, banks will go to any extremity for these fines to cease, even it it means burning a few clients (or employees).

We must like the consequences of what we wish for.
Given how the sales and marketing people at my place of employment respond to corporate announcements... they'll probably do anything to arrange words and phrases into something that triggers a "sounds like a corporate executive" response from their superiors.
Very cool, very nice, but what about `ranger`? I don't see any differences between the two.
It's the Uber of Initial Facebook Offering. I thought that was painfully clear.
That is not a summary. The article opens with Google faking breaking compatibility with Opera in order to push their own browser. Why fake? Because the services worked perfectly when faking the user agent...
OP (as in site owner) here, fixed it! I went three shades darker. Let me know if its easier now.
You're right, Meltwater and Optimizely aren't as bad as it gets (84.51 definitely is). And after spending some time on those websites, you're able to get a pretty good sense for what they do.

My main point is that it shouldn't ever be difficult for a potential customer to quickly get to that understanding, and I do believe these sites could do a far better job at quickly and clearly explaining their companies' function... just like you did.

"Meltwater's flagship product is media monitoring". "Optimizely is a website A/B testing tool". Boom.
Or when Wal-Mart runs out of cheap Chinese junk...
Using error codes effectively
Why doesn't Qt use exception handling?
A tenth of that in savings is more than enough for an advisor.
> but I appreciate they had to check

Nah, you shouldn't. "Know your customers" is BS, restrain your freedoms, and don't stop real frauders.
It's cheap in the places that are windy. One big challenge (mentioned tangentially in the article) is in moving this cheap energy from the windy center of the continent to the populated coasts.

I wish this was higher priority, because the same X is already very cheap where it is Y is true of so many renewable sources like solar as well. And a wide power grid with long distance markets produces more consistent power since it averages different weather in different places and different power sources all together.
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Those "floating" wind turbines are still bolted to the seabed (so they don't float away) and are interconnected with wires. They showed how they work via infographics on their website that was on the HN frontpage recently. So the OP's comment about the sloping sea shelf is still relevant.
Can you substantiate this claim at all (its an unfair question but still)? In todays day and age I wouldn't put it past a close competitor to make posts like yours on tech forums.
I love my Japanese Sailor fountain pen, but for every day use you can't really beat the Lamy.
I think the main problem is that people assume that in order to sell expensive products/services, the website needs to have 50 pages and feel like a complex entity. We sell a B2B UI Design service to web and mobile development companies, all we have is a simple one pager that doesn't do anything except explain in plain-english what the service is about. We have people buying/subscribing to our service sometimes as fast as a B2C product. I personally wouldn't want to be a slimly salesman on the phone, hide our prices and have complex copy on the website. The customers that do want that are not a fit for us. So the question is, what type of a customer are you trying to attract?
For real inexpensive, try a Jinhao x750. I have one with a Fine nib and with that single pen I can get every width represented in a set of Micron technical pens. Currently using a bottle of Parker Quink from my local Staples. Addictive hobby!
That 1200kWh figure doesn't make any sense. It says that "edible tissue" excludes water content. Each kg of tomatoes has about 950g of water. That means 60kWh per kg of tomatoes, which will cost about 5 EUR. You won't be able to sell your produce at that price.
>suburbs of major cities are nice upper middle class areas.

Yes, they are for sure. I'm not speaking about the at all.

What is a slum? A place where lots of people whose socioeconomic peculiarities prevent them from engaging in a meaningful economic activity. They can't get education, meaningful job locally, or have enought money to relocate. Eventually, overconcentration of such people weeds out all remaining economic activity out of the area and drives value of whatever is there down.

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Inversion-Future-American-City/...
Now your account has been restored, empty it out and fund another account in another bank. HSBC is one of the worst bank.
Excellent post, with good informations and circumscribed.
Some new programmers need the advice to spend longer improving their code before sharing it; some need the opposite advice.

Unfortunately, some people who dispense advice pick one of those "directions" and argue strongly for it, rather than trying to describe how to recognise when you've got the balance right.
(I'm agreeing with you, by the way.) My response above was addressing/objecting to a claim that accurate balance sheets are already being prepared upon death. There are huge practical issues with valuing illiquid assets.

Much wealth, though is held in relatively liquid assets or in illiquid assets with valuation processes already established in a lot of cases (real estate valuation for property tax assessment as an example). You won't be able to get perfect values on artwork, collector cars, and other one-of-kind collectibles.

That doesn't make a wealth tax entirely unworkable, though, in my estimation.
In my home country, due to electricity being classified as daily necessities, the profit is being regulated almost the same way as the article you cited above.

US Version:
Total Revenue Requirement = Rate Base × Allowed Rate of Return (About 10%) + *Expenses*

Taiwan Version:
Total Revenue Requirement = Rate Base × Allowed Rate of Return (About 3%)

, Rate Base is utility company's asset.

I believe there is a huge difference between above 2 formulas.

Thus, according to the GP article:
US cost 2-4 cent/kWH, price 12 cent/kWH
Yet,
Taiwan cost 6 cent/kWH, price 9 cent/kWH

The difference between price and cost would be reasonable profit and expenses including tax/regulation fees, pollution fees, renewable energy research funds, equipment deprecation, interest, salaries, maintenance, etc.

In Taiwan, profit plays an insignificant part in electricity price.
People use python because it has nice syntax, batteries included standard library, easy to make code for both windows and Linux, no compilation, big community, and it's the closest arm to reach out to when you realise your shell scripts are getting too big.

Not because you can monkeypatch the _attrs_ function on the fly somewhere on a class in the standard library.
I have an account in a Swiss bank too. Never had any problem with it abroad (France, Spain, UK). I never hear from them and I love it. My card was stolen once and I received a call the next day, everything was reimbursed. When I call it's a human that responds. Good customer service as it should be.
I cannot express how fantastically hilarious I found that expression, I am absolutely going to be using that as shorthand for the position from here on out!

I often have the same worry when it comes to people asserting that state governments should be more able to function like smaller countries- I worry in particular that to some traditional enemies it would our individual parts "small enough to drown it in the tub."
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You are not suing a poor guy who will not sleep because he received a letter from your lawyer. It goes to a complaint department which I am sure is as bureaucratic as the rest of the bank.
Also, PUT THE PRICES ON THERE. Even more infuriating than a company that won't tell you what they do is a company that tells you what they do and then demands you contact them to be salespersoned at before they'll tell you the price. Fuck you, no.
Just to play devil's advocate:

Whenever I'm seriously considering purchasing an enterprise B2B product, I mostly know what they do before visiting their website. I've heard of them already, either through word of mouth, or by explicitly asking friends for recommendations. I suspect that I'm not too different from most purchasers.

If a company's targeting a landing page for someone like me, perhaps they shouldn't optimize for clarity; they should optimize for signaling reliability. So, the "Web 20.17 parallax-ed boots[t]rap-ed responsive home page" serves a purpose - it reminds me of all the other Web 20.17... B2B services I've happily used in the past.

I'm probably ascribing way too much significance to the semiotics of B2B homepages [1]. But I find it tough to believe that (e.g.) Optimizely hasn't, well, optimized their homepage for something.

[1] Also, take what I say with a huge grain of salt. My business' homepage needs a lot of work...
Ever been to Atlanta?
As an in-your-pocket pen I'd recommend a Kaweco Sport pen [1]. They are smaller than standard fountain pens and some of them come in metal with a cap that can be screwed on. I wouldn't recommend the tiny converter (aka refiller) for them, however, they are hard to use without getting ink on your hands. Cartridges are better.

This story caused me to re-activate mine and a few other fountain pens I haven't used in a while.

[1] https://www.kaweco-pen.com/en/pens/fountain-pens/454/kaweco-...
That infernal physical device is the main reason why I switched from HSBC to Lloyds. Much happier since moving.
Invest a third, give a third to charity, and enjoy a third traveling or doing other things that make you happy with the people you love.
cryptocurrency of ubers of facebook. Duh...
Just sit. Silently. Give your brain a break -- that might be more helpful than keeping yourself busy.
The vendor would need to recompile their modules for every kernel Google releases, but that's not a huge issue - how many times does Google update the kernel?
>So it was aimed at replacing the existing structure...

If I told you that I'd be replacing your broken windshield, would you understand that I'd be simply removing your windshield and not putting anything in its place?

>There are people on the fringe left (and fringe right) who want to do exactly that.

I should have been more specific; the group which is accused of being "cultural Marxists" includes the Frankfurt School which did nothing you describe nor expounded any intention to. Of course they exist, but the people accused of being those people who exist are not those people.

>That is precisely what intersectional feminism is about.

That's true, though it does little to hold for Peterson's argument that "Marxists" in general have moved to such a position, or have mutated class theory rather than simply adding to it. Marxists, orthodox and otherwise, still think in terms of class.
What a coincidence, I just saw one today in a highly political thread. Just goes to show I should stay away from political stuff on twitter.
I don't think I've ever seen a Polymer-powered page of any substance use less than 132kb of JavaScript. File size is really not a good reason to choose web components, especially when you consider the things you need to do to actually work efficiently with web components once you have them.
Perhaps turning off some turbines can provide a marginal increase in efficiency for the entire turbine farm?
I noticed that when I tried ordering food off www.seamless.com, I could put together an order, but the checkout process would fail in the final step.

It turns out, it was because I had blocked *.facebook.com.

I do not like that major websites will break, if Facebook is blocked. My business with Seamless had nothing to do with Facebook. Facebook does not need to know that I am ordering food. Especially if I am not even logged in.

Why can't I simply say "no" to all interaction with Facebook?

Also, try firewalling Google Analytics, and see how much of the web breaks.
Yes, it just creates an array of the decimal values for ASCII A-Za-z0-9. By default Get-Random just returns a random unsigned int, but if you pass in an array of objects it will select a random object from the array.
Well, sure, the industrial waste has to go somewhere, right? Given China's sizable problems with air, water, and soil pollution, not sure that's really the right example.
I like this. I would use it. I can remember situations in the past in which I would have loved to use it.

The "I'll solve your problem" market is one to be explored, I think. I don't want people doing everything for me for a huge price, but sometimes it would be better to pay to get a small problem solved instead of navigating for many hours through documentation, chats and help threads around the internet to get that solved.
Care to elaborate? Sure, manufactures could’ve done 21:9 (roughly 2.35:1), but from what I’ve seen, that wasn’t practical at the time. 16:9 was a good compromise. Especially for people who stretch 4:3 SDTV content into 16:9 instead of using black boxes; 4:3 content would look horrible on a 21:9 display. Nowadays though, 21:9 is becoming popular, and it has a ratio of 2.333:1 which is pretty close to a cinematic 2:35:1. If only Windows made snapping three windows side by side easier.
In other news, it's been shown that in a world rising income inequality, selling bespoke goods to the rich is still a viable way to make a profit. Helps to include a lot of words explaining the provenance of the bits and pieces.
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Indeed. The one with the advanced degree specialized in UI is the designer, not the user. If the designer doesn't use that training to help the masses do their jobs, the resources Society spend on training the designer go wasted.
Though this file's bug did not adversely affect Sumatra or PDF-XChange, it DOES crash Windows Search routine when it attempts to add loop-edited.pdf to its index. Windows Explorer also crashed (and restarted itself successfully) on trying to change the extension to avoid indexing.
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The thing with 'cheap pens' is that they work and aren't messy. They can sit in drawers for years and with a little coaxing will write once again.

They might not be 'pleasant' to write with, but writing is such a passive task to people they don't notice or care.

I've gifted people starter fountain pens on occasion, if there job involves lots of writing. Very few actually got into it, and just stuck to cheap Bics, since they always worked with no issue. And the only Montblancs I've ever seen in the wild were Roller Balls, though I suppose Doctor's scratch the tool doesn't matter.

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The keyboard analogy is nice. Since people often hunt for vintage fountain pens like old Model M's. And I suppose a keyboard's just a modern pen.
yes, people do. Not all the countries are pure meat eaters...
No people complaining about noise, moving shadows and bad aesthetics there.
Here we go: https://postmarketos.org/blog/feed.atom

(Thanks to new contributor marten-de-vries for implementing it so fast \o/ <https://github.com/postmarketOS/postmarketos.org/issues/29>)
That's awesome! Do you expect significant latency improvements to come from this?
So intentional circumventing of safety measures and (cost) cutting corners is not possible sich the new tech?

Almost in every industry i can think of there are countless examples of how profit is traded for safety.
Why should this be any different?
I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I bring this up when we talk about wind energy and I've never had a satisfying answer. Maybe that's due to not knowing what I'm talking about.

Since the wind does other stuff beyond just feeling breezy, it stands to reason that there exists some level of wattage we could pull out of it that would have undesirable effects.

If there were no wind tomorrow, we can agree that this would be bad. Are there lower levels of energy depletion where the effects would be subtler and harder to anticipate? Would pulling 0.5% of the wind's energy result in shifts in weather patterns, even if it's localized?

I mean, since we're collectively so good at breaking things, maybe it's worth assuming we will fill some hypothetical area with as many contraptions to take energy from the wind as we can, and that these contraptions will get increasingly effective.

EDIT: There are some great replies to this, and the minds of HN are always an awesome resource to tap. I guess I can't shake the vague spooky feeling I get from interfering with a massive system that feeds into itself in unpredictable ways, but it sounds like ruthless expansion of some massive drain on the wind system is unlikely/impossible.
Exactly. Primes of this size are found simply for the “because why not?” factor
Websites like that are "websites for the record". There are certain markets who think it's weird that a company doesn't have a website, but don't really care about the content or how it looks.

A lot of the text seems to be placeholder/written by a designer who asked about what the company wanted for the content and never got a response.
Yet another example of the sad state of affairs that engaging companies or governments directly through their established, official channels no longer works as well as going (or threatening to go) to Twitter with it.

Is it acceptable that a Twitter account and the ability to publicly Twitter-shame is a prerequisite for decent service? Is it acceptable that it's a prerequisite for democracy? It seems utterly ridiculous to me.
It says 3 days on your profile, but the link and discussion are new. Might be a bug.
The swarm is self-replicating, not each individual bot. (Have you ever read Alan Dean Foster's "Sentenced to Prism" (sic)?) The system is more like an ant nest.

Self-replication is required to be able to make a lot of them in a reasonable amount of time.

Once the bulk of the plastic has been sequestered excess robots will be glued together to make a floating island.

There's no "done" state until/unless we stop throwing non-biodegradable matter into the Oceans.
My company is "a leading provider of business process services with expertise in transaction-intensive processing, analytics and automation. We serve as a trusted business partner in both the front office and back office, enabling personalized, seamless interactions on a massive scale that improve end-user experiences"
MMM is about voluntary acceptance of a poverty lifestyle. I don't disagree that you can live indefinitely on very little, if you are willing to adopt extreme asceticism.