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And took out the worst parts that we put in that Trump/Bernie and eventually Clinton railed against.
If they're ramping as part of a system reliability service, then should be doing it under automatic generation control, not betting on the energy market, and they would have committed a certain amount of up and down regulation some hours in advance. The cost question is whether it makes sense for them to bid for that reliability service to begin with.

Which goes back to my argument that this is to a large extent about market design and not technology.
Ah yes, very convenient, they aren't informed but they would agree to my use of their data anyways.
> there is not going to be anywhere for a delivery vehicle to legally stop

So they shouldn’t stop there then. Deliver the last mile on foot or using a cart. If it’s too large for that I guess you can get some kind of permit like they do for construction.
Russia is a paper tiger long past its prime, China is on the rise but needs US technology and innovation (currently).
I hear people say this sort of thing all the time, "All we need is bigger batteries", but I think the thing folks don't realize is really how small even the worlds biggest batteries are when faced with the actual amount of electricity we use.

One of the worlds biggest batteries (currently under construction nearby LA) stores the huge-sounding amount of 400MWh of energy. What isn't clear to folks who don't do the math is that battery is really only big enough to help out with peak load periods. The peak consumption of LA has reached as high as 6,393 MW (about double their average peak). At that rate, that battery -- literally one of the biggest ones in the whole world -- will last just 3.8 minutes.
Right, so what's the thing that async/await is good at other than concurrency?
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Alert: Crazy page hijacks your back button with page loads. Getting back here was a pain. Why do websites do this?
I think he's referring to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, in which Mao conducted genocide-level mass purges of ideological deviants such as whichever teachers the Red Guard decided they didn't like.
From what I’ve seen the unions forming in tech right now are way more fluid than the corporations they’re working inside. These are very decentralized federations of employees. It’s not some old Italian family who has been controlling the FORTRAN labor market in San Jose for 30 years.
can't wait for self-driving vehicles
I also liked this: "... today might not be a good day, so let’s use it for something I have to do anyway."

The idea transfers well to coding. Maybe you're not feeling inspired today, but there's probably something mechanical that needs to happen to your project -- resolve a TODO, update the docs, triage a bug report. So do it, and even if that doesn't snap you back into the groove, at least you got that one thing done.
Just a guess regarding shipping, but a general observation that probably applies there as well: appearing significantly more careful than average will make you seem weak to your peers.

On top of that they would hate you for demonstrating that it could be done better, like being the guy who does not drive n over posted speed limit (n varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but is a positive number almost everywhere). And bosses probably expect speed and care, in that order, but that isn't the main mechanism.
I'm not sure what is unclear about "they don't care"
You are probably right. It was a small amount. I would be surprised if the charge back approval wasn't completely automated. But at least they side with the consumer some of the time. PayPal was just straight up "nope, we don't care that they didn't deliver the product at all".
> As I understand it the construction / commissioning costs are enormous - more than a coal or gas plant (eg. a breathtaking volume of concrete).

The construction costs are high predominantly as a result of inefficient (or in this case purposely obstructive) legal requirements. The government has literally been known to change the requirements a new reactor must be built under after the portion of the reactor subject to those requirements has already been built. This predictably leads to cost overruns, but it is also an artificial problem.

> The costs of acquiring fissionable material seem to often be overlooked, but mining (currently) requires fossil fuels.

It's overlooked because it's tiny. The energy produced through fission from one pound of uranium is the same as from burning 2.7 million pounds of coal. In other words, the weight of coal vs. uranium to operate a coal fired power plant for an hour would run a nuclear reactor for more than 300 years.

Moreover, the fuel rods we already have sitting around at existing reactor sites that we don't know what to do with? Can be used as fuel in newer generation reactors. Plus all we have from decommissioned nuclear weapons that we also need to get rid of.

Everyone currently alive will die of old age before we have to mine any more uranium for newer generation reactors.

> That's before you get to decommissioning costs (which may not be within the 'footprint' category) or waste management.

Decommissioning costs are a thing invented to make nuclear seem more expensive by counting it in one place but not the other. Do you know how much it costs to clean up the superfund sites left at the mining operations for coal and the raw materials that go into solar panels?

And long-term waste management is only a thing for legacy reactors. The newer reactors use their "waste" as fuel, solving both problems.
The digressive, prescient brilliance of DH Lawrence’s essays
Sorry I am an idiot how do I edit/delete my comment so I can erase this misinformation?
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If the Steam Machines come out with Windows 10 on them, they can beat the XBox and Playstation units with the unlimited library of games for Windows. I think SteamOS is not ready for prime time yet.

The PC Master Race has an advantage with Windows 10 and a gaming PC being upgradable. Valve's Steam really delivers the video games and has sales as well. I don't think that can be beat.

Video game consoles use PC technology now like AMD or Intel processors, etc.

You'll never see an AmigaBox or AmigaStation because they lag behind in technology, but the Amiga plays classic games alright. The Armiga does that just fine: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/armiga-amiga-emulator-giveaway...

So don't forget about the competition out there, I heard rumors that even Sega wants to make a new console. The old retro video game systems like Armiga and that new Atari box will compete as well, unless the XBox and Playstation emulate the retro games as well.
It isn't adversarial, I am not going against Google. I can learn a new technique in web programming that would both make me more valuable to Google and make be more valuable to other companies.
Is there a JS version?
I’m an F# developer in a C# shop, so I’ve only used NuGet. Can you enumerate some of the advantages of Paket?
It's an excellent example that shows the difference between Trump's marketing slogans of 'fighting the deep state', and the clear and apparent reality.
Their basis is that they have documents from CBP claiming authority over a "functional equivalent" of the border, but they do not themselves agree with that assessment. There's a page they have with documents from a FOIA lawsuit where they more or less say that directly.
What do you attribute the gains to?
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I would like to know how many dollars a month people in Ontario pay for electricity before they even use a single kWh. When I lived there the network connection fees, debt retirement charges, etc were way more than the tiny amount of energy I was using. I am sure it has got worse now given the 'hourly Ontario energy price' has not gone up but they are paying renewables 800 $/MWH and they need to hide that in some uplift charge or other.
No. It can be about half as much CO2 for the same power output due to natural gas plants also being more efficient.

...this is somewhat counter-acted by accidental leakage of methane (itself a potent greenhouse gas), but not entirely.
The top of the readme starts off with a nice simple diagram of a working architecture (traditional monolithic) and as you read further, it balloons into this project + a super complicated set of diagrams with multiple moving pieces.
Gold's currently 30th-50th percentile, so more like "slightly below average" than "middle third": https://www.rankedftw.com/stats/leagues/1v1/#v=2&r=-2&sx=a

The problem with autonomous cars will be the "error bars" -- playing at a diamond level but occasionally losing a game due to a bronze level mistake is impressive for a Starcraft bot and deadly for an autonomous driving bot.
Wow. Thanks, and GP, for the insight.

Just another example of how we all need to consider the lives, emotions, situations, feelings of others before jumping to conclusions. Life is never as simple as it may seem.
You can eat safe quantities of apex predators. However, if you look at the amount of tuna you can safely eat vs the amount of sardines you'll see you can eat a lot more sardines. The tuna will have a much higher concentration of heavy metals.

We also aren't talking about something that will kill you today. Lots of people do things that are unhealthy and will lead to future harm.
I have used both and its hard to argue that goroutines and channels are as easy to use as async/await.
While this book seems to get a lot of praise (as it deserves, obviously), I wish the style of teaching complex programming topics walked me through the pain of making something work, exploring a few alternative solutions, showing the tradeoffs, and then after the pain has been experienced by the learner, a proper solution is finally introduced and recommended. IMO it's a much more powerful technique for teaching if you walk the learner through the pains first, then arrive at a solution, and tell them that "you've just invented the game loop!"; i.e. the concept is given a name at the _very end_, not defined at the beginning as a solution to a pain the learner never experienced. Unfortunately very few books/tutorials take this approach.
All non-nuclear renewable energy competitors require us to derive ~40-60% of our energy generation from burning natural gas, that generates GHGs. This natural gas comes from either fracking, or Russia.

Climate change is an exsistential threat to our way of life.

> Sure, nuclear provides baseload energy in a way its cheaper competitors cannot, but as long as you have more than 20-30% fossil fuel the baseload is not really a concern anywhere.

Yes, it is a concern. We need to hit net zero emissions in the next five years, or net negative emissions, with massive carbon sequestration, in the next 15. How exactly are we going to do that between shipping, air travel, AND fossil-fuel baseload power?
> I think people rightly fear a type of damage they can't see. Radiation is scary because you could get a dose of it and not even know it, or have no idea how bad it is. People are taking the devil they know.

By this logic people should be deathly afraid of coal and what it puts into the air.
You know that's usually the hard part of ML projects, right? It may be boring, but it also tends to be the less least replaceable component.
If a spy leaves his disguise in my trash can and I take it to the police the spy exposed themselves.

Taking steps to intimidate a citizen because your spy screwed up is an act of war, but not by the citizen.
As someone who recently put together a privacy policy myself, I can assure you that an updating clause is standard practice for both privacy policies and terms of service. The documents are really mostly for minimizing liability.

You can object to that, sure, but no sane company is going to open themselves up to lawsuits just because a few users are upset about it.
paraphrasing from the main site(https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/):

> Paket is a dependency manager for .NET and mono projects, which is designed to work well with NuGet packages and also enables referencing files directly from Git repositories or any HTTP resource. It enables precise and predictable control over what packages the projects within your application reference.

The big change is solution-level dependency management instead of the nuget-default project-level management, so you always have the same versions of dependencies across all projects in a solution. It also uses a lockfile for these versions so that restores are idempotent. It also allows for fetching independent files from HTTP-accessible locations or git repos, which is nice in F# because the language is succinct and enables you to reuse modules without going through the rigamarole of making and publishing nuget packages.
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Person A may legitimately view person B as more qualified. Whether or not this is true.
a stranger asking about workplace rivalries and drama suggests to me that they were looking to sow discord between the employees or identify one they could flip for dirt about the others. recording the meeting and asking weird leading questions seems to imply some kind of james o'keefe-style attempt to portray them in a negative light in the press. both together, by someone using a fabricated identity, leaves little ambiguity about ill intent imo.
Riding a bicycle is illegal on some roads, especially the highway (unless it's the only reasonable road, such as though a canyon).

That being said, far too many assume it's illegal to ride on the road, and "share the road" signs don't seem to effectively correct that misconception. I've even heard of drivers telling cyclists to ride on the sidewalk when they're already riding in a bike lane...

That being said, and as others have stated, riding on the sidewalk is not illegal in many areas, though it's less safe in most.
1) It predicts the citation count 2 years later using a mix of features from the articles, author and venue it was published.

2) I guess H-Index and previous citation count stats (mean, max, min). But I find the most influential factors are the author's H-Index, publish venue, author rank.

3) Thanks, I just fixed it.
Can't you use an IDE that has built in refactoring tools? What language is your project and what ide are you currently using?
https://deepmind.com/blog/alphafold/

https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/alphafold-casp...
> You're still giving all of that information out. Or your device is, but that's still under your control and thus you're the one giving it out.

This is utter BS. I'm technically savvy and pretty privacy conscious, but the Facebook app still manged to hoover up my address book without me being aware. Facebook will be less than honest and mislead you to get you to accidentally give them more data than you likely intend, and that's not a voluntary disclosure.

PSA: If you still have a Facebook account, go to https://www.facebook.com/mobile/facebook/contacts/ to delete the your address book info that they've hoovered up. They keep this page well-hidden. When I found it, it wasn't linked from the settings, only from an obscure help page.
Lets dispel those claims

> 1. China has attracted many billions of dollars in investment and outright purchases from Western companies

Not Western, the West and US in particular never were the no.1 investors in China. China was at all times bad at soliciting foreign money. Claiming foreign capital as a reason for China's past growth is like claiming that electric trains are running on gasoline. Most of that growth was from internal sources. That's beyond any dispute.

> 2. Tariffs and Trade Wars – President Trump and President Xi Jinping have pushed their trade war to the brink of disaster.

China and USA can mutually embargo each other tomorrow, and it will be a just a needle prick for both. USA and China have really little economic interdependence, completely contrary to the popular opinion. Though China will fare a little bit better, as it trades in more elastic goods, and will find markets to replace the US faster.

> 3. In terms of psychological advantage, US has the upper hand (my rephrasing)

And that, the only thing that's true. Despite all of above being relatively insignificant, the US side managed to make it sound like the end of the world was coming, and even convince many people in China of that. In fact, the prime majority of recent deflationary wave in China was due to people who were closing down and panic selling businesses that were perfectly fine.

> 4. “These China-U.S. tensions are real, and it’s a long-term problem I don’t want to deal with. I want to find other suppliers in other countries and even completely move to another country for manufacturing. It’s just not worth the long-term risk anymore.”

The prime majority of China's problems are fully internal, and completely orthogonal to the trade disputes. If something will sink China, it will be its own baggage of troubles.
I find VS to be a bloated legacy relic that's particularly limited without ReSharper, although I much prefer the leaner and more advanced Rider which is a fraction of the size with more intelligent features that VS has been copying (from R#/Rider) for several years. Rider is leaner, faster, smarter, more extensible with higher quality plugins offering better support for developing modern Web Apps.

IMO the investment in VS Code basically signals VS has become too bloated and complex to innovate on so they're better off creating a new IDE from scratch with better plugin extensibility and ecosystem that's innovating and delivering features significantly faster than VS which comparatively looks like it's stalled.
I recognise a lot of the words and letters used in this comment, but have no idea what it actually means?! Care to clarify...

- slotting fees, end-caps, EDLP, Hi-Lo, category manager, circular
(AVR isn't RISC-V)

Having page tables at all is completely optional on RISC-V. This is a chip with no MMU.
Much like UPS targeting boxes, this is 100% not OK, and as a professor, if I found out my TAs were doing this, they would quickly find themselves someplace between "disciplined" and "fired".
Also interested in this, from the other side. I have to deal with enterprisey salespeople from the buying side, and often have to deal with warring factions in my own org to buy what we (the actual Dev shop) need.
It occurs to me that the more likely explanation is that GCC devs aren’t up to date on the specs and that perhaps a unified situation is possible, just not implemented.
We have had 30+ years of skepticism in coal power, which made near enough to approximately fuck all difference (until perhaps very recently). I would suggest the historical stagnation of nuclear has sfa to do with activism and quite a lot to do with the astronomical costs of building, mining and operation.

Also just a thought re. your eg. on shipping.. I read a random blog a while back that suggested that a couple of large cargo ships go missing every week (sinking or piracy mostly). Not a thing I would like to see with nuclear reactors and material on board.

http://actuarialeye.com/2014/03/30/how-many-ships-disappear-...
Cambodia... I was just in Sihanouk last week and the entire city is under massive development by the Chinese. You have 4-5 star hotels built with potholed dirt roads out front. Giant apartment buildings are going up in marshland. There is also a massive port built there where China can now move goods through. There is zero care for the environment and the entire city is a mess. Tons of gambling, prostitution and drugs... it is literally like the wild wild west there. All in the last couple of years. [1] [2]

Vietnam doesn't work so well with the Chinese because of their history and because the US has already been giving Vietnam a bunch of free boats [3] [4] and money.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/31/no-cambodia-l...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/this-cambo...

[3] https://thedefensepost.com/2018/03/29/us-gives-vietnam-6-pat...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-usa/u-s-delivers-...
Don’t hijack the scroll bar.

I think this is a good article, but I’m not sharing it with anyone because they hijack the scroll bar.
After playing around with making a simple, somewhat function programming-style engine [1], I came to the conclusion (from other people's work) that the game loop is really just iterating on a pure function call that gives you the next world state given the previous world state:

next_world_state = UpdateWorld(inputs, previous_world_state)

Where inputs is all external inputs (user inputs and "time"). How the inputs is updated (and how frequently) is totally decoupled from how the game engine operates. Additionally, from the next_world_state, you can derive what to render to the screen, what audio to play, what text to render, etc. If you want to drop frames, just don't render each world state.

[1] https://github.com/allenu/YokosukaJS
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That's a fun job, though.

You can spend your entire tenure explaining to people that just because something starts and serves up a web page, it's not a good idea to run 30 year old software in Production... eventually you get to the point where you can only hire Senior Software Engineers to take care of our software and then it becomes a fucking priority to unfuck your stack because your payroll costs are the most expensive line item.

Yes I'm salty as fuck.
To curb climate change, we have to suck carbon from the sky. But how?
OOP examples such as these and their instruction in traditional schooling is arguably one of the biggest failures of computer science education of our time. This is literally the last thing object oriented patterns are ever used for (depicting real world objects as members of categories). They are primarily designed for describing systems that are managing the user's interactions in the software rather than representations of real-world physical objects.

The only time these overlap is in video games, which is usually not used as the context for teaching software development when OOP is taught.