skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pumped storage has the same "greenness" profile as the whole grid had when the pumping was happening, minus the efficiency loss from the round-trip conversion.

Pumping upward typically happens when the renewables are overproducing and the (controllably) variable power plants are idling. It makes no sense to run the pumps for storage when you could throttle back the gas turbines instead. But you can't adjust cloud cover, or tweak windspeed. So when the sun is shining, and the wind blowing, and the methane not burning, you store that excess for later.

That may also include relatively constant baseline power plants. But even then, the storage is often allowing those plants to run at their optimally efficient design capacity. If you idle the coal plant to 80% rated output, you may still be using 85% as much coal (made-up numbers for illustrative purposes). Trying to adjust the output of a nuclear plant is rather complicated, and may involve altering shutdown and maintenance schedules such that the output capacity several months in the future is affected by a decision made today.

So on the whole, re-generation from pumped storage is going to be greener than the baseline plants, and definitely greener than other types of adjustable peak load power plants, like natural gas turbines.
I would not call an employer's unwillingness to pay market rates a "Supply and Demand issue."
Not only that, but you'll have an operating system distribution made with Scheme on which to run it: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/...
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Ah, could be, yes!
What he calls tabs are actually tabs: :tabe create tab
:tabn next tab, :tabp previous tab, :tabm move tab.

I have tabn/tabp bound to <leader>l and <leader>h for easy nav and <leader>t for create.
We've paid for numerous video tutorials and live talks about specific technologies.

I suspect there's plenty of value in the well-known conferences.
Does anyone know if Vim has the power of multi line editing / multiple cursors like w/ Sublime Text? The large majority of my productivity involved copying and pasting with multi line select, and jumping words and different boundaries on multiple lines at once. Anything that matches ST for Vim?
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about your comment on the y combinator logo, i do see your point. the aim wasn't to be deceptive, the reason we included the logos of some of the accelerators is because for the founder institute we've worked with a bunch of fi founders + multiple publicize team members are mentors there, with 500 startups i'm a global mentor there + having worked with companies, and for yc we've worked with a number of its companies. however if this comes off as misleading that we work directly with y combinator / others, then it should be removed.

update: we just removed that bar at the bottom (so the logos are no longer there). thanks for the feedback.
My post was less about the energy usage and more about the Sweatshop workers's working conditions.

He seems concerned about highly-paid Energy Workers in the US who are required (by law) to have safe working conditions (or at least, safe as defined by the law. People still die on the job but at least we try to keep them safe).

And then he turns around and brags about using cheap Chinese workers to sew him new clothes every week. Hypocrisy at its finest.
You don't have to create a class with a static method if you use LinqPad which can run like a REPL. It can also pickup a file with that single line in it and execute it, so there is virtually no difference.
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What can you do to improve your software development skills?
Podcasts ?
Aren't those a marketing ploy by apple to promote their icrap, taking an already ubiquitous thing: an audio file, and turn it into hype.

Also I fail to see how podcasts could be a web.
Some quick comparisons:

2000 calories in Big Macs: $17.87 at a US McDonalds

2000 calories in SlimFast meal replacement shakes: $13.13 at Wal-Mart

2000 calories in SlimFast powder: $8.94 at Wal-Mart
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I don't really see why this is NYT-worthy. State paper, sure, but NYT? This isn't particularly groundbreaking.

There are existing regional sci/edu networks doing 100G as well as field-specific networks (e.g. ESnet).
It's possible to run a macro on a list of files? I usually just open the files one by one and @@:wq (oops)
I'm going to take a not-that-wild guess and suggest that they're completely aware of the inefficiency and moved forward with it because A) it gives the company a fatter profit margin when the customer is paying for less Soylent and more water, and B) this is the best way to move toward getting Soylent into the corner store refrigerator.
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It's not even UoP that are the ones who need to be investigated the most. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten a resume from a vet who got conned out of his GI benefits for one of those "Certification Bootcamps" on the promise that all they need is a cert and they're guaranteed a high paying IT job.
It says one year shelf life, unrefrigerated.
Really? I saw Soylent claim to "put you in perfect health", and claim to be suitable for anybody.

Both of those are dangerous, scumbag, claims. Soylent has not retracted those claims. They did quietly drop them though.
"Businesses desire the bleeding edge in their online-facing products"

What kind of businesses? In multiple enterprises I've worked with/for, they move at a snail's pace and are resistant to change. I feel like most larger enterprises are at this snail's pace, whether it's b/c of outdated security practices they can't let go of, control issues, IT incompetence, or complacency in the way things are.

The businesses which might be more forward thinking are agencies and some small businesses but I think these are less common. Why do you think it took years to let go of IE6, then IE7, and now IE8 and IE9 in the enterprise world?
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+10 to the suggestion to layer IDE features progressively.

My setup is after trial and error: vim + (nerd tree, command-T, tagbar, Gundo) inside a tmux session. On another tmux window, I use 'find ... exec...' to search. So far excellent for me, I feel Zen like coding with this setup with no IDE noise :-).
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> There were no real new ideas in that paper that were worth publishing.

The real world speed improvements from specific methods are the significant part. There are many ideas floating around, not all of them work out once you discover all the comparisons and data omitted from an academic paper.

>I do think you should give them more credit on the engineering side though. Using large amounts of geometry has been done before, but renderers such as RenderMan and Arnold require that all geometry fits in the memory at once.

This is out of core tracing and is great that they implemented it, but neither out of core tracing and sorting rays are feats of engineering.

It has actually been done many times in both academics and commercial renderers from at least a decade ago. SIMD is also used to various extents in any decent renderer to varying degrees of success. Sorting into packets isn't the only way to use SIMD, or even the only way to use to scale SIMD use to wider lanes. Interestingly Skylake should have fast gather/scatter operations which will change the effectiveness of various techniques.

Basically good design choices and some practical knowledge from trial and error has been heavily exaggerated by marketing. I would guess that the actual render programmers would say the same. This isn't a breakthrough, it is a refinement and that's good enough. I love what they did, but to carry the torch that the impossible was made possible is disingenuous.
I agree, I just think it will take time for it to catch on among the private sphere. I work now in higher Ed and the culture is much different: surprise, surprise, an Ivy League university likes its employees learning. I also work with a lot of non-career programmers, none of which have Ivy degrees (nor do I). Ofc most companies can't hold a candle to these educational resources, but if they choose to invest in their staff, like you say, it does work.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990881

There have been a few other submissions[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] of this story - don't be surprised if it gets flag-killed.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9989884 Canadian hitchhiking robot destroyed on trip across US (globalnews.ca)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990213 HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour (cbc.ca)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990215 HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending US tour (gizmodo.com)

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990881 HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour (cbc.ca)

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9991824 Hitchhiking Robot Found Decapited (hitchbot.me)

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9992506 HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour (cbc.ca)

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9993561 America proves too tough for hitchhiking robot (theverge.com)

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994123 HitchBOT scientist: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots' (bbc.co.uk)

[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994125 HitchBOT scientist: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots' (bbc.com)

[10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994216 Hitchhiking robot meets end on streets of Philadelphia (thestar.com)

[11] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995516 Hitchhiking robot that relied on human kindness found decapitated (wired.co.uk)

[12] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996015 Hitchhiking robot's cross-country journey comes to tragic end in Philadelphia (washingtonpost.com)

[13] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996034 Hitchhiking robot's cross-country journey comes to tragic end in Philadelphia (washingtonpost.com)
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Googling "Autodesk ID" and the first link is titled: "Creating an Autodesk Account - Autodesk Knowledge Network". Sure - they could have linked to it, but how do you reach the conclusion that this is part of some exclusionary club?
I'd argue the same way. I had no clue this screen existed by my first thought wasn't "I'm going to turn this off" but rather "Let me tailor this to myself".

I hate ads in all forms (I'd rather pay 90% of the time) but if I have to see ads might as well see some that might interest me. Thought I really hate seeing ads for things I've already bought and or already pay for (DO/AWS).
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That is extremely weird. Is that standard behavior for squarespace sites?
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I think there does exist a way to enter a visual block mode, but i is kind of a pain. You might try looking around for some third party modules. Here is one I found by doing a github search: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors
Greetings fellow SW Ontarioer. Impressive resume you have going on there, good luck in your search!
another example:
> a=a
=> nil

but then:

> a=b
NameError: undefined local variable or method `b' for main:Object
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For the majority of businesses that are running all Windows computers? Yes, these are solutions. Otherwise they wouldn't be billion dollar businesses for Microsoft.
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In my personal experience (fwiw), people who try vim and don't get it either 1) just don't want/need what vim offers, or 2) don't approach it with the "vim is an editing language" approach.

If you're in the #1 camp, chalk it up to experience and move on.

Otherwise, at some point consider giving it another try, but Google up some articles specifically about the language aspect of vim. It's a lot easier to get up to speed and make better use of vim that way.
Any tips on learning the internal configuration/control language? I've been using vim for quit some time now (I like it a lot), but never have been able to grok anything about it besides entering code :)
In nature, decentralized networks are more the norm. You find them in neural, gene, protein and metabolic networks. You find them in mycorrhizal networks of forests and in various self-organizing systems. Food webs, IIRC are even more random, as far from centralized as you can get.

These networks with small world properties strike a highly pragmatic balance. They are far more robust to insult when compared to centralized networks (though not so much as random) while having much more efficient propogation of information than in more random networks.
There is a plugin for that:
https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors

But I find that I can usually accomplish the same thing with macro or a targeted search and replace.
Well, 12V is really wasteful. Placing an inverter in the loop is probably cheaper and more efficient than routing 12V electricity though one's house.
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