Can't agree because updating code to utilize new shiny features frequently impacts those who use the code because of leaky abstractions. Or even deliberate breaking API changes to accommodate said changes.
Those are great but all really family oriented. Sometimes it’s nice to remember they aren’t just dads.
My dad doesn’t usually express much emotion or enthusiasm, but one day he told me about a group trip he had taken at 18 across Europe. He got very animated and enthusiastic describing how he became the coolest guy on the trip. Multiple girls liked him, and the guys wanted to be friends with him. He was never popular in high school but during those 3 months he felt on top of the world.
As he told the story it became apparent to me that this trip was the happiest and most exciting time of his life. I’m sure if you asked him he would name his wedding or our births, but watching him talk about this trip I knew his eyes wouldn’t light up in the same way recalling those events.
Anyway, there is this boundary of sterility between me and my Dad. So he would have never told me: “go travel across Europe while young and get into drunken shenanigans while dating multiple girls.”, directly, but he finally did tell me in a way by sharing his story.
No, the wholesale prices are the most expensive clearing price as otherwise somebody is getting paid less than they agreed and why should anybody participate in a "market" where that happens?
Maybe it's easier to see why this is how it works with physical goods in a model rather than fungible electricity and numbers that make no human sense.
We want to buy 100 oranges.
Alice has 40 oranges, and she's willing to part with them for 60p each
Bob has 18 oranges, he wants 56p
Carol has 36 oranges, wants 70p each (!)
Dave has 60 oranges for only 49p
If we insist on having Alice's Oranges and Dave's Oranges but only paying 49p each for them, obviously Alice is going to be very angry about that, we're stealing her oranges, she didn't agree to be paid this little. Also Bob would likely be somewhat angry, he thought we'd buy his cheaper oranges, and instead we just stole Alice's !
So, what we actually do is we take all Dave's oranges, all Bob's oranges, and twenty two of Alice's oranges, and we pay Alice's price for all 100 of them.
Now, Dave has a lot of power here, because we need 100 oranges which the other orange suppliers couldn't cover without him, he could set his price as high as he likes. So it's important under a system like this to ensure you have lots of suppliers so that nobody gets as much power as Dave has.
Unlike our model orange market, the wholesale electricity market is thirty minutes at a time. So 48 prices per day. So if the wind picks up for a few hours at night, for those hours most likely the clearing price will be set by wind prices, the gas generators stay online (typically better to lose a few quid per MWh to idle at low power than eat the restart cost on those generators although you might want to schedule any maintenance for predicted high wind periods) but the prices are set by wind.
In spring that happens fairly often, might even happen for several days in a row. Mid-winter, not so much.
I imagine this is how contact with abandoned alien technology would play out. Chances are it’s totally incomprehensible to humans and if you are unlucky enough to turn it on, it’ll bite you in unpredictable ways.
The stabber was British-born of legal immigrants, and from a devout Christian family. The incitement was the false narrative that the stabbing had anything at all to do with immigration, legal or otherwise, or anything to do with Islam, which it wasn't.
I understand you. The Country we loved, Britons or foreigners, has shown vast devastating amounts of cracks.
Have you seen the disaster in Education? How can a Country be competitive with that downfall? The population seems unaware of the cost of compromises, relying on a "There'll always be" idea that discounts the detail that to have things, you have to maintain them.
Anyway: when a not trivial part of the world loves the British spirit, you can find a consolation - but there is much to fix.
And anyway: Britain is far from being alone in the crisis. Concerned about the sinister lurking? Maybe dreaming of Spain, as is customary North of the Contintent? Have you heard about those "laws for the new millennium" of ten years ago, after which - I read - people receive hefty fines for having expressed discontent about the activity of the Spanish police (and more similar cases)?
Max guesses for n=13 is floor(log2(13)) + 1 = 4, not 3.
And in a Chooser-always-chooses-1-or-13 strategy, the Guesser has a trivial strategy ("guess 1, then guess 13") that takes much less than 3 guesses on average.
I am a vim user and I wonder what is the use of going five words forward when you can just search for the beginning of the word you want to go to and press enter (even works across lines).
After using vim for a while now I do most of my navigation and editing by searching/replacing
When we're proposing a rule, and someone points out that it won't work because of X, Y, or Z, the solution is to integrate X, Y, and Z into the rule--not give up and say "oh, companies are very clever and they will get around whatever you write!"
So, instead, add that to OP's proposal: "the highest paid job can't be more than 10 times the lowest one, including all benefits, and including all part time work, annualized, and including temp workers and all hired contractors, and all sub-contractors."
Better than using HTMX - 48KB of JS - use my PHOOOS technique (https://kodus.pl) with pure HTML out-ouf-order streaming, pure CSS framework Spectre and a sprinkle of 166B (bytes, not KB!) HTMZ (https://leanrada.com/htmz/) for extra interactivity.
They invest a colossal amount of money creating those patents. There are lots of bullshit patents in this space, but IBM is not playing that kind of game.
As a long time Vim/Kakoune/Helix user, i've never really understood the difference tbh. Clearly i've never tried, but getting comfortable enough in a new editor, especially one that deviates so much from your norm, is quite the chore.
From the outside Emacs never drew me in. It didn't do anything "bad", but the premise behind vim (motion actions, etc) just sounded logical, like building blocks , and as a result drew me in for being easier to understand the basics of.
I could never grasp what Emacs even "was", as a pre-vim beginner. To this day i still don't know, but my general assumption is it's more built around commands rather than little primitives like Vim does. Which, seems fine - just never was enough to hook me.
These days i'm mulling on my own editor and i should probably better understand Emacs. I've watched some guides on Org Mode, which is a big area of focus for me, but even that just seems like Markdown with an LSP (link jumping/etc), so i still must be missing something heh.
I really don't think this is true. What cost factors are you thinking of? We host lots of small HIPAA-complying businesses, and in my career I've consulted for many dozens more. As near as I can tell, there's actually not a whole lot to it.
Nobody wants downtime, but it's easy to spend too much effort on avoiding it, taking time from actually important development. Plenty of customers don't mind occasional downtime, and it can mean the system is simpler and they get features faster.
As I said, the mindset.