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This is correct. What's important for industry is understanding the energy balance, i.e. entries and exits to and from the grid. "Generation" is a catch-all term for grid entries.

Generation in this instance means power generation to meet consumption demand. Typically withdrawals from storage are counted as a source of supply to meet that demand regardless o…

A bit of digging in the T&Cs, Companies House, and LinkedIn pointed me to an individual working for the NHS who has put this together as a side project. I work in this space ( http…

I find it really weird that a discussion on the state of SQL right now doesn't include any mention of Snowflake or dbt. SQL is _everywhere_ in the data engineering world right now.…

The Open University runs a Master's program in systems thinking (which I'm currently studying). There's a free primer course called 'Mastering systems Thinking in Practice' that gi…

I visited Boston from the UK last year and was struck by the lower level of traffic noise. I attributed it to there being far fewer diesel cars and more EVs & hybrids. In the UK we…

It's called a monopsony.

No radar, auto-aim off, license to kill, pistols, go!

Oh that last point! My friends and I used to just strafe along every single wall and all you could see was the wall texture until it was time to shoot. We knew all the levels so we…

The all-Europe equivalent is ENTSO-E[1], which has down to 15-minute granularity (depending on operator I think) data for every generation unit in Europe. There's a similar platfor…

Agreed. I read the Mistborn books a few years ago and just found them very... sanitised, especially compared to other prominent fantasy novels by the likes of Scott Lynch or the br…

This is a great use of digital elevation data to generate images of what's visible from various places. It appears to be a real labour of love from the author.

My favourite kind of web scraping is when you have to pick apart some undocumented API that serves up data to an SPA, then figure out how to tidy up the response(s) into a single p…

I don't think that's a fair comparison. The New Yorker is a magazine that curates and publishes articles by people who write for a living and stakes its reputation on only publishi…

> “Oh this person just throws stuff on Medium? Probably not worth my time.” This is just the worst attitude. Someone's not worth your time because they don't have the knowledge or …

Martin Gardner came up with a somewhat contrived but still brilliant extension to this: "Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Ch…

Containers or environment management solve this problem quite easily. All of my major projects have a conda environment alongside them, and I expect I'll be shifting things over to…

As far as I know they build up a graph of the cell execution order, so recursive loops are quite easy to find.

There was a good read on this in the most recent issue of Wired UK as well: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/cavendish-banana-extinction-...

Malcolm Gladwell's podcast had a good summary of the issue, including the pedal confusion. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game

One red, one black.