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Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by dfxm12 »

capableweb wrote: post #132
hwc wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Texas is without power at the moment.

Thought you were joking at first, how can an entire state be without power? But seems you're right, how the hell does that happen in a first-world country? Tried to access some dashboards that are supposed to show some data, but not sure if I can't access it because I'm not in the US/Texas or if it's down as well (because they don't have power?) - https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards - https://www.ercot.com/g…

But seems you're right, how the hell does that happen in a first-world country?

An interesting note is that Texas has its own power grid, more or less, and it isn't federally regulated.

more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/08/why-texas-has-it...

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by davidkuennen »

lhorie wrote: post #25

Pasting this in dev console will give you a quick and dirty rundown. It sorts locations by points. [...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)).map(a => a.join(' - ')) As of this post, California is leading, followed by other places w/ large tech hubs (Germany, UK, Canada, NY, Washington)

With US combined:

console.table(Object.entries([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).reduce((rv, [a,b]) => {var key = a.split(": ")[0]; rv[key] = rv[key] || 0; rv[key] += parseInt(b); return rv;}, {})).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)))

  'US' 959
  'Canada' 114
  'United Kingdom' 96
  'Germany' 96
  'France' 35
  'Netherlands' 30
  'Sweden' 30
  'Poland' 24
  'Brazil' 24
  'Denmark' 19
  'Switzerland' 18

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by gruturo »

the_duke wrote: post #16

Too many options. I'd have found a continent poll more interesting, I bet many will just not bother scrolling.

Is that really a concern? Surely the HN audience knows how to use the Find option in their browser.

But if it makes you feel better, I'm sure someone will whip up a regex or perl oneliner to get to the row data and then sort/aggregate it in 20 different ways, or color a heatmap, or in any style of chart you prefer.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by iechoz6H »

101008 wrote: post #10

I hope there is someone who knows how to code in this community to parse the results and do a nice visualization. I have a cousin who knows about computers, if noone knows here how to do it, I can ask him to try. He always helps me with my printer.

Could you ask him about random list generation too? And whether or not order influences outcomes? Thanks

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by capableweb »

vel0city wrote: post #179
capableweb wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thought you were joking at first, how can an entire state be without power? But seems you're right, how the hell does that happen in a first-world country? Tried to access some dashboards that are supposed to show some data, but not sure if I can't access it because I'm not in the US/Texas or if it's down as well (because they don't have power?) - https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards - https://www.ercot.com/g…

ERCOT doesn't do power delivery, you wouldn't see how many people are without power by checking out ERCOT. You would want to look at one of the several power delivery companies, such as Oncor. https://stormcenter.oncor.com/ They show 7,073 customers affected by outages out of 3,835,901 customers served. That's 0.18% of customers affected. Texas-New Mexico Power is another power delivery company in Texas. https://www.…

Thank you, that oncor website seems to be available to me. I was browsing around some news article that seemed to echo the same sentiment, tried to access the source data myself and couldn't, so made an assumption. That was an error on my part and I'm sorry for that. Thank you for providing a better source that seems accessible worldwide.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by rascul »

Avshalom wrote: post #114
jakub_g wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also ' (apostrophe) for "quick find, in hyperlinks only". I sorely miss it when using Chrome.

Firefox's quickfind behavior is a solid 25-30% of why I never switched to chrome.

It's unfortunate when web sites hijack the slash key for their own uses (github gets me with this every time).
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