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Great stuff. We were had tickets for Thursday night but instead we are on the other side of the planet in 'strayla.

Are those cloud usage numbers missing some zeros? "Ubuntu dominates the cloud with 209,000 instances."

An early test of the battery control system and it responded!

What the article does not say is that the lumbering coal fired units also responded within milliseconds due to the enormous inertia of their turbo-generators. This happens before their throttles open purely due to the physics of the situation.

The energy involved is substantial.

Lennart Poettering has an interesting tool, casync , which overlaps with zsync. Claims to be a better solution for image syncing. Reasons given here: http://0pointer.net/blog/casync-a-tool-for-distributing-file...

I think these are good questions and I am interested in the answers. At least some of the answers are not obvious or not generally agreed by the experts, it seems.

Here is the example from @odersky et al http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/215280/files/paper.pdf showing the utility of path dependent types extracted as a gist.

https://gist.github.com/arnolddevos/09e5f51ce1436f590c7d

To this I added a comparison using type parameters instead.