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Batteries are amazing for covering ancillary services. Once that market saturates, they move into arb. CAISO is also a capacity market, so you get paid for simply existing
Re:Duet is the future of chatbot interaction on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:53PM (#50298531)
I’ll believe them when they put the lethal trifecta with their own skin in the game
Re:UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does on Saturday October 24, 2026 @12:19PM (#50222728)
I don’t agree with the advice that it should be a public facing ID - that depends on the application
Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:58AM (#49697010)
This is funny because I regularly run into Claude claiming it is fatigued
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @11:40AM (#49537950)
Run more agents!
Re:Things I want in a modern relational query language on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:34AM (#49409671)
This sounds like a proper of the parser, rather than of the language
Re:Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s on Sunday August 09, 2026 @06:38PM (#49236919)
It isn’t, but the whole night thing is a bit of a problem and storage isn’t there yet at grid scale, but it’s coming.
Thankfully this is one of the easiest limitations to get around technically. Grid forming inverters and inertia markets make this pretty straightforward to solve IMO. Storage is the key thing we need to solve
Re:Designing and assembling my first PCB on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:20PM (#48896633)
Nothing competes with JLC but circuit hub isn’t terrible
Re:Designing and assembling my first PCB on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:03PM (#48886202)
This and sheet metal manufacturing from Oshcut have been game changers for me
Not true, you can make the R G and B points far enough out to capture the entire human gamut
Re:Abnormal Response to Anthropic Lawsuit on Thursday July 09, 2026 @12:24AM (#48840982)
Maybe they wired up a agent to file lawsuits
Re:Home made GPU escalated quickly [video] on Thursday July 09, 2026 @12:08AM (#48840875)
I always leave a 0 ohm DNP on any TX/RX line.
I’ve been working with MIP solvers a lot at work recently, and the depth of black magic is so deep it’s hard to comprehend. Even after the presolve there are so many tradeoffs and structures to exploit it’s hard to understand the whole system
Re:OpenPrinter on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:12AM (#48800553)
I’ll believe this when I see it on GitHub - rooting for them
Re:Factories Are Just Rooms on Friday July 03, 2026 @05:20PM (#48780126)
I agree with your premise, but I think it’s also important to reconcile this with the idea that nothing is simple. Everything that’s made is usually much more complex than it appears in the surface
Re:Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system? on Monday June 22, 2026 @10:22PM (#48639389)
I just use Debian these days
ERCOT operates under a “connect and manage” interconnection philosophy. This means things can actually get built quickly (unlike other ISOs), but some management is required.

Of course, there are some downsides to this approach, but overall I think it’s a superior. Just look at renewable and battery penetration compared to other ISOs.

Re:The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite on Saturday June 06, 2026 @07:29PM (#48430147)
Indexes?
Re:PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue on Saturday April 18, 2026 @11:42PM (#47821632)
What kind of throughput are we talking about?
Maybe the technical requirements at the time were a good excuse but as soon as you demonstrate the market will tolerate that why on earth would you remove it?
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:02PM (#47442533)
Damnit I was really rooting for uv :(
Re:XML Is a Cheap DSL on Saturday March 14, 2026 @12:37PM (#47378406)
I hate everything about XML. I have lost weeks of my life to fixing whitespace sensitive bugs
Yes but think of the shareholders! And that doesn’t show up nicely on a spreadsheet does it?
Re:Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @09:33PM (#47345123)
Bravo to the designers of this library. It’s well implemented and I’ve been using the poly fill for years now
I’m not seeing HVDC tech on the interconnection queue. The baseline power problem isn’t going away any time soon.

Nuclear just doesn’t go on standby, that’s the point.

Grids need reliability. Battery tech is not close to providing long enough durations to fulfill load with just renewables. I would much rather have nukes than natural gas filling that role.
Re:MicroGPT Explained Interactively on Sunday March 01, 2026 @05:38PM (#47211463)
I expect this kind of counter signaling to become more common in the coming years.
Re:Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents on Saturday February 21, 2026 @02:34PM (#47103888)
Little too lexically close to girth
Seems like a good way to materialize the conflict.

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