FractalLP

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by FractalLP 8y ago
Rick Perry probably wanted to keep the coal industry from being shutdown regardless, but the facts (2014 Polar Vortex) are on his side. The need to reimburse coal for the value it provides is well understood by all the experts at the DOE, F
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I'm not sure either. I work in this industry as a professional engineer and as a neutral party. The facts are the facts at this point. It might not fit someone's agenda though.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
For anyone not in the know, Trump is merely following the recommendations of the Department of Energy regarding providing economic payments to Coal/Nuclear to value the very very real value they provide in fuel-mix diversity. I recomme
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Check out Red language if you get the chance. It sounds like you might like.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Thank you!
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by FractalLP 8y ago
The post above yours is actually correct. I didn't read it as rude either although maybe a little dismissive. If you work in this space, you quickly realize just how complex everything is as the electric grid is the largest most comple
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Your answer is good. To add to it, the large "transmission" grid usually covers extremely high voltage lines: 115 kV, 138kV, 230kV, 345kV, 500kV, 765kV and up. It is managed by both utilities and RTO/ISO organizations that ma
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Just because there is a lot of green energy doesn't mean that everything is peachy. California also does a fair amount of importing as well during parts of the day with low solar. Also, just because you have solar doesn't mean eve
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I've never heard of numcommand before, but it looks super awesome and exactly what I need. I use Linux servers, but am forced to use Windows as my local. So first question, do you have experience with awk/gawk on Windows? Second q
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Houyhnhnm Computing(ngnghm.github.io)
2 points by FractalLP 8y ago|0 comments
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by FractalLP 8y ago
How long have you been using Awk?
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I've heard that quote, but realistically, that would be a huge project to write an efficient APL in P6 and as I already said, the performance wouldn't make you happy.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
When I used the Dyalog APL free trial on Windows it installed a new keyboard mapping as part of the process. I think the keymapping is also on their site. It uninstalled as well I think when I was finished and uninstalled.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
From what I understand, they've made millions off of the big banking clients and that is probably quite straightforward as opposed to making money off open source.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Dyalog has a web server and a fully documented SQL library.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
You'd have to essentially embed a slow unoptimized APL in it which you can do. Add that to the fact that P6 is already slow at the moment would be an issue. Also, unlike APL, your P6 APL operators would probably be only known to you. I
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I think most of the users here realize the reality (lack of users and libraries), but also recognize the power you described. I'd love for a simple open-source & multi-platform interpreter with a built in keyboard and package manag
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I think it requires a more expert user. I couldn't get the manual install process to work on Ubuntu and I believe it requires MinGW or Cygwin to work on Windows (not for a beginner either). Don't get me wrong, I'm really real
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by FractalLP 8y ago
I'd love for it to go more mainstream with a high performance open source implementation. Dyalog is pretty good, and I like J, but feel the missing symbol leaves something out. K/Q with kdb+ is too expensive, and the other open so
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Yea, I was surprised to find thriving Latin & Esperanto Wikipedia groups.
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by FractalLP 8y ago
;)
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by FractalLP 8y ago
while True: print "Welcome to RS"
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Seconded. This isn't a new issue with storage, as SCADA is used everywhere. Look up the article from Wired on the Ukrainian Grid Cyber Attack. They got into the utilities operations center and started remotely opening circuit breakers
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by FractalLP 8y ago
California has a major issue with Solar (duck curve). I think the goal would be to incentivize additional storage, so when the sun goes down and they suddenly need 8 GW, they can lean on the batteries as gas is ramping up to replace the los
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by FractalLP 8y ago
The landing page does http://www.availlang.org/index.html I tried to link to a more interesting page though. I stumbled upon someone mentioning the language, but don't really get it. It seems to promote building DSLs,
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Agreed, I don't think anyone really wondered why it doesn't exist...kind of one of those expressions that don't translate well to message boards
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Aggh, sorry...I meant to be agreeing more with the parent comment I replied to. I want all that plus an e-ink screen running freeBSD and some very basic browsing. I don't think old Nokia dumb phones had that.
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Avail Programming Language(availlang.org)
80 points by FractalLP 8y ago|109 comments
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by FractalLP 8y ago
No problem. Ladder logic and C I can definitely see, but SCADA would have blown my mind :)
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by FractalLP 8y ago
Yea...there were definitely fans like me. When I would show others, it wasn't completely uncommon for them to go out and buy one the next week. The marketing was terrible though.

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