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The data at http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Energy/Coal/C... for 2001 shows the US and Germany neck and neck in the coal per capita with the US slig…

With the current structure of the electrical system, this actually causes problems in isolated markets. In Hawaii, there are sections of the grid that are oversupplying 250% of what it should take an…

As described in the Wikipedia page, the power load balancing is done over the course of a day - not seasonal (those tend to be reservoirs for consumption / irrigation). > Along with energy man…

Following up on this... From https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonbruner/2011/10/20/the-high-s... > At issue is what happens when too much electricity is on off…

The article touches on the battery that is being used: > In one case, it takes advantage of negative prices by being paid to pump large volumes of water into a mountain lake in Austria. When prices…

Most coin mining is not practical on home computing devices. Wasting the power generation in this way isn't necessarily the best investment of the surplus power. Also... realize that this is pow…

A bit dated (2011) though touching on the economies of power generation, "The High-Stakes Math Behind the West's Greatest River" ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonb…

Likely the descriptiveness of the title. This one has three “things” in the title - Lisa, open source, computer history museum. The other has just one - the Lisa. Nothing about the license, nothing ab…

I'm sure there are other complexities added in when there are pieces of iron rather than silicon involved... and safety regulations start chewing up time and reworks. But overall, the "if it…

An AP Press reprint: http://www.dailyfreeman.com/general-news/20171219/engineer-i... > Engineer in fatal Amtrak derailment might have been distracted by trainee in locomo…

I'm going from some old bits I wrote nearly 20 years ago about software estimation here... but some of it may be applicable to other projects. A bit more recent on it can be read at http:/&…

Apparently, there is now also a windows version. https://www.git-tower.com/windows

Aside from pull and push - there's another model of information. Ambient. The Ambient orb ( http://www.ambientdevices.com ) was one that kicked it off many years ago. Clocks are th…

Toss a network sniffer in and see what traffic is going from the echo device out and when. Probably won’t see the contents in a meaningful way, but will be able to see how much and when. Open it up. C…

From days of old, I used to play on gamerz.net - http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/ While some of them have graphical views now, in days of old it was all monospace ascii in an emai…

The corresponding HN thread on it from October of last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12769819 …

It is much easier and less expensive to pay a developer to keep writing those workarounds than to recertify all of the internal applications to a modern version of IE. Furthermore there is a significa…

That was part of Sun's "people pay more attention to the first number" reversioning. Solaris 2.6 was followed by Solaris 7. This was partly because of the competitors (e.g. IRIX) were …

Other sites have optimized for other things. Slant.co does a great job (in my opinion) of the "pros and cons" for different things. Quora has a more anecdotal spin to its thing. You can a…

There have been efforts to remove vague questions. There is a lot of them. Stack Overflow corporate tends to leave that to the community moderation... which is a bit under powered. Until recently, …

While "it depends on the circumstances and here's why" is the ideal answer, such questions rarely get those answers. On one of the sister sites to SO, there's a post about pros and…

Google was never pointed at Documentation, so you wouldn't find it there. There were constant concerns within the meta SO community about the quality of the content and how embarrassing it would…

http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/Layoff_Services_WARN... > Per Chapter 4, Part 4, Sections 1400-1408 of the Labor Code, WARN protects employees, their families, and com…

I suspect there's a mismatch between what you expect Stack Overflow to be and what the other users expect it to be. From the tour ( https://stackoverflow.com/tour ): > With y…

The thing that separates SO from forums is the focus on quality answers. There are more than enough locked examples of the opinion bickering if one wants to see what happens. They may be interesting t…

After some digging, it is "Mathematical Recreations: A Subway Named Turing", Scientific American (September): 104,106-107 by Ian Steward which can be read at http://dev.whydomath.…

Long ago (I'm thinking early 80s) in Scientific American, I recall a story about the implementation of a computer(?) in a giant train switching yard. That one, I can't find. Though the sto…

Interesting slides, though the end with the simulation goes a bit... odd. I suspect some context or overriding narration is lost in going from dominoes to the simulation hypothesis. I also believe th…

China's timezone is calibrated for Shanghai. The western border is about two hours off of solar time ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#/media/File:Solar_ti…

There are also phenomena such as the natural fission reactor at Oklo that demonstrates that the fine structure constant hasn’t changed over the past 2b years. Part of the definition of this constant i…