Is it caused by wind farms, or something else? I normally think of heat waves as having low wind, at least in Melbourne.

But it does account for that.

The costs of equipment design, manufacture, installation, maintenance, repair, and power distribution infrastructure, are all indirectly included in the market dynamics that dictate the price — along with more obvious price effects such as instantaneous supply and demand.

If infrastructure were cheaper to build then the instantaneous price would have been even lower (more negative).

I know you are kind of joking, but I would regard mathematical reasoning as a general ability to analyse mathematical problem statements, descriptions, claims, proofs and so on, identify errors or potential solutions.

Generating methods or instructions for computation by a traditional program (or compiler) would probably fit into this broad category. But actually following those instructions, to perform the actual computation, would not..

Everything made perfect sense until this sentence: “Many of latest facilities are going up in hot, dry areas like Arizona and Texas”. What the actual fuck? Is a tax thing to build hot thirsty facilities in a desert?

“What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.” Michael Dell, 1997

5 Insightful. This is rare self-awareness among technology enthusiasts. Slashdot is not the target audience. A billion people is the target audience. Half of Slashdot probably wants Emacs or Vim on their phone. Apple literally doesn’t give a shit — and rightfully so.

Fair enough. Pedantically true, I guess. Similarly: people don’t kill people, guns kill people.

I totally get what you’re saying and I agree. One place where I’ve recently used AI writing (via ChatGPT) is to help fill out endless annual performance review forms for employer. I’m normally pretty articulate but I get total writer’s block on those things. Having something that can flesh out basic bullet points, in my own style, is really handy.

Yeah, I have no idea. It’s like the summary was written by Vicky Pollard from Little Britain https://youtu.be/K4vgtBHpA1I?s...

It is a kernel build-time configuration flag for enabling or disabling code paths via conditional compilation (preprocessor macro). It doesn’t ship on billions of devices.

Okay I’ll pay that.

Why not call it PREEMPT_REALTIME? What’s with the 1970s C abbreviations?

That’s nothing. They should try debugging the SPU vector processors on the PS3 CPU (Cell Broadband) using the horrendous Sony tools and the unmitigated binfire that was the SN Systems debugger.

Ha, good point, although nighttime Is also an actual thing.

Agreed, I’m sure the Houthi rebel airforce’s single F5, or even Iran’s ancient F-14s (are they still flying) are no match for a new, modernised F15. Although Israel also has 40 F35 and is expanding fleet to 75 F35s, so they seem to think that something newer and expensive is needed.