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galacticdesserton Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

It does not matter. The alternative is curtailing wind parks/solar generation, and wasting clean energy and even more money.

galacticdesserton Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

A lot of money seems excessive, at least in Europe. The flexibility market profitability depends a lot on the national market it plays in, as for instance the prices are quite low in Germany/north Europe, but very high in Australia.

Rather than a way of making money, I like to think about flexibility and fast dispatching as an enabler for way more renewables to come online, and that is crucial for the human race right now.

galacticdesserton Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees

+1. Would be nice to have something similar for gitlab as well.

galacticdesserton Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees

I also noticed some slowness on Windows, especially in the fuzzy search. Will test later on my private Linux machine for comparison.

Overall though, great tool!

galacticdesserton Ptpython – A Better Python REPL

This REPL is a great quality of life improvement over the default one. I love how fast it is in giving suggestions, and how well the UI is though of.

I find it interesting how the autocomplete and autosuggestion perform much better in ptpython compared to VS code. Especially the autocompletion is not very reliable in VS Code, as sometimes it just stops working for method calls or function signatures.

galacticdesserton Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

This. At work we use it because it is already included in our Office365 subscription, but it is so painfully slow. Really, unbelievably slow.

galacticdesserton Eternal Terminal

I am probably missing the point here, but how is this different than connecting via ssh and doing tmux attach?

galacticdesserton Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

Agree. This is indeed a nice tidy workflow. I usually just create a bunch of issues to have a visual representation of what is missing in a project, sort them in a board and then work through them.

Issues are good place for asking input and feedback, and also help in keeping feature branches focused and short lived. Definitely my favorite git workflow.

galacticdesserton Universal Resume Template

Nice work! Unfortunately there are some differences between the way it renders/prints in Firefox and in Chrome.

galacticdesserton A Beginner’s Introduction to Python Web Frameworks (2018)

+1 for FastAPI. It also has really good documentation

galacticdesserton BTrDB: Berkeley Tree Database

Unfortunately the website is a bit light on details, but I found some interesting information elsewhere:

https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/05/04/btrdb-optimizing-storage...

https://pingthings.io/platform.html

It look very interesting, and I am a bit surprised to see how a tree structure can deliver such high performances in retrieving the data. Querying a long period of time mean that each top node has to be walked to the bottom, right? Isn't that fairly expensive?

The aggregations on node level are also interesting. It is something that also the company I work for (https://www.energy21.com) does for calculations, but we use a relational database and a notification-based system for performing the recalculations and keeping the aggregations up to date.

Cool stuff.

galacticdesserton Ask HN: Does Anyone Use Code Folding?

Hate*, not here :)

galacticdesserton Ask HN: Does Anyone Use Code Folding?

Yep, and I here when people do not align line comments properly

galacticdesserton Svgbob: Convert your ASCII diagram scribbles into happy little SVG

This is so good. It makes making documentation with diagrams a less painful process. I would love to see some integration with asciidoctor.

galacticdesserton Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2019 Release

I had plenty of issues with the language server as well, especially very high memory consumption and CPU usage.

For now I will not move away from Jedi again.

galacticdesserton Wasmer: A Python library for executing WebAssembly binaries

Looks good! Just for my understanding, what would be the advantage of working with wasm binaries instead of, let's say, C external libraries or DLLs via ctypes?

I can think of: 1. Portability of the wasm binaries

Is easier interoperability between data types an advantage as well? Ctypes can be a nightmare when passing around structs and pointers (and pointers of pointers, etc.)

galacticdesserton Show HN: Idea Minr – Business Ideas Aggregator

Agree, on the desktop the readability is also quite poor. And you seem to have some issues in the CSS, as gigantic icons appear while loading.

Keep it simple, align to the left and put some margins to center the content.

galacticdesserton Web Scraping with Electron

One thing about Selenium and Puppeteer is that they trigger captcahs on some websites, making scraping impossible. This would perhaps fix it?

galacticdesserton Climeon could make geothermal as widely accessible as wind and solar – Quartz

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-climeons-technology-takes...

This other article explains a bit better the technology behind it. It is indeed an ORC, but they seem to have taken some interesting design choices with the working fluid to increase the cost/efficiency ratio