Human folly for 02019-02-11

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• Levelized cost of energy and levelized cost of storage (lazard.com):

  #energy including #solar #photovoltaic, wind, and utility-scale energy storage

• Lifetime (nrel.gov):

  #photovoltaic lifetime and degradation data. #solar #energy

• Lifespan solar panels (energyinformative.org):

  more on #photovoltaic lifetime. #energy

• Programmingz3 (theory.stanford.edu):

  #Z3 #formal-methods #tutorial #toread

• Beta (fuzzingbook.org):

  #ebook on generative #testing #fuzzing

• Samples (dangermouse.net):

  Piet #esolang, the one that looks like Mondrian paintings

• Camsr%2Byhh%2B5Oq4Xziwwoefhotzgr07Vdgg%2Bhu%3D1Adxx59Ateaoq%40Mail (postgresql.org):

  #fsync on #Linux and other Unixes can fail, which indicates not that your data hasn’t been written yet but that it’s actually been lost entirely. There’s no interface to tell which data and thus no reasonable way to retry, except that you can reread the data you tried to write to see which data is wrong.

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  #Postgresql #fsync problems

• Open sourcing ClusterFuzz (opensource.googleblog.com):

  #Google just released "ClusterFuzz", an open-source clustered #generative testing or #fuzzing system; it's already found more than 16,000 bugs in Chromium.

• Power supply (thedailywtf.com):

  the US$1500 power supply in MRI-certified medical equipment was four cheap-shit power supplies hot-glued together #regulation

• My IRB nightmare (slatestarcodex.com):

  Scott Andrew describes the Kafkaesque farce of IRB #regulation

• (donmarquis.org):

  Don Marquis’s stories online. #ebook

• Howl (poetryfoundation.org):

  Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl", which says, among other things, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,” and, “Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo!” #ebook #poem