I'd almost pay attention to the message, but Kennedy has no credibility with me. Giving up 90% of animal protein has made me leaner with vastly lower cholesterol.
Meanwhile over here in WV, we are saddled with above-market electricity rates thanks to our state (non-)regulatory commission and a desire to keep old coal-fired generators operating. It drives us nuts.
I just checked my bill. Here in California, in the SF Bay Area, we're paying 82.7 cents per kWh. That's 62.6 cents for delivery and 20.1 cents for generation.
Those websites that report lower rates are incredibly wrong and misleading.
I don't think the numbers are "wrong," they are just aggregate. Obviously within a state as large as California there will be a lot of variation between regions.
I live in California and my energy prices are between $0.29 and $0.34 depending on the time of day. GP's point still stands that WV is cheaper than CA, but how much cheaper depends on which region of CA you are comparing it to.
These aggregate numbers they don’t reflect what most ratepayers actually pay.
For example, PG&E’s current E-TOU-C summer rates in SF Bay area are around $0.83/kWh peak and $0.62/kWh off-peak. That’s almost double the CPUC’s statewide “average” of ~$0.34/kWh.
But whatever, I'm just upset at how much we have to pay.
This is sadly the state for a good number of PUCs across the nation. That's one reason that electricity costs are rising even as generation is getting cheaper thanks to renewables and storage.
Forth was neat, but it was a bit of an evolutionary dead end. I'm not aware of any significant concepts from Forth which were adopted by other, later programming languages.
RPL (Reverse Polish Lisp, a high level language for HP calculators) possibly drew on it a bit, though the main antecedents are RPN and Lisp, and possibly Poplog (a Poplog guru was at HP at the time, but I don't know if he contributed).
The only thing PostScript and Forth have in common is RPN. Other than that, they are very different in philosophy - Forth is very bit banging, close to the metal, while PostScript is much more symbol oriented and high level.
That's true, PostScript is much higher-level and feels like a stack-based LISP. But, saying they just have RPN in common makes it seem like a small choice about the syntax - instead of a whole stack-oriented approach, which affects everything.
Well, yes, the stack oriented approach does matter. But even there, there are big differences with Forth having a user accessible return stack, which is implicit in PostScript, while PostScript has an explicit dictionary stack, which exists only in a very primitive form in Forth.
Did Forth inspire the stack-based VMs of python and java? I don't know about that part of CS history well, but a very large proportion of all code runs on stack based byte code interpreters.
Imho Lisp is deader than COBOL. Especially now that we've learned you can do the really hard and interesting bits of AI with high-performance number crunching in C++ and CUDA.
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