It’s still highly readable but also much much easier to write and modify.
Though I am biased because it’s also how I used to write SQL back when PL/SQL was my day job. Albeit I fell into this design because it proved to be the easiest way to write and maintain readable code.
The benefit is how quickly an experienced programmer can accurately isolate portions of logic and understand / mutate them.
It also achieves that in monochrome, which is likely to be the case when an SQL query is in a shell script's <<< HEREDOC or in a string blob in a log file or source code for another language's compiler.
Yes, I've reread is the first 2/3rds of "Understanding Media" several times and never finished it, but would still highly recommend it. There is also some excellent old interview footage of him when he was a pop culture figure which is originally what fascinated me. For me it would have been hard to read his writing without having seen those interviews first -- he has a very distinct style of writing/talking and is interesting as an integrated person within recent history and not just a collection of ideas. On that note, I'd also recommend Videodrome.
edit: There are also more polemic anti-tech presentations of his ideas, especially by Neil Postman or Nicholas Carr which are good in their own way. But to me the fascinating thing about McLuhan himself is his dedication to presenting his views in a such a matter-of-fact way that most of his early followers were probably very antithetical to his personal beliefs.
+1 to servicability. It's hard to get someone who knows how to clean my minisplits. This looks really cool, but I'd need to be confident that I could maintain my units myself.
OP hints at this - but the problem seems to be net metering lumps capacity payments in with the cost of power.
Some markets run a separate capacity market that rewards power generators explicitly for their capacity - independently of whether they actually generate any electricity. (California's market (CAISO) doesn't do this)
A long time ago I was involved in setting capacity market prices if y'all have follow up questions.
My utility charges separate amounts for generation and for distribution. In theory (I don't have solar), the electricity generated by the rooftop panels should be compensated at the generation rate. The the utility would then charge the consuming customer the distribution rate.
SCE and PG&E both separate out delivery vs. generation costs, and net metering only compensates you for the generation costs, but (per other comments I see here) the delivery costs are laughably low.
Writing is useful even if nobody reads it. Writing clarifies and sharpens my thinking. I have ideas I wouldn't otherwise have.
I wrote for the void for a long time. At the time, some folks on my immediate team found it useful. Now, a few years later, I'm still referencing those posts.
The important hard work was actually writing and polishing the idea until it was good enough to publish.
Agreed. I currently publish a bit of writing about my software engineering opinions to a website that only a couple of my non-software engineer friends know about. It doesn't make much sense to them, but their playful criticisms help me hone my ideas and hopefully simplify my writing (something I have a big problem with).
https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/concepts/sql_style