AI should prove it the way Fermat imagined ...

There is a very good reason why Portugal and the Netherlands were so similar, in this regard!

Observability and APM are way, way older than depicted in this simplistic post!

Hello! Yes, you are right - observability and APM have both been around for many decades, but the incarnations that most people are familiar with are the ones that emerged in the 2010s.

My intention wasn't for this post to be a comprehensive historical record. That would have taken many more words & would have put everyone to sleep. My goal was to unpack and analyze _modern observability_ - the version that we are all dealing w/ today.

Good point though!

It really doesn't tell what really happened: -This was only due to hydro production... -The amount of rain that fell was consistent along those days, which is definitely not usual. -The energy produced was mainly exported to Spain, but at ZERO or even NEGATIVE euros.

Does this help? Doesn't seem to me! And besides having to pay full price to the renewables producers (while exporting the same energy at ZERO), which amounts to a significant energy deficit, they are talking about even more H2 or whatever schemes??? This is the reason why Portugal has had one of the biggest rises of electricity prices in Europe over the last 15 years...

In addition, the title "Portugal just ran on 100% renewables" is inherently misleading because it implies the whole country operated free of fossil fuels and should really be "Portugal's electrical grid just ran on 100% renewables". Often less than half of a country's energy usage passes through the grid, with more than half of it being fuel in vehicles, fossil fuel heating, etc.

That's a real leap to think anyone given that title would assume for six days all vehicles in the country were swapped to electric. Specific to the absurd, implied context isn't misleading.

When/if the UK gets to this landmark it'll be because the wind was unusually strong.

I don't think that takes away from the achievement.

We also have negative prices on windy days and the interconnects tend to be exporting power to Europe at night.

I believe you can also do it in a slightly different way. For each square on the board:

0 - encodes no piece in the square; at least 32 of them, so 32 bits (4 bytes)

1xxxx - xxxx being your encoding: encodes remaining pieces; at most 32 of them, so max 32 x 5 bits (20 bytes)