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The only INES 7 disaster in the last 30 years involved Fukushima being hit by an earthquake that was out of design spec and then a literal 14 meter high tsunami. I think it was something like a 1 in 600 year event. Even then they had to be negligent on their safety standards for it to cause a bad meltdown.

That was what it took to fail a 1970s designed (pre-Chernobyl, pre-computer-aided-design) nuclear reactor with upgrades. Standards haven't gotten lower since then. Luxembourg will be fine. Don't panic.

Unless they migrate to the coast with global warming. Which can be mitigated by more nuclear use!
Define “over.”
It's easier to say that "game devs" are intellectually bankrupt - their inability to synthesize innovative experiences is evident from the current state of gaming. I suppose you can't expect much from such an incesteous industry.
In Fall, Stephenson argues that the speed of light reflects resource limitations in the machine(s) running our reality.
Not only the flavour: I find that a lot of coffees make me feel slightly ill after drinking, but not with Ethiopian beans.
People made sounds. Babies crying. Mothers listened.
How to Restore Deleted /Tmp Directory in Linux
There are two reasons.

The first is that it gets you out of needing ordinary batteries, because instead of converting heat to electricity to batteries and back, you can take the heat generated by the reactor during the day, store it in an insulated vat of molten salt and then use that to drive turbines at night. This should be much cheaper than ordinary batteries because expanding storage capacity only requires having more salt in more vats, and salt is much less expensive than lithium batteries.

The second is that if you have a nuclear reactor for generating at night when solar doesn't, the incremental cost of also operating it during the day is lower than the solar generating cost. It can't recover its full fixed costs at the price of daytime solar, but as long as it can recover its incremental cost you still operate the reactor 24/7.
Vscode remote plugins. Being able to have the full-fledged editor remotely on a Linux development machine is a game changer.
Strange, they talk about developments of several billion for a new space vehicle, but blithely waft the development costs for a space elevator away.

A space elevator is a great idea in principle but it would need a tether that is magically very strong and very light and is thus not a viable proposition in practice.

The figures supplied in the article for the electrical costs also disregard the costs of accelerating the payloads to orbital speed, which is required as well as lifting the payloads to orbital height. (kinetic energy = 1/2 * m * velocity squared)
"Reagent is the recommended approach for building ClojureScript applications with Luminus."

Reagent is nice, but if you want global state management, re-frame adds most familiar concepts from redux but without as much boilerplate: https://github.com/day8/re-frame
Hey, If it's using WebRTC built into the browser like every other web-based video calling app – how is it "unmatched" exactly?
An alternative is Scoop [1], which personally I find more convenient.

[1] https://scoop.sh/
> including watchpointing them

I assume this isn't literally using hardware watchpoints?
My most useful tools on macOS:
Klokki Slim
1Password
Bear SelfControl (Definitely saved me some time)
SpotLight
PyCharm
Any two adjacent colors must either have the same name or different names.
Not that I think the lab escape was deliberate, but: shutting down pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong has been a result of the virus.

I don't really think the leaders would take that risk, considering all the unpredictable side effects, but there certainly was something gained.
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Azure IoT Edge – Using TimescaleDB on the Edge
Viewing and Understanding the Analemma
sure, you can't separate it out if it didn't need to be separated in the first place
Ask HN: Programs that cost you 100 hours?
Microsoft Data Platform Stack Overview
Ask HN: Looking for PDP-11 Emulator
If possible, not JS/browser emulator, I would like to see as "seamless" integration as possible, ideally running UNIX or BSD from the regular Linux terminal
A lot of people don't really get the reality here. It's like the old saying if you owe the bank $100,000 and can't pay you have a problem. If you owe the bank $100,000,000 and can't pay the bank has a problem.

For a landlord a tenant unable to pay the rent isn't a problem. If 30-50% can't it's is his problem.

I understand you want to punish working class people for losing their jobs and being unable to pay rent. Fundamentally there will be chaos if it comes to that. First they don't have the money. Second they won't leave. Third the cops and the courts will do NOTHING about it.
/r/China used to be fairly moderate, well, much more than it is now, but then most of the foreigners that posted from China left (either China, or lost access to reddit, or just lost interest) and now it is just a bunch of CPC hate.

The line between criticizing the CPC and full blown sino-phobia isn't thin at all, it has always remained pretty thick. It is the people crossing the line that have changed.
It's like paying to run on yet another treadmill. Should go viral any minute.
Ok Chinese Government Stooge #390-AEJ-039/2
You might want to have a look at Bastille, a “system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD”.

https://bastillebsd.org/
To be honest I wasn't thinking much about air-to-air combat. I guess New Guinea might get some ideas, but otherwise... anyway, the F-35 will probably perform admirably for that.

I think being able to hit ships at a distance is what the RAAF is most likely to want to do. I'd be intrigued to read a real analysis that indicates otherwise.

> Extreme range strike is arguably complimentary to submarines, but there are no manned F-111-like platforms available to buy, and no one thinks that is a role UAS can do.

I assume the Strike Eagle could achieve something not far off from the F-111 in terms of range with conformal fuel tanks. Although it looks like the Super Hornet has CFT available now, which can only be a good thing for the RAAF.

> If you used Strike Eagles you have the same problem as Supers -- they are 4.5G, not low observable, which gives warning of a strike.

The newer anti-ship missiles are meant to have a long enough range that that is less of a concern. I don't know so much about whatever version of the Harpoon missile the RAAF is flying. (or what they'd be up against, or their electronic warfare capability, which actually matters a lot...)
Oh My Zsh: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
Just created a link: http://archive.today/WRHTG
SIMH is great:

https://github.com/simh/simh
If you look for "AOT" or "Ahead-of-time" you'll find examples in both .NET and Java, but as far as I know they're either largely experimental or limited to newer code (not backwards-compatible with all code). But I haven't looked too deeply into it. Dumping data structures to give hints for next time reminds me of something I read recently on the topic, but drat, I can't remember it right now.
It’s relatively expensive, depends on your income level. Chicken beef and goat are common. Folks in the country have better access than in the cities.
TLDR; It’s all about the new tab groups feature in the latest version of Chrome.
Wox (http://www.wox.one and Everything (http://www.voidtools.com) - two fantastic tools for keyboard focused workflows on Windows. Wox is an equivalent to Alfred probably.
At some point in the next six months, I'm going start ignoring restrictions on dining and most other extreme restrictions. I will have to, both for my own sanity and because more other people will have started doing also, for their sanity.

I hope, that this will be at the point that quarantining, testing, contact-tracing, and so-forth will have driven the infection down rate down to a very low level. And I'm hoping it won't be after the infection and fatalities have reached a maximum level due a premature opening up.

And I'm also hoping it will not be at a point where the state has reduced the infection rate by quarantining but has done nothing else and so left the rate to shoot up again when people indeed can't stand the situation anymore. However this later option sadly seems most likely given the idiocy, confusion and bureaucratic paralysis that seems to prevail so far.
> 1) Any terminal that you can summon/dismiss with a global hotkey. Examples are Guake for Linux and iTerm2 for OSX. I consider this a must-have for all developers.

Years ago I saw someone using this (I think it was actually Yakuake) and ran it for a bit. I really didn't like that it was a single session. However, I later messed around with tiling window managers (which relates to your #2!) and having a shortcut to pop up a new terminal is really what I wanted this whole time.

Just to touch on #3, any time I'm writing a gui that's expected to have more than a handful of items I push to add a search bar with fuzzy matching at the top. Otherwise, search would get added after it's used for like a decade and everyone is immediately enthusiastic and grateful. All of the non-fuzzy solutions are too pedantic to use.
Spot-on. In our game the NPC AI is ... exactly what I wanted it to be, smart and extremely "opportunistic". And the gameplay is generally such that your goal is to build structures/layout the buildings in a way that the AI will make the AI most likely to reach their goals.

To me, that's a huge part of our game -- catering to the NPCs, specifically figuring out "why are they missing X? Oh, because they're walking Z distance to the nearest bathroom!". I think the AI is fantastic but, when functioning perfectly as [we would have] expected, we still get complaints about why the 'dumb AI' will do X or Y. Part of that is defintiely a UI/UX issue on our part -- but another part is that players generally aren't used to it and they expect much more "robotic" or obvious/easy behaviors from agents/NPCs.

Emergent & opportunistic behaviors are awesome (IMO at least), but a lesson we learned is that they may not always provide players with the desired or expected gameplay experience. It'll of course always be game-specific, but it's something we will keep in mind & likely simplify further in our next game.
Yes, fear is in the mind, but despite the fear, the danger is real.

Fear prevents progress but blindness to real danger can cause tragedy. You need to remember that although the HBO series brought nuclear fears to the forefront it is a series that is telling a relatively True story.

Be concerned with the truth, not what a truth can promote.

I think we should move forward with nuclear. But let's say I took away all the fear in the world right now and we started building nuclear power plants near every city, village and town where we and our children live.

I think even an optimist will hesitate before moving forward with such a proposition. Move forward, but move with caution.
I tried this with friends, and from my phone to their laptop (and another's desktop), it didn't work.

In comparison, Jitsi sort-of worked on the same devices (but screen share was limited to 5 FPS).
Fried pizza is most certainly an authentic Italian thing -- it's street food in Napoli, and it's absolutely fantastic.
The Botanist (2018) [video]
Sure.

And conversely, there are infinitely more colors than that particular digital representation can express.
What is good about recycling nuclear? I believe the whole "recycling" in nuclear was a similar ploy like for recycling plastic, in other words mainly greenwashing. The other reason for it being military.

Nuclear recycling is a uneconomical, multiplies (by a significant factor) the amount of waste. Admittedly, less radioactive, but still as toxic and importantly much longer lifetimes, so still needs to be stored for insane length of time.
Nuclear will forever be shunned, not because it's inherently unsafe, but rather because WE are unsafe.

Every nuclear disaster so far has exposed incompetence, negligence, corruption, or unsafe practices at some level, and has usually been accompanied by delays, denials, and attempts to bury the evidence. When dealing with potentially "forever" contaminants, this is simply unacceptable.

Ans since human nature and psychology is not going to magically evolve over the next couple of centuries, and since there's no such thing as a foolproof design, reducing nuclear power is a pragmatic approach, even if it causes a temporary increase in dirtier energy production (up to a point, of course).
as a JS developer, @getify is pure gold. He really dives deep into somewhat "simple" JS topics well.
But many languages with VMs are intended to be portable across processor architectures, and a snapshot would be architecture-dependent.

Also, the charecteristics of your test suite may be very different than how it is run in production.
You know Ethiopian food is good because it's become popular without the "mother country" wielding any kind of economic influence/hard power/soft power.
It has been a couple of months since I messed with it, but I don't remember there being a way to do source based, weighted, or blackhole routes on freebsd.
That's assuming you're using the steady source to cover for the intermittent source when it isn't generating. If you're using the steady source to replace the intermittent source entirely (as France had been doing) then it is producing most of the time and you don't have that problem.

This is probably the largest impediment to a 100% renewable grid. You might be able to get over the solar day-night thing with batteries if you had to because you can justify a lot of batteries if they're getting used every night, but the thing where sometimes it's cloudy for a straight month is a serious issue.
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Most CV signals can be positive or negative. For instance, there's a standard for pitch CV that's 1 volt per octave. 0 volts might be middle C (whether it is would vary depending on the synth and/or position of tuning knobs), and -1 volt would be an octave below middle C. (There's another hz/volt standard used most notably by the Korg MS-20 where 0 volts == 0 hertz, but it hasn't caught on as widely.)

If the prosthetic adapter only outputs positive voltage, you could just turn the knob corresponding to the CV being controlled to its lowest setting (assuming there is a knob and it is summed with rather than bypassed by the jack).
Eventually it will be too late, and arguably it is already too late. Once climate change hits critical points like permafrost thawing or the loss of substantial parts of the Greenland ice sheet it doesn't matter anymore what we do. I doubt that we can build a sufficient number of nuclear plants in the next twenty years or so to prevent that from happening.
Large battery storage I feel in the future can offset the sudden demand giving enough time for nuclear or less carbon producing power to ramp up. We are not there yet but I feel as batteries keep getting cheaper and hopefully smaller we will reach a point where homes and business have enough battery power for few hours of their peak use. This could flatten the demand spikes on the networks as well as maybe allow to use solar power when the sun is not out.
Ask HN: What's software engineering like in the health sector?
Looking to make my first career move, just wondering what it's like and what to expect. I'd like to apply my skills there
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/12/business/bc-us-v...
Western cultural references are kind of unavoidable when naming things in English I think.
1. Evidence could be suppressed

2. The person who accidentally leaked it from the lab may not even know it. Research into COVID-19 has estimated up to 20% of people infected may be asymptomatic carriers of the disease who can still spread it to others. Person who works in the lab gets infected, doesn’t get visibly sick, accidentally spreads it to someone in the vicinity of their lab by breathing or coughing or singing or sneezing, virus is now out and they don’t even realize it.

The 1977 H1N1 pandemic is widely believed by scientists to have been an accidental lab release. Evidence as to which lab it escaped from has never been found and we will probably never know. https://mbio.asm.org/content/6/4/e01013-15 “A biosafety lapse in a research laboratory is now most often cited as the cause of the 1977-1978 reemergence of the H1N1 influenza virus strain”
Wow, that's a really cool project! I love the modular design of the prosthesis that allowed the hand to be quickly exchanged with the CV output module. I wonder how many independent signals you could learn to control using this type of interface? I suspect at least ~5 per arm (>=1 per finger), similar to the fingering used for piano/guitar/etc?

While it isn't remotely as cool as controlling CV with you mind... someday I should convert my Nintendo Power Glove into denkitribe's SynthGlove[1] MIDI controller.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpLkX7X37D4
If you are young and healthy, you have a good chance of surviving COVID19 and the next coronavirus. I am not as healthy and cannot take that risk.
Could a highly efficient grid solve the "local weather" problem? While it might be cloudy in Washington, at the same time it's likely sunny in Nevada, or Texas, (or Mexico if you had cross border production), etc..

The broader the area you can depend on, the less you need "bad weather backup" systems.
I'd rather just do a find and replace which is quicker
I use the “Emacs Mac Port” which is available via Homebrew.

https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport
I tried using reagent but wasn’t a fan of the atoms everywhere approach. Fine for small projectS IMO.
Yep.. our oral cavity has a ton of ACE2 receptors (much more than the lungs). Apart from eating it, in a round about way, I think people do recognize that its a vector, as the food container/packaging still qualifies as a surface that you can catch it off of.
While I like more FreeBSD than Linux, I say Linux is generally a better choice for servers. Better performance, better hardware support, more refined tools, easier to set up, and the list goes on. This is part due to popularity but mainly because what author hates: software written by companies willing to earn money in contrast to software written solely by passion. If it weren't for corporate money, Linux would be in a much poorer state.

Neither one is ready as a desktop operating system. Linus Torvalds said that himself about Linux. Since FreeBSD lags behind Linux, it's safe to assume that is true for FreeBSD, too.

Fast reading the author's previous articles on FreeBSD VS Linux, it's easy to see that it's dislike for Linux and praise for FreeBSD it's based solely on politics. He hates Windows 10 which he names an "horrible operating system" and now he hates Linux too. And that is just because Linux has big contributions by companies willing to gain money, in contrast to software written solely for passion, which he deems much better.

He even goes as far as state that technical merits matter much less than politics.

That I regard as pretty immature.

Now the author struggles to come up with technical reasons to pick FreeBSD over Linux. If he succeeds on that, that is for any reader to judge.

Rants like the author's previous articles on Linux VS FreeBSD seem to make even Richard Stallman an reasonable man in contrast.

Some developers, some companies are providing software for free, both as in "free beer" and as in "free speech". That means time and money. He thinks that he and other users are entitled to much more than that. He feels like he should say to others in what way should they contribute to free software.
Didn't know Yabai! Thanks for sharing. Will have a look at it and probably give it a try.

I am using Amethyst [1] right now as a "tile" window manager which is easy to set up and works as intended.

[1] : https://ianyh.com/amethyst/
It is a combination of:

How interesting I find the paper's ideas.

Would what the paper proposes work with large data sets and can what the paper proposes be (fully) automated.

Can I implement it (do I understand it enough, do I have access to the data)?
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It can be rational. However, in this context, it is not. It is pretty clearly people who just don't understand what 6 orders of magnitude improvement of fuel density implies for pollution and efficiency. Or how rare a 1 in 30 disaster is on a global scale.

COVID-19 just dropped on us one day and everything shut down. That is a pretty good example of how scary the world is. The tiny odds of a nuclear disaster (that can still be walked away from!) is nothing compared to the baseline risks of being alive.

We'd be a lot better off right now if the anti-nuclear protests in the 80s had been anti-aeroplane-travel instead; because disease from having fast transport links has done a lot more damage than nuclear power could. Nuclear weapons notwithstanding.
Definitely. The OS, HW and Extended Algol had some nice features that were ahead of their time. I haven’t kept up, but their mainframes were very popular with banks etc.
CSS Color Module 4, which introduced support for the DCI-P3 color space, also introduced support for the even larger ProPhoto RGB and Rec.2020 color spaces (as well as the similarly-sized Adobe RGB). These were already supported in media that could be embedded in web pages.
Any idea how to delete this social network (hacker news)? It's the last one I still use.
I want to second this sentiment. Wow.
I’d argue NixOS is a huge step that a lot of people still have to catch on to (to be fair: that includes more contributors to improve documentation and ergonomics, but it is already valuable and workable as it is)
Did the Utopian Pirate Nation of Libertatia Ever Exist? (2015)
Right. I guess my question is more around the actual sensation and expressiveness when using it.

Is it simply “the more I tense up the muscle the higher the voltage”?

Is it able to be more or less expressive than say a Cv joystick or a high quality ribbon controller.
Within the US, of the cities I've lived in (NYC, DC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Chicago, SF), it's thoroughly mainstream in DC, and that's it. In NYC, Ethiopian Food is something I can get if I want it. In DC, everyone I knew ate Ethiopian food semi-regularly and many have their favorite hole in the wall that nobody else had been to.

At least per https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/beyond-regional-circ... -- the location of Ethiopian-Americans is: "If the descendants of Ethiopian-born migrants (the second generation and up) are included, the estimates range upwards of 460,000 in the United States (of which approximately 350,000 are in Washington, DC; 96,000 in Los Angeles; and 10,000 in New York)."
Things Software Engineers Trip Up on When Learning Haskell
Extraño ovni grabado supuestamente en el Area 51
Hah, I came here to say much the same thing about the flow of time, much for the same reason (Stephenson, Egan, Asimov).
There are submissions from 7 and more months ago. Seems serious.
What a weird thing to connect with a stranger on. I typed that so many times in my teenage years...
Nuclear is mostly so expensive because of the huge capital costs, and lots of (political..) delays when building a new reactor.

Operating costs aren't so bad.

Capital costs for building nuclear reactors have gone up over time. That's partially to pay for necessary improvements to safety. But mostly down to double standards that require much higher standards in nuclear than other sources of power.

For example, coal plants release orders of magnitude more radiation than nuclear plants.
All is progressing according to plan.

Hungry people, dependent upon the state for their next meal won't fight back, even if locked in their houses eternally.
Clipy on OSX, bound to CTRL+SHIFT+V. Also multiple cursors in any editor.
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