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>>There are plenty of sites that would happily accept more nuclear being built, but all other forms of energy have undercut the cost of nuclear.

>Honestly ... it isn't just about cost. Nuclear is expensive but it isn't prohibitively expensive. The big picture is we know that nuclear can power an economy, it does not emit global warming gasses, and also places a tiny footprint on the surrounding ecosystem.

What do you call prohibitively expensive? It's expensive enough that it's essentially uneconomical to build any new plants by a large margin and that margin is increasing compared to wind and solar.

>Solar and wind cannot power an economy.
That's not true, they can using a sufficiently large grid and overprovisioning.

>But let's pretend they can so as to not get bogged down on this point. Let's also pretend they are non-trivially cheaper than nuclear. Even under those assumptions nuclear still wins in my eyes.

>Global warming is only one environmental problem we have to solve and it may not be the most important one either. The other one is regular environmental collapse due to needing to support 7-10 billion people. In this context, solar and wind are atrocious and a total disaster because they have massive land-use requirements (land-use around mining for necessary materials, deployment and maintenance of the collectors, and finally land-fill once out of use). And they will always have those horrendous land-use requirements because solar and wind are diffuse energy sources. Worse, we're going to need to increase solar and wind collector production by several orders of magnitude (and come up with a battery technology that doesn't exist today) to fully support a fossil fuel transition. What cost do you think the environment will bear for that compared to nuclear infrastructure?

So you're including mining for solar/wind but not nuclear? Also you're talking about that we need to increase solar and wind production by several orders of magnitude, well we would need to do that with nuclear as well. And you conveniently ignore the fact that uranium is a limited resource. Also regarding your space requirements, it's true that nuclear power plants have a relatively small footprint, however we are limited to where we can build them and the footprint for power distribution is considerable. That is one of the big plus points of decentralized power sources you can produce the power were you need it (which also significantly reduces additional space requirements). Let's not even talk about the energy loss from long distance distribution.
If developers are unwilling to maintain dependencies and be good citizens of the larger language community, should they be adding those dependencies in the first place?

If you're not operating in the large ecosystem then fine. But if your project is on e.g. pypi, then there is an issue.

(edit: Note, yes I know the virtualenvs exist, docker exists, etc. but those are space and complexity trade-offs made as a workaround for bad development practices)
Because men and women aren't as equal as everyone likes to think. And here's the best part: that's OK! It's OK to admit that men are better at some things than women, and vice versa. There's a reason why the men went out on the hunting trips and the women stayed back at the village to take care of the village children: it kept everyone alive.

I contend that there may still be some forces in some industries that try to subvert efforts at more women in them, but those are few and far between. With the gender earnings gap already proven to be bullshit (and if anything, in tech, women are getting paid more simply because companies want to fill diversity quotas), we need to stop wasting time fighting amongst ourselves and focusing effort on real, actual problems. Workers divided over petty shit like this is what the rich and powerful want.
Don't forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Cobb who worked on Dark Star, Star Wars and many others.

You can see similarities between Dark Star sets and Star Wars.
> Something about the idea of software letting you access hardware you already paid for (even if you didn't pay for the software to use it), just feels wrong.

isn't this what iPhones do, at the end of the day? in effect, by not being able to load applications of your own choosing, you accept the implicit limiting effect of the software you're given, similar to the bargain (?) described here.
How do you know the hawala systems aren’t at least partially based on Bitcoin now?
I'm not following. Are you saying that one can use an Apple router with an alternate free operating system and it still functions as a router ? I'm not aware of any such project. At least openwrt does not support the Apple router. As for what users would want to do, that is a moot point since there are common expectations for devices based on the specs and form factors. So, why would you buy a $2k laptop to use it as an inefficient, buggy, and underpowered headless linux server (assuming you get networking working)?
Sure, I should make clear: documentation/wikis are best for who/what/when/where of things like

- What permissions do I need to contribute code to this repo

- Where are the telemetry tables for X event

- Who’s the manager for project Y

- When will my commit make it into production

For the whys and hows that often warrant discussion, while I still think you should have basics documented (How do I add a new screen to this app, why do we call into this proxy service, etc) so that folks have a starting place, and then pursue actual discussion.

Even if the wikis are literally just the most basic associations, I still believe that would clear up a ton of repeated and honestly unproductive discussion time.
Personally, I'll never stay at a company where my manager does this. The manager almost never has time to do these things properly.
The old way of forever support for all versions and never any breaking changes is really beneficial on the consumer side.

However it is incredibly expensive on the producer side.

Package managers have pushed that pain to consumers. It isn't terribly surprising that producers are jumping on board en-masse.
For github, there's no point in scores.

For HN, I'd rather it be hidden, something people can peek at if they really want to.

For StackOverflow - a simple rank system would be nice, because you really want to know the cred of someone piping in. You get points (rouhgly hidden) and then a public badge for rank. Very simple, like 4 or 5 ranks max, that's it. I use StackOverflow but have never bothered to investigate the point system deeply I find it confusing and not hugely relevant and I am not alone.

For Twitter/Instagram/TikTok - there actually is something to likes. Perhaps they could flag content as being 'big' 'super big' and 'viral' or something so that people don't worry fret about numbers but at the same time we have some instinct as to how popular something is, even if we concede that it's a very crude measure of anything.
None of these links are related the conversation here. First one is even empty. Neither for "video streaming", nor for frame-buffer (Optimus) stuff.

Make up your mind. If I counter your "video streaming" argument, you can't come with "but I meant streaming on the same device" without even mentioning either a technology, or the most important thing there (the frame buffer). Now you want streaming to mean something that is used in game engines. How those 3 links help in making the mining card usable is for you to proof.
All these market places are finding new ways to extract money from the market. There is no incentive to stop until it only makes just enough sense for the content creators to not stop making content. As they are monopolies (mostly), there is no moving. All extra profits, efficiently, to them.

This is happening with Airbnb, Amazon, Shopify, and now Spotify? We pay a cut to be in the platform, then we pay for marketing on the platform. It's obvious who holds the cards.

Our feudal lords now have catchy names.
> People have done the math. Land availability is not a bottleneck on this.

I'm sorry but people have done the maths and consider land availability to be a major bottleneck for solar and wind (with the fact that it is intermittent). That's like one of the first point put forward in the Bill Gates'book everyone seems to be talking about nowadays. Offshore capacity means it's harder to estimate the ceiling for wind production but it doesn't seem to be the slam dunk you would like it to be especially when you consider that the world consumption will likely keep rising for decades as population grows and more and more get access to electricity.

> If nuclear was the slam dunk you're assuming, China would just do it.

China has scaled down its nuclear investment under the dual pressure of significant public opposition after the Fukushima disaster and a need to tighten its investments (China's debt situation is tricky to manage and the CCP absolutely wants to avoid a situation comparable to what happened to Japan in the 90s).

China isn't the be all end all regarding energy policies.
ETOPS ("Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim") flight plans are routed so that an airport can be reached with a single operational engine in so-and-so many minutes. If both engines are out, it's going to be a water landing: https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/etops-pla...
It doesn't just have to be designed right, it has to be built right. Like Fukishima where the design engineer resigned during construction over how low the sea wall was built. The sister plant which was closer to the epicenter had the proper sea wall and as such it was totally fine despite the higher waves.

The problem with nuclear is we can't have it until we have eliminated corruption. In that industry it can lead to a literal nuclear meltdown.
I've considered it. To me Kickstarter is a double-edged sword and I'd rather only take money from customers once I can actually deliver ... let's me sleep more easy.

But maybe I should re-consider, yea..
I've tried for months to put together a serious group who I could play this with, and then we played once and that's it, then didn't come back. Sad.
I'm not talking about organized sport, just recreation, so rules don't matter. Nor about other electric devices, just powered propulsion. I used to cycle for fun and had no idea what rules the actual sports might have had - it didn't matter to me. I'm sure there are others who also do it for purely personal reasons and don't need to follow any rules.

Just calling it a weak motorcycle doesn't really explain anything other than the cyclist's confusion about what he wants.
Extended? Why do we want them at all?

How is it better for a radio station to monetize by airing commercials than to monetize by airing music?
Cheap power drew Bitcoin miners to this small city. Then came the backlash(2018)
It looks like they are per BB news release: https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/company/newsroom/press-rele...

But I think the ransomware attack is more on the Kia internal servers rather than on the cars themselves. The inability for people to unlock their cars remotely seems to be a side effect rather than a main target of the hacker group.
Tim was cool, he said add "The Perl logo is a trademark of O'Reilly Media and is used with permission" and we're good. Now I have to remember how to get into that VM :-)
> I’m always blown away when companies don’t have a knowledge base.

The company I work for has at least 5 that are relevant to any single employee... as far I am aware of. That is, I'm not counting different departmental knowledge-based for different departmens or anything like that. I learned about the 5th more than a year after I joined the company, and I haven't changed positions either.

Naturally, when they teach you things as a newbie, half of the information is not on any of the 5; and if you go rummaging through them you'll find a lot of gems - but also a of conflicting, confusing, and/or outdated information (often kept up-to-date in a useless sense and thus dated recently).
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> This was done a decade and change ago with Movable Type's trackbacks feature and that was, as you guessed, a massive spam vector.

This is not an insurmountable problem. You can choose to accept trackbacks only from sites that can point to endorsement by some mutually trusted 3rd party. This is ultimately how the Fediverse works - bad actors will get booted from the most popular networks and find themselves unable to 'push' content to the network. And modern federated-web standards include the "trackback" case, e.g. via WebMention.
I have no idea what is meant by materialism in this context
None of this money goes to Spotify.
> But a non-obvious related problem I've found is whether to deliver it at all. The mistake there being that people want or can benefit from the feedback you think you would've wanted, were you in their position.

Too often, I see feedback being used for individual convenience. Typically, feedback should be linked to team/organisational goals. If you can not frame the feedback towards team/organisational objectives, it might be the case that feedback is not necessary at all. In the end, HOW you deliver feedback matters. Personally, I have three important characteristics for a feedback.

Point 1 : "Be Specific". I can not stress this enough. Please point out specific observable behaviour.

Point 2 : Frame feedback in terms of team/organisational goals. Every team has a purpose within the organisation. It's a team game and every team member should know the feedback in context of the team game. Individual feedback, team context.

Point 3 : Cite the past but look for future changes in behaviour. You can not change the past but you can influence the future.

For example, "Hey John! When you do X, it helps the team achieve Y. Please continue doing so!" or "Hey John! When you do Z, it impacts the team to achieve its objective. What can you do differently?".
I think this is all cultural. Smart employees want to do good work. If you aren’t providing them with the context and knowledge to do that work, then you’re failing. If your documentation isn’t useful, that’s your fault. If no one cares about the roadmap and couldn’t even tell you what’s on it, that’s your fault.

It’s very rare you find an employee that’s purposefully malicious, at least in the early stages of a company (< 50 employees). Unless you have terrible character judgement.

If what you are writing down has value, and there’s no other way to obtain that knowledge, then people will use it.
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Why can't 50° be constructed by compass and straight edge?
Perhaps I still fail to explain myself: what I am saying is that _not pinning_ only _adds_ more choices, so by definition it can only work better.

Pinned or not, if a software update breaks things, you can always just revert back to a previous version of your dependencies. This applies to a myriad soft problems including a dependency changing interface.

However, when pinning, when one of your static dependencies is broken due to a change outside your control (e.g. hardware, operating system, security issue making it unusable, or something else), the user's only recourse is to call the developer to fix the software.

I am not claiming whether one happens more frequently than the other, or claiming that hardware changes cannot break the main software itself, which often nullify the point. All these issues can happen to both software with static linking or dynamic linking. However dynamic linking has at least one extra advantage that static linking cannot have, and the opposite is not true.

> have you ever worked as an application developer? Responsible for getting working artifacts to users as a means to an end?

Look, ironically I find that all of this crap discussion is because of a newer generation of "application developers" that do not know yet what does it mean to "deliver working artifacts to users". Imagine my answer to that question.
We did deploy it. This whole architecture was chosen in an adtech business I worked in before, supported by data platform teams, analytics teams and more. The RFC process was intense and the decision was vetted with seriously heavy effort.
Is it battery-powered? And how thick is it? I currently have a notepas stuck to the fridge with some magnets, if it was slim and could be powered for a while on a single charge I'd probably put it on the fridge.
Thanks. None of the discussion showed on the other page however.
I guess I don't really understand what the plan is, since all bitcoin transactions have a permanent record that are publicly viewable by all. You can't hide bitcoin, every transaction they were involved in is recorded. If they ever want to turn the bitcoin back into real currency they need to go through an exchange to convert it, and the gov can just ask the exchange for the info / bank account of the person associated with the bitcoin.
Fantastic real-world viewpoint! I was beginning to wonder if all these useful / useless arguments are just exaggerated drama. In reality Bitcoin mines are extremely low-profile operations.
> have an entire team quit after a bad crunch

You're claiming that is unavoidable? Hmm. I wonder.
> people pay real money for it

I'm not sure that's clear. Almost nobody custom orders options on cars anymore. They take what's in stock or readily available at the dealer, and those are mostly the fully-loaded models.

Yes, they are buying it and paying for it, but do they really have a choice?
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Do we have robust forward links or is this a burden only for back links?
Diplomacy is fun, but I don't think the amount of time and stress is compensated for by additional fun. I'd much rather play two games of sidereal than one game of Dip.
You dont know if they sold a ledger to someone that trusts their network

You dont know if a transaction was an exchange for something on a different blockchain

And even when you do know that, that just increases the ways for them to obfuscate and unlink. If they got ethereum or an erc20 token, it goes into an AMM, a layer-2 system or straight into Tornado.cash and its gone. Even if you did compromise Tornado Cash somehow in the future, you wouldnt know of the note was sold offline to someone else or again about the original depositor selling their ledger/private key.

If the funds were used to pump a different token, you wouldnt know if the criminal had different funds under their real identity that was just a benefactor of the price appreciation in the pumped token, indistinguishable from any speculator that got lucky. Tokens rallying in price 5,000% is not uncommon, someone with $100,000 in clean funds that already own the to-be-pumped token can sell a 50-bagger for $5,000,000 with no suspicion.

If that sounds too contrived, it doesnt even account for cloud mining at a loss and earning slightly less new bitcoin over time.

Or buying a bunch of actual mining machines and really mining new coins because the chinese vendor doesnt care about tainted US/EU coins. Can we even say that when one of those states seizes and auctions the coins off, that they are magically clean... everywhere? If the Myanmar disputed government did an bitcoin auction, would chainanalyis systems even factor that in, are those clean? Would you even know or would you still be following transactions around like “aha! I see you!”

Your assumption is that the original funds needs to be invisible and never tied to anyone’s identity, when thats not the vector at all.

Following a transaction around tells you nothing, and reintegration of tainted coins is exceptionally easy in unlimited-enough amounts.

Even major exchanges that require KYC still often have 2 BTC/daily thresholds before they require identification to increase that. Thats currently $120,000 per account per day. And thats the worst and one of the slowest ways of getting liquid given the possibilities of them freezing funds and requiring the user to be more careful and also quick.
It’s niche is being a high level typed language with extremely nice syntax, while having speed that competes with Rust/Go and others. The best thing that can happen is for it to get its own life away from Ruby.
A part of my does want to try it because rarely does my company opening up so many managerial spots (we are in a growth phase). I wonder if anyone has "falling back"? And how that experience was. Is there a stigma? I assume there was a paycut?

Funny thing is I'd feel less pressure as a senior dev with 9 other college hires, than a new manager w/ 1 senior dev and 9 college hires (even though technically the team would have 2 senior devs including me if the development parts get rough!).
What would that achieve, in terms of actually stopping bad actors? Genuine question: I’m guessing the ability for the copyright holder to sue a stalker? But why would they, and that remedy wouldn’t really work, if my guess is right. I must be missing something
Letting you use the extra batteries will create more warranty issues later which are not subsidized at the price you pay for the car.

Imagine cars came with governors for instance that could restrict speeds and acceleration to limit wear and tear on a vehicle and provide the consumer with a lower cost upfront thanks to less warranty work needed. Similar concept.
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I’m as anti-Bitcoin as the next guy, but I still don’t see how it enables all these ransomware attacks. If the federal government were serious about pursuing this why not just follow the public, immutable transfer record and indict and sanction everyone associated with any entity along the way?

Not being able to do business with any business that does business in the United States is a pretty big deal. Not to mention your executives not being able to travel anywhere with an extradition treaty.
Liquidity question. If you send a crook a bunch of btc, and they eventually use that btc, isn’t it pretty easy to trace the transactions all the way? How do these people get to liquidate or use these ransom payments without leaving a long papertrail of everything they did with the money?
This is the other thing I don't understand.

I'm from Germany and our power is around 35 cents per khw.

Even using a 14th/s asic with bitcoin as high is it is now, you're losing lots of money. It uses 1,3 kilowatts.

The fact that the prices of the cards are so high in Germany now too... the 3080s are at 2000€ plus.
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...

this one?

I'm not familiar with US (nor FAANG) workplace culture, could you please explain what's so insane about it and why?
It feels wrong because it is wrong. When you buy physical things, you should be paying the total cost for the hardware to be manufactured, distributed, and finally recycled or disposed of. When you buy something, you should own the hardware and should be free to do what you want with it.

I would like governments to make this clear in law, but I understand why some people feel might feel this is an overreach.

We can try and avoid buying hardware that has software restrictions, but without laws ensuring we can run whatever software we want on our hardware, manufacturers will take these rights away from us.

We are living in an age of environmental catastrophe, and I think we need to appreciate our physical things more, build them to last, and have laws that help us get the most out of the things we build.
> identifying the president from the deluded

I'm guessing you might have meant "prescient" there?

Then again, perhaps not.
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