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The Germans have switched from nuclear to coal. Can you cut this "future generations are going to have to carry the cost" when the alternative is literally helping destroy the whole planet's ecosystems? Not to mention they spew up significantly more radioactivity in the air than nuclear powerplants.

A 30x30m pool of radioactive fuel is nothing compared to what their powerplants are doing to the future of young generations. Is cancer caused by coal particulates really something you wish on people around you?
> Germany already hosts nuclear weapons courtesy of the US, so where's the proliferation risk?

Proliferation is not a binary 1 or 0.

> For the other points I'd say that I'd rather build solar to replace coal plants first before replacing nuclear plants.

That's a false dichotomy.
I mean its very clearly a PR stunt to make Blue Origin and Bezos's space efforts more of a name brand like spacex. Making it a name brand likely has some benefits to Blue Origin's bottom line.
Other airlines like Delta fly hub and spoke. For example, when I want to fly somewhere on Delta I take a short flight to ATL and then go from there. That flight from my town to ATL happens 5-6x/day. If my town has bad weather, it's mostly only that flight that is impacted.

SW does point to point flows. A SW flight might only leave from my town once/day on its way to the next stop and then another. If we have bad weather, all the stops down the line are impacted.

Planes are also not the only issue. Crews have strict rules about how much downtime they have to have, so any delays can mean crews run out of flight time.

Airline scheduling is complicated.
And how much ground water is contaminated with fossil fuel extraction?
You're stilling missing a very basic concept. You cannot loan out BTC that you do not have. If you have 50 BTC, you cannot loan out more than 50 BTC in actual BTC as loaning out BTC involves MOVING the BTC to me, which means you no longer own it.

Yes, you can loan out BTC. The point is that you can't loan out BTC that you do not have.
So if we can’t trust the union or the company where is everyone getting info that there was a sick out?
What is the mental hurdle for referring towards multiple Lego pieces as Lego?

Legos sounds like the parent that says his child is playing on the Nintendos.

It is like saying you watch animes instead of anime. Plural is still anime.

When in doubt, just follow the source language for pluralization.
Since the orders under discussion stipulate inoculation or weekly testing, seems really unlikely the principal issue involved here is backlash from the substance of federal direction.
Opposing mandates isn’t anti-vaccine or anti-science.
Past results are not an indicator of future performance, of course. :) But yes, you're right that heavily RSU-based comp means you have to try to take that into account. That said, I usually just assume it will trade sideways and so my comp is based on a four year moving average of my grant value. If it goes up, great.
Something about wind and solar isn't working to meet the increasing demands in Germany

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coal-tops-wind-as-primary-elec...

From 2020 to 2021, Coal is up 8%, Wind is down 7%, Solar is down 1%.

Non-renewable in total is up 8% and renewable is down 8%.

If they can find a battery solution that actually works, then that would be amazing, but existing solutions clearly aren't cutting it.

While it might cost more, nuclear power is extremely reliable and offers energy independence, a form of national security that is vital with Russian pipelines strongly influencing the geopolitics of the region. I hope better batteries can offer them the same, because it's sad watching coal expand dramatically.
One side effect of our toxic national discourse is that I don’t know who to believe. Disinformation abounds and lies or lies of omission should be expected from anyone in a position of power and influence.
Partners by structural design can be more flexible with billing and payment than MS direct. That’s just a fact. You can use that fact how you want, only trying to be helpful.

Becoming a partner gives you free Azure credit each month, as well as internal use licenses. That’s something many developers can benefit from relative to the minor annual cost. That you would also be able to set up a distributor relationship to get more flexible payment terms directly instead of through a different partner may be more palatable to your go-it-alone approach. I don’t care what you do one way or the other, again, just giving you more information.

DO is a great hosting option, often cheaper, though with trade offs that may or may not make sense. Anytime you’re on the phone with support, whether MS or DO, you’re already in a bad position. Been there. At some point, because of dependencies, you need to learn the constraints of the platform (whichever one) and work within them.
Oh wow, hearing Bill’s description of space as death is profound.

Other worlds are out there, but the blank space between us and them is true nothingness. To experience it must be horrifying.
Fukushima’s design was not a success, and exposed new failure modes which hadn’t been fully understood. In response, nuclear operators around the world have spent billions to upgrade their safety systems.

For example: https://www.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca/eng/resources/fukushima/canada-i...
Could it be that maybe they try to uphold the reputation of Apple by doing so?
But it doesn't make sens either way because they could have just paid those guys and then everyone is happy.
That's just some ass-backwards logic.
I am an Apple fan and I'm not going to defend this.
It's just plain bad behavior on their side.
Nice to see some love for wavelets. They're great for many more things. Robust volatility measurement, galerkin methods for numerical solutions to differential equations in finance. Just please don't use a Haar wavelet for anything other than teaching.
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone in Germany saying corruption does not exist here in Germany. In 2020 alone we saw corruption scandals worth millions, coincidentally all in the ruling conservative party CDU/CSU.

Everyone knows that, and there are even more such scandals. Yet a lot of people vote for them (at least they got their worst ever election results in this years elections)
Nothing is backfiring. We know the way forward.

Gas, pumped hydro, international networked grids and nuclear to support other emerging tech.

The religious followers of the environment industrial complex have objected to these.

Burn baby burn. Better water world than this religious world. It's an evil religion that cares nothing for the billions of true poor.

Remember coal powered cars ( not the ones during WW2 ) let's work on getting these back -

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/gm-coal-powered-turbine-c...

We do need more efficient and cheaper coal plants along with PM2.5 reductions. This is what to work on.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but does night time in Germany sometimes exceed four hours?
I've been in my current role for nearly 9 years, working in the field for 12+. I'd say that the one piece of advice is to not get stuck to a certain stack if you have the authority to make those decisions.

You're definitely going to make the wrong decisions about the stack you choose, or the way you design elements of your code, but that is how you learn.

Good problems to have, like scaling to thousands of concurrent requests, have been the greatest opportunities to learn. You may not get the answers right away, but they will come.

Before I get comfortable with learning any new language, look into the best practices for caching, or how easily that is handled. Your ability to know how and when to cache whether it's in memory if the language you use supports that, or through memcached/redis is going to make it less likely that you're going to need to do a complete rewrite in the future.

I first started programming 20+ years ago before I was 10 years old, with Visual Basic and the demo. Eventually moving to access, and PHP in the early 2000's in my later years in high school. Today, some of the larger apps I've written have been written in Go. Lately in the last few weeks, I've really come to love Ruby/Ruby on Rails, and for apps that I don't need to scale, that is going to be my go-to language for my own projects and client projects.

Would I suggest we rewrite everything or utilize Rails in my day job? Not a chance, because 1) my productivity is not worth it and 2) it's not the right tool for the job. Maybe if we had to write some back office software I'd recommend it, or I'd use Sinatra for a basic API/demo.
I'd argue that code does rot.

1. Cobol. Seems like most crowd here on HN thinks of it as a problem, contrary to what Joel says.

2. Security -- old code that's not being updated is often insecure. E.g. it requires old environment, that's not being supported anymore, so no security patches for you.

3. Motivation -- the older a project gets, the more you need to pay for its maintenance.
Misleading title, s/Europe/talking head/
> You and GP both have spherical cow ideas about how GHGs impact the climate.

I didn't tell you what I believe. I was trying to communicate how y'all might be talking past one another.

If anything, teasing apart these positions (and the positions inbetween) is exactly the opposite of a spherical cow. Which seems to be exactly what you're saying. So it seems like you've completely misinterpreted my comment.
It is hard to say.

Men and women have different experiences. Shortly into becoming a parent I went to a party where one child asked me to read a book and next thing I know I had 10 children dogpiled on top of me which I was a bit shocked by. I think someone who grew up female would have more opportunities to take care of kids and would have had this experience that I had around age 32 at age 12.

One viewpoint is that there are "things men are good at" and "things women are good at" and the ideal person would be good at both, like this fictional character

https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Kanji_Tatsumi

My answers are different than they would have been even a year ago because I consciously made an effort to change behaviors that were problematic or limiting to me. (e.g. struggling to control anger I learned I could flood myself with feelings of sadness. If I couldn't find any reason to be sad I would go to the war memorial and read the names. I learned later that this was something Chinese people knew about a long time ago.)
> Who would have thought printing Trillions of US dollars for pandemic relief would circulate more money in the market and lead to inflation?!

Pretty much everybody, as that was precisely (in comparison to the expected course without it) the intent.

That eventually stimulus of all kinds would have to be reeled back in to control inflation was also expected.

The exact timing and course of the rebound in both the general economy and inflation was less predictable, and widely understood as such.

> Not saying a government shouldn't provide relief during a pandemic, just stating that it sounded obvious to me rather than alarming.

It shouldn't be considered overly alarming, in broad monetary terms, in the short term, the question is whether appropriate steps are taken to prevent it from becoming alarming, on the broad monetary front, and whether appropriate steps are taken to address acute harms on the distributional front.

Most people here seem more concerned about the first question and less or unconcerned about the second.
Abbott's being performative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause
This probably belongs on Reddit more than here, but I can't help but share William Shatner's rendition of Rocket Man on this occasion: https://youtu.be/HQnmLT1KbQo
Yeah, and you see them dragging Europe backwards with trying to exclude Nuclear from being classed as renewable energy, but to include natural gas.

Nevermind the hugely powerful car industry.
But the whole point of a sick out is to send a message. I've never heard of a sick out that didn't at least have employees going "oh yeah I'm real 'sick' <wink wink>".
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I agree the study they linked to is an unfortunate choice but I looked elsewhere for mortality numbers for myocarditis and they don't seem to be that far off [1]. In the end I also don't think this is a meaningful finding, but I do believe it is worth looking at the data at least a bit and not dismissing it out of hand because of the venue where it was published. It's good to keep an open mind.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3370379/#:~:tex...).
There are also the JIT caches on HotSpot, OpenJ9 and Azul.
So, is deep learning eating HPC's lunch?

And if it is, how much of this involves deep learning buying computer at a cheaper rate than HPC?

Most serious HPC involves simulating something (weather, atomic particles, car crashes). Lately, there has been a lot of work using neural networks to approximate such simulations more effectively. But would these make sense if the HPC program ran on GPUs to start with.
Like low emissions diesel engines did?
Not weird. Southwest famously doesn't do hub-and-spoke routing, so they're much less resilient to events like this; cancelled flights in one region cause cascading failures on other legs of the routes they're on.
A longer read on the design and delivery process of a super fast hardware project for a large hacker camp :)
Fired Google Insider Speaks Out [video]
And when it fizzles out, it'll just become more fodder for climate change denialists down the line. Six years from now, they'll point to this as another piece of evidence that climate change isn't real/is a conspiracy/is heavily overblown. Alarmists have for decades and continue to harm actual progress in the fight against climate change.
Yes but instead of the laughable fantasy of a communist society developing technology that allows them to join an intergalactic federation of like minded beings, we have something much better/realistic: a few wealthy individuals investing their capital towards discrete goals that involve space exploration.
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Southwest has a unique scheduling model where most of the flights are on multi-hop trips, as opposed to other airlines where most or at least many flights are to/from a hub.

If you're doing mostly east/west multi-hop trips, it doesn't seem unreasonable for a lot of those to touch Florida. It's a popular destination.

It's not suprising that an airline with unique routing faces unique challenges.
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The first conference about feature stores for machine learning is happening now and can be seen live on YouTube. The topic of the upcoming session is building versus buying a feature store, and it is discussed by companies including Uber, Wildlife Studios, Via, Hopsworks and Varo Bank.
Sick-out is speculation it seems.

What we do know is SWA cancelled over 2,000 flights in a single day, and continues to cancel flights up through today... and no other airline is impacted... and the weather issues they claim don't exist... and the ATC issues they claim also don't exist.

Seems pretty obvious something else is going on. Sick out, walk out, sit-in, just refuse to fly, whatever... but the official story can't even carry its own water.
> Germany trying to find a nuclear waste deposit since ages (that doesn't have to be evacuated due to ground water later on)

Waste can be refined to safe levels these days. It's just not being done on a wide scale.

> Failed nuclear plants we're deconstructing since ages and are paying millions every year to do so

We're paying unfathomable amounts of money dealing with carbon emissions - way more than millions, which is a drop in the bucket of taxpayer revenue, anyway.

> Nuclear fuel expected to be depleted in the next 100 years

And? That's 100 years of clean energy and a more livable planet. 100 years for more research. 100 years for other forms of energy capture or generation.

It's 100 years of bought time.

> State and taxpayers always having to pay for the disasters of nuclear plants, while the gains are going to the companies

"always" makes it sound like every week involves another nuclear "disaster". That's not accurate, at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...

There are a few other lists that are related but I imagine this is what you intended. Please study the amount of people affected, directly, by those incidents.

By contrast, the heat wave this year killed at least 2,300 people in India alone.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/india-he...

> French nuclear plants that had some interesting failures in the last years, while we can just watch and hope they're treated correctly. Meanwhile you're told "nono, everything is fine".

Who is saying "everything is fine"? That's a seemingly extreme reduction of public outreach, especially since the IAEA has been trying to do good about being transparent with the world's nuclear operations.

> No nuclear company is insured for the real amount of money they'd have to pay for the next fukushima or Tschernobyl.

While I don't disagree things could be improved there, I'm so tired of Chernobyl being used as some "all nuclear is bad" example. Chernobyl was a cost-cutting endeavor, and the design was known to be faulty well before it failed. It was implemented in an incredibly corrupt system and poorly operated. The safety measures were not developed yet, and regulatory committees simply didn't exist at the time like they do now.

Chernobyl ignored the science. It was, quite literally, a ticking time bomb. Yes, we could be doomed to repeat this if we so chose, but that's such a far reaching example that it's throwing the baby out with the bath water.

> It's the country with stories like these:

This is entirely unrelated and FUD from two clearly biased publications.

> I could even suspect USA influence to prevent more solar money to china or gas/oil money to russia.

This is speculation, fullstop.
(I'm a dev with 16 years experience)

I joined a startup (20+ employees) and it was a great way to grow my career. In 4 years I went from Senior (in a team) to Lead (for a team) to Technical Lead (shaping technical decisions for all dev teams). Wore a bunch of different hats and got experience in many different areas.

Working-from-home was a really good fit for me. I can get hot-headed (not proud of it) and being away from colleagues and communicating in an asynchronous way gives me enough time and distance to cooldown and (most of the time) put forward the best version of my argument that I can.

Started contracting around the same time as wfh and in a weird kind of way, it also provided some distance. You just think differently about your relationship with any company. It can be scary at first because you know you're first on the chopping block when downsizing needs to happen but the upside is that you'll probably earn enough to set some aside as contingency.

Some people will say not to switch stacks but I've done it a few times (C# -> Ruby -> Node.js -> Python/Go) and I don't think it's hurt my career. My recent switch to Python/Go has really just been me getting bored at work with Node.js and wanting a change. Another side of it is that if you want longevity as a developer, you'll need to be able change stacks a few times in your career to remain employable.
The airline could send custom surveys based on your specific flight/seat. If you sit in first class, "How did you enjoy the first class experience?". If you ordered food, "Did you enjoy your meal?". If your flight is delayed, "Did the delay impact your plans?"

I think we both have zero evidence to back our claims so I wouldn't read too much into it.
The article does have a point about attributed sales vs incremental sales - as a CFO (whether I qualify as the "hard-nosed" type in the article, I don't know), I'm bugged every time a marketing guy starts talking about how this campaign has been/will be "ROI-positive", and have had a few heated discussions on why this is mostly not demonstrable until you're willing to pull the plug (which you can do with more or less intelligence in order to minimize your risks).

On the other hand, while I do indeed believe that the "ROI" from Performance Advertising is something between just false and deliberately misleading, the bigger picture that I'm interested in is marketshare. Because when looking at market share, it's not a question of incrementality anymore, but whether you're growing slower/faster than your competitors, and your cost of doing that, and at what point you're OK to 'buy' marketshare, in the sense of losing money in the pursuit of growth, and how much. And then, OK, let's talk about ROI on that basis - most of the time, achieving this will indeed require tools from the Performance Adversiting toolbox, which allow you to conveniently track the amount of marketshare (i.e. sales) you bought.
Because there are people at Southwest whose job is to do surveys, and they want it to look like they are contributing.
But what if you put in the health en enviromental cost of nuclears direct competitor: coal.

Because at the moment, wind isn't doing so well, there being a wind-drought for the last few months and all.
>Why are we so upset when people decide to refuse treatment?

The anecdotal evidence you gave (hospital abuse) is an outlier, not a norm.

A better question is, why wouldn't you be upset when a family member refuses life saving treatment, rationalized by disinformation?
The wind also ceases to exist at night right?
Perhaps it might mean Apple has to slow down feature development, beef up its sandboxing, switch to memory safe languages like Swift, or do more to entice developers to its app store. All of these would be good outcomes.

I'm fine with giving Apple a bit of a lead time here, but ultimately people should have the right to do whatever they want on their own personal computing devices.
This is not far in concept from modern CPUs where only the core and cache run at full speed, although it might be the first 6502 implemented this way. It reminds me of the upgrade processors for 386 and 486 PCs that had a Pentium and cache in a socket-compatible format.
What is the deal with UnHerd?

I was just thinking that it has the same weird right-wing yet pretend "anti-establishment" rhetoric that Spiked magazine has blazed a trail on, and then noticed that Jacob Furedi is a deputy editor, the son of Frank Furedi, the weird cult leader that Spiked was built around when it was still called "Living Marxism".

There's got to be some wild story there surely? A weird little group going from Marxism to the Daily Mail and never out of the media spotlight even across generations yet going from extremes of celebrating the deaths of British soldiers killed by terrorism to running as Brexit MPs.
Yeah, somehow I don't believe it. If we truly are only 7 years away from being totally fucked then I don't think we can actually do anything about it at this point. I mean, if it's true I feel like my coworkers who talk about this kind of stuff all the time would trade in their SUVs and start carpooling... You know, actually try to do something about it. But even the people I know who believe the world is gonna end in 7 years bc of global warming don't do anything about it unless it's superficial and only requires them to post a comment online.
As an end-user, the results are insane.

Opening google in incognito mode:

If I search for "Toyota RAV4", the first (ad) result is "Hyundai Tuscon". If I search for "AWS Cert", my first (ad) result is "Microsoft Learn". Et cetera et cetera :|
No, all ports are USB-C. You can then choose which 'modules' are plugged into them, and swap them at any time.

Essentially, they are like 'dongles', but they sit flush and don't take additional space.