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Utility scale solar is built on the ground, no roof work required, very safe. The panels can be recycled almost entirely, similar to the utility scale battery storage that can back it. Tesla is scaling up utility storage manufacturing, Redwood Materials is scaling up recycling to close the loop and provide cheaper feedstock once there’s enough raw materials in the loop. Europe’s entire wind potential could power the world.

New nuclear is a pipe dream (~10-15 years from breaking ground to first kWh produced), but old nuclear generators should be ran as long as safely possible. Big fail on Germany’s part here, although natural gas price spikes will force their hand on more renewables, transmission (including cross border interconnectors), and battery storage.
Yup, and why overclocking on AMD tests each of your ccx/cores, marks gold cores that can reach 5ghz+, and slower cores that dont overclock. Also why AMD tests each ccx, and moves worse ones to lower end products, and higher ones to the 5950x.

Then you can OC tweak each core and try to milk out performance, PBO tends to be pretty good on detecting which cores with slight performance boost. With a few bios options, all that adds up without effort.

And then finally get a better (advanced) scheduler in windows/linux that can move workloads around per core depending on workload. Windows released multiple fixes for the scheduler on AMD starting with win10 1903.

I find scheduler mods and modest bios tweaks to increase performance without much effort, very detectable performance.

Linux I use xanmod (and pf-kernel before that)

Windows I use project lasso and AMD PBO.

Slow/fast cores and scheduler tweaks is how win11/arm mac/android, makes things appear faster too.

Amusing, scheduler/core tweaks been around for linux for a decade+, making the desktop super smooth, but its now mainstream in win11/arm osx.
2? Windscale, 3 Mile Island, Fukushima, Chernobyl are the ones that are in my living memory, and many smaller ones besides.

The number of direct fatalities of those is fortunately low.
Anil Dash's interview with one of the co-founders of that site was interesting.

https://blog.glitch.com/episode/function-episode-3
> postgres

Postgres has the advantage that it's still open-source, can be ran locally and self-hosted (and has a healthy ecosystem of managed providers) and won't go away anytime soon. None of these are true for all these new DB startups.
The problem with identity is summarized in the "why your anti-spam idea won't work checklist"[1] We still don't have a solution to identity that prevents generating large numbers of fake identities, doesn't cost each user money, and doesn't require a central authority.

Blockchain systems are a demo of this. A blockchain just needs some number of players who are independent and not colluding. That ought to be simple, right? The best ideas the blockchain crowd has come up with to do this work by making playing very expensive. (That's what both proof of work and proof of stake do.) Even that didn't really work, as mining has become very centralized.
A solution to identity has not emerged from that crowd.

[1] https://trog.qgl.org/20081217/the-why-your-anti-spam-idea-wo...
I was hired via the pure luck route. A recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn, and I went through the interview process blind. I guess I did well enough - one thing that helped was the certainty that no way would I take this job, regardless of the interview. I was only doing the interview due to family pressure, so I felt no personal pressure (I had my dream job, at 25% the pay rate, lined up and was ready to move across the country for it).

I'm in my late 30s, have a CS degree, started a company that was acquihired, have pretty diverse experience in my career. That, plus a storefront-only consulting site I built to have a 'presence' seemed to get my foot in the door. Once there, the advantage I think I had was 1) not nervous, and 2) able to think about the problems presented, rather than just trying to solve them directly. By that, I mean that I showed the interviewers how I was able to think - and I asked for help / collaboration when I was stuck.
Well, sure, if the company is an intelligence operation, sure, that'd plausibly be worth it.

But that makes my point even stronger - the very commonality of these bullsh*t must-(unnecessarily)-call-home-to-run setups gives cover for this threat.

Also, they might get some useful floor plans, but I'd be astonished if any of the three-letter-agencies would allow one even near the campus. I knew someone who did some software work for the CIA, and the requirement was you do NOT bring any electronics to the building. You specify what you need for hardware, what software will be installed, the configuration, etc, and bring NOTHING electronic to the door. They search you going in, your machine is at your desk per your specs, you do your work, get searched on the way out, and his understanding was that the machine (or at least all storage components) were to be put through a metal shredder on completion of the project.

Letting someone configure an automatic floor-sweeper that needs to get on the network? Right, who is going to authorize that access? And, ya, even if someone did, that network is likely fully airgapped from the outside network.

But yeah, in commercial operations, plausibly even defense contractors, I'm sure they'd get plenty of security-dumb people who'd just happily hook it up and unknowingly send the floorplans to the CCP. I wouldn't put it past 'em.
Would Buddha play Mahjong? How about Go or Chess?
I used to have many, many strong opinions about the effectiveness of various therapeutic techniques. After living a little, I’m left with only two: that most therapeutic approaches are effective for a limited set of situations and individuals. And that most therapists/advice givers fail to acknowledge this notion. Let alone describe the set of circumstances to which various techniques are suited.

I have a friend who found meditation highly helpful. Cognitively they are someone whose mind amplifies the emotional components of their experience, desirable or not. Tools that allow them to manage this have been helpful to their happiness.

On the other hand, my mind occupies the opposite end of the spectrum, requiring exceptional levels stimulation and novelty to experience any emotion. Practices such as meditation have been borderline damaging to my mental state. But piling on more stimulation - new hobby, new obsession, uncomfortable but fascinating experience - these serve to distract and make life vibrant. Rinse repeat forever.

In your circumstance I would not attempt to achieve closure. Instead I’d try accept that what happened to me in the past will taint what’s happening now. I’d read the books, journal the ways the celebration of them was damaged. Revisit them a few years later to compare the experience. Attempts to force closure have always failed for me. Wallowing in the emotion as means to explore it even more deeply seems to bring more rapid resolution.

Would this work for someone who has much stronger baseline emotions of grief or melancholy? I have no idea because I’m not that person and my opinions about their experience are worthless.

Ultimately in your shoes I would first focus on experimentation designed to test various hypotheses about your own mental tendencies. Where are you flexible versus resistant to change? Which parts of you are resilient and which vulnerable? Seems to me that this would be the fastest way to learn which tools you need to adopt to achieve your goals.

At least that’s how it looks from here. Trapped, as always, inside this particular brain. Good luck.
Maybe convince somebody then to have final storage for nuclear waste anywhere close to where they live. Once this crap is in your backyard, the armchair philosophers find excuses really fast.

Similar with wind turbines, but at least those are so small scale that you can convince closeby towns fast by just letting them participate in the profits. Different story for leaking barrels stored underground.

(And yes, that's how this crap ends up. Just google Asse II and then let's discuss German cleanliness again.)
Please provide a source to substantiate your claim, because it flies in the face of everything I’ve read.
Such experiences can put your biology completely out of balance. Check your main vital elements level: iron, vitamin-B complex (defficiency is associated with cognitive stress, fatigue, depression), vitamin D, etc. You may need supplementation. Especially magnesium has helped me a LOT in similar situation.
Another reason to put off moving to kubernetes.
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best clothes to wear 2022?
many of Chernobyl survivors ended up moving elsewhere to continue working on a different plant :shrug:
Fortunately, we didn't abandon airline travel after a few terrible accidents.
The article was linked from a comment in a recent thread on the mod operator in C and Python: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29732335
Gas and nuclear don't fulfill the same purpose. It's not like they'll stop building out solar and wind and storage solutions. If your energy system depends on renewables and there is not enough storage (or other geographical interconnected solutions) then you'll need something like gas to quickly spin up and down if the demand requires it. Maybe new nuclear plants will be able to do this too, but right now they can't match gas.
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What you do all day influences your personality, and different professions tend to draw different personalities. It’s absolutely true that software engineers in general are more reserved and even more awkward than eg sales people. One spends long periods in solitary problem solving, the other chats with people all day.

I agree though that the mindset that because you are a tech person you are doomed to social awkwardness is destructive and silly. Social skills are simply skills you need to put extra work into polishing as it’s not a skill that will be much developed professionally.
"Studied for a month". What are you all, geniuses? I am a Chartered Financial Analyst, Google Cloud Certified Architect, Azure Certified Architect, all-A student, "Architect" title at work, and otherwise not too dumb - not humble brag, straight up brag.

And yet, I am sure it would take me 6 months to prep for these interviews (while employed full time). Yet everyone is throwing around "lol a month". Trying to figure out if you are all top 1% brilliant geniuses or completely, completely full of it.
Yep, fair enough I have to eat those words.

Although to be fair(er), people didn't believe otherwise because, as you insisted, they were buying mindlessly into some internet hype/rage generator "mirroring their latest gripe or nightmare." The original photo did look odd and it generated a lot of interesting discussion. Honestly, it still does to me.

While that reasoning was (kind of) correct (the leaf didn't fall at just the right time, it was attached to a branch,) both you and root_axis above assumed people were being driven by stupidity rather than curiosity, which is still an attitude we could use a lot less of.
I mean, I think it’s quite interesting, and points to a fundamental problem in the whole premise of NFTs. And raises interesting questions about central control. YMMV.
In a multithreaded context, shared data was shared via atomic reference counting. The atomic operation acted as a single bottleneck for every operation. The solution was to derive deep cloning for the shared data (a 1 line fix) to reduce atomic contention.
Who likes the poisoning of areas around coal mines?
Got anything to trade for them?
Interesting article, thanks. I've created a thread for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29751749
Germany's primary energy source is now coal, now way they can shut it down.

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

This is so stupid, what are they thinking?
"~twice as efficient" is a stretch. They might cost half the price, but they are not necessarily twice as efficient.

Medical treatments and equipments in the US are the best in the world (discounting super small countries). Americans have the highest life expectancy in the world (discounting homicides and transit deaths). Americans can get treatments fast while people in Canada or the UK have to wait for months because the government is rationing treatments.

And we should consider other reasons that explain the costs besides "private system inefficiency": American companies carry the world on medical innovation (so other countries are benefitting from the Free-Rider Problem, and Americans are paying for it). American regulation requires doctors to spend several more years in training than at other countries (in other countries the medical school is usually merged with undergrad). And, finally, Americans just earn more than people in other countries. GDP per capita is 60k in the US, 40k in other developed countries.
> I was thinking about a fully mutable context shared across threads

A quote from the article: “No locks, no mutexes, no syscalls, no shared mutable data here. There are some read-only structures context and unit shared behind an Arc, but read-only sharing shouldn’t be a problem.” As you see, the data shared across threads was immutable.

However, the library they have picked was designed around Rust’s ref.counting Arc<> smart pointers. Apparently for some other use cases, not needed by the OP, that library needs to modify these objects.

> I can see how a GC would solve it by not needing the RC

Interestingly enough, C++ would also solve that. The language does not stop programmers from changing things from multiple threads concurrently. For this reason, very few libraries have their public APIs designed around std::shared_ptr<> (C++ equivalent of Rust’s Arc<>). Instead, what usually happens, library authors write in the documentation things like “the object you pass to this API must be thread safe” and “it’s your responsibility to make sure the pointer you pass stays alive for as long as you using the API”, and call it a day.
Yeah, this seems like damage control. The AI definitely made a mess of that woman's face.
There is a browning where the head would be, but there are twigs and other leafs in the brown area but no head that I can see.
I graduated University with a Bachelor's degree in Maths and Physics. I 'accidently' landed a job as a Software Dev with a small amateurish company near my parents home. Passing their job interview basically required that I could write coherently and pass an ancient IBM 'logical thinking' test. I was there for 18 months.

Prior to this, my programming experience consisted of two terms of Pascal programming pre-University.

After this job, I joined a research company that actually knew something about software, if not money. Here I got most of my relevant experience, and after 5 years decided I should get a new job. I wasn't targeting FAANG, but I did interview at Amazon and Google.

My prep was largely some time on HackerRank and similar sites, probably totaling less than 20 hours. I likely spent more time preparing for Amazon's leadership questions.

I did no practice interviews, but did fail Amazon's on-site (and a few others).

I do, however, do Advent of Code every year. This was probably the single largest aid in getting me past Google interview.

I felt like I was a bit lucky with respect to the interview questions I got, but I think most people who pass feel that way. And anyway, the more you do prepare, the more likely you are to be lucky. ;)
Besides the spike in thyroid cancers, from the Baltics to Poland, Romania and Ukraine on down.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/04/1008292
Earnestly for what?

What problem can it solve that a central database can't?

Half the scams I've seen are stopped because a central 3rd party (like OpenSea) refuses to deal in the "stolen" property. At which point, there's no decentralisation.

Look, I'm pro-decentralisation and pro-cryptography. But no one working in your space has built anything which has convinced me you're on to something brilliant.

I hope I'm wrong though. Because if not - an awful lot of money, talent, and goodwill have been wasted.
Building a castle in a swamp can work, though.
Yes, it's sad to admit but, from many angles, leaving do seem to be a relatively better choice.
As if 2021 said "not done yet". What a way to punctuate a terrible year.

This one stings.
Agree, even if it is predominantly lazy get-the-gist reading habits that makes the difference, I don't think the solution would be to crank up the reading level of everything (and you laid out here a great set of reasons!).

Those of us that want more complex material can find it.
I'm tempted to think that Buddha made some rules just to challenge his disciples and see if they actually understood the message. Like the Zen monks who love messing with their students. Except some knobhead took it seriously and remembered it and his disciples then codified it.
> You make working for a large corporation sound like a religions experience.

Having so much money you don't have to work is like a religious experience, it makes you revaluate life etc. Getting to that point without having to sacrifice anything is very valuable.

> Now I have a start up life, a FANG salary, and mission that doesn't include cramming ads in eyeballs or hording private data and I can't help to feel that my way was the best way.

Right, you got lucky. I went the reliable path where you get this every time. Start-ups is not a good way to get peace of mind, working 35 hours at FAANG is.
Good luck with Social Security as well. As far as I can tell, their physical offices closed in March 2020 and haven't re-opened. My local office number will reliably drop my call after 10m 30s on hold (line just goes silent) and I have no idea how long hold times actually are on the nationwide number, but I've gotten to the 90 minute mark several times.

It appears that you can do some select things online, but if not? Alternative is to send your documents (which usually involve things like passport, and sometimes state ID aka driver's license) and hope they'll return it in 10-14 days... Just putting both of those things in the same envelope seems like a huge risk to me.

I've been able to submit civil court proceedings at my local district court (in CA), have them get processed and resolved. Sure, there was a break or two in there for temporary closures, and things got delayed. (It closed down for a while back in Dec 2020 but hearings were processed when it reopened in the spring, for example.) Point is, it still /happened/, even with some delay. So why can't the SSA or State Department process anything at all? The amount of institutional failure in the federal government offices right now is pretty alarming, and I haven't seen a lot of attention to this fact.
Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim is confirmed broken? I thought something was fishy...
This is a bit like saying: don't trust cardiologists. They tell you what you should and should not eat. If a certain food is tasty and not harming others, why not eat it?

Presumably you only listen to their advice if you trust that they're seeing something you're not (yet). It's not "seeking to control," it's advising.
Nuclear is pretty unpopular in Germany, especially since Fukushima. In 2012 73% of Germans were in favor of the phase-out compared to 16% opposed. I don't think it's fair to characterize that as people being scared though. Some certainly may be, but others have different reasons.

I think it's unfortunate given the climate, energy and geopolitical situation, but the Government is doing what the people clearly want it to do.
It really depends on what you're trying to do with the knowledge. If you mean learn it to the level of a university undergrad, then you'll need to do exercises and solve a lot of problems.

If you're interested in computational or cookbook type math, then it's best to find some textbooks with lots of exercises and student solution manuals available. You can grab lots of homework problems, solutions, and lecture notes from undergrad material posted freely on the internet. I would also recommend learning about how to use some numerical packages or computer algebra systems, so you can check your work.

If you're interested in proof based math, then it's probably best to find a grad student at a local school that you can pay to review your proofs and provide feedback. You might be able to use some online communities to do this as well.

There are often books that are aimed at a very basic level and others that are aimed at a more rigorous approach for the same material. It can help to review the more basic or less rigorous books to help get some intuition when you're stuck or need an alternate explanation.

There are several online math communities where questions about undergrad math have been asked and answered. A couple of examples for math and stats are: https://math.stackexchange.com/ and https://stats.stackexchange.com/

If you decide to follow an undergrad sequence of problems, you can look at starting with the highest level course you want and determining if there is any discussion on prereqs. You can trace the prereqs (which will typically be a subset of the previous course material) back to the beginning and find the minimal amount of material that you would need to get through.
1 is maybe true of real world tax at a stretch ('good not to worry about tax havens and optimal corporate structure early on'?) but I don't understand the analogy for 2?
Why not both?

Build renewables and nuclear instead of increasing dependency on gas from a geopolitical bully?
There's an order of importance to teachings, and this one falls somewhere below letting go of attachments to rules. Buddhism teaches the importance of avoiding getting caught up with either opinions or rituals for their own sake. Any prescriptive thinking loses its usefulness when it becomes an end rather than a means of reaching liberation.

On the other hand, thinking that there's a better moral philosophy than whatever ideas we currently have is highly encouraged, unless one is a Buddha. If we have already reached the peak of morality, there's no reason to look to the teachings of others, but if we feel that we still have room for improvement, it's worth looking into the teachings of others who demonstrate wisdom.
I'm sorry, I must have misread your username when I posted that, I had meant to send that to jtdev.
Canadian finance capital own a great deal of the worldwide mining operations, if not a majority by now. They extract a great deal of value from poor countries through unequal exchange.

New Zealand is a less prolific exporter of capital, but does it all the same.
> It takes less time to rebuild my whole toolchain from scratch on Linux (~15 minutes) than it takes to MSVC to download those friggin debug symbols it seems to require whenever I have to debug something

Fun fact: you can do the same in gdb and some distributions (e.g. openSUSE) have it enabled by default. Though you also get the source code too.

I was messing around with DRM/KMS the other day and had some weird issue with an error code, so i placed a breakpoint right before the call - gdb downloaded libdrm and libgbm source code (as well as some other stuff) and let me trace the call right into their code, which was super useful to figure out what was going on (and find a tiny bug in libgbm, which i patched and reported).