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Nuclear plants can be ramped up and down, at rates that depend on type. Look at energy production in aircraft carriers or nuclear subs, for instance, they are almost 100% nuclear.

While you are right that a baseline of nuclear can benefit from some complementing by gas and/or storage, there is almost an order of magnitude difference to the degree.

There is even a trend of making nuclear plants more flexible, to such a degree that they may help reduce the reliance on gas to keep renewables viable:

https://www.powermag.com/flexible-operation-of-nuclear-power...

Obviously, that comes at a cost, since nuclear is by far most economical if run at relatively constant loads, but to claim that nuclear suffers from the same problems when it comes to adjusting output to demand, is so inaccurate as to the degree, that I would consider it a false equivalence.
I think Alan Kay is saying that messages aren't good enough, and so he favors objects over data, because objects are more than data, they are also the interpreter of the data.

My understanding is that he'd favor something where the code to interpret the message is also serialized and stored/retrieved and passed around, which is how I think Smalltalk works.

Thus Alan Kay favors objects, which are not actually data, but they are data+interpreter bundled together. Where as Rich Hickey favors data on its own, and facilities to represent and model data alone, independently of a given interpreter, and then he favors having various external things apply their own interpretation of the data.

At least that's my reading of their discussion.
Well, when it comes to cross-platform desktop apps, Lazarus (Free Pascal) and Delphi (payware) do very well. There is nothing in Nim, Zig, Rust, or Go that I know of that can compare to the Lazarus or Delphi IDEs (for Object Pascal). As a matter of fact, there is an effort among Golang users to copy Lazarus. But, for Lazarus and Delphi, things get a bit shaky when we start talking about mobile or desktop and mobile development.

Delphi incorporates a mobile solution that was bought for the purpose, called FireMonkey, that doesn't completely integrate with their desktop solution (VCL). Each new version of Delphi is making progress with integrating the different solutions more tightly, but we are still talking about payware that is priced above what most individuals would want or feel comfortable paying for.

Lazarus, for various odd reasons (or even suspicious reasons), their developers appear to be dragging their feet with making a mobile solution. They should be able to incorporate technologies such as OpenGL ES with LCL and their custom drawn interface, but don't. A 3rd party developer came up with their own solution, that works for Android only (LAMW), but doesn't integrate with the desktop solution (LCL) nor is a part of Lazarus. So for Lazarus, outside of desktop development, things get a bit confusing. However, if team Lazarus ever got their act together and took mobile development more seriously, they probably would have among the best solutions out there.
So what? We know that well fitted masks are able to filter virus particles, we don't have to do a randomized controlled study on school children to prove it.

It's weird that people arguing against masking as a policy intervention go after the masks rather than the obvious problem, which is compliance. When someone tells you that you have to have a mask on to be in a building and then pulls their mask under their nose (happened to me last week), the effectiveness of masking isn't being evaluated, it's the effectiveness of masking as a policy intervention that is being evaluated.
It's a gym. You mind your own business there.
That's not true at all. Those are absolutely real numbers. Cheapest ACA plans with income of $13k is $20 and no deductible. Lots of Apartments for $500 or less all over US. Check Zillow, which is a poor representative.
> am from Missouri USA and collecting help is frowned upon due to our Libertarian lean.

Why? I thought charitable work/donations were a libertarian talking point against social welfare and related programs
> CSS might actually have a bad reputation for a reason

Hum... You mean people that hate CSS but somehow love JS? I don't think I trust their judgement.
> Medic-aid is barely accepted by any doctors except random ones

What makes you think any sort of government intervention will solve this? If you implement universal healthcare these doctors will still have revenue streams from rich people and won't need to take poor patients. You can't force doctors to treat people they don't want to.
No but it wouldn’t matter if it was
That's a good reason to split it up, that people don't understand there could be anything else to pursue education for.
That may be, but I didn't get that from the OP.
It's not exactly new? There were several general betting market in crypto, but they never got much popularity.

https://augur.net/

https://polymarket.com/
US isn't the highest but there are certainly countries with lower rates.
>whatever the rest of the world is using

This is exactly what Microsoft got right: establishing themselves as the standard. Their OS on the PC, their OS on the laptop, and their suite in the offices. Deals with governments, deals with schools, and then, you're the idiot if you want to use something else compared to "whatever the rest of the world is using".

I do agree about turnkey solutions though. This is what MS got right, and also I think what Red Hat and Canonical got right.
At saturncloud.io we focus on helping data science teams move to the cloud (either in your AWS account or ours). One component we provide is hosted jupyter lab (along with SSH access so you can use PyCharm/VSCode or anything else.

Hobbyists often use our free tier (30 hrs of GPU per month) or pay for more compute ($0.69/hour) to do a variety of GPU workloads.

We do prohibit things like DDOS attacks and cryptocurrency mining.
> Other countries use nonvoluntary methods for dealing with their addicts or mentally ill and have substantial treatment programs and public asylums.

What other countries do you mean? In northern Europe, you can't nonvoluntarily do anything to anyone that isn't imminently a danger to themselves or others. Everyone gets help that needs it, no excuses, and we have virtually no homeless people at all.
Even if they want to take ownership, smart pointers allow the semantics to be expressed clearly and in a safe manner.
Unless we're talking extremes (AVX512...), optimizing for power in modern CPUs is almost always optimizing the race to idle.

I.e. the CPU doesn't use much less power if most ALUs are idle, so you might as well use all of them to compute redundant results -> and then turn ~everything off sooner.
They are definitely redeemable for rewards. I’m not sure if they can be bought for cash or not yet, though.
Pretty sure the biggest blockers are politics and finance - getting enough people to back a single plan and then pay for it.
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What kind of person would be there and not unlucky?
I (being not a hardware person but able to blink a LED) would start with the diagrams of talking with the device on page 7 and refer to them while reading the text descriptions of same on pages 5–6, maybe refresh my memory on how I2C works[1,2] as well. At the same time, almost any controller you can get is happy[3] to talk I2C for you, so it’s unlikely the details matter beyond “controller writes device address and RW bit then (either!) reads from or writes to the peripheral accordingly until end of transaction” (whence the “dummy write” the datasheet says is needed to set the read address). Many even come with libraries that will talk to I2C EEPROMs specifically (because they are everywhere), so the diagrams might not be so important either.

The rest of the datasheet is (as commonly happens with simple digital components) concerned with “how do I wire this up”, “how good of a digital signal can I expect to get out”, “how bad of a digital signal can I get away with putting in”, a refresher on I2C, and miscellanea like power consumption, operating temperature, and sizes of little plastic boxes it comes in. Necessary if you want to design a board properly, not so much if you’re just going to wire it up for a quick hack (the device seems to have a supply voltage and logic levels of “whatever”).

The only thing you maybe do need these for is to look at the board photo and figure out how they wired it. Dot indentation marks pin 1. Pins 1–4 shorted, picture on page 1 says 4 is ground and 1–3 are address, so per page 4 it ends up with[4] address 1010 000. Power (called Vcc for reasons that are not important here) is on pin 5, wired up to top pin of connector on the close-up photo; the next one down goes to data (SDA as I2C calls it) on pin 8; following one goes under the chip but is almost certainly the bus clock (SCL) on pin 6 because that needs to go somewhere; and the bottom is at first glance only connected to an isolated island of copper but the small holes (“vias”) to the other side of the board probably connect it to the other islands so it has to be ground. That leaves write protect on pin 7, unconnected to anything but Vcc (through a dummy “pull-up” resistor to limit how much power the chip will waste examining it), which, to do a sanity check, page 3 says means writes are permitted (so the name of the pin is a bit unfortunately).

There. Done. You still need to find or make something for the other side of the I2C conversation, but either an off-the-shelf programmer or a tutorial for a cheap board with a controller should be sufficient for that. (Won’t be completely trivial the first time around, but it’s a one-time thing like any other development environment.)

[1] https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/i2c/all

[2] https://learn.adafruit.com/i2c-addresses/overview

[3] https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder/blob/6227...

[4] https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder/blob/6227...
It’s required by California state law to post all bills online along with associated vote tallies in committee and floor votes. The vote types are as follows:

- Ayes (in favor),
- Noes (against),
- and No Vote Recorded (NVR; the equivalent of abstaining).

Looks like the [most recent committee vote referred in the article for SB 8](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xht...) is not online but will likely be by mid week.
Is it possible they use io_uring for networking?
There's tons of stuff that would be useful in an apocalypse. Things like:

1.) Communications. Being able to send over plans for a useful tool, or instructions for repair, or a meeting place for the defense of a village becomes critical.

2.) Entertainment/education. Threads shows the post-apocalyptic children watching a VHS video of animals & grammar. If you can preserve even just the PBS Kids catalog on local disk and have a working computer, you'll be in huge demand as the town's babysitter, and it's far easier to do this at scale with video than individually keep dozens of kids occupied.

3.) Local records. It's critical to catch freeriders for any communal endeavors, because if you don't, community breaks down and everybody just worries about their own family. Same goes for financial records: if you can restore some semblance of banking & credit you can operate much more efficient trade than if everything is spot barter.

4.) Knowledge repository. The community where everybody knows how to garden is going to be way better off than the one where two people know how to garden and everybody steals their food. Same with a variety of other skills - repairs, local resources, weapon manufacture, etc.

5.) Industrial control. If communities can get an electricity source back online, it opens up a wide variety of options for local manufacturing and automation. Labor is likely to be in very short supply after an apocalypse, so anything you can do to automate control will be a big help.
> Yes, that's why IT admins in public funded institutions need to be told the standard they are to follow, 80% of the "internet" runs on linux, and GUIs have filled pretty much all gaps, drivers aren't the nightmare it was 20y ago.

I tried to switch to Linux a couple of years back. The GUIs were fucked, and varied so much between distributions that everybody just defaulted to the terminal anyway.

Hardware support was a major PITA. Everything would "work", but there'd be random issues, like my printer (Brother colour laser) refusing to go above about 50dpi regardless of what setting I put, and some disk mounting service crashing internally if I inserted and removed my SD card reader too many times (nothing crazy, like 2-3 times over an 8 hour session).

These pains were on Kubuntu. A more niche (yet still for some reason recommended) distribution that I installed broke the entire desktop environment when I tried to switch from the broken, buggy mess that was Noveau to the properly QA'd Nvidia stuff.

Similar experience with my Grandpa, for what it's worth. He hated Windows 10's ads and tracking with a passion, and asked me to install Linux on his machine when Windows 7 became EOL. But nope, everything was broken.
You hit the nail on the head I think. You meet a lot of these types when you spend time doing volunteer work. Eloquent, relatively intelligent, very street smart, and pathologically unable to take accountability for anything in their lives. I suspect it comes from years of taking advantage of the kindness of others, usually due to a history of drug addiction.

I don't mean to paint with broad strokes here: there are many kind, honest homeless people who really just need help finding a way to live. There are also a lot of shucksters who will tell you exactly what you want to hear.
> Hidden secrets in religion are not uncommon. //

It's not clear what you mean here, could you give some examples?
Anna is a KV store, for those out of loop: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2022/04/anna-key-value-sto...
From my understanding the chemicals haven't changed, and can't really be changed. As far as i understand we will always need these crazy bad chemicals to make chips.

What has, hopefully, changed is we aren't allowing companies to store it in leaking underground tanks, etc. All these superfund sites aren't a result if business as usual, in each case there is some major, systemic, intentional oversight and frankly corruption.

Source - I've worked some in that industry designing automation for asml, applied, etc.

Not in the semiconductor industry but a good example of the kind of thing that results in a super fund site is Rocky Flats in Colorado. There is a now famous news broadcast where the representative from the department of energy is saying "there is no fire" and a big fire can be clearly seen behind them.

They were machining plutonium and uranium nuclear bomb triggers on lathes in special glove boxes with particle capture and ventilation systems that were supposed to scrub the air before venting it to atmosphere. These systems weren't properly maintained and they got clogged up with radioactive dust and caught fire. It was later found that they were dumping radioactive dust into the air, and had hundreds of barrels of radioactive waste in steel barrels that were rusted through leaking into the ground for decades. It's the only time one federal agency (the FBI) raided a facility of another federal agency (DOE).
> You don’t need to reload your shell when you work on it.

For this point - I use an alias

alias chalias="vim ~/.bash_aliases && source ~/.bash_aliases"

auto-reloads the aliases when you exit the file
You may be interested to learn there is a lot of evidence that suggests prior coronavirus and even rhinovirus infections boost the immune system against SARS-CoV-2
I’ve been a very delighted user of Sway for at least 5 years and am grateful for the work Drew has put into it.

I once made a trivial PR to sway that was maybe 6 chars in total but Drew made sure I felt welcomed and even mentioned me in the list of contributors.

I find it a bit puzzling why someone who contributes so much to the community gets so much hate. Even if the opinions might not always be popular, the volume and quality of his work should speak much louder than words.
Cultural factors like ethics that entail helping people and educating everyone that anyone could end up in a vulnerable situation and then dedicating resources to make sure everyone has a safety net in case they lose their job, have a mental illness, addiction or something else unexpected?
That's how I feel, I've been in the exact situation. 0 dollars, maxed CC and evicted with like 10 days left on my phone plan.
I read these stories with skepticism. It does not appear that the reporter investigated any of the facts asserted by the people profiled.
1) like a startup that cannot get new funding, you need to concentrate on your "burn rate". Consider whether or not you can move to less expensive housing, for example. Groceries over restaurants. How many streaming services do you need in the short term.

2) look at your resume, and think what you can do in the short term to improve it.

3) your reputation can precede you; if you get laid off, try to make sure you go out in a professional manner that will cause people who end up at other companies (that might be hiring) to think well of working with you again.

4) when unemployed, it can be tempting to get lazy; make it a requirement that you do something every day towards getting a job, even when you don't feel like it. Make a project plan on how you will find a job (what job boards to check on, what skills to brush up, etc.), and hold yourself to it in a way that keeps you in a work-like mindset.

5) if you haven't interviewed in a long time, look at each opportunity to interview as a chance to practice, because interviewing is definitely something one can do better or worse, even for the same actual job skills. Even if you're not sure you would want the job, take the interview as if you might, because you might be surprised, and also you at least get interview practice.
My savings account is currently paying me 1 bp.
Depends if those lives were genuinely a net negative due to suffering.

How many people suffer longer than they should due to lack of access to suicide? I suspect the answer is "fewer than commit suicide due to temporary and fixable chemical imbalances and an easily available gun" but the question should be asked and evidence gathered.
From my point of view, seeing you harass and troll people in this thread by constructing uncharitable straw men, then hawking an overpriced product, makes it seem like you’re trying to drum up anger, then profit off of it.
One of the cool features of HoTT is that you can look at types and compute what "isomorphism" should mean even before you put a category structure on it. For instance for groups, you can see what as isomorphism of groups is just by looking at the type of groups as the type of tuples with carrier, operation, neutral element and laws.

Some times you can even chose two different category structures for the same types, as long as the two agree on what the isomorphism are. This happens with graphs for instance, where there are several coherent notions of maps of graphs.
I think you're overloading 'dealt with' with your own assumptions. Providing support for these people so they don't need to be there is a valid way to deal with the problem
Probably leave california. They'll even give you a bus ticket for free.
Correct, the problem is capitalism and intellectual property. The capitalist system simply has no way of dealing with the fact that writing documents or spreadsheets is a thing we can more or less solve once and give to everyone for free at no additional cost. That's the reality of the situation, the problem is the idea of ownership as applied to things that can be infinitely duplicated at no cost. It's a growing disconnect between reality and the capitalist economy. I have no solution, but I know it doesn't make sense to own intangibles in the way copyright/patents/intellectual property and other bullshit like nfts are attempting to impose on a digital world the reality of which is fundamentally different from the tangible one. Creating artificial scarcity is wrong.
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Good stuff :-) I would also love to see a comparison against Scylla and Aerospike, even if the use-case seems slightly different?
I was never laid off but I and had to lay some people off during the dot com bust, yet during the 2008 downturn my teams all grew in size (just a little slower than the prior years). Mainly what I saw was companies that had solid foundations, even if they were VC backed and unprofitable, did fine overall. They just had to be a bit less speculative and more calculating how they used their funds. Ones in speculative areas or doing weird shit got hammered and weeded out of the market fairly quick.

I personally never witnessed reasonable quality engineers not able to move around and find work (outside a short 6ish month window during the peak of the dot com bust), sure it took a little longer for some, but we are still talking like 2-3 months. I changed jobs twice during the dot com bust and recovery as well as during the 2008 cycle, but I had solid experience. The people who were mainly laid off were the inexperienced that didn't have a tech degree. e.g. where companies took a chance on training them to fill a tech role which they were struggling to fill during the boom cycle. People regardless of degree or no-degree that had 5-10 years did fine generally, and 10+ years did well as long as you were reasonable in salary requests.

The biggest issue I saw was salaries stagnated for a really long time and companies took advantage of the job market to hold the salary growth down. To be clear, salaries didn't go down so much as they just leveled off and stayed there for WAY too long IMO.

There was some good that came from the dot com bust. The market weeded out all the speculative job seekers who had no business writing code. It removed a lot of the poorly ran companies, and it forced companies to pay attention to the fundamentals. So it wasn't all bad either, and I think we were healthier after for quite a while.

Hopefully this cycle turns into another correction and we clean up some stuff and it happens quickly. Nothing says it has to be a horrid all or nothing event, most recessions aren't. 2008 was unusually tough on a lot of people but left the tech area relatively unscathed. This one won't be quite the same, but HNWP & LP's need to still put their money to work, so there will still be plenty of money for decent companies. And tech is everywhere and not optional for companies anymore, so there will be a market for good engineers and like positions.
You will get paid 1/2 to 1/8 as much as an software engineer in Europe.
If China were going to invade Taiwan, it would be logical to do so while the US and NATO were occupied by supporting Ukraine’s efforts against Russia.