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Thanks!!!!!!!! Yee I don't wanna change myself too much - I just can't bring myself to doing it - but I'm trying!!!!

But ye will consider more expert help as well :)))

Thanks will do!! I'll keep people posted!!!
I don't know why you say you can't throttle nuclear up and down. All thermal plants have inertia, but nuclear is if anything easier to throttle than fossil fuels.

There's a lot of numbers, and comments from nuclear plant operators, in this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/NuclearPower/comments/m0rwso/how_fa...
I think the right way to look at a block chain is to think about it as a global computer that enables trusted execution on untrusted hardware.

At present, this global computer is very weak. Cryptocurrencies are a good first program to implement on this computer because each transaction is essentially just adding and subtracting a few numbers. So yes, in some sense, it's crazy that the cost of adding and subtracting a few numbers costs $20.

However, even though these global computers are currently very weak computationally, the new computational model allows for new things to be built. For instance, smart contracts. Using smart contracts and cryptocurrencies, you could easily implement almost every facet of the global financial system. From bank accounts, to money transfers, to bonds, to securities, brokerage services, margin services, options, credit default swaps, etc. Yes, many of these things can be implemented some other way, but blockchains allow anyone with a computer to build something along these lines.

And yes, it's nice that the Eurozone regulated free money transfers. But how much work went into building the Eurozone and passing the required regulations? What if you want to write your own options contract? How long would it take to get regulation passed in the EU to allow free options contracts? Blockchains allow you to build a system akin to the entire EU banking infrastructure from your laptop. Even if it's not quite as good as the current system, I think it's still a cool idea.
I’ve found pointing this out is an “aha” moment for people with even little understanding of statistics.

Regardless of the number of doors, the space collapses to two options when the host reveals the rest. That new option is the set of all doors the player never picked.

The player’s initial option, 1/3 (33%) for 3 doors or 1% for 100 doors… versus the other option that is the rest of the set. 2 doors or 66% for 3 doors up to 99% of the doors for the 100 case.

That other option being the rest of the set must have better probability for any door count greater than two.
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That the host opens a door without prize.
> tackling more complex problems

This is the 'induced demand' argument. As perfection seems impossible, and mistakes inevitable, this seems likely.

However, the more I look into issues, the more I realize that a very small number of errors introduced early on is what ultimately causes a plethora of them. Just fixing a very small amount of these mistakes would have untold effects on computing over the long-term. That is, if we can get over the initial switching costs.

> small team of engineers

It took 2 men to over-take thousands creating Unix over Multix. It took Linus Torvalds - just about alone - a week to create git. We have already seen this prophecy come true.

As teams get bigger, communication sales factorially, and the more people you have the more mistakes you make, which increases the size exponentially with each further mistake. What Unix and git showed is that when you put everything into a small team of engineers heads, they can work through the complexity enough until they can do it themselves.

> Frameworks

One of the things I realized a while ago is that pure/impure and library/framework have a decent mapping between the two. If you have a framework, you give it code and it acts for you, just like impure code. And so the problem we keep running into, is instead of inverting the flow like 'hexagonal architecture' says, we keep piling impure onto impure onto impure. Hexagonal says to not do anything of substance, keep the adapter clean, but each framework sure is doing something. Each layer on the stack we go up, the harder it is to get down. So now we have OS and applications and containers and k8s running micro-services that ends up being run in a web browser, when all we really needed was microkernals.
> After that first part, the second really shouldn't be any surprise at all...

The surprising thing to me is that such a person feels they're qualified enough to instruct other people on this topic.
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#2: Just do your assigned task well, that's it.
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Son of a Hanford man here. I believe my father started work at Hanford _after_ the bulk of their issues were wrapped up but I'm sure there was some increased exposure relative to background.

Sorry to hear about your uncle's experience, a lot of pain came out of that facility.
For sure. Duolingo alone is not sufficient.

We supplement with other materials. She checks out Spanish books from the library and I'm latino, so my (elderly) family is Spanish-speaking.

My parents just didn't learn Spanish (it was "bad" to have any Spanish accent in the 70s and 80s), so I didn't know Spanish growing up either.
In case anyone has the Roborock S5 and wants to use Valetudo, I wrote a small HowTo on how to install it using a Mac (I found the original guide a little confusing).

Link to the guide: https://flodan.github.io/blog/articles/roborock-valetudo-mac...

Maybe it is helpful to someone
You start with a 66% chance of choosing a goat. The host opens a door and shows a goat. If you switch, you turn that 66% chance of choosing a goat into a 66% chance of choosing the prize. The fact that the host knew or didn't know what was behind the door is irrelevant.

Also, if the host opened the door with the prize, what would happen then?
Where I found that fell down was wanting to do things like slow zooms and interesting transitions. I'd love something like a Python or bash script to tweak that addressed those.
Good apps:

Pandora: Don't share your channels, just enjoy some tunes.

Non F2P Games: Dream Quest (Great rogue-like). Sentineles of the Multiverse, most all the Inkle games.

Soulver: Great for quick calculations, with units.

Weather: For when you go outside. (Gasp)

Lyft/Uber: Need a ride?

If you are a traveler, airline apps can be handy. Some credit card apps are decent.

Overall, just avoid social media and free to play games, and you'll have a good time IMHO.
That doesn't invalidate what I said, although maybe I should have said "flat" instead of "fixed" to be more precise.

You pay a flat fee per transaction with Bitcoin, you pay a percentage fee with Mastercard and Visa. Yes, the Bitcoin fee changes with time based on a market. The Mastercard and Visa percentage changes based on how much they like you.
Super hydration right before bed, nasal saline spray, wedge pillow. Secondarily hot shower before bed, nasal opening strips. Over the long term, weight loss.
>Only around 13% of South Africans speak Afrikaans as a first language,

This is worse than if Ryanair validated USA passports by giving a quiz solely in Spanish, with 13.5% at home speakers. How is ryanair so bad?

(note, giving it solely in english would also be bad because it would senselessly ignore well over 13.5% of residents)
> even less bugs somehow

This is very far from my experience. I installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (recommended as one of the best KDE distros) at the beginning of 2022 and ran into a dozen KDE Plasma bugs within an hour. Stuff like panel widths resizing just because I clicked "customize," or widgets vanishing when I tried to drag them onto panels, or the bluetooth icon vanishing from the status bar until I restarted my session, or even the settings manager freezing up.

The basic desktop worked well enough, but as soon as I started customizing it I ran into all sorts of paper-cut edge-case type bugs.
Here's a bit of feedback, in the event anyone who manages the site reads this comment section:

1) I checked the FAQ and the 2nd and 3rd question in the FAQ were about crashing on Windows. I get the impression that this software is extremely unstable across OSes. This is a really bad foot to start off on.

Can anyone speak to the stability of Shotcut? I see a few comments below mentioning crashes, I just can't tell if we're talking every month or so, or every 5 minutes. If I were to switch video editors, having the program crash on me constantly is obviously a very big problem.

2) I didn't see any obvious language defining why I should switch to Shotcut. I use kdenlive to cut up screen shares and render them to webm; I do occasional light editing work to make tutorials for people. Kdenlive is a little clunky in some ways, but it gets the job done and I was able to figure out the basics after watching a quick tutorial on YouTube.

So...what does Shotcut offer that kdenlive doesn't? How could this task be made easier? Both software options can be used for commercial use, so what's the benefit of Shotcut over kdenlive? If Shotcut renders quicker, or supports more file formats, or makes it somehow easier to edit videos, I can see the appeal but there doesn't appear to be any introductory literature on their landing page or FAQ hammering these points home. Granted, I could probably devote the time to figuring this out myself, but it just seems like a lot of effort to learn something that should have been covered on the site.

One of those comparison breakdowns of side-by-side +/- images would have been a good starting point. Maybe it's buried somewhere else on the site, but if it is, it should be moved up to the front of the site, preferably on the main page.
Form of price discrimination?

Charging the same price for 1$ and 1000$ transaction would either make 1$ transaction not viable (BTC/ETH is doing this) or would be overall less profitable.

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

Also, insuring against fraud is actually more expensive for more expensive transactions. And CC provide some minimal service here.
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35x of a small problem is not necessarily a big problem. You need to quantify that objection. Nuclear waste can be reprocessed (see Fast Breeder reactors); the concern raised here is usually proliferation risk.

Given a binary choice, I'd rather have to deal with some nuclear waste than climate change, and I don't even think that climate change is an existential risk for humanity (just likely to cause large and uneven/unjust levels of harm). I think it's misleading to throw out individual objections like this without considering the systemic trade-offs that we need to make.

> the nuclear lobby were the ones that brought us the phrase "too cheap to meter"

I think this kind of blame-throwing is unhelpful. I couldn't care less what marketing claims were made in the past. Does this technology make a good cost/benefit trade-off now, or not? Specifically, compared to the other options we actually have available to us now. That is the conversation I think we should be having.

To address your object-level claim, as the OP describes in detail, one reason nuclear is more expensive now is the ever-increasing regulatory framework that has changed under the feet of in-progress projects. Maybe those regulations have resulted in a good ROI, but it's hard for me to buy that claim. Nuclear is now 10-100x safer than most other traditional/fossil forms of power generation[1], and it's excruciatingly expensive to buy that safety margin. These are tiny death rates caused by power generation.

The problem here is that it's political suicide to say "I think we should reduce safety regulations to make nuclear power 10x more dangerous, because that will avert far more deaths from climate change". In practice perhaps a major push for solar/wind/geothermal would be a higher-ROI solution to our problems, but that's politically much harder to get consensus on.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
This is a convincing narrative but It ignores the reality that a significant portion of the population doesn't want these reforms.
OOOO ok ok I'll try asking upfront.

The issue is when more complex stuff comes along - like say they wanted me to edit their company codebase etc.

Yee I need to learn to refuse :( Oh well learning for me :(
Not really. It manifestly wastes something with, at worst, a much longer runway toward making the planet uninhabitable for humans. That's the important point about PoW waste.
The issue with "dishonest" is that honesty implies intent. A statement has no intent, so it can't be honest or dishonest. A statement can only be right or wrong. An author can be honest or dishonest. An honest author can be wrong, and a dishonest author can be right. But to say that a statement is "dishonest" is to call the author, in the context of writing the statement, dishonest.
Right, it's your one shot. So what gives you better odds (that is, is to your advantage). If you don't switch, you're selecting the lower odds chance of winning, putting yourself at a disadvantage. Since you don't know where it is, but do have a chance to double your chance of winning, then switching is advantageous.

Expected value is the thing to consider.
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Rate limit of external API without dropping requests? Any SaaS or OSS?
I'm currently stuck with a problem of limiting my outgoing requests to external API that has a limit.
My requests are being throttled (429 error) and I need a solution that would allow me to prioritize, cache, delay execution to fit into the rate limits.
Do you know any OSS or SaaS solution for such problem?
yep! I'm on iOS. Everything on the Control Panel is a Good App: airplane mode, low power mode, add note, add audio recording, alarms, timers, stopwatch, calculator, flashlight, Apple Pay, Shazam, and camera
You dismiss Reddit pretty quickly but if you want a bulletin board-style forum on hyper-specific subjects then it's a good option. I'm subscribed to some hyper-specific tech subjects and the posts are very professional and helpful.

The other place I've found even more hyper-specific subjects is, ironically, Facebook. I, in general, stay off of Facebook but when I was looking for details on some very rare hardware, the communities there were actually the most active and useful.

You may be lamenting Eternal September and not the loss of Usenet itself.
YESS! I'll deflect next time as well!!
Hmmm the issue though is sometimes even I don't know who to ask.
Most of my helps are like for software coding stuff
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Even if you ignore the COVID and supply chain problems — which I’d argue are pretty OK reasons for schedule slippage — they never were that clear from what point you should count the two years: the announcement or the first availability of a Mac on the new architecture. If it’s the latter, they still have some months.
Oh yes good point on the reciprocity points!!!
The batteries can often be cheaper than fossil fuels, especially when colocated with existing solar. Most solar designs currently under size the inverters compared to maximum solar power output, to get the cost optimal balance. Batteries on-site allow storage of that extra DC energy, and then reuse of the same inverters outside normal solar generation hours to discharge the batteries.

This means that hitting the cost peak is really easy for batteries.

As this cheapest form of energy begins to dominate, and the "baseload" generators like coal or combined cycle gas become more expensive than solar, then it becomes less economical to run the "baseload generators because they don't have sufficient price support during the peak solar output times. This will raise the night time prices of energy, as the daytime prices decrease, and eventually storage plus solar becomes cheaper than new "baseload" facilities, and then cheaper than continuing to run existing "baseload" facilities.

I put "baseload" in quotes because on the past baseload meant cheapest energy, in addition to slow and expensive dispatchability. That is all changing.
Using it professionally at my current client, seems solid so far. Good work!
Crypto is antiprivacy. All of the transactions are public, it just offers psuedo-anonymity. If we used crypto for all transactions you could see when I go to my local watering hole and wait for me to close out my tab.
Yeah, and if you lose your private key apparently you deserve to lose everything.
The statement is obviously true.

The part which makes it so is "all else being equal". He is just saying "flexibility is more valuable than it might seem on the surface, because demand moves around".
The difference is "host opens a goat door because he knows which one has the car and chooses to not open it" versus "host opens a goat door by random chance".
Being self-caused and being a causeless cause aren't very different, and I think for the most part one can ignore whatever theoretical differences exist between them, because nothing in ordinary experience is either self-caused or causeless, so either way, we're positing something extraordinary as the cause of ordinary existence.

However I suspect self-causation is the wrong way to look at it. In the case of Python metaclasses and such, the self-referentiality is created by a pointer. The metaclass doesn't actually contain itself; it contains a pointer to itself (Python makes this a little obscure, but all objects in Python are really pointers to C structs). To be self-causing though isn't like following a pointer. The relevant operation is not following the reference back to the cause, the relevant operation is _causing_. You can sort of get around it with time travel, but then the thing isn't causing itself, strictly. Rather thing from T2 is causing thing at T1.

(In fact, Buddhist analysis of causation is very good on just this point: when we really look closely at causation, we find that all causing must be self-discharging and immediate, which means all things are empty of inherent existence. You can get back to monotheism, as some flavors of Buddhism do, by positing this ground of causation as Buddha Nature.)

>such a cause must be infinitely good

This is a mathematically proven fact, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_ontological_proof

In general, I recommend Boethius's Consolations of Philosophy as a good primer on Neoplatonism and why the One and the Good must be identical.

>Atheism is older than religion.

No, not believing in specific gods is older than religion. Atheism is a specific doctrine that originates in the eighteenth century as part of a garbled transmission of Confucianism to the West and newfound scientific interest in materialism. To be an atheist isn't to say Zeus or Odin or Yahweh don't exist. You can be extremely religious and deny the existence of any named god! Indeed, that is the height of piety, to humbly submit that you don't and can't know God's name. To be an atheist is to say that the Good as such doesn't exist and the world is fundamentally physical. (However, there's no good definition of physicalism that doesn't lapse into circularity or absurdities…) There are very few true atheists. To really be an atheist, to use Lacanian terminology, is to not believe in any Big Other, but doing that requires an unusual degree of vigilance. Everyone is always letting in some Big Other, but saying that their Big Other isn't like the other Big Others.

The problem of evil is just that problem that whatever good it is that God is interested in and whatever good it is that we are interested in must be different goods. But of course this is so. Why wouldn't it be? The question (again, getting back to Daoism) is whether our good is subsumable under God's good, or whether to exist as ourselves we must tragically oppose whatever it is that God's goodness is and so ultimately perish.
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Isn’t this the dream since year dot? The problem is the real world is full of leaky abstractions, with different layers evolving at different rates and massive adoption inertia.
Oh hey I watch his Youtube vids!!
We've been trying to communicate that nothing essential changed, Privacy Badger still learns automatically, but we clearly have a ways to go before this becomes generally understood.
Lol. Yah, wrecking skilled officer candidates -- especially nurses-- by giving them exercises that enlisted infantry struggle at when you have a massive nursing shortage in the military is awesome.

Meanwhile at the next door ROTC program it's all ridiculously soft and drill.

This all speaks to poor organizational controls.
No, it really does follow for "dishonest". It's definitionally a character lapse at best.
He says why he cares are the end. That it could be a viable payment system, if you solve the scaling and energy and regulation and a few other things.
I mean depends how it's broken, right? Broken could just mean anything from "will blow up momentarily" to "more inefficient than spec, but totally safe"
It's what happens when an industry is awash in dumb money. Startups are seen as either half-baked schemes trying to get a cut of the VC funding pie, or cheap R&D labs for the big tech companies in search for inevitable acquisitions. The big tech companies who originally made their money delivering goods or services of real value, squander that goodwill through oligopolistic rent-seeking, engaging in shady anti-competitive or anti-consumer behavior, and endlessly building derivative, short-lived products that users don't actually want in hopes of inflating their moats. In a milieu such as this, engineers become mercenaries because "making the world a better place" has become a tired old cliche, both false and naive. Just a lot of cynicism all around.
I had a really bad experience last time I tried to use Kdenlive.

Even on a pretty powerful system, having a project timeline longer than an hour made the entire interface run at ~5fps for me when adjusting cuts. After that, I started using DaVinci Resolve, which definitely still has problems, but runs like nothing else I've seen.
> they (somewhat egoistically) go their own way,

That's not necessarily all ego talking. If you have a task to accomplish and you're going to need to spend a week looking at it just to get a handle on how to start getting it done the simplest overall way possible, your boss is just going to insist you do it the "quick and dirty" way "this one time" (every time). As Dilbert says, "our boss can't judge the quality of our work, but he knows when it's late". This is an inviolate law of software development: quick always beats good. Get on board, or you'll be replaced by somebody who is.
I wasn't blaming this problem solely existing due to being incurious but more of lamenting how corporate environments don't encourage people to be curious.
> 60% of mining energy consumption still comes from fossil sources.

Even if it would be 0% then it is still wasting energy and removing that consumption would reduce overall waste.

And “green” energy still have massive environmental and economical costs.
The host revealing the door is irrelevant, right?

An equivalent offer would be if you had the chance to either:
- keep your door OR
- choose both of the other doors (since you know at least one of the other doors is a goat/non-prize)
There is at least (minimum of) 1 person in the world that is into this.
Screw this. Developers should advocate for their craft and for quality, and business metrics should hold an adversarial position to balance things out. We definitely should not be accepting the narrative that developers just do what they are told and don't push back on what we know is good for product - we are in a unique position of power, we should recognise this and use it for the betterment of the industry as a whole. The alternative is we let corporate greed slide our standards of quality into the gutter thereby making the job at hand miserable.
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