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If it's cheaper to build these nuclear reactors as compared to "importing" hydro power from another Canadian province (these comments make it sound like it's another country) remains to be seen. Maybe it even looks that way from current estimates, but from past experience most estimates on the cost of building nuclear power plants are a bit optimistic...
Small correction. If I remember correctly, VB copied Delphi.

That's why it looks so similar.

I still remember the great VB vs Borland Delphi wars of the 90's.

But feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
We are regularly wrong when we try to come up with first principles when trying to make assumptions about nutrition.

Even "lectins must always be bad" turns out to be wrong.

You don't necessarily complete the circle here, granted, but I've heard it claimed many times lately by Twitter carnivore-diet influencers that plants must be bad for you because they don't have claws/teeth thus they depend on chemical deterrents.

It's a very arbitrary attempt at a first principle, not the least of which because it seems to suggest that we are incapable of even the most basic nutrition science.
He was doing some shady stuff, but they couldn't prove anything other than he had a lot of cash on him. So they seized the cash and charged him with money laundering. Once the cash is seized it's guilty until proven innocent. He couldn't prove that he legally acquired it, so the police kept the money. Civil asset forfeiture is modern day highway robbery.
> if modern email transports don’t count, then isn’t it true that _any_ messaging system could be considered as postcards in that whoever stumbles across the message contents can read it?

You are mistaking transport layer "security" with information security. It's a common, yet potentially grave mistake.

Secure communication depends on encryption that is "good enough" so that unauthorised decryption takes too much resources or too much time to be practical, with the only encryption secrets being held by the sender and the receiver. We usually call that approach "End-to-end encryption", or E2EE. It is also something political entities try hard to ban, for obvious reasons, if you consider them mostly being suppressive-authoritarian surveillance state actors. (yes, I am aware of the '5 dollar hackwrench' xkcd comic [1]. If your state actor uses that tactic against you, you have a whole different problem).

True E2EE solutions for email exist, but - mostly because virtually no one wanted the extra hassle - they never got adopted widely.

In a perfect world, metadata would also be encrypted - or nonexistent at all (there are implementations for that, for example PGP-encrypted messages over bitstream over TOR (I know your 'bitstream address', but all messages get broadcast, e.g. via blockchain, to everyone, and you only pick out those that match your bitstream address. Because you have only your own private PGP key, you can't read the messages to other bitstream addresses, even though you have them).

[1] https://xkcd.com/538/
Many of those networks block most ports except http, https basically.
I don't think anyone is arguing for anything man, they're just pointing out that forcing people to work, conviction or not, is, in fact, slavery. If you think that slavery in those cases is justified, that's a different discussion. But it is slavery, plain and simple.
Manitoba exports huge amounts of electricity to Ontario, SK, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and with the new Keeyask dam coming online it'll have capacity for 400,000 new homes. There's also still 1000s of MW of untapped potential in Manitoba, if investments would be made in dams and transmission.
The hidden assumption here is that using a CP doesn't actually give you at least some legal protection or at least an advantage if you end up in court.

Also, instead of blaming the restaurant owner who gets fire from all sides all the time, why not blame
- lawmakers and courts for not stating clearly whether using a CP is expected, or what the alternatives are
- OS, browser and access point vendors for inventing a more sane alternative than automated MitM attacks
In a gold rush sell showels...
So when will we be invading Afghanistan because they have large deposits of lithium
Yes, this applies to autonomous vehicles being tested in the state. Tesla skirts this rule by reporting their system (including the supposedly ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta) as level 2 driver assistance features. That marks them out of scope for the regulation of reporting collisions (and crucially system disconnections).
This again.

They’re not giving you the heating hardware for free.

They’re selling you the heated seats and then selling you the ability to turn them on separately.

Not to mention the arbitrage opportunities. BMW are now the only car dealer network that can trade cars back without features and then add them in for no cost before they go back out on sale.

...or turn them off and get used car buyer to pay for them yet again.

Rent seeking MBA fuckers.

The only hope is that the market punishes them. The problem is that if every company does this then they act as a cartel and stop the market working correctly.
Latency Compensating Methods in In-Game Protocol Design and Optimization (2001)
An offline version is not yet available. For most users, edge devices most likely won’t be able to handle the computational resources. We’ll work hard towards an offline desktop app, thank you!!
In terms of fatalities, we're overly scared of nuclear incidents, and not scared enough of coal power and brownouts.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

You're absolutely correct when you say that less regulated nuclear would have caused more incidents. You may also be correct when you say the risks aren't properly calculated at present. The thing is, that doesn't matter unless they're off by three orders of magnitude. Coal kills so many people through pollution that the world could suffer a Three Mile Island once a year without killing anywhere near as many people as coal does.

It is now theoretically possible that solar, wind, and pumped hydro could provide a substantial chunk of global baseload power. We could have gotten there decades ago with nuclear. It's the fault of the green movement that we didn't.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. Especially not on inflammatory topics. It leads to dumbed-down, predictable conversation and that's what we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They didn't shut down Ingress.
But isn't WinForms basically VB6 RAD via .NET?

WinForms satisfies my VB6 craving.
Right, unlike wind and solar, the predicted cost of a nuclear SMR is not based on real-world data, you have to take the word of the vendor who is selling it to you.
If you’re not interested in fighting on the Internet, you wouldn’t have posted what you posted.

You can say “it codified [slavery] in the above sense”, but obviously this isn’t the sense that people meant when they went to war to end slavery. And neither you nor I had to make the sacrifice that those people made to end what they considered to be slavery in the US.

Maybe it’s worth considering what the purpose of the 13th amendment was? It’d be a pretty huge mistake to conclude that the purpose of passing the 13th amendment was to enshrine slavery in law, which so many people fought and died to abolish, right?
Also, the OP article does explain well what could cause this misunderstanding. HTTP resource nouns shouldn't ever be "guessed". The resource either exist or it doesn't. And if it exists, it either has a data, or it doesn't.

404: it doesn't exist
204: it exists and has no data to parse.
Yes at least renewable energy projects don't have a tendency of running over budget and over timeline.
I'm not going to defend the damage mining like this does, but it seems unfair to say oil is any better [0]. In my opinion, oil causes much more damage and is harder to contain.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills
It creates an incentive to grow and maintain the slave class. Instead we should be thinking rehabilitation and how to have less people in prison.
If you're not making any money from your software directly, that's even MORE reason that you shouldn't be self-hosting your own RabbitMQ clusters. Use a software provider that is stable, has already figured out all of the stuff, has an enterprise friendly SLA, and hold their feet to the fire. For the love of God, don't make your complicated production-critical ops work dependent on the weird organizational constraints of your backwards IT org. Plenty of those "FAANG" "startups" would be happy to sell you their expertise.
Async Rust is still considered MVP, perhaps surprisingly.

> Most of the features of sync rust don't compose well with async rust.

There are two parts to that. Missing features that are required to compose the features (GATs are a good example), and bugs/incoherencies/just inconveniences.

The latter will eventually get fixed hopefully, although some of them are really hard the recent work on a-mir-formality is going to help this. The former are probably going to be solved too, but it'll be harder and perhaps require more time. As far as I can tell, nothing is impossible by the design of the async/await MVP (it was designed for that, so this is not really surprising).

FWIW, both happen in non-async code too. It's just that async code takes the type system to its extreme, and so it has more surprises.
Sure you can do that, but I'd say in the general case "it depends".

If your needs are fairly basic, that's probably the best approach. You also eliminate some overhead (piping messages through a middle man, operating said middle man, etc.).

But it's my understanding that if your needs are a bit more involved, the complexities of building a solid queue mean that it'll take time away from building your actual product. In that case, you may be better served by an off-the-shelf solution which already handles the corner cases and is good to go.

I think this is the usual decision between using an external product and rolling your own.
I used calmira back in the nineties :D
Olkiluoto isn't fully online yet, that's expected to happen in December after it didn't pass trials and required repairs. It would then be 13 years late and cost about four times what was planned. The other two are looking like they're going in a similar direction.
There was deflation pre WW1, then there was hyperinflation in Germany leading to Hitler's failed coup, finally there was deflation once again and Hitler got to power.

These constant economic cycles just drive fear and populism and if people are desperate they also become more receptive of fascism.

The way currencies are designed forces their inevitable collapse so why not keep the party going for as long as possible ala Keynes? You don't lose anything from building a better society and then resetting the money system Vs not doing anything and then resetting it.
Mini nuclear reactors make a lot of sense especially in the areas with a lot of electricity-hungry industry, Polish copper producer KGHM is planning to build such reactors for their own needs (they use 1 GW a year) [1].

It will make their operations cheaper, saving on transfer losses alone on their scale is significant gain.

[1] https://media.kghm.com/en/news-and-press-releases/kghm-plans...
Even more relevant perhaps : how many of these plans allow you to piggyback on the closest router's guest connection (from the same ISP) as long as you are in Wifi range. (Some of these routers even work as mini cell towers !)
Ok, I see now what is the point that we disagree:

What does 200 means with regards to existence/non-existence.

I think 200 means something exists and 404 is the representation of non-existence.

You think (please correct me if I am wrong) that the existence or non-existence information should be in the body.

Actually I think the underlying (and more important point) is about how valuable the existence/non-existence information is for the client => how quick the client should have feedback about this?

I think existence is a very important information and thus should be a first class citizen of the data representation. Thus I want it in the status code on the same level with the body itself.

If you put it in the body then that means for me an extra step to parse the body and then see what is there. So then the existence/non-existence is on the second level.

In your case with responding with 200 + body then the 200 status becomes irrelevant and I always need to parse the body => time is lost to access the _first_ important information that should then guard my business logic to parse or not the body.

While in my case (using 200 and 404 status) the client receiving 404 knows directly (without any parsing of the body) that the request was not successful in retrieving existing data.
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First time I've heard this. If you tip often in many places I could understand it.

Why not takeout windows? The folks working at McDonald's could probably use it as much as that local business owner and staff. probably
Thank you for your kind words @orobinson!
No mention of the fact he failed to reverse climate change.
I sincerely hope you are not this unpleasant in social settings.
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/79236.pdf lists a lot of difference references, and the Lazard range covers them all.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-wind-and-battery-storage-n... gives "Utility-scale battery (four-hour storage duration) $145-167 per MWh" and references BloombergNEF

Better link for Bloomberg reference: https://www.energy-storage.news/behind-the-numbers-the-rapid...
To be fair on Blockfi...Their CEO came out in a podcast and called self created by these companies useless. He would often push back on Blockfi creating their own coin
God yes, I've seen so many split-brain issues with Rabbit and ActiveMQ (what a baffling pile of crap) over the years.

At least you can tell Kafka to block producers if replicas aren't clean.
Yup. Did my masters thesis on Jepsen tests and there's a huge discrepancy on how most people perceive databases, consistency models and their actual behavior. Also just driver implementations, cluster configuration and other oddities that might bring chaos and disaster out of nowhere.
Which we know from the article that the recipient in this case was ALREADY doing. They were using RabbitMQ as a glorified cron job to poll the "status" of the other service every 5 minutes.
That’s not 3 years away, it’s lacking fundamental knowledge of the world, which might require GAI to begin with. It is just shitty drive assist features sold as much more.
From the original post:

> The right approach for the top level rarely matches that for most of its parts, nor each for the others, and likewise down the line.
Unless you want to use a different language for each level and subproblem, you will want support for all "orientations" in your language.

It is grossly impractical to use a different language for each fragmentary part of a problem. People do not, as a rule, do that. Trivial exceptions include Python and niche-language programs calling out to C-ABI libraries, programs sending SQL to databases, and web servers sending Javascript to browsers. But those are not about "orientation".

You might use two or more different general-purpose languages for different, independent problems, but that does not contradict my remark about the folly of languages that attempt "purity".
> Anyway, nuclear is still great baseline source of energy, so pity we don't build it better.

In what way? For the price that they actually cost after construction you can get double the capacity in wind, and double the capacity in solar, and a CAES plant capable of storing several days of energy at the same capacity, and the same capacity in a combined cycle gas plant, and a redox flow battery with 12 hours of storage, and a hydrogen electrolyser capable of producing enough hydrogen or methane to run the gas plant with change left over.

All so you can make your energy infrastructure beholden to one fuel supplier where your country is not allowed to produce any yourself. Then you have to find somewhere to put the waste for millenia.

And that only if you're on the short list of countries that the US, China, or France will even sell fuel to.
Isn’t blackbox dead ? The latest release on the website is from 2009 and is proudly announcing Vista compatibility.
Speaking as a former weed delivery driver in California who got robbed at gun point twice... I honestly cannot wait for cashless to come. You know what's fun about dealing with cash? Nothing! It sucks! At least give me the option to opt out of having to deal with people who transact in cash and give me a badge that says "This guy doesn't carry money!" That seems fair to me since I don't want to be involved with that nonsense or the problems that come with it.
The thing is, specific performance would probably be really bad for Twitter too. Who wants to be bought by someone who didn’t want to? The best resolution would probably be for Twitter and Musk to settle for something more than the 1B breakup fee, less than the 20B delta between market value and contract price
Thanks for trying it out and the compliments!!
Bill Browder's book about the rise of Putin, oligarchs taking over state resources and corruption and financial crime in the USSR Red Notice is fantastic, as is his followup book Freezing Order.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609522-red-notice

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59366154-freezing-order

I also liked Harry Markopolos' No One Would Listen detailing his years investigating and reporting Bernie Madoff.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7740121-no-one-would-lis...

The Smartest Guys in the Room, covering the rise and fall of Enron, is also fantastic:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/113576.The_Smartest_G...
"There is a strong assumption that battery costs will come down"

On what bases? Typically bigger demand leads to price increase, do we have new sources of Lithium/Cobalt/Copper that would increase production significantly?
I started noticing that whenever I was fasting, my sleep quality seemed to be much better.

I finally decided to try not eating in the late afternoon or evening, i.e. I'll try to have my last meal by 3 or 4 PM.

My sleep quality improved noticeably from doing that. I wake less often at night, and in the morning wake up feeling more refreshed. Definitely worth a try, though it may just be me.
Nit: the application the author describe doesn't even publish the request using RabbitMQ, as far as I can tell—they publish the request with a simple HTTP request. They use RabbitMQ solely for scheduling the "Check if this task is done yet" job every ~5 minutes. I haven't used RabbitMQ myself, but it does sound like kind of like a square peg / round hole situation to me.
IMO the iOS app is better, but there are some bugs if one uses many instances.

I was using both desktop and iPad versions and somehow I was getting incoming calls on the iPad from people who were not calling me, but who did maybe 30 min before. Not just the notification but "so and so is calling you right now". It was very confusing.
Not who you're responding to, but I will take a crack at your question. I think that incarceration and forced labor are barbaric and ineffective, and an enlightened society should not engage in those sorts of behaviors.

I believe in corporal punishment and fines. Petty crimes get fines, say some number larger than the average payout per crime divided by the chances of getting caught, so that on average criminals lose money. And for violent crimes, lashing, flogging, something quick, painful, that doesn't destroy families and take years from someone, and that doesn't maim or disable (so things like cutting off hands are out). And for repeat violent offenders and extreme cases like murder and torture and things, death, the reasoning being this is not punishment, it is corrective action, and if the corrective action doesn't work, the offender must be removed from society as they are a danger.

I can see exile making some sense in some cases but I haven't explored that really.

All this is predicated on the society being one where victimless crimes don't exist. Nothing should be illegal that involves no unwilling participants. Drugs, sodomy and things like that should not be crimes, social pressure and social sanction are enough to deter things a society doesn't want but that doesn't violate rights of others, and punishments for them should not be codified into law.

I know my opinion on this is not a commonly held view, and would be considered extreme by many, but I do think it is more humane and productive than incarceration.
I use fuzzing for this. In fact that's the main case I use it for.
The Beginning of a Grueling Diet
Red Notice! Freezing Order is basically part II.
>The company says customers can enable all hardware features for a one-time payment if they prefer.

As long buying them once and for all exists, it's just a new option.

It might be cheaper for BMW to install these features to every car than manufacture different cars with different options.

Even for a buyer who don't want to rent, ability to buy features later is nice option.
Searching and labeling are vastly different areas. Google already proved their expertise in search years ago - what they do now is expand and adapt to changes.
Yes octopi are smart. But I don’t expect them to widely change our ideas about meat.
I met someone recently who was raised culturally vegetarian - but now eats meat with the exception of pork. They cited pigs as being intelligent and emotional, to which I agree.
I just cannot ever see a single species’ intelligence being a turning point for the consumption habits of the entire human species. I also do not understand the “ranking” of an organism’s intelligence correlating to human desire to eat it.
Many (all IMO) animals are highly specialized and “intelligent” and people still don’t care.
Ok now what? Are you going to reduce the money supply? I don't think so.

Nobody wants to reduce the money supply because that would be theft or expropriation or whatever convenient excuse. So instead there is inflation/expansion of the money supply.
Nice, I'll go ahead and propose to my company that has everything on Azure and is a total MS whore to switch their 10000-somewhat employees over to Discord.
Context is key.

My dog has a better understanding of context than any AI I've ever met. (I mean that sincerely - since becoming a pet owner it's something I've really marveled at).
Supercomputer locates likely Mars origin crater of 'Black Beauty' meteorite
The per-country induced cost of climate change
Most likely they won't care, and hold it against you / talk about it behind your back.

If you can get your peers to a place outside of work so they can be themselves, it works better, since it's more caring and in a group not in "work."
It’s not just about scale though, it can be useful where you own both components. The producer just produces events, as long as the queue is available. no retry is needed if the other side is having a problem or being updated. The messages sit in the queue until the other components can consume them. Especially useful when producer and consumers are running at different rates and the queue becomes a buffer.

There’s also a difference in making a command to another service vs event or state notification. In the case of a command you often want to wait and find out if it went ok. Events or states published onto a queue are more of a case of “here is a thing that happened, deal with it how you wish”
Synology C2 Cloud Engage 2022
>Also it is rather priceous (around 2€)

What is it with electrical engineers and an absolutely out-of-whack sense of "expensive"?