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I will rail against Jane Fonda.

This person is the most responsible person for the situation we're in right now. She conspired with others to derail (literally in some cases) Nuclear power.

This is what happens when you follow uninformed advocates from Hollywood. People should learn to despise "influencers." They know little but aim to move people to action based on poor or very poor understanding of the things they propose and base their positions on emotion, mostly.
"Pay" implies there was some benefit that was purchased.
I did mean GitHub Pages, thought it was called GitPages.
I still think that it’s madness that entertainment companies priced out the general public like that. I understand that they are not charities and that’s some people are still paying these extortionate prices but still.

Part of me thinks it’s crazy how we all seem fine about building a two-tiered world where the rich get richer and can enjoy luxurious things while the poor scrap by.

I believe it’s clearly a consequence of the policies enacted in the 80s. These policies were pushed out with a total disregard for social cohesion. It’s all about making target numbers grow bigger without looking at the big picture. My belief is we have reached a point where inequality needs to be tamed if we don’t want our states to be torn apart but the idea has apparently never been as unpopular with half of the population.
It's still receiving a secret password from an employee if you just call and ask nice and they give it to you.
It's a clickbait article, not a scientific study.
Zuckerberg doesn't disappear people or put them in camps
> There are also mitigations that could be put in place for file sharing, like requiring the user to have accepted a file sharing request from that account before (via Google sent notification email) for a direct link to actually work.

That sounds pretty annoying? I upload something, give access to coder543, and ping you a link in Slack or whatever tool we use. But you can't open it until you go into your email and click through?
> Do you have any idea what a large scale nuclear disaster could cause in a densely populated Europe?

Yes. My idea is that it would be much less harm (to human health and the environment) than is caused by burning brown coal in properly functioning coal-burning power plants.

And much less harm than results from using diesel as a transport fuel. That produces very high levels of carcinogens and other harmful products.

Yet, Europe does both.

Edit: note that these harms are caused every day by equipment working as designed. They are not due to extreme unforeseen circumstances but are accepted as normal.
fun and worthy post @! as someone who is "old enough to remember the events of the 90s" this captures so much in the intro paragraphs, with humor and without lecturing. Sure it misses important nuance here and there.. but overall, well done! thanks, recommended
I'm seeing a bunch of comments along the lines of "it's not that expensive to go to the movies/baseball game if you just don't buy any food or drinks."

I feel like what we're seeing across a wide range of industries is a business model where the 'bare bones' experience can be had for a somewhat reasonable price, but a variety of things that used to be considered a standard part of the experience (popcorn at the movies, a soda or beer and hot dog at the baseball game, an assigned seat and a carry on bag on the airplane) are now 'extras' with highly inflated prices and fantastic profit margins.
Do you have ever tried to visit your local thermal power plant?? They have backup generators which run on diesel to fulfill peak load demands.
Why use Rust syntax (fn, x:Type, ...)? Syntax is one thing that is not so well-designed in Rust (in my opinion). Also, with the stated goals, it seems a bit unnecessary to overhaul C++ syntax, but then I found no explanation why syntax was changed. So what's wrong with C++ syntax if your goal is a successor of C++?

This now looks to me like a Rust-- instead of a C++++, which is a picture they might not want to give rise to. Because then I'd rather use Rust instead, which then feels like the real thing(tm).

[EDIT: If you think about downvoting, maybe answer instead as I am genuinely interested in this syntax question. I am not trying to be negative, it was just an observation and a question.]
Common goals, clear processes, trust, and open, well-developed lines of communication.

Like everything else in life involving more than one human.
Pumped water storage is 80/90% efficient, scalable & most studies looking at geographical options find 10x more geographical sites than we would need - distributed all over the world:
https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-finds-530000-potent...

Australia is right now fairly close to finishing a 350GWh battery for about $6 billion.

By contrast, Hinkley Point C will take about 20 years to finish, and pump out 3.2GW at a cost of about $20 billion.
Right? If you encounter someone who doubts we're in the "Anthropocene" age just show them that chart, eh?
Environmentalism as a religion lead the entrenchment of dogmatic beliefs. Notably that nuclear energy is bad.
Sometimes the hostile responses on here really floor me. Maybe think before you type something like this. This is a really solid, incredibly professional and really not very expensive product. I use it all the time. The guy shipped something, and he shipped something great. You may not like countdown timers but jeez, ease off a bit maybe?
Iskander's reported (by the Russians) g tolerance is insane, they are supposed to handle something on the order of 50g. From what I understand this level of maneuverability makes missile defense extremely difficult.
Huge call out on the stars in Rehab Assignment. AAA teams you'll see some players like that or draft picks that are going to be in the starting lineup soon!
In my opinion, design tools like figma or adobe xd are abstractions away from the tech stack in which perpetuates more roles in which there doesn't need to be.

A UI/UX Designer should be competent in CSS in which the browser should be their whiteboard / canvas.

Abstracting the design portion away to other platforms only furthers that gap between design and development.

An optimal and streamlined design regiment is pen and paper straight to css.

Hire designers that are good with css in short.

To bridge the gap between design and development is not to find ways in which those teams communicate better, but rather a fundamental change in how we look at designers and their competency.

To further that point, if we take a look at motion design and animations, it should not be the case that a designer comes up with a wireframe and leave it to the developer to build that for building animations is out of scope for a dev task, but rather these tasks should be soley on the ui/ux designer themselves.
No need to hack, if you have the right connections and enough money you can buy anything from the US gov, the US gov has access to all data and non US citizens have no rights.
thanks marc! appreciate the kindness.

ps- philly native here :)
Above means "Hello world"....
> avoid AEGIS missile defense and attack a US Carrier moving at 35MPH

They want a propaganda tool. As the other comment mentions, manoeuvrability is cheap. And projectile defenses’ vulnerability to swarming is well know.

But launching tens of thousands of explosive-laden drones sounds low tech, so we get Xi and Putin touting hypersonics and our military-industrial complex smelling money in the counter.
Holy shit, 1000 reactors? Did anyone tell them the more reactors you have, the more likely one will melt down? (basic probability)

IMO they should be used strategically, i.e. concentrated large power requirements and to lower overall emissions. You want a mix of power-generating solutions, otherwise you have a monoculture which can lead to system collapse. Right now they're short on gas, but what happens when they're short on uranium, or places to put spent fuel? You can't just spin up a new power plant over a weekend (which is their problem right now). Or if we had a supervolcano and solar went out, or if winds died down, or had a shortage of parts due to a pandemic or recession, etc.

We need many solutions to cover all our bases. You spin up and down capacity in each market depending on the circumstances. This allows the lowest cost, least harmful solutions at any given time, hedges against changing market conditions, and enables emergency power relief.

edit: LOL @ all the downvotes because I said a nuclear meltdown might be bad
I think revenue comparisons with non-indie companies miss the point, because a lot of Indiehackers live a different lifestyle altogether, where their "Ramen profitability" of $1-2k MRR can already allow them to live very comfortably in a remote area compared to many salaried employees here.

And they have more freedom etc. in terms of what and when to work on, which is hard to measure in money, but that resource (time) is arguably our most precious thing in life.
We have an extremely tight labor market, surging commodities prices and other inflationary pressures/symptoms, which large scale infrastructure investment would usually exacerbate.

I'm usually a Keynesian, but in this case, i think we should jack up interest rates and deliberately tank housing and asset prices, then use large scale infra investments to stop the unemployment rate rising too high.

Easier said than done, i suppose.
Sounds great until you start hearing boss-level music!
I think people are just not very aware of the past including their grandfathers generation these days.

My grandfather was a college lecturer and would plan massive road trips each summer in the 60s to all the national parks. These days I doubt a college lecturer could take summer off
> It sounds like payments might be part of the larger concept of declarative programming (DP)

Yes, exactly! The idea with TigerBeetle's state machine [1] is to expose double-entry accounting as a higher level financial primitive, so that developers can think in terms of declaring transfers from one account to another. The business logic behind the scenes is detailed. The interfaces and data structures are simple.

[1] https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle/blob/main/src/state_ma...

> Maybe TigerBeetle could be generalized to support any multi-step distributed process?

That's part of the plan—that the distributed database framework of TigerBeetle can be used as an ”Iron Man suit” to support any kind of state machine, with high availability and fault tolerance.
Not arguing with that. But it might still be a net positive.

But renewables is the real key for energy transition. The reality is that very few countries plan to move most of their energy production to nuclear. Even RTE (the French electricity company) said they will need to crank renewables to 50% of their energy mix to meet carbon neutrality by 2050 with their most pro-nuclear scenario (N03).

Making renewables more competitive globally might have largely compensated the gas/goal emitted by Germany if it contributed to help developing countries to skip the fossil stage.
I would recommend starting with simulators! Industrial robot arms are expensive and the cheap arms designed for hobbyists aren't very useful because they lack payload capacity, reach, and degrees of freedom. But there are good simulators out there which let you build software or test applications with robot arms without having any real hardware. You can even have real-time physics-based interactions with the simulated world. It can feel like a video game.

My favorite for messing around is CoppeliaSim. It is relatively easy for beginners (you can just drag robots from the library into your sim scene and they will start doing things) but also powerful. It has a free education version but unfortunately it's commercial software. There's also Webots which "feels" similar but is open source. I found it a little harder to get going in but still very capable.

On the harder but more rewarding end of the scale there's the Robot Operating System (ROS) + Gazebo. ROS is used for many real robots both in academia (see the ETH Zurich work on ANYmal) and in industry (see Ghost Robotics). Gazebo is a simulator that is designed to work in ROS. You can build a control system on top of ROS and watch your virtual robot solve problems in Gazebo, and then you can flip the switch and run it with a real robot.

If you do decide to buy a robot arm I would recommend myCobot from Elephant Robotics. It's cheap (~$600), made of plastic, weak, etc. but has 6 degrees of freedom and enough capability to do real projects. If you play with something like that and get obsessed then I recommend taking a look at robots on eBay. Kind of counter-intuitively used giant heavy metal industrial robot arms are often cheaper (~$20k or less) than the "cobots" that are small and safe ($50k or more). That's because so many of the giant ones are out there in the world and are reaching the end of their normal lives. Sometimes owners are willing to pay to have them removed because it's such a hassle to deal with them. The big ones have to be bolted to the floor (after a structural engineer gives the ok on the dynamic loading on the building they're being put in) and you need industrial power. Also they often have archaic control systems running Windows (e.g. Kuka KRC) that have to be coaxed back to life with sparse information. If you go that route then the robot-forum site will be your lifeline.

On the development tool side I highly recommend finding a robot that already has ROS support. E.g. the ROS Industrial Kuka Experimental package for Kuka arms. The actual underlying interfaces/APIs (e.g. RSI or the fast research interface for Kuka arms) can be a massive pain to deal with. Newer robots are much nicer to deal with. There are a lot of cheap arms coming out of China that come with real-time ROS compatibility out of the box. Like the Z1 from Unitree, which I'm very excited about. Universal Robots bots are also well-supported in ROS and the underlying controller programming is relatively sane. You can find UR bots in many schools. Take a look at AATB for examples of that avenue.

Robots are hard and fun! I highly recommend giving the field a try. It's a great time for it.
Having started 2 SaaS products in the past 9 years (1 exit and 1 profitable but nothing big), i would say definitely Yes. There are much less greenfield niches available. All the low hanging fruit ideas are gone and the ideas left are much harder to execute on, and may not even yield the same ROI. In short, you need to work harder for lesser gain.
I have to wonder how much of it is this. My father and grandfather spoke of going camping at their favourite regional camping spots. When I went to university however, I had similar vacation experiences to people from all over the country as we all went to Disney and we all went to Vancouver and we all went Banff.

The vacation/leisure experience is homogenizing for the middle class and decreasingly local.
I don't know why this is becoming a thing.
It's Python and the people using it - in theory pip + requirements.txt + virtualenv/conda should work, but here's over 1 million issues of people asking for requirements files or fixes to requirements files: https://github.com/search?q=requirements+file&type=issues

PS: For ML/DL enthusiasts, there is a small Ruby DL scene with some nice ported libraries done by the amazing @ankane - super infant right now, but if more folks use it, maybe we can bring Ruby to the DL mainstream? https://ankane.org/new-ml-gems
He is limited in supply so we cannot load up missiles with Tom more than once, unfortunately. It has been considered
You have a text document (eg, LibreOffice) which is XML, and want to embed a SVG in it (which is also XML).

XML has tools to deal with this situation, where it knows that what's found inside <picture></picture> can be evaluated according to the SVG spec.

You also have namespaces, to deal with that a <title> might be a thing both in a text document and a song, and you may need to use both inside the same document without conflicting.
I know America isn't the rest of the world, but the state with the lowest average household internet speed is Alaska at 58.6 mbps.

Obviously a streaming service can't expect all their customers to have this kind of high-speed internet, but dynamically changing video quality on the fly to meet bandwidth limitations is a problem they all solved a very long time ago. It is not unreasonable for Netflix to offer such high bitrate streams to customers with the bandwidth for it.

As for hardware, pretty much any hardware h.264 decoder made in the last decade should have no problem with blu-ray spec AVC streams.
Why do people think that selfishness is quality only found in boomers? Reality check even when the boomers are all dead there's still going to be shortsighted selfish people running the show
Burning gas emits a lot of CO2. Nuclear power emits zero CO2. Solar and wind power do not work at night (and in overcast conditions). Weather prediction horizon is 2 week tops. Grid-scale energy storage is way too expensive.

Conclusion: we need nuclear (and most certainly we don’t need gas).
> How should we handle error and loading states?

This should be the title of every designer/developer interaction meeting.
The decision absolutely has long term repercussions, my comment was more to emphasize that the timeline to the "Wow, we might have made a really bad decision there..." realization was always going to be a short one.

Sometimes major decisions have outcomes that can only be fully appreciated with decades of hindsight. This one was obvious with minimal foresight.
That won't make a massive difference for this winter thought. They need a fix that is going to be months away, not years.
This is a confusing statement. Are you saying that there is no reasonable minimum amount of electricity that needs to be available all of the time? That would make no sense given that we never have situations where there is zero usage of electricity.

In your scenario where we use renewables + gas, water, and storage which of these would be ensuring that we at least have enough to satisfy the loads on the grid that never turn off or vary? Everything on that list except gas is subject to forces we cannot directly control so I assume you would need a certain number of gas power plants to always be in production or idling to satisfy that demand.

Thirdly, why the preference for gas over nuclear?
An AI could tailor it to the person, put it in context of other things already read, and essentially create a course of study for you. Humans can do the ~same, but it's pretty expensive.

An AI could also improve on the status quo by being more consistent and there's _some_ possibility that it could be less biased than in human in several ways.
Based on what they've told me the long term governance plan is to establish an independent foundation, with development controlled by three equal lead developers from different companies.

It may have been started by mostly Googlers but they want other companies and individuals to participate
"but those take 10 years to build, that's too long"

-people telling me this 5 years ago

-also people telling me the same 10 years ago

-also people telling me the same 15 years ago

-also people telling me te same 20 years ago

-and of course, people telling me this now.
It's also nice (in a way) because they're much more cognizant of this, and if you are willing to flex you can get in much cheaper than a normal "high time face-value" price.

Last time I went we brought 12 people for about a grand.
Germany was actively trying to block labelling nuclear as green to make sure nuclear isn't eligible for subsidies [1]. France was pushing for nuclear energy to be added to the list. Nobody knows if it was just general erratic behaviour by the green party or just general hatred and jealousy towards the french.

But let's also remember that France sold their turbine business due to pressure of the DoJ[2], has been talking about repatriating it[3] (which has not happened yet), but as of now has 29 out of 56 reactors out of commission and as a result, the energy powerhouse France is buying energy from Bavaria[4].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/germany-reject-eu-green-inv...

[2] https://www.economist.com/business/2019/01/17/how-the-americ...

[3] https://www.ouest-france.fr/environnement/nucleaire/nucleair...

[4] https://www.merkur.de/bayern/atomkraftwerke-bayern-auswirkun...
Defining Custom Slot Types Externally for Alexa Skills
A how-to video on defining custom slot types for Alexa externally from the skill's interaction model to ease maintenance and allow for reusability of those custom types across multiple skills.
I went to Disney in Tokyo during COVID, when they let only 5000 people a day in. That was about the level at which I thought it was fun, but it still felt kinda busy (fastpass rides still sold out).

I have a hard time imagining anyone could enjoy it in a normal situation.
GPS Trackers can be abused by hackers to remotely cut off your fuel
Of course they do - they work together. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zqEvQKO5_gM
You're talking about implementation details on thw server side. Why should the client care about that?

Why should the error code for /product/foo/thumbnails/123.jpg be different if served with nginx serving a static file or an application server that dynamically generates it based on the product id?
Don't you mean "the Nucleus of the Core of the Kernel"? :-D
> Linux is probably the last time something was really built from scratch.

Linux was started in 1991. Windows NT (whence Windows XP and modern Windows versions derive from) dates from at least 1993 (I don't know when the code internally started, but the first release was 1993).

For browsers, Firefox source code originates from Netscape 6, which was a rewrite from scratch and shared little to no code with Netscape 4 or earlier. This rewrite happened in 1998. IE dates from 1994, per Wikipedia. KHTML, whence Safari and Chrome ultimately derive, is itself from 2000.

Let's talk about programming languages. Java dates its early work to 1991. .NET Framework is the late 90s (Wikipedia is exceptionally poor with dates here). The LLVM framework dates to 2000 in the earliest. Accelerator programming languages like CUDA and OpenCL are deep into the 2000s in their genesis, and the development of more fully heterogeneous programming languages obviously postdates that.

That's a lot of significant projects that date way later than Linux.
The thing is, if the demand of the grid raises, you have to raise power production. Period. Of course, if e.g. it is dark, you cannot raise the power production of solar cells. That is bad. But if your nuclear plant is running at 100% already, you cannot rise the power production either. So it doesn't help you. "Base load" is only the statistical number of load you can expect 24/7 for your planning.

So you always have to have some means of power generation available for demand raises at any point and you have to be able to throttle down power generation in case of a demand drop, because otherwise the grid goes down equally as if you had not enough power capacity.

The good news is: renewables can be throttled down quickly, better than most other sources, the bad news is, you can only know about 3 days in advance what the maximum output of your renewables will be and there are days with very low total production. A future grid concept would have to come up with a solution for that. Gas would have been the easy way and probably will be the future when based on gas created via power2gas.
Apparently this is a google or google-adjacent project. Google was one of the most vocal committee members in favour of breaking ABI stability, so it is not surprising.
> popular dynamic languages with similar levels of abstraction

JavaScript?
Engineered and arbitrary scarcity is patronizing - which will instantly lose any sophisticated technical founder.
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