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> What sort of culture war or regulatory arguments could be made to explain France's failures with the EPR design, that so closely mirror the US's failure with the AP1000 design in the past decade?

Nuclear plants are massive, complex, tightly regulated capital projects. These require strong project management capacity. Most Western democracies have spent decades systematically outsourcing project management to various consultants (who are great for reducing cost on small projects with short timelines, but not good for major projects with a lot of schedule and budget uncertainty). Couple that with the fact that the US and France haven't built a nuclear plant in decades (France started two in the 1984-2007 gap), causing the loss of most institutional knowledge. I think these are the root cause of price and schedule escalations.

Same problems have caused cost and schedule escalations in the Site C dam and the Lower Churchill hydro project in Canada. High speed rail in California has similar issues. Similar causes have affected the Berlin airport, and the Stuttgart railway station reconstruction.
I worked at Kodak in Financial Information Systems, and 1989 was spent getting ready to convert all of the batch jobs from 13 periods with 28 cycles to monthly.

Lots of figuring out when to run things… I had that exact poster up on my wall in my cube that’s shown in the article.

Good times, good times.
If there’s anyone from Meta who works on Oculus here:

I want to build an educational VR app for Quest, but where would it go in the store?

There’s no educational section in the store. So can I get any sales for an educational app?
I've been using https://github.com/sekey/sekey for years now! It handles gpg as well
>what if there was already the underlying emotional desire to do something and having the experience was more about creating the justification to act?

That's definitely part of it, and I think kind of what OP was alluding to in that the experience allows you to dissolve many of the cognitive habits you've built up over your life, allowing you to experience an extremely honest perception of your own mind.

I'm not sure if you've tried it yourself, but I have yet to find any other way to achieve that level of clarity. I understand in theory that a lot of people find their way there by meditation, but I don't have the discipline or attention span to get there.

Psychedelics are a way of making that state of being accessible to those who may lack the ability or the motivation to get there through other means.

I'll also say that of those I know who partake in both, psychedelics still offer incredibly powerful and profound experiences even to those who practice meditation seriously for years or decades.
I absolutely understand the argument when it comes to ordinary commercial interactions. This isnt supposed to be one though. Its the solution to the problem how you can get hardware to developers as cheap as possible. I do not understand why anyone would insert themselves into this interaction.
They have 127 Boeing 757s, a plane that stopped being made two decades ago with still no clear successor.
What are you doing about it?

I think if you're that concerned about it, you should be working to solve it, this would surely be the antidote to your worries. Just writing a letter to your representatives would be a simple way to help.
> "death to cars!"?

Are you against killing cows?
Nah, doesn't work like that in practical (spoken) Finnish. Someone born in 1975 would be "seiskafemma", someone in 1984 "kasinelonen" and so forth. Even spelling the whole word out would be along the lines of "ysitoista seitenviis" (19 75). No-one would ever say "yksi-tuhat..."
> Duke

I sometimes wonder if Gonzo was an alter ego all along, to pin the bad stuff on.
A bit hyperbolic and exaggerated, but I don't disagree in principle. GraphQL seems like one of those "innovations" that ended up looking like REST once you deploy to production and secure properly. Lots of overhead for little gain, if you think about solving the original problem (team / code coordination) a different way (code gen).

Looks like the author is trying to solve it the code gen way, but it's hard to want to use their software after seeing the same pompousness and lofty speech across the landing page and docs. They would benefit from replacing negative statements with positive ones, they sound so angry and cynical, like the toxicity of our times is still reaching more professional contexts.
Downvotes on recognising something other than human as intelligent says it all - may as well be on reddit, you unenlightened troglodytes.
The triangular earth calendar is my favorite
https://calendars.fandom.com/wiki/Triangular_Earth_Calendar

TEC has many unique properties. It breaks down into many mathematical models. One week can be divided into whole days by 2, 3, and 6. They can be divided by 4 as well, with half days. One month can similarly be divided into weeks. One month can be divided into whole days by 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, and 18. The 60 week year, not counting the last week, can be divided evenly by 2, 3, 4, 6, 12, 15, and 30.

Triangular Earth Calendar is named so because of its triangular properties. Unlike most calendars which are viewed only on a square grid, TEC is viewed in its most natural form, the triangle. The following are representations of TEC in triangular form:

Here is the view of a single week.

1
2 3

4 5 6
That is the same for weeks in a month. Here is the view of days in a month (using single numbers only).

1
2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9 0
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 0 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Here is the same view, but with days and weeks in a month. Each number is a day, each small triangle is a week, the entire is a month.

1
2 3
4 5 6
1 1
2 3 2 3
4 5 6 4 5 6
1 1 1
2 3 2 3 2 3
4 5 6 4 5 6 4 5 6
This is something I really like about Finnish. Being a native Spanish speaker, I am accustomed to knowing how a word is spelled just by hearing it, although there are some cases where there might be doubt (like the homophones b and v, or the always silent h). But the letters are not always pronounced the same. For example, c and g are pronounced differently, depending on what the following vowel is. Even worse, u is silent after a q, or when between a g and an e or i. I mean, I don't have any problem with all of this, since I've been dealing with it for all my life :) . But I can understand how annoying it can be for a foreign learner, even if it's not as infuriating as English.

Now, Finnish? It's way, way more regular. Each letter is pronounced always the same, no matter the context or the letters surrounding it (there aren't even consonant groups like ch). The grammar might be more complex, and the vocabulary might be difficult because it lacks the indo-european roots from all the other languages I know. But phonetics? Yeah, it's one of the simplest languages out there, in this sense. I love Finnish because of that, and I actually listen to a lot of Finnish music (despite not understanding almost anything), just because I love the way it sounds.

Still, I with I had fewer issues with a and ä... I can pronounce both separately, but when I hear someone speaking, I still have trouble when I need to differentiate between these two.
https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality
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If someone wrote a linear search on something that could be done with a binary search, that may perform a lot of unneded cycles (or it may not due cache misses in the binary search case).
I don't think this is possible to quantify, you would need experts go through the orignal code to find optimization opportinities , and even then there would be an infinite number ways to achieve the same result or write the same program, many which could be more efficient
If you want money C++.

You can find money in many corners though.
My point is that ultimately it was more important for them to make a calculator that students could actually use - which is a perfectly reasonable goal. And it's a shame that that's fundamentally incompatible with FOSS.
It's this, or they know it will eventually be. Otherwise, why would this be needed?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/51gxrAActH18RGhKNza598?si=f...
No, that's not why we need AMP. They should just fix the garbage.
'(I'm ethnic Chinese and this is not meant to be a racially charged comment)'

that's not a carte blanche to stereotype a whole nation and it makes as much sense as a mailander chinese person badmouthing singapore taiwan or the abcs and using that excuse
Be that as it may, we need to get rid of AMP altogether. It's a much bigger evil than a bad website here or there. After AMP is gone, we can worry about one (or N) bad websites instead of a corp controlling all of them.
> Second off, even if it were, there's still the Middle East and Asia

Don't write off Mesoamerica and South America either. I know many people that strongly argue "The Mayan Empire never fell it was crushed." There especially was no direct equivalent to the European Dark Ages in the Mayan Empire. It remained a productive agricultural empire right up until post-Industrial Spanish Conquest (and right down until contemporary periods of not just the Roman Empire, but even as far back as various Mesopotamian empires as well).

That's just the Mayan Empire. We also have an impression that Aztec Empire and even the looser "Confederations" of North American Indian tribes at various times all had economies comparable to European agricultural sense of "Empire" at least, but all also lost a lot history/institutions during American conquests.

It seems reasonable to wonder if that deforestation of England truly was a strange precursor in the face of what we know of non-European empires at the time. (Which we don't know enough given how many of them Europe managed to burn to the ground in the American conquests.)
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Japanese, the language that has an entire sub-alphabet of broken Chinese letterforms dedicated to segregating native Japanese particles and inflections - lest they somehow taint the original kanbun.
Depression is a symptom, not exactly an illness. I mean we often treat it like one-- and call that Major Depressive Disorder-- but I expect in the future we'll be able to break it down to 'inflammatory disorder causing symptoms of depression', 'trauma disorder leading to symptoms of depression', etc
Fossil fuels are not on the table, IMHO, so there's no point in comparing to them at all.

Sure, nuclear is CapEx heavy, with low OpEx. But storage and wind and solar have lower CapEx and OpEx. And they also scale much better, and are falling in cost, so when they need to be replaced, they will be replaced at even lower costs than their initial builds. And investing in the technology now only drives down future costs even more.

We have ~100 nuclear reactors in the US, and they are reaching their end of life. If we could start building 10 replacement reactors tomorrow, and we can't, because we don't have a design or the labor force or the supply chains or the EPC capability, we could maybe hold on to about 2% of future electricity in the US as nuclear. And those 10 reactors would take 10-15 years to complete, even if we had the proper economic requisites.

None of the advocates for nuclear seem to ever run the numbers on what it would take to actually build nuclear. They don't model the needs of the grid, they don't look at where nuclear has failed during construction and do a root cause analysis, they don't try to change specific regulations, they don't try to figure out what could actually make nuclear work in the US. Instead we get vague wishes and hand waving, and we are missing any of the hustle that would be required to actually make positive change in the world.

And I have a feeling that the reason for this lack of practical attention to detail, and this lack of this entrepreneurial hustle, if because when you start paying attention to details and the maze of action needed to get nuclear built, nuclear is not compelling compared to the alternatives.
Might need the money…
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>>Has there been loss of life?

Not YET

>>Or anything close to it?

Depends on what the problems were.

Smart organizations don't track accidents and deaths (e.g., factories with the big "N Days Since a Time Lost Accident" sign out front), they track anythign resembling a close call, and I've even seen signs tracking that.

this is no different than tracking storage or memory failures so that you can pull the unit BEFORE it fails, because an increase in rate of minor incidents PREDICTS the failure.

In the case of civil aviation, when it gets to the point of loss of life or anything close to it, you are likely talking hundreds of lives. Smart people who are not sociopaths care about preventing that sort of failure. Evidently the execs at Delta do not, just as the execs at Boeing did not, and had to kill hundreds of people in two crashes to pull the 737-max off the flightlines.

Yes, this was a smart move by Ghana, and yes we do need personal liability for setting up a system that devalues people's lives in pursuit of profit (and no, that does not mean that every remote possibility of harm could send someone to jail, but systemic negligence of safety should have real consequences not just corporate fines. At the very least, if corporations are supposed to be like people, we need the corporate death penalty - significant crimes and the corp goes to the chopping block, assets individually auctioned off).
I agree with your sentiment. I saw something earlier today on social media feigning outrage that this was racist (or biased). Is translation biased? Is communicating with people in a language they understand most readily biased? The tech makes sense at face value, and is infinitely preferable to the usual corporate practice of doing everything possible to prevent you talking to a real human. But there is always going to be some armchair critic trying to explain why helpful tech is bad, imo because they can't actually accomplish anything themselves
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https://www.getalpaca.io/

Not my work. Highlighting to show one example of many of how fast the ML/creative community is building atop a true foundation model.
For the most part, they do.

A lot of services are paid for be user fees: Permits, Licenses, Inspections, Customs for commercial shipping, even Airport Security is paid for by surcharges on your ticket. Car License plates, Drivers Licenses, National Park entrance fees.

It's basically: Did you ask for it? Pay for it.
You know that we can launch nuclear waste into space right? The thing that's infinitely large. As for renewables the issue is scale and renewables have limitations that investments in fusion and existing fission do not.
> There's obviously some tradeoff between hiring more people to process and verify an increased number of applications at faster throughput.

But that’s the thing. You need a certain throughput, and it shouldn’t affect the wait time. If you get X passport applications per day, and you can only produce less than X per day, your wait times will keep increasing over time. So at the minimum you need the same amount of production capacity as you have applications, preferably a little bit more. Assuming this is the case, then there must be something else causing the delays. Sure, there can be a small queue due to fluctuating orders but surely not 5 weeks ?

So there are two possibilities: either it actually takes weeks to manufacture the document, which seems odd, or it only takes a couple of minutes but there is some reason it takes 5 weeks before production is started.

> Shipping times from DE/DC to CA are probably longer than coast-to-coast in the Netherlands, etc.

Shipping for pretty much everything in the Netherlands is next-day. But I see no reason why you have to ship from the other side of the country. You can run a big country as if it was a collection of small countries. Isn’t that kind of what US states are anyway ? You have 20 times the number of people as the Netherlands, why not have 20 production facilities spread around the country ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin says "The belief began to emerge in the 3rd century..." which is early enough to establish mild causality for Emperor Constantine. Remember, he didn't have to believe it only to suspect that it would be useful.

The whole thing was meant to be tongue in cheek. :)
The selection of which status games to play is itself a status game.
Turkey doesn't exist anymore. It's Turkiye now. How do you respect people's pronouns but you don't respect proper nouns?
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A meta-comment on my checking HN ;)
As does Icelandair.
Obviously, a struct is one option. The problem is that you then need to make a whole string library. Thankfully, many exist, so this is a non issue, unless there's a requirement that you write all the code yourself.
Anyone every play the educational mode in Assassins Creed Origins?

The sequels have this too.

(And, if you want to see what this stuff is like, there are YouTube videos that will show you; I remember seeing one by some historians reviewing the educational mode of the Greek game, Assassin's Creed:Odyssey).
That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
I mean the .fw/.ihex files, you have really not seen them?

They are not redistributable, and eInk DMCAs attempts at hosting them; you have to get from your existing firmware. It's not simple to just reverse them since they vary on the temperature. I mean, there is now free code for driving most eink controllers, but not free replacements for these files, as far as I know.
Big-O is also not so great in the real world where you should be more concerned about cache misses/alignment
I've just noticed FlexCNC machines for the first time. It's a bridge CNC with a long bed, they start at $209,000, so I'm not getting one... but the idea of a CNC bed sufficiently long that you don't need pallet swapping, you just load jobs wherever the bridge isn't, seems like it could be quite productive.

They use a helical rack instead of a ball screw, which makes sense in 50 foot long machines. It's welded construction, so no huge castings, quite interesting.

We're going to need a lot of machining here in the US as the world deglobalizes.
Good riddance. AMP pages loaded noticeably more slowly for me and were typically broken when they finally painted.
> Apple didn't look at the 18 MHz v7 cores from Cirrus Logic in the Psion Series 5 and immediately decide they could make a mainstream desktop CPU out of it.

It’s more likely that Psion looked at the 20 MHz ARM cores that Apple shipped in the Newton and decided they could make a Psion with that.
I don't know what you're talking about, they are nice, clean and snappy with JavaScript turned off :)))))
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Ha, fantastic to contrast with English as logical and world language :)

Anyway, one thing that the post did not touch on was word stress. Finnish is awesomely simple and consistent! (again, especially compared to English)
I am not arguing that you dont have the rights as a consumer. You obviously have.

I confused why somebody would claim them despite knowing that the only reason they can get a device in the first place is because they are ordering something that is not meant to be ordered by consumers. They arent priced in. You used a mechanism and involved yourself into an interaction you werent supposed to be in. Because the fix for the problem at hand is no longer allowing just anyone to get a devkit. Because the whole point is to get the device to developers as cheap as possible.

edit: Or differently put, the problem here isnt that OP got damaged hardware but that he ended up in an interaction he wasnt supposed to be in. And keeping people from accidentally ending up in there is one problem you can work on, but what motivates people to do this consciously?
Thank you for the reply!

> with time, you will become better because you have more options to select as the best option given the context

This is one of the parts I feel like I'm actually behind on in my career, despite (and probably in part caused by) having read tons and tons of articles about things like Hexagonal Architecture, DDD, layered architectures, Functional Core Imperative Shell, etc. Despite my almost now 10-years of programming experience, I still could pretty much only come up with two designs for my side-project, on two different extremes

1. A fully de-coupled and well layered event-driven solution that is way too complex for a small side project (and probably too complex for me to implement properly at this point)

2. A "simple" design where I have a few large classes that handle just about everything, with no good model on how to break up the different concepts, aside from just...naively breaking up big classes into smaller classes

Maybe I'm just being overly-critical of what I created for #2, but I just wish I had a better feel for where to draw the lines in my app.
In all those cases if something goes wrong workers can be sent in afterwards to rebuild things. If something goes seriously wrong in a nuclear power plant the owner is out one nuclear power plant.
Inflation, or even the threat of inflation, is fought with rising interest rates.

Rising interest rates mean less money going to business expansion, which means fewer jobs and less competition for employees, which means lower paychecks.

In the end, it's the poorest people that get dumped on. If you can't afford $1000 rent, you surely can't afford the adjusted $1400 rent. And without a job, you'll be homeless soon.

Short term gain, long term loss.
Just a reminder: this kind of behaviour results in aversion towards the cause you are propagating.
Nobody just says that "observable differences in humans are rarely genetically related to actual genetic differences", they say "race has absolutely no meaning in humans - but here in animals it means exactly what lay-people mean when they say it".

The elites are panicking about the perceived mental limits of the commoners. Normals know the limits of the words they use and actual bigots won't be deterred.
around one offer every two days is the usual, some of them are absolute crap, some so so but some are not bad.
i am on freelancermap, linkedin and xing.
have to say since covid worked exclusively in banking and insurance, so not so sure what happended outside of my bubble.
what is keeping you from doing it?
>But I think there's a big difference between owning your own business (where you make all the big decisions, you dictate the business values, and are directly responsible for the value you add to the world) and doing CRUD for some company whose values you're not necessarily aligned with.

Indeed there is a big difference.

>Also, I'm not saying one can't or absolutely shouldn't seek fulfillment in their daily job, I do too; but only to some degree. In my experience It's far too easy (and common) to overly tie one's identity with the job, forfeiting other important sources of fulfillment.

I agree, it is an easy trap to fall in, tying your identity to a job. I dont advocate for that. Nor do I practice that. I have a rather varied set of interests and hobbies. And i would like to start a family some day soon, if i can find a suitable wife. I would take great meaning and fulfillment from being a father.

>And of course, different people find meaning in different things; what works for me may not work for OP, what works for you may not work for me.

I wouldn't exactly recommend anyone to go out and do what i did. But rather, I would state that it is possible to find fulfillment in work. Certainly that would be different things to different people. But it is worth seeking out IMO.