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Not at all. Recessions are corrections. The overall effect is beneficial. They cannot be avoided, only delayed. Environmental issues often drive recessions which at some level is what we are seeing now. Dealing with recessions and environmental issues should lead to improved circumstances.
If the bond failed before the tube, then it would probably just leak like they did earlier in the video. The high velocity/high deformation collapse inward would probably cause any bond line or the fibers in that proximity to fail anyway?
Because they think they're the teachers/parents of the populace and they have the power to take away our "toys"?

The existence of nudge units I think also supports this, insofar as governments think they can tell people how to live, even if it's supposed to be the citizens which tell governments what to do.
The linked article might help clarify things. The percentage of power from coal and nuclear power were both down considerably:

“The electricity production from lignite was down 21 percent, hard coal was down 23 percent, natural gas was down 4 percent, and nuclear declined by 57 percent, compared to 2022 values.”
https://notes.npilk.com

Pretty proud of my most recent post on AR (written pre-Vision Pro announcement): https://notes.npilk.com/personal-big-screen
>Facebooks algorithm gives you what you want to see, not what you need to see.

I really wish this would be shouted from the largest virtual rooftops.

I also like the famous phrase from an old book, Psycho-cybernetics: "garbage in, garbage out." But the former statement doesn't require quite as much higher thinking to grasp.
Well, _this_ at least, is rocket science.
https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/
"Englische Sprache, schwere Sprache."

(There's a saying which surprised me when I moved here: https://lal.de/blog/deutsche-sprache-schwere-sprache/)
I would argue that by invoking the concept of immortality, you have therefore invoked the “unimaginable timeframe” of infinity to the conversation from the outset.

so it’s not like it was ever not part of the conversation
Fair enough, and thanks for teaching me the term "pars pro toto". Today I was one of the lucky 10k :)
He can't just say something along the lines of "oh yeah, my policies are what the youth (and not just them) is taking issue with so we'll go back to the drawing board on these and see if we can do better by the people".
If you buy it secondhand, the original creator won't profit from the sale, right? If the intend is to justify your piracy, don't you need to buy a new copy instead of a secondhand one?
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"The left side of the graph is not 0% but out of habit we think it is."

This is a learned behavior and it can be fixed. I'm mostly broken of it; I assume it's not until I see that it is. Only mostly, not claiming to be a bias-free superhuman here, but as a for instance I had to check the comments to see what was offending people about this chart because I didn't assume it was anchored at zero in the first place. I recommend making the effort if you can; most charts out of school aren't anchored at zero, many wouldn't even be useful if they were.

What jumped out at me actually was the lack of units. At least it links to the original report, and I think this is the Lighthouse Performance Score, which... is itself in units I don't understand? It's some sort of percentage, not speed measure, I think... looks like percentage conformance to an SEO/performance test suite? I'm not sure this is really something that can be bar graphed in the first place sensibly. Percentage conformance to test suites is at least a marginal case at best for a bar graph... how "numeric" such a quantity is is very debatable. e.g., a 40% compliant product may in fact be "less" compliant than a 30% compliant product if the former is compliant on a whole bunch of incidental check points but misses the most important ones, where the latter is compliant on the important ones and misses the incidentals, so such "percentages" can break simple numeric properties like comparability or the transitivity of such comparisons and really aren't numbers. Compliance to such a test suite will also be highly dependent on how you use the system; odds are its competitors can be tuned to go higher without much work and that very easy-to-make mistakes will send a Astro-based site plummeting because of what a user might naturally do with it, through no fault of the framework.
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No, the AfD is a right extremist party, one of their leading figures, Björn Höcke can now legally be called a Nazi.
I’d think for athletes a 10% chance of failure would make it a total non starter.
Goat simulator is better
There was an article in Playboy many years ago that I read (and the search results in that domain are now far too polluted - and yes, I did read the articles) that basically said "either you're going to need a lot of velcro or assistants.

The problem being that every action has an equal and opposite reaction makes certain activities more likely to result in new force vectors which in turn results in velocity that may lead to bumping into things you'd rather not bump while trying to bump uglies.
OceanGate, Heaven's Gate, Watergate...
Don’t have a source handy but have read the tethering is possible but required more specialized and expensive ships.
When the tethers /are/ used I found it interesting the whole reel is welded onto the ship’s deck
You only need to get lucky once, so if you can only afford one lotto ticket the odds are against you.

What amazing things do we miss out on because not everyone has a infinite well of capital to draw from?
While a lot of reasons may feel "slight" they are most likely still clearly defined in the terms of service. It would be interesting (and useful to other OCI users) to get more information about what actually happened in this case.
Oh no no. Germany loves importing nuclear electricity from France, Czech Republic and others too. Makes the government feel good about having quit nuclear, because somehow when it comes from across the border it's not so bad anymore.
Interesting. What are some good examples of computer -> human interface?
I guess you're talking about as a country. But as an individual in the UK, I'm better to wait. Switching now doesn't help CO2 emissions and sometimes hurts, prices will likely be lower in future as production scales up, I can invest the money in the meantime, and I can get a brand new heat pump at the point it actually does help. Instead I've focussed now on better insulation.
There’s a lot of comments posting personal preference in housing, but that’s basically irrelevant. Density and urban planning basically comes down to freedom.

How much freedom do we allow?

On one end of the spectrum, the fully suburban city (like your average American city) allows virtually no freedom. As land value rises, you hit a maximum density (prescribed by minimum lot size, maximum height, minimum lot setbacks, parking requirements, and maximum number of housing units) and this becomes the shape of the city.

If you allow more freedom on some or all of these dimensions, then as land value rises developers will purchase lots and infill or redevelop.

The rest of the city stuff that urbanists talk about (trains, bike lanes, parks and walkability, etc) all become increasingly valuable to everybody as density goes up.

So the options are freedom or suburbs. Many Americans prefer suburbs, which is understandable. The American suburban dream is a beautiful one, but undoubtedly built to suppress freedom (from inception: a way to allow middle class white people to escape the minorities and poors of the city in post-war america, keeping them away through redlining first and then by stringent zoning and expensive housing later)
Preregistration is one mitigation.

Perhaps another could be a trusted, HIPAA-compliant third-party log service for raw data that's immutable with a blockchain-like hash and timestamp.
I was replying to a comment about impersonation. One way to combat impersonation is some sort of verification. Old Twitter verification did this; the new blueticks do not appear to (see all the fake bluetick Elon Musks a while back).

The Mastodon approach does, if and only if you trust the provenance of the linked domain.
No, we didn't. Germany constantly reduced the am amount of coal in the mix. Admittedly starting at a way to high level, but it was constantly reduced. One can argue that the reduction could have been faster, but that are the mistakes of the past. Germany is now aggressively expanding renewables and as the article shows, successfully so.
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>I understand they had a budget, but that budget couldn't include a spare battery or two?

Everything is a tradeoff. Why not 20 spare batteries? Because it's too heavy.
While we all have a bit of nostalgia for the Demoscene on the front page thanks to UNESCO and the Netherlands, I thought I'd repost an old blog post about how the Demoscene literally changed my life.

Edit: shout out to The Humble Guys and Denthor \o/
This is not energy efficient.

A better way would haven been to have mechanical latches, that are connected to the weights and which use the battery to unlatch the locks.

I am curious how the weights are wired, because you cant just run wires from inside the sub to outside. The pressure gradient is too high. So with mechanical cables holding the weights.
Wouldnt the ascent decompression kill the occupants anyways? Getting them up to surface isn't the saving grace to something like a battery failing. Maybe I'm missing something?

Edit. Thank you for the responses people, I learned something new today!
I get the impression they had a really good lawyer set them up correctly. The submarine was registered in the Bahamas.

Some of the other legal issues is that the passengers signed waivers, which are generally considered common, and that the submersible ran in international waters: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/titan-sub-oceangate-famlies-law....
Candidate supply is high quality is low.

Ask a NCH, even from prestigious school with advanced degrees to investigate an issue and write a report. 3/5 chance you end up with a steaming pile of doodoo.
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Sure, but if there are injustices and abuses against humanity that happen, one should be aware--we can't afford to pretend that bad things don't happen.
My doggo's GNSS is broken: he can't even decide where to go much less which heading.
I've had these from Docker too, assume they just blast out to companies hoping to get some incriminating replies.
If you start with Null, absolute Nothing, then there is no space, time or, most importantly, Rules.

Absent Rules, Anything can happen.

From this Existence forms, each in isolation from the others.

Every possible universe forms in the infinite and eternal Null, including those far beyond our ability to comprehend or classify.

In Null EVERYTHING happens eventually.

From this our universe and an infinite number that appear identical to this "point in time" exist, indistinguishable until thier point of differentiation.

These universes have the appearance of being alternative timelines when in fact they were never connected to our universe in any fashion and were always independent.

This illusion appears to be the point of issue here....

(Side note: there are infinite variations that appear the same to the end with the only differences being things like whether a non-interventionist deity actually created that copy or if it's a spontaneous generation or the result of another universes actions etc. They can't be differentiated by any internal observer, and often not by external ones, yet they are unique and separate.)

(Side note 2: Quantum particles appear to be a manifestation of the indeterminate differentiation, as we cannot know "which universe" we exist in until the spin of the particle is observed etc.
In essence, scientific study reduces the probability space in which the observers exist within, limiting the range of universes which they can now occupy.)

And yes, this is just some shit I came up with and it's semi-religious in nature, as a means to "answer" the "reason for life" while being reconciled with the scientific facts established.... I'm pretty sure I'm wrong somehow about some part.
I think the OracleJDK costs $15/month/employee [0]. Can this be right? This costs more than Windows.

Is the idea that only people who really need oracle will run it so they just jack the price up? This is very different from when I worked in Java and the jre was free. I can’t think of any reason to build in java if this is the price of the runtime.

[0] https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-subscriptio...
Dumping boatloads of money on the MIC isn't a screwup if it's the primary intended outcome with a functioning rocket merely as a nice bonus.
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I see there's no discussion of one of the largest flaws in cloud computing designs today: mutable system architecture & operation. Almost every cloud computing system today is solely operable using mutable state driven by API calls. There is no practical, portable way to design a system such that you can ensure its operation is what you first intended.

Any API call at any time can introduce a problem, or the system itself can simply get into a bad state, and there is no way to simply return back to the original good state. One has to jump through a lot of hoops to to to figure out how to fix the state, live, like breaking a plate and then quickly trying to glue it back together. When the state of the art's best practice should be to grab another perfect plate from the shelf.

To be sure, some cloud systems so have immutable features. Container and virtual machine technology depends on it. Yet the systems that control those containers and VMs have no immutable properties with which to build and operate the larger system-of-systems.

If you design a system architecture today, you cannot build the cloud infrastructure, get it to a working state, and then make an immutable snapshot of how the system works, and restore it later if the system changes or becomes unstable. Again, you can snapshot a VM, or a container; but you cannot snapshot the system that runs those VMs and containers, nor the system that depends on those, etc. If you make a policy change to an S3 bucket, you can not simply restore the policy (and all other aspects of a bucket) to where it was before. Almost no cloud systems have this property, because they are just a mess of APIs and mutable state.

This all becomes apparent when you operate large scale systems using tools like Terraform. Terraform is a Configuration Management tool, designed to modify the system's mutable state to return it to some desired state. It's the same as using Puppet or Ansible to modify a running VM, to "fix" the VM in place. This is a laborious and error-prone process which requires a great deal of investment in the Configuration Management - essentially writing programs just to tell the system where each file should be.

But the best practice for VMs is not to "fix" its state. It is to simply deploy a snapshot of a VM, with the exact properties of that VM that it should have, and deleting the old VM. This brings a number of desirable results to operations, and completely does away with the need to program a Configuration Management system to "fix" the VM.

All cloud systems should support immutable operations. But virtually none of them do. This is a tremendous disadvantage and gap in the cloud computing ecosystem. It will cause increased instability and require dedicated jobs just to deal with the Configuration Management problem. This creates a problem for developers, too, who will stay away from learning cloud architecture due to the complexity involved.
For young impressionable readers, this is just a note that the parent comment is one person's opinion. There are opposing opinions here and throughout society.
Missing part of the terrible is not the same as good.

The premium experience still absolutely sucks, merely the free is even worse.
An e-bike would be the solution (not when it rains or snows, of course).
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Or for WhatsApp to stop working.
Actually top level OTB chess ability degrades notably past 50 with a few notable exceptions (Korchnoi, Smyslov). Sure the decline starts a bit later than regular sports but still it is significant.

That is why when Rausis(https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=14248) rating was approaching 2700 in his 50s everyone was very suspicious.

It is partially due to the incredible levels of stamina required to stay on top of the game for 4-6 hours.

Also as Kramnik said when he was retiring, you start making strange(read wrong) decisions suddenly.
At what point do we start taking the "talking points" from the so called conspiracy theorists seriously? For all we know they did hire sub par individuals and because it was under the guise of DEI or ageism no one wants to touch it with a 10 ft pole.
I'd say this is where more engineering approachable ideas come from or ideas that might be considered translational (or near translational). If you work near the bridge of theory and application, this is probably more the case. A lot of funding agencies are pressuring even theoretical or basic research to look at translational application anymore though (capitalism is all about immediate ROI) so I'd say this is increasingly shifting towards many research domains but in the past, there were a lot of pure theoretical areas you could work on where there are plenty of unexplored ideas you could build out and get paid to do the work.

Application is certainly a great driver though because you have a demand signal to look at vs throwing darts at the board in work that may never manifest to anything solid.
I don't know anything about Astro, but that graph reminded me of the Monty Python animation of Crelm toothpaste ... seems like Astro only provides 98% protection!
Didn't I just read a piece of news?
I was enlightened about this decades ago by Edward Tufte [0] - sadly since then I get annoyed by most graphs I see, where they exaggerate the difference in values with a non-zero axis.

[0] https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
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It's not the news that's bad. It's that power incentivises people to become sociopaths.
Wasn't the arab spring heavily organized over social media? If the government can force social media companies to enforce certain flavors of moderation, it seems like they could get away with this too.
There is no saving (or marginally) it’s just heavy industries and energy consuming process leaving Germany (BASF for instance). Overall just a displacement of the problem. We don’t care about GDP, what matters is global CO2 emission. In 2023 13.4% of new cars are electric in Germany but electricity production is the lowest in 15 years, go figure.
The fact the Tweet comes from an Indian Twitter account and the SE poster is also from India is a little suspicious too.
There deserves to be a serious discussion of whether Twitter content should even be allowed here anymore if it can't be seen. We already hated it before the acquisition, and it's gotten worse since then.
With individual transport, you move ~2 tons of metal for a payload of one person, a weight/person ratio of 2.

With high-speed rail, you move ~400 tons of metal for ~450 people, a ratio of ~0.9. [0]

This does not even account for factors such as inherently more efficient transmission from steel to steel vs rubber/concrete and the more efficient electric engines of a modern train compared to the combustion engine. Neither does it account for the fact that rail goes at more than twice the speed.

How is public transport the inefficient option, again?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_3
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It matters a lot.

First, if demand is not there, installed capacity isn't fully utilized. Since production costs of existing renewable installations is lower than carbon-based plants, a lull in demand will automatically increase the renewable percentage, that's neither good nor bad. But in fact, installed capacity is rising: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/bild/installierte-leistung-zu..., so no, the record is not only due to lower production.

Second, until 2022, renewables were actively hindered by the various Merkel cabinets. The roadmap going forward is way more aggressive, but of course planning takes some time. So a "rapid build-up" is still a multi-year thing.
Then we're doomed anyway...
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Governments issue money, so yes they kind of do have magic money. Certainly a different access to money than private entities.
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A dowser recently told me that's how he dowses. By detecting kinks in the Earth's magnetic field. Thus he detects underground water, buried objects, disturbed earth, graves, cables, etc.

He works for the state department of land management or somesuch. Apparently they all dowse there. They even have a preferred "dowsing rod". A retractable thing like a radio antenna attached to a swivelling handle. (According to the dowser rather overpriced)
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See also, "The case against news (2011)" by Bryan Caplan, https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/03/the_case_agains_6.h....

Also, this should be marked as 2013.
It’s like some sort of reflex when there is „Germany“ and „energy“ in the title …
I've seen a lot of shenanigans in JavaScript framework benchmarks. For example when Pino (logging framework) compared itself using buffered mode (where the logs don't immediately pipe to stdout and a crash wipes x kb of logs).

I don't know if the JS community is specifically vulnerable to this, or it's universal. It seems to happen a lot though.
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" - If Japan can't handle it securely, why do we think we can?"

What does that even mean? There are no large earthquakes, let alone any tsunamis in Germany. And even if there were, most nuclear plants were not at the sea.
There was a perfectly reasonable transition strategy. Install as much solar and wind turbines as possible and rely on natural gas plants are other times. Natural gas plants are relatively cheap and can in the future be converted to hydrogen.

The big advantage is that solar and wind can directly reduce CO2 emissions, instead of waiting for decades for new nuclear power to come online.

Converting heating of buildings to heat pumps and cars to electrical also directly reduces CO2 emissions even if you generate electricity from natural gas.

There was one part where it went terribly wrong, and that was the idea source the natural gas almost exclusively from Russia...
There are TCP connections for Amazon EFS that have been active for years (2021)
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The impulse to bring "DEI" into this. Sigh.
Not the same thing, but this is exactly how manga is made, and you can probably find a lot more about that.
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