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> Is it really likely that anything can happen to Nuclear that makes it able to compete with that?

Yes. Nuclear technology can go down in cost by a factor of 100. If that happens, it can definitely compete with solar. In fact, it can compete even if it goes down in cost by a factor of 10.

You'll say that this is fantasy. And at this point it is, but there are no reasons to dismiss this as impossible. There are lots of new nuclear reactor designs. The current designs (pressurized water reactors) all need very thick pressure vessels, hundreds of tons each. There are very few forges in the world that can manufacture them (maybe 10, certainly less than 20), and they manufacture one now and then, so the prices are astronomical.

The new designs either have much smaller pressure vessels (the SMRs), that can be manufactured for a cost exponentially lower, or have no pressure vessels (like liquid metal reactors or molten salt reactors). I would estimate there are about 20 essentially different designs out there. Of course there are lots of unknowns, but I think a few of them have the chance to become 100 times cheaper than the current generation of nuclear technology.
That's an effect, not a cause. You can "afford" contact-us pricing, once you've got a monopoly stranglehold on an industry. You can't afford it when you're a scrappy newcomer fighting for mindshare.
It’s very rare that bicycle is going to mechanically fail and send you flying.

Short of the time I was hit by a car, I’ve never had a bicycling emergency — road or mountain — that I wasn’t able to walk away from through some combination of hoping obstacles and/or putting the bike down in a controlled side-skid.
It’s not a technical product so much as a legal one. Just keep on using Rustc+Cargo. If Volkswagen or Framatome wants you to write software for them, then you can transition to these blessed versions of the official tooling. And you’ll have the money to do so.
You do realize that the denomination whose source you linked is considered by most Muslims to have a relationship to them like that of the Mormons to Christianity?
The data shows that, overwhelmingly, the people leaving are the ones who couldn't afford to stay.
I wonder how they do the 350kg load test. I can't imagine the corners of the flat piece will support very much weight at all.
What does this comment mean?
You demonstrated the python function 'chr', but what does this have to do with the post?
I’d say the current tools are mostly refined and properly mature. I would rather see innovation with plugins, with DAWs staying pretty much as they are.
Our entire global economic order is built on top of infinite-growth, and the young outnumbering the old.

Negative slope population will lead to mass economic instability and eventually war.
Up front infra costs are high but the hoover dam is nearly a hundred years old and will last another several hundred. The amortization period is very long, whereas chemical batteries will need frequent replacing.
Which belief system is more absurd, one which the adherents maintain or gain in population, or one which they go extinct?

Which one is more fit to the environment?
I’d file that under “quality is going down”.
As someone who was diagnosed with ASD, I wish William Shaw a very merry lengthy prison sentence for a career of fraud, theft, misrepresentation, and maybe even a dash of practice of medicine without a license.

The guy is a menace, and is Facebook Karen Mom bait to the highest degree. He has done more to harm research into ASD than almost anyone, being second to only Andrew Wakefield (the only man ever to get a straight up middle finger from The Lancet for managing to slip one pass them, and getting a front page retraction for his trouble).

ASD exists, its real, it is a collection of symptoms that likely have multiple causes, and we know why that is likely true (immune system cross-reactivity in the parts of the immune system we don't understand well, and is also likely the root cause of a lot of poorly understood conditions; this is why there is also a high rate of ADHD comorbidity in ASD people).

The gut most likely is the "culprit" in the sense that the gut bacteria is no longer sending the correct chemical signals to engage the immune system, and the immune system gets confused and thinks we're stuck in some sort of Cold War with an Unseen Enemy, and just slowly fucks you up, but we simply don't understand this well enough for anyone to even consider something as a possible "cure". William Shaw is undermining the process and making it harder for actual researchers to research a possible cure.
Quite a bad thing to contribute and make the whole project to change name as openxxxx. Sad. Do not aware of this last time working on one project.
I can't believe IBM didn't take care of you when you were working at Watson.
If you do it transparently employees on the chopping block know they are there and can look for other work, those that aren’t don’t have to worry about it and can keep doing what they always do. It’s a trade off but if lying is your culture it’s going to become real obvious to your high performers
Oh man yes I dislike non-squash merges very much because they make it so hard to go from the Git blame to the pull request discussion
Could you explain a bit more how your example of 'a single actor minimizing hops' creates an effective Sybil attack? If I understand, you mean to describe a node which is not adding unnecessary hops but is itself posing as unique identities to different users.

If so, the response to that is: 'this type of behavior doesn't grant this node an increased ability to influence consensus compared to if they routed all data under the same identity.'
Nuclear power stations are built solely for the purposes of supporting a nuclear military (like in Russia, the USA or France) or building nuclear weapons in a hurry (like in Sweden, Iran or South Korea).

No country does it for any other reason. Certainly not for the environment. The cost is absolutely prohibitive (5x solar/wind) and it demands lavish subsidies even if you discount the nearly free government-granted catastrophe insurance.

The only way to make it cheap for the consumer is to have paid off the plants because they were built 50 years ago and to neglect their maintenance. Like France.

Pumped storage, solar and wind meanwhile, are very, very reasonably priced.
The experience of raising a child, watching them grow, and seeing them prosper in the world is the reward. I don't expect them to care for me when I'm old.
> And you accuse me of pedantry?

...no? I was saying that my own response is pedantry, rather than being an argument that tries to address the spirit of your argument.

> This then comes under need then?!?

Yes. The definition of "need" is "something that some higher-level goal cannot be achieved without." Ultimately, at the terminal level, everything is a preference; you want to continue living, companies want to not go bankrupt, etc. Everything required to achieve those terminal preferences, are needs. You need to eat if you want to live. A company needs to make money if it wants to avoid bankruptcy. Etc.

> No, but the people within them make decisions, ie decisions to write a database. So the 'you' would be directed at the person in the organisation who decided to write the database.

In a bigcorp, ultimately, a manager or business analyst decided that someone else should write them a database. Nobody decided to, themselves, write a database.
Such conclusions aren't teaching you anything, though. It's a form of smugness that alludes to some magical knowledge you'll gain by doing X thing, when that's not how the world works.

When people are telling others to "touch grass", it's usually in reference to a specific social thing or attitude they think the other should adopt, but refuse to spell out. It's a pejorative command meant to ridicule. It has no constructive applications, and its use in conversation indicates hostility on behalf of the speaker.

If the opening line of the TTC was sufficient, the book wouldn't have been written. The reason the book leads with that is because words are a limiting medium. Much like one's hand pointing to the moon is not the moon, our words point to concepts, they are not the concept themselves. It also continues because, it's unhelpful to tell someone to "touch grass" or "go live it yourself", without any guidance. That's just being a dick.

The TTC guides you with concepts and behaviors found in nature. Things you can go outside and observe if you look closely enough. There's no mysticism to it.

Find patterns in nature, or pay attention to the "currents" in your life, and you'll find the Tao. Touching grass helps but it's not required. :)
I have trouble with knowing what's appropriate and when and where. This sort of thing helps. It's not a full answer, maybe I'll know the full answer by the time I'm ready to shelter in the palm of the creator, but it helps me

Another such post that I think back to relatively frequently was about rules, that people don't actually care about rules and they only exist to stop unhappiness. When you annoy someone is when they start to get the rulebook out. I'm sure the original author put it better than this, though
In America’s cruel and highly individualistic society, while I wouldn’t say it’s the majority, it’s certainly a sizable percentage of people that hate their children or their parents. I think a lot of it stems from the lack of safety nets, for profit healthcare, etc where having children results in increasing the financial burden on oneself. While all countries experience population declines as they become more developed, I think the association between that and the animosity people have toward children (and as a result, eventually, people have toward their parents) is much more variable. The US is one of the few wealthy countries where having a family can cause you to lose your job, be forced into medical debt, have to pay ridiculous child care and educational costs. The undoubtedly breeds resentment toward children and in some cases much worse behavior. During my own childhood, things weren’t even as egregious as they are now in terms of the ratio of wages to the cost of basic needs (food, housing, healthcare) and this was already obvious. I remember people behaving abusively to their children in grocery store lines and invoking how much was being spent on them, my friends being sent to school sick because their parents couldn’t afford to miss work, and myriad other signs of this. I can’t imagine what it’s like in 2023.
No, you are misunderstanding the anthropic principle. That merely explains statistical things such as why it might be hard to find intelligent life elsewhere.

The anthropic principle is a concept we've created out of our conscious observation of the universe. But take away our consciousness and you take away any and all of our knowledge of any universe whatsoever.

Consciousness cannot be "obscure" when it is the basis for one's own experienced reality, the substrata underlying everything else. Consciousness experience is fact; our conceptual understanding of the universe is mere theory. Well-tested theory, but theory nonetheless.
Is that how you learnt English (or whatever your first language is) then, not metaphorical osmosis but by sitting down as a small child with lots of resources and people to work with you in deliberate study?

It's proven to be harder as we age, but it absolutely does work like that. I would assume Toma didn't more because of little interaction, not hearing dialogue around him, etc.

(And also just because it typically works like that doesn't mean he couldn't have been unusually predisposed against it, or genuinely ill, or too traumatised/uninterested/deliberately disengaging.)
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> The radial symmetry of gravity, for instance, is critical to understanding why penguins aren’t constantly falling off Antarctica.

I don't understand how your point challenges the notion that people can understand something while not believing it. A flat earther can understand how gravity protects penguins on a sphere, but not believe that it is relevant to the flat disk they inhabit.
"The beautiful ones" is an irreversible phenomena.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFveSUmh9U

The amygdala properties in both primates and rodents, suggests tournament species often destroy themselves though local extinction events periodically.

It is in our nature, and an inescapable part of our biology. Perhaps these scientists will find some secret to curb peoples worst impulse control issues.

Likely wishful thinking given the level of vitriol on the web these days. lol =)
DRM limits hardware options significatly. Open standards are embraced even when they come later, AV1 vs HEVC is a great example. The standard will exist but hardware adoption of the standards is often weaker, which I consider killed. DRM is how the patent holders maintain control over who can use the standards.

The existing standard that people are going to use is the previous version of ATSC without DRM and encryption. Althrough DRM and encryption are not technically the same, they are practically in this kind of situation.

It's funny watching spotify try to move closer to radio with AI generated DJ curation. I hope it dies sooner rather than later so we can reallocate those bands to something more useful.
>> I'd wager more and more of their kids will break away from a religion/belief system that appears increasingly absurd and stifling as the rest of the world moves on.

In the west, increase in secularity has only affected the groups of people who would've been nominally religious (i.e. religious in name only). People who attend religious services on a weekly basis (a much better measure of religiosity) has stayed consistent. This is still a notable shift in religious demographic, just not the kind your portraying.

Further, outside the west, much of the world has kept or has increased their religiosity as they modernized. The belief that modernism produces secularism was abandoned by sociologists of religion some time ago after it was evidentially false (E.g. India is the most religious country in the world and still a modern state).

The fact you can't see value in religious systems adhered to by billions of people over thousands of years speaks less to those systems than your lack of understanding them.
Just consider that everything you come in contact with, including the assertion of the sense-data that led you to the conclusion of "billions of years", is contaminated by the fact that is utterly impossible to disprove consciousness. Everything else that comes in through the senses can be doubted, but consciousness is the only thing you are in direct contact with. But I agree partially with you that there may be a form of consciousness that is more primary than our subjective consciousness (I think we agree that reality is a "real" logical system, probably infinite, and possibly intelligent itself). But we have a relationship with reality, in fact we may be a kind of accelerated rotation of it with reincarnative compartmentalization.

I've only read the first couple of chapters, yet, but this book lay out the philosophical problems with physicalism: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CGNXWTBN
"I think in the end we should not expect GitHub to provide the best option here. We should expect them to provide a basic option (which they do) and for sophisticated consumers to pay more for a much better option. Everyone should be shopping for code review tools!
"

I understand this linke of thinking might suit you but I fear it is not as convincing as it sounds to you. At least it's not to me.
It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.
if i remember right we had ours brought in from some park, as we were in a semi-suburban area.
And VISA handles 160,000 transactions for that same amount of energy. It's still catastrophically wasteful. You're still not even remotely in the realm where you can call it more or less efficient, one of these is efficient, and one of them is categorically, empirically not.

And before you go to cite crypto using green energy sources: so fucking what? It's wasting energy that wasn't produced with fossil fuels, big fucking deal, now the people who could've used that energy might well need to use fossil fuel-based energy sources to make up what ethereum converted into heat in server rooms which was then cooled by air conditioning to play their monopoly money game. Great, terrific, awesome.
Oh look… now we get a name collision for an intermediate representation [0]. That won’t make it difficult for searching at all… Like, this is cool and power to them, but I wish they had a different abbreviation.

[0] https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2014/XDC2014AbbotNIR/
It does not take a world war to destroy people's lives like that, unfortunately. That is, malevolence is not necessary, incompetence is enough. Both are abundant in autocratic, repressive societies, such as the Soviet Union in this case. Another example that comes to mind is the story of Romanian orphans under Ceaușescu, where thousands grew up in orphanages:

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

More broadly of course, half of the Soviet history is that of displaced small nations (see Crimean Tatars, Soviet Greeks, Ukrainians, Poles, etc), where often the fate of an entire ethnic group was not unlike the fate of this man:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Sov...
That's a fair point, in terms of the odds of an incident being bad I would say scooters and bikes are more dangerous, but the odds of an incident happening at all on the onewheel is much more likely .
There are many well-known challenges to conceiving and having a successful pregnancy if the man and especially the woman are near/over than 40.
So I'm pretty sure they're doing something similar to Ferrous systems, since they worked together with them until very recently, Qualifying Rust without forking: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/qualifying-rust-without-for...
Here is a joke I came up with: give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man how to run an academic journal and academia will feed him for a lifetime
Another potential component of the "Great Filter"
That might be true unless your knee buckles or foot sticks blowing out your knee, acl, mcl, cartilidge which happened to me at 9mph. Luckily I only sprained the MCL for the 3rd time.
Thanks for the number. Why do they inflate the disk space needed by a factor of ~2.5 I wonder...

I understand you would want to have some leeway so someone playing the game doesn't surpass the 'disk space required' within the first three days just because of a few additional maps/skins/textures downloaded while playing... but over 50 gb of leeway given an install size of 33.6 gb?

Maybe pointing towards something else about gaming I don't understand...
In other words it Sybil attacks that create long chains of nodes owned by the some person, but it doesn't stop Sybil attacks that aim to get everyone else on the network to route through you instead of someone else.
Nobody said consciousness is best described at the subatomic level next to bosons. It may be, it may not be. Currently there is no evidence in either direction. Gravity certainly proves that the standard model is quite incomplete so far, and we currently don't have the slightest idea how.

But I earlier used fluid dynamics as an example of emergence. To make the point that fluid dynamics is still physics.

Philosophically, the fact that consciousness is going to be part of physics is self-evidently true. It's true by definition if you believe that consciousness interacts with the universe as described by physics -- for which the specific evidence is that we're having this conversation in the first place.
I'm pretty content with FLStudio (with various VST plugins) and Sound Forge, and Audacity when I need to work with something in a weird format. Sometimes the plugins can get crashy but I just bounce to WAV and unload the offending plugin.

In fact FL just added a python integration that I haven't even begun to explore yet, but you can use it to generate piano roll scores (among other things?)

foobar2000 handles tagging and DaVinci Resolve/Blender/ZGameEditor handles video.

Every time I've tried to do anything in Linux for music its been a headache. Granted its been a while now. But I'm a little too invested in the Windows audio ecosystem to switch.
> India is the most religious country in the world and still a modern state.

Have you been to India? It's a wonderful, fascinating place but it is emphatically not a modern, developed nation the way France or Japan is.
I think the rant is more constructive when directed towards how companies are ran into the ground and the workers are the ones to take the hits. Not the c-suite or big decision makers, that made bad decisions.

There are some solid solutions. In game development, why not collect the resources that someone has made; code, models, animations, etc and reuse them to rapidly develop new ideas. Of course some aesthetic choices will not merge correctly with each other but scripts can be easier and sometimes interchangeable. Maybe more game development companies need to focus on these aspects if they already don't; Collecting resources they've already spent money on for moonshot ideas.

Or branching employees off into teams to make moonshot games instead of simply laying them off. After big, failed ideas by the game studio, instead of removing sudo-decay and starting over, why not bring those already trained people with you and start building a solutions culture? And maybe set a challenge to see who can create the best games in these makeshift, small teams -- any number of them could eventually become a major hit for the company.

It seems like the employees that are expendable would have the more interesting ideas and skills and they're never really valued to their potentials.

With that said seeing studios like blizzard and how they hire specialists -- that doesn't really translate to game development as a whole, even if the industry itself seems like a cash grab for those at the top.
Python script [0] to do bulk INSERTs. I TRUNCATEd the tables, chunked 10,000 INSERTs at a time, and recorded the results. This was split into two passes of 12,500,000 rows each, committing after each chunk of 10K rows.

tl;dr On an empty table, InnoDB is 1.7% slower than MyISAM. On a full table (I raised bulk_insert_buffer_size to 128 MiB, which is a MyISAM-only optimization, and is more than enough to handle 10,000 rows of my data [21 MiB]), they are effectively identical, with InnoDB being 0.1% slower than MyISAM.

It's worth noting that this is with InnoDB's defaults for doublewrite enabled. If (and only if) you're using ZFS, you can disable that, and get an enormous speed boost. These data dirs are on XFS, so I didn't disable the doublewrite buffer.

Finally, I tried some simple `SELECT COUNT(*) WHERE user_id <= ...` - `user_id` is the PK and a UUIDv7, inserted in order so as to avoid page splits for InnoDB. Not as familiar with MyISAM's page layout, but I assume it at least isn't _hurt_ by ordering on insertion. The value selected was near the end (~1000 away), so it had to do a huge covering index scan.

For InnoDB, I saw [22.01, 22.39, 22.69] seconds. For MyISAM, I saw [27.12, 27.53, 26.81] seconds.

If you're able to give me some specific workloads, or settings to tweak for MyISAM, I'm very willing to redo the test, but as of now I'm unconvinced that MyISAM has an edge.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/stephanGarland/cc505a9d9c0d044a340fa...
Are they? Would you elaborate on it or link some reading material? I've never heard of religion being heritary and your claim is pretty strong to just throw out there without any additional information.