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> Anecdotally, I have some extended family who were very pro-Trump. One of them recently discovered that her job was funded through a federal grant, and now it’s likely going to be cut even though she doesn’t work for the government directly. They also discovered that one of their family members is covered by Medicaid through an avenue that’s looking like it will be cut. They went through a stage of disbelief, but now they’re in a phase where they’re sure everything will be fine and Trump will get it fixed. It’s only a matter of time until they realize that they were the intended targets of the cuts, not accidental damage.

I keep hearing stuff like this, but it doesn't seem to be widespread enough to seem to matter, at least in my circle. There's this whole topic of conversation where there's this voter regret thing. I'm in Michigan, so there's been a few of these I've seen proclaiming the Muslim community are having regrets voting for Trump (it was a big thing around the election due to the whole Gaza situation, because voting for Harris was apparently not going to be enough). But I am worried I'm just seeing bullshit propaganda and these types of things aren't actually what's happening because everyone I've talked to seem to be content with the way things are going. It's incredibly weird.
If you consider a one party state authoritarian regime as powering the common people's will, then I guess it is.
> “The only thing a return to the office has given me is an hour of traffic while driving and a loss in efficiency,” said the worker, who requested anonymity for fear of job reprisals.

RTO in a nutshell.

As someone who chose my living location based on where my family wants to live first and jobs second, this sudden turn to RTO mandates is infinitely depressing. Most of my work involves talking to people in different offices, states and countries anyway, so RTO means doing the e-mail and video call work but from a different location that requires battling traffic both ways. It’s insane that this is being done in the name of “efficiency”
What are those engineers doing currently, then? It takes time to actually build a technology base for somethin like nuclear, and it generally requires that you are building and running nuclear power plants.

And even after years of the war in Ukraine, Russia is still the second largest source of uranium for the EU, making up a quarter of imports
Win win
(for certain companies)
This one: "I suspect that at least some of them are engaging in salesmanship at a level that makes it fraud."
I have experienced data loss with Apple and the support team telling me the knew about it but could not pinpoint the issue.

I had entries disappearing from my Contacts (iCloud). The customer support asked for me to get back when I notice the issue so they could get logs to debug. My best friend contact entry disappeared overnight. I called the representative the day of and told him that the contact disappeared between yesterday night and today morning. His answer was that I needed to pinpoint more accurately when the contact disappeared, because iPhone generates a lot of logs and and engineers don’t have time to go through them. Ah!

Needless to say I stopped storing my contacts with iCloud and my trust eroded. “Funny enough” I also had issues with my Health data, years of it disappeared. Support could not do anything. The data magically came back a month later or so.
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I like the sentiment, and I believe that the Ukrainians will fight on regardless, but I am extremely pessimistic about their prospects past the end of this year. US support has been critical from the very earliest stages of this war and indeed even before the invasion of Feb '22. The Rivet Joint flights, HIMARS, Patriot batteries, Starlink access, cyber defense and intel support... I am not a defense expert but to my understanding there is no way that the EU/NATO-minus-US can fill the gap for these programs. Without them the Ukrainian strategic and tactical options are much more limited and they are forced to confront vastly reduced expectations from what only a short time ago was an already not great situation but one that held a chance of rewarding their tenacity.

And all that is just assuming that the US merely withdraws support; I would not be at all surprised if this administration begins pointing US cyber ops and the intel pipeline in the opposite direction and gives Russia a much clearer picture into their targets in Ukraine. In any other era this would be an unthinkable betrayal but now it seems far more likely than not.
and in 0-10 years solar make infinitely more power than a nuclear plant.
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Surely domestic policy would be a larger motivator than international when deciding whether to stay or leave.
In my regional UK city, most of my trips look something like: X minutes by car/taxi (although driving you need to park, and taxi you need to wait), 1.5-2X to cycle (direct but need to contend with hills, rain and much increased risk), and 2-4X to use public transport (total time, door-to-door, need to rush to get the thing and wait outdoors for 5-10 minutes) (2X being the ideal case of home to centre, 4X for point-to-point two places outside the centre).

It's not even remotely competitive, and for that reason private cars are used for some ridiculously high proportion of journeys (90% of passenger miles overall).

In the UK only 17% of commuters use public transport, and 5% use "other" including bicycle/motorcycle/taxi.
One has to wonder if a desire to develop nuclear weapons may have something to do with this, in light of recent events...
Someone is going to have to, but currently as much as immigration is raising the UK population, GDP per person is declining.
I know what the book is, but I need more than the title and the author to take an argument from it. Generally with references like this people will point to a page number or offer a summary of what they feel are the relevant parts

Yes, I'm referring to the Nazi salutes he gave. I can't help you see what you refuse to see right in front of you. Even Hitler gave it that way. I grew up in an apartheid conflict zone and have seen this othering before so let's not get into appeals to authority based on our backgrounds.

Calling me a baby is not an argument and I'm not sure that saying "I would totally emoji you but I'm too mature for that" is actually indicative of the maturity you're claiming. I want to point out as well that the tone of the conversation was set by yourself when you started it all with misogynistic accusations of hysteria.
Why opam is bad? Compared to what? Could you elaborate
> That’s how remote works

DOGE is “targeting remote-work arrangements” [1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dont-let-doge-kill-remote-work-h...
> The problem with nuclear in Italy is just one:

Remember when Italy paid the mafia to get rid of nuclear waste, they put it on old boats and sunk them :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_waste_dumping_by_the_%27...
Just don't build the plant next to Vesuvius. The biggest recorded earthquake in Europe was 7.1 magnitude, compared to 7.4 that caused tsunami that hit fukushima.
I wonder if Bacardi might be a better analogue for what TSMC gets from this deal.

Bacardi started a distillery in Puerto Rico (iirc, to sell in the US without tariffs) well before the Cuban Revolution. When the Cuban government seized Bacardi's assets, they were able to move everything to their other sites in Puerto Rico and Mexico.

As you point out, I highly doubt this deal moves the needle on whether or not US provides military aid to Taiwan. But it does help give them more options if the situation in Taiwan becomes untenable.
What is "Flatpack" then?

https://haleystrategic.com/flatpack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatpack_(electronics)

I'm clueless.
Bridge failures regularly happen in many countries, including France and South Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E...
And how do you stop that? It’s like saying a kingdom is kept safe for its people by avoiding corrupt kings

Your link shows a deeper root cause

> TEPCO admitted that it had failed to take necessary measures for fear of inviting lawsuits or protests against its nuclear plants

Scientific and engineering reports don’t solve that one
> I thought that's why it's called "panic".

And you are exactly right.

The problem is: People are so used to the "exceptions" paradigm from other languages, when they see "panic-recover" many immediately think "That's the same thing!!"

It isn't, because the only VALID usecase for panics is exactly what you describe: unrecoverable error conditions where terminating the program is the best course of action.

`panic/recover` used like exceptions is an antipattern, and one of the worst code smells in a Go codebase.
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Since you mention the FAA, I wonder what will happen if the NTSB's report on the Washington disaster doesn't match Trump's preconceived conclusions, e.g. by placing most of the blame on the (female) helicopter pilot. If he interferes there, that will be the final straw convincing me that the US is unfortunately no better than the "banana republics" it used to make fun of anymore...
My chuwi tablet running debian trixie works almost fine. I've not yet managed to make the camera work. Everything else worked out of the box.

Battery life is short, but you can buy like 6 of them instead of an ipad. Also I like to hack.
I always loved his dedication of TAOCP to this computer, and this article is a great way to learn more about that particular relationship (of him with the computer).
In the timeframe of the duration of the installation. (Total cost for the whole project + total costs for fuels & maintainance) / (kW generated * lifetime of the project)
> no good for building but are great for solar, like mountainsides.

And what's the cost of building on a mountainside, and how much is maintenance?

> Besides, if the Netherlands can have solar then Italy can too

How much solar are they building in comparison to other sources?

> And nuclear lasts 50+ years with constant maintenance, which is really expensive.

Unlike solar panels built on mountainsides which are not suitable for other types of buildings?
NT was designed to be CPU and OS level API independent, of course mainly being used with closed source software meant hardly anything supported non x86 CPUs, and if you wanted Unix you could just run Linux by then
> given correct conditions you will manage to have decision making which is collectively beneficial and acceptable.

Only if the population is sufficiently educated and good intentioned, and even then it's still the will of the majority, but because it's not a negative result it isn't considered a tyranny.
As someone living in the Baltics, most people here are fully aware that when Putin chooses to attack we would have trouble holding the mythical 72 hours for full NATO help to arrive.

If NATO help is not coming it is over quite quickly.

You have to remember that Ukraine has/had 40 million population, Baltics has about 7 million.

We also do not have the miles of mined out defenses that Ukraine has had since 2014.

We do have 2000 strong NATO brigades on rotation, a few rotating F-35 from western Europe, some Himars I think.

If unthinkable happens and NATO chooses not to defend the Baltics it is over.
Indeed this point is often overlooked.

I know the soviets dug up half the Czech Republic for uranium deposits though. There's still some left there, not sure how much though. I have a feeling that the reliance on Africa and Russia is more price and environmental regulation driven.
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Are batteries cheaper in 5-10 years?

How about large nuclear plants, what are the probabilities of cost overruns and who is insuring that?
Italy (and others) could (and should) do both.

Only thinking in terms of cost is short vision IMO. What happens if in 20/30 years you need to dramatically ramp up the energy generation (maybe everyone will drive electric, maybe house heating will be electric, maybe someone will come up with a new tech that requires a huge amount of energy, ...) and you already covered most of the roofs? or panels and batteries are at their end of life and you need massive investments just to keep up with the status quo?

I woulnd't go in a fight with a fist tied behing my back, and global warming is one of the biggest fights we must face.
Kinda hard to understand the whole deal about the Church of England without Henry VIII though. I don't think anyone is deifying him. At least not in modern discourse. But that is not the only reason to study someone.
They are an act of economic war, but on the consumers of the tariffed goods not the suppliers. The consumers are the ones who pay the tariffs after all.
One of the weirdest regressions is basic search on iOS. Just clicking into the search screen takes 1s before I see anything (it's probably booting up internally). And each keypress sometimes seems to take another 1s before it updates the results.

Sometimes 3s will pass before I even see anything after I've already typed in my search term (I'm always searching for a local app btw - it's how I open apps).

It's like it waits on an http request for every keystroke.

Also, you used to be able to search for an app in any of the secondary languages you have in your settings. Which is great because apps have different names in different languages (Settings vs Configuración vs Réglages), so it would be annoying to have to remember which word to search based on which language is primary. For years it would show you multilingual results (e.g. you can search for "Settings" as long as English is one of your secondary iPhone languages yet "Configuración" or "Réglages" would still show up).

It was the sort of polish I came to expect from Apple. Well, that stopped working a couple years ago.
i do wonder how Musk is planning to get FAA approvals for SpaceX if the federal stuff is decreased. Is he going to wait many weeks, months, years like the others will be waiting or is he personally going to cut the line?

Or may be getting rid of FAA permits at all? Back to the time of great unlimited aviation and rocketry innovation. I personally have a bunch of non-traditional designs i'd like to get airborne/launched which if we lucky would fly and stay airborne on the planned trajectory and for the planned amount of time :)
Sure, but who, what body, would be established to do this and who would give the power to do so? With what oversight and with what enforcement?
Dolt would do that for you. It has push/pull semantics like git. As a bonus you can use its version control features to implement sophisticated undo/redo features.

https://dolthub.com/blog/2022-09-23-dolt-rollback-options/
The thing is, it's not the biggest earthquake in the past we have to worry about, it's the biggest one in the future.

And climate change can have very sudden and unpredictable results too as we've seen all over the world in recent years.
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> They went through a stage of disbelief, but now they’re in a phase where they’re sure everything will be fine and Trump will get it fixed.

Ah, straight from denial into that other stage, more denial
> Fuchsia is not itself a consumer product, it's an open source project meant to be used to build a product. There is no application runtime for app developers to care about or UI for an end user to see. It would be strange to talk about things like mesa or the Linux kernel the way you are talking about fuchsia.

The difference is that those aren't entirely funded and developed by a single a for-profit entity that presumably expects some sort of net positive results from the effort spent on them in the future. To be clear, I don't consider anything I said in my previous comment to be a reflection of whether Fuschia is useful or whether it has any technical merits; my commentary is intended to be entirely scoped to Google's _intent_ for Fuchsia, which is what I read the part of the top-level comment that the parent comment I responded to directly to be discussing.

It's certainly possible that you're correct that Google has had plans for Fuschia this whole time and didn't discuss them because they didn't think it was relevant, but I guess I just don't find that convincing enough to change my mind about what I perceive to be going on.

> It shouldn't really matter where and how it gets used to the end consumer, only that when it is used there are tangible benefits (more stable, less security problems, etc). I don't really understand why folks are so keen to understand what internal plans for using it may or may not be.

This is probably just a matter of differing personalities. I don't think I have any explanation for why I'm curious about the topic, but I just am. I think you could make any number of similar statements about not understanding why people find certain things interesting (sports, video games, celebrity gossip, etc.), and you wouldn't be wrong or right; in my experience, it's not a personal choice to decide to find something interesting or not.
Italy has solved the nuclear waste disposal problem. They ship it to Somalia or sink it in old ships. It's quite cheap as well.
The are a few more things in the equation. Median age in the UK is ~40 while most immigration is from countries with medians in their 20s. Those families are more likely to have more children especially if they reach a stable and comfortable living situation. So it can be a Ponzi scheme but it can also be an investment.
> I do and given the practice is pretty common, it seems like most people would.

Definitely not “most people”, only the small number of economists and politicians that designed these scheme.

> To be clear, the incentive is: you make more money when you can produce energy cheaper than everybody else.

Which is a bad incentive for an electricity market, because as I said above, “energy” is free basically free for both renewable and nuclear. What ain't free is “installed power”. And what customers need is “available power”. If you design a virtual market around things that have nothing to do with the underlying physical reality of the actual value being produced, it's simply never going to work well.

> Are capital costs not real underlying costs? If I borrow money from a bank I have to return that money plus interest. I would argue that this is a very real cost.

It is a “real cost” indeed, but it cost you the same whether you produce electricity or not, it's a fixed, upfront, cost, not a marginal cost.

> Also, renewables do require maintenance. That is not as expensive as the ongoing cost of burning fossil fuel, but it’s still a cost

Most of maintenance aren't linked to how much electricity you've produced (for solar, for instance, it only depends on time, and cost you the exact same amount whether or not you've produced any electricity), so it's again not a marginal cost but a fixed one.

And let say you restrict yourself to the maintenance that depends on electricity production (for nuclear, refueling maintenance is like that) you'll end up with a marginal cost that is very low compared to your average cost, and if you price at marginal cost then you're going to go bankrupt.

For illustration say operating your 1GW solar plant cost 200 million a year in fixed costs (including maintenance and the cost of capital) and then it costs 0 to produce a MWh as long as the sun is up. If you price it at marginal cost, then you'll never make any money, so the only hope you have is that in a long enough period the market prices will be high due to the marginal cost of fossil fuel plants, in a way that it ends up covering your fixed costs. But, as a plant owner/manager, you have absolutely no control over that, you aren't being incentivized into doing anything.
But definitely not in the parlance of late 70s when Star Wars premiered.
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> In most software there's no such thing as unrecoverable panic

Webserver wants to start, binding port 443/80 isn't possible because another process holds that port.

Logging service wants to write to disk. The IO operation fails.

RDBMS want's to access the persistent storage, the syscall fails due to insufficient permissions.

How are any of those recoverable?
High end Android phones have pretty good hardware, in some cases feels better than the equivalent iphone. IMO the main problem of Android is that sofware updates are dropped way too fast. My in-laws have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 tablet (launched in 2015), stuck on Android 7.0 (released on 2016, also youtube app just dropped support for). Last security update in 2019.

On the other hand the iPhone batteries seems to go to trash way faster than Android. I think Android has better battery management systems (and also just bigger batteries). Every single person I know who uses iPhones older than 3-4 years can't get through a single charge per day.

On the software side Android got a bad rep from the early days when it was much worse than iOS, but these days it is pretty much just as slick and much more customizable.
For what it's worth, I'm not convinced by the change of name.

No matter if I write "postmarket", "PostMarket" or "posTmArkeTOs", the first result I get in my search engine is postmarketOS. In terms of how hard it is to pronounce, it feels like as soon as the context is there, one can say "pmOS". Kubernetes doesn't seem particularly easy to pronounce, but it doesn't seem like it's preventing it from being successful.

As a comparison, try to Google for /e/, or eos... I think it's getting better but a couple of years ago I was just not reading the /e/ changelogs because I just couldn't find the website. This, IMHO, is a bad name; and I have been a pretty satisfied user of /e/ for years, it's not like I don't like the project. But to be very honest, if CalyxOS had supported my phone I would have switched just because of the frustration with the name.

Also with every change of name comes confusion. For a very long time some people will keep calling it "postmarketOS", some will think it's a brand new project or a fork. Third-party documentation/blog posts will not get updated, ever. It takes time and energy to change a project name. And for what? Because it's "a bit too long" and "not so easy to pronounce"? I don't think it's worth it. It would be different if the project was called muskRocksOS.
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Just added the ability to copy the world events to your timeline (click "customize"). Then you can then modify/delete them like any other event. As for adding events, you can always create those like you would any other event. Hope that helps!