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by _hypx 3y ago
Since science has clearly found nuclear to be one of the safest energy sources possible, it is phobia. Literally no German has ever died from one of its own nuclear reactor. None of those issues are as big as the challenges of climate chang
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by _hypx 3y ago
It isn't complex. Germany's behavior is pure phobia. Japan has an even higher population density than Germany and is still pursuing nuclear. The simply fact is, nuclear is among the safest energy source possible. With modern safet
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by _hypx 3y ago
FYI, Germany shut down all its nuclear power. It's not really a meaningful differentiation at this point.
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by _hypx 3y ago
If only Germany had invested in a long-lasting, baseload power generation system that produces no CO₂ emissions and involves splitting atoms…
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Case Study: A WebAssembly Failure, and Lessons Learned(thenewstack.io)
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by _hypx 3y ago
Hydrogen cars are the future. This is just another fad green movement in the car industry.
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by _hypx 3y ago
The ability to go fast does not make it a good cars. In fact, this is mistake that many US carmakers made. As Toyota focused on reliability, their faster competitors ultimately ended up being abandoned since nothing turns away customers lik
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by _hypx 3y ago
Because there is very little point in making a battery powered car. Toyota was told the same thing but with diesel cars. In reality, all those went too far with diesel cars made a mistake. The story will repeat itself with battery cars.
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by _hypx 3y ago
We're nearly at the point where geoengineering is necessary. People will oppose this like nuclear power, but there's not many alternatives left. Even if we do have a solution to stop climate change, it is simply not going to happe
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by _hypx 3y ago
You are basically attacking a strawman. It is not Rust vs. C, but Rust vs. alternatives to C. It is unlikely that Rust will end up being better than all alternatives that are being developed.
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by _hypx 3y ago
For a lot of cases, 0% unsafe code is pretty unrealistic. Using even 50% unsafe code means that you must be able to reason about how safe and reliable the code really is. At which point you are better off with a simple language that a good
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by _hypx 3y ago
There are a vast number of “obscure hardware platforms” especially once you include embedded systems. There are also many circumstance where you must write unsafe code. While you could in theory use Rust for most cases where C is being used
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by _hypx 3y ago
Similar problem to Jakarta. It really doesn't make sense to put everything into one big city.
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by _hypx 3y ago
C is basically portable assembly. It should be as simple as possible. That is closer to what Zig is trying to do than Rust.
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by _hypx 3y ago
Rust is not a particular good replacement for C. I think Rust fans are headed for disappointment if they really think that.
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by _hypx 3y ago
It is at the very least a big upgrade over WebGL.
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by _hypx 3y ago
You can always learn both. They do not really compete against other as one is aiming to replace C++ and the other C.
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Brace Yourself, the Hydrogen Powered Motorcycles Are Coming(jalopnik.com)
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by _hypx 3y ago
> The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite index may be up a fifth this year That really shows how ridiculous things are still. There is major pain in the startup sector, but people are still totally deluded when it comes to the rest of the
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A first look inside JetZero’s blended wing body(aircraftinteriorsinternational.com)
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by _hypx 3y ago
The only true believers are battery fanatics. They've already put billions of dollars in li-ion batteries, and now comes a new electrochemical system with none of the resource dependency and cost problems. People who can think critical
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by _hypx 3y ago
The author is living in the past. Car inventory are back to normal levels: https://www.kbb.com/car-news/car-dealers-have-almost-normal-... It is very likely that a significant drop in car price will happen. It costs de
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Replication of high-temperature superconductor comes up empty(arstechnica.com)
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by _hypx 3y ago
It is not going to be an all-at-once transition: https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/gas-turbines-hydro... We will see blended gas turbines first, with gradual shifting to 100% hydrogen. It's likely that at
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by _hypx 3y ago
> As soon as there's an economically profitable way to store 120 hours of regional electricity usage, most utilities will jump towards that over continuing to buy expensive fuel for their current baseload plants. You store excess en
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by _hypx 3y ago
> BEVs need huge (and more importantly heavy) batteries to function, but those are at least cheaper than the fuel cell and even huger compression tank needed to make a hydrogen car viable. Wrong. Fuel cells and tanks will be vastly cheap
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by _hypx 3y ago
Same story as solar still. People accused solar of being too inefficient, but it got extremely cheap anyways. That is the upside of something with almost zero input cost. Hydrogen is the same. BEVs need huge batteries to function. It is eas
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by _hypx 3y ago
People are repeating the same kind of rhetoric that was used against wind or solar. That we will never have cheap green energy and the future will always be fossil fuels. Those claims are now the source of mockery. Green hydrogen will be on
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by _hypx 3y ago
You are just repeating the marketing spiel of battery car makers. Of course, it would be very convenient for them if the problems of the competition are insurmountable and the upside totally pointless. There’s enormous incentive for them to
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by _hypx 3y ago
Which is what hydrogen cars offer. An EV with very fast refueling. What people are missing is that there is no reason that all cars must be battery powered. It's a weird myopia that is antithetical to Silicon Valley thinking, despite b

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