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by adrianN 10mo ago
Avoiding that kind of use after free problem is exactly why people choose Rust, isn’t it?
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by adrianN 10mo ago
Which developed country doesn’t have a demographics problem?
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by adrianN 10mo ago
TBH most day to day programming problems are barely worth having tests for. But if we had formal specs and even just hand wavy correspondences between the specs and the implementation for the low level things everybody depends on that would
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by adrianN 10mo ago
Misanthropy is the logical conclusion /s
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by adrianN 10mo ago
> Both the government and Redeia said renewable energy sources were not responsible for the blackout. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/what-caused-iberian-...
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by adrianN 10mo ago
CO2 per kWh is steadily going down, but kWhs consumed is still going up, especially in developing nations like China and India where _a lot_ of people live.
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by adrianN 10mo ago
I have 1kW of solar on my balcony with some storage. That's enough to satisfy a large part of my demand. On sunny days I produce 4-6kWh, depending on the season.
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by adrianN 10mo ago
Right now it’s cheaper to make hydrogen from methane and methane is easier to store and process so no large scale storage of hydrogen is in demand. Nevertheless storage in salt caverns is a proven process that is in use right now eg. Linde
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by adrianN 10mo ago
You can store it in salt caverns
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by adrianN 10mo ago
Electrolysis hydrogen is only a little bit more expensive than hydrogen derived from methane and electrolyzers with dozens of megawatt are available. That seems pretty solid to me at this point in the energy transition.
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by adrianN 10mo ago
Automatic conversion between numeric types is also a fun source of bugs.
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by adrianN 10mo ago
What amounts to „concrete plan“? Right now we’re still in the state where building more generation is the best use of our money with batteries for load shifting a few hours ramping up. So it’s entirely expected that there is no infrastructu
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by adrianN 10mo ago
You probably don’t want to use regular batteries for that. I’d go with shipping energy as aluminum or something like that and use aluminum-air batteries. But regular hvdc seems really hard to beat with shipping of any kind.
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by adrianN 10mo ago
Students study to pass exams, teachers teach to enable students to pass exams. If your grading is based mostly on correctly reproducing facts and applying algorithms you memorized then that’s the outcome your education system optimizes for.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
Trucks are virtually nonexistent where I live. People who want to transport stuff mostly use VW Crafters or pull a trailer with their regular car.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
The UK is very far north and very windy. I suggest a smaller battery and a wind turbine.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
Capacity factors don’t matter, what matters are total system costs.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
I believe eating food from street vendors was the usual way for paupers until quite recently. Recall that it was common to rent a bed for a few hours and share it with someone who worked different shifts.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
In my experience people criticize C++ for its safety problems. Safety is more important in certain areas than in others. I’m not convinced that you get better quality with C++ than with Ada
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by adrianN 11mo ago
It’s a lot cheaper to hire for Java than for „modern“ languages.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
I’m no expert, but reducing something as complex as a whole country’s economic outlook to just the variable „immigration“ seems like an oversimplification to me.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
It’s fairly easy to make cyanotype yourself: https://simplifier.neocities.org/cyanotype
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by adrianN 11mo ago
Why fire them when you can just reuse them?
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by adrianN 11mo ago
Switching away from clay tablets was a step in the wrong direction.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
I think instead of „magic“ what we should have more of is honesty about uncertainty. The public discourse would be much less toxic if people honestly said that they’re not sure about something and that the policy they advocate might fail to
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by adrianN 11mo ago
That works until you had to fix conflicts during the rebase and the commits are no longer identical.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
It's hard to compete with something that is allowed to externalize the majority of its costs.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
Nevertheless CO2 emissions are going down in the western world, even after you account for trade: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
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by adrianN 11mo ago
At least if you can sample the relevant space reasonably accurately, otherwise it becomes really slow.
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by adrianN 11mo ago
You can still run software from 1987 on a megabyte of ram, it just does different things from a modern browser.

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