awesome_dude

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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
You're repeating the problem - You're saying that there is less waste to deal with which magically means it's safe. You do understand that don't you?
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
I've never understood how people think "less" solves the issue, it's not negligible and asking to increase the number of plants surely increases the waste. Reprocessing, isn't infinite. There's going to be was
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
> Nuclear waste would be the other large remaining issue, but again - society chose to create that problem and not solve it. It's not technical in nature. Care to explain, I've never seen a genuine solution that goes beyond ha
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
I'm going to cause an expensive outage that will ruin the company, and our careers unless you say no to sugar in the coffee!!!!
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
Can they? Yes, anyone can. Will they... that's a different question
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
Is it *vital* No. It's really helpful, but it's not vital. WRT Ukraine - the drones are now (AIUI) flown with a tethered fibre connection (inside the Ukraine) - because jammers have made radio traffic with drones near impossible f
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
Yes - what does civilisations forgetting how to make the best known concrete on the planet have to do with forgetting how to make a GEIGER counter You cannot even spell the damned name properly.
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
You complain that nothing makes sense to yu, when given an actual example of the problem of a nuclear plant in a warzone you ask what the point is - we're done here, take your trolling elsewhere.
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
By your logic there are no wars.
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Pla...
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
"Advanced civilization" Every civilisation for the last million years has categorised itself thus, and, yet, here we are without their technology. We still don't know how the Romans made a concrete that is as durable as it i
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
It doesn't need to - all that needs to happen is for water to suddenly have a course to where the materials are being stored.
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
I do see you instantly reaching for threats of accusations, which i do view as abuse Bye.
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
Would have made a nice steamed ham
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
So, just to be clear, you're demanding that I re-answer every concern that I've already addressed otherwise you're going to label me a troll Sounds like abuse to me.
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
We don't have a lot of technology that we knew existed in earlier civilisations - the Aztecs, Mayans, pueblo peoples, the Easter islanders, to name just a few were doing things we have no idea how to do
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
Yeah, i know about that one and it kind of proves my point, it's been active as a nuclear reactor for roughly a billion years if i recall correctly - every time water seeped into the rock it slowed the neutrons down and the reactor s
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
It's non porous right up until an earthquake or some movement of the area makes it not
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
Until we find the Rosetta stone hieroglyphs were unintelligible, and that language only stopped being used 2000 years ago.
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
I like that answer, but never say never
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
Neither concrete nor steel have the lifespans we're discussing thousands, or tens of thousands of years. And. Bacteria.
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
This has to be snark - Waste is never safe to store - the containment has to prevent leeching - over a lifespan of thousand, or tens of thousands of years And it only takes one earthquake, or animal digging to completely upend that strategy
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
1. Ukraine nuclear power plants are a massive liability - they make for easy targets for the Russians to obliterate the country - is that what you want for Switzerland? 2. The waste - nobody wants it - it's a hazard for tens of thousan
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
Even just as a user of nix there has been this problem of how to manage dotfiles - people have git repositories for them but they are copies, because the actual dotfile in use is never tracked For a System administrator the problem is many
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
It disheartens me a great deal to see how the US (in particular, but they are not alone) has turned its back on good science, largely, but not exclusively, on the back of populist politics. Science has had waves, and people have over pushed
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
Academic's, FTR, have to have a huge amount of people skills. Their job isn't just to discover, it's to share. You cannot share (effectively) if you cannot communicate in a way that others can understand. Further the entire e
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by awesome_dude 3mo ago
The magic for me, to this day in fact, is knowing that mail is essentially anyone on the internet being allowed to write to a mail servers disk. There are rules now, but the concept is still almost intact, random people writing to the s
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by awesome_dude 4mo ago
We know that the squeaky wheel is the one that gets oiled, and we don't want the wheels to come off, so we need the wheel to squeak loud enough to be heard ;)
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by awesome_dude 4mo ago
Dependency management is still one of the hardest jobs in systems (languages, Operating systems, distributed applications, etc) - hat's off to you and your team for the hard work keeping everything together
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by awesome_dude 4mo ago
See also: Recursion

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