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by cbmuser 2y ago
Gold is slated for removal from binutils for version 2.44.0, so it's officially dead.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Nuclear is much more important than wind and solar because it provides baseload and the plants last longer than 20 years.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
I’m so tired explaining people what the capacity factor and baseload are and why wind and solar do not replace conventional power plants. Germany has an installed solar capacity of 100 GW, 72 GW wind and some hydro and bio mass. Yet there a
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by cbmuser 2y ago
China is currently building 29 nuclear power plants in parallel and plans to issue construction permits for 10 reactors each year. The country is expected to reach an installed nuclear capacity of 400 GW in 2060. And, unlike wind and solar,
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Most EVs sold in China are actually hybrids which is why the category is called NEV, i.e. new energy vehicles.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Have been to any actual socialist country? Have experienced what scarcity means and what it feels like to be locked into your own country without a real chance of leaving until you reach retirement age?
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Sounds like x86-64 is starting to lose some of it’s market share very soon.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Really a pity that Oracle killed off SPARC. They already had 32-core CPUs almost a decade ago but Oracle never really understood the value that SPARC and Solaris brought to the table.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
I have lived in Norway for a year and it’s definitely not as bright as you’re painting it. Rent prices are extremely high and apartments are quite small compared to other European cities. Alcohol is so expensive, that Norwegians go on alcoh
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by cbmuser 2y ago
China is also massively building nuclear with 29 reactors being built in parallel. Source: https://pris.iaea.org/pris/worldstatistics/underconstruction...
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Build more nuclear power plants since wind and solar do not provide dispatchable baseload and batteries don’t scale enough. No other technology comes even close to the energy density of nuclear power.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
> How many people eat McDonalds? If you’re already starting like this it’s obvious that the following text will be non-scientific non-sense. As a reminder: There is no such thing as “healthy food” and “unhealthy food”, there is just heal
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by cbmuser 2y ago
The memory comparison isn’t really fair as SysVInit relies on external utilities for starting and stopping processes. At the very least, SysVInit requires a shell for running init scripts which systemd doesn’t need for native service files.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
> If every package bundles libfoo what happens there's a security vulnerability in libfoo? That’s actually the key point that many people in this discussion seem to miss.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Multiple versions of a shared library is a pure nightmare if you actually care about security.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
The compiler takes care of vulnerabilities? There was a recent talk that discussed the security nightmare with dozens of different versions of shared libraries in NixOS and how difficult it is for the distribution maintainers to track and u
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by cbmuser 2y ago
The main argument for using shared libraries isn’t memory or disk usage, but simply security. If you have a thousand packages linking statically against zlib, you will have to update a thousand packages in case of a vulnerability. With a sh
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by cbmuser 2y ago
> It statistically evaluated mobile phone and car movement data for Germany How do you obtain car movement data if not by tracking cell phones?
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by cbmuser 2y ago
If your code contains unaligned access, you’re doing something wrong in the first place.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
> with fast networks, huge disks, fast processors --- it seems wasteful to me to even consider shared libraries. The problem is that you will always have to rebuild all packages that link against a certain library when a security updat
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by cbmuser 2y ago
> For Debian it was extremely painful. I did the transition for m68k, powerpc and sh4 and partially for hppa with the help of some other Debian Developers here and there and I'm still alive ;-).
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Customers are paying prices, not costs. A cheap kWh of solar electricity isn't useful when it's not available when needed. Prices are mandated by supply and demand. Also, while the costs of the solar modules may fall further, the
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Could someone fix the Kivy build with GCC 14? > https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/8557 This issue has been unresolved for half a year now.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Germany currently pays 20 billion Euros per year for subsidizing renewables. Yet, after doing this so-called energy transition for almost 25 years now and spending hundreds of billions of Euros on it, the country still has more than 130 coa
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by cbmuser 2y ago
Meanwhile Germany is still operating over 130 coal-fired power plants. Despite 25 years of energy transition.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
It‘s extremely difficult to predict the lifetime of a consumer product as it also depends on how it’s being used. Who knows, maybe the author has been using the oven excessively or never cleaned it etc. So far, we‘ve heard one side only.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
You do realize that in the end the manufacturers will just increase prices or move production to low-wage countries, no?
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by cbmuser 2y ago
How do we know whether this was an expensive oven?
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by cbmuser 2y ago
It’s not just TPM but a large number of CPUs Microsoft is just unwilling to support.
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by cbmuser 2y ago
If Microsoft wants more users to upgrade to Windows 11, they should get rid of their idiotic CPU limitations. There is absolutely no sane reason why Skylake and Broadwell CPUs shouldn’t be able to run Windows 11.

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