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by cbmuser 5y ago
The VAX backend in GCC was recently modernized and improved so it could survive the cc0 removal. There was a fundraiser which I created for that purpose.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Sounds like an advertisement.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
People can just use other tools like Bazel or Ninja. Make works the way it’s intended to work. Leave it as is.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Why on earth do you need to hack on GNUMake in the first place? It’s old software which has far better and faster replacements like Ninja. The whole design of Make itself is outdated and inefficient which is why tools like Ninja are much fa
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Make is a very old codebase that you shouldn’t change in dramatic way anyway. It’s in itself an outdated piece of software which has far better and more modern replacements. No need to break it for older systems.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Flatpak is incredibly useful for installing proprietary software. I use it for Spotify, Zoom, Slack among others. Installing and updating Flatpak apps for proprietary software works very well.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
I agree, VueScan is awesome. Highly recommended for anyone using a scanner.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
It’s actually been built by SIEMENS/Areva which is ironic because Germany is on the brink on shutting down all of its nuclear power plants.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Debian has support for all of these architectures except for 486 since support in the kernel package was accidentally dropped and nobody noticed it for a year, so the baseline was bumped to 586. > https://cdimage.debian.org&#x
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by cbmuser 5y ago
> Renewables account for most new U.S. electricity generating capacity in 2021 Capacity doesn’t buy you much for volatile renewable energies since the capacity factors for PV and wind are relatively low and wind production is unpredictab
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Russia built two Gen III+ reactors with 1200 MW each at the site of the existing Novovoronezh nuclear power plant for just about three billion Euros (250 billion Rubles). > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novovoronezh
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Both France, Japan and the US have proven that nuclear scale up perfectly well.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
James Hansen, long time head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS), thinks otherwise: > https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/kh05000e.html
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by cbmuser 5y ago
FWIW, we’re still building an unofficial port of Debian for sh4: > https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=sh4&suit... Installer images are being built, too. But currently don’t boot due to an resolv
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Your title is misleading. They’re not expanding 1000 drivers, but their own Linux distribution with over 1000 drivers, i.e. they’re adding drivers to their own distribution. > Analog Devices Expands Linux Distribution with Over 1000 Devi
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Since no one bothered to explain what WWV and WWVH are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVH
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Germany has a large share (50%) of renewables and their specific CO2 emissions per kWh are up to ten times higher as compared to France with 70% nuclear. Volatile renewables don’t effectively help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. https:
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Physics won’t change in a thousand years and it’s very unlikely we’ll find anything more powerful and energy-dense beyond nuclear fission and fusion.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
It’s worth noting that you are confusing system costs and levelized costs of electricity. Cheap wind and solar electricity is absolutely useless if it cannot be produced on demand. Nuclear produces electricity 24/7, independent of weat
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Any reading suggestions for books on electricity from archive.org? Are there any particularly old books that are interesting?
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Well, I don’t see why it shouldn’t happen. It’s not like the UK is currently building nuclear power plants like China or Russia do.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
It is cheaper as long as you don’t ignore the necessary backup power plants that solar and wind need.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Russia’s brand-new Novovoronezh II NPP with 2x1200 MW costs $4 billion to build. Germany is paying 24 billion Euros of renewable energy subsidies through its electricity prices - every year. Nuclear can be cheap if you don’t mess it up.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Nuclear doesn’t need any backup plants or grid extension. The capital costs are high, but the electricity production is almost a 100% planable and reliable. I mean, Germany’s electricity situation is basically proving you wrong. We have the
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Actually, it’s the opposite. It’s absolutely low risk because the electricity production can be sold years in advance if you want. Nuclear electricity has the highest of all capacity factors and is therefore almost 100% planable, so there i
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by cbmuser 5y ago
The fixed priced negotiated for Hinkley Point C is something like 90 GBP per MWh for the next 35 years. The market spot price in the UK is at 150-200 GBP per MWh now.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
That’s only when you compare the levelized costs of electricity and ignore the huge system costs of volatile renewables. You don’t gain anything from cheap wind power if it’s not available when you actually need it.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
Exactly. Cheap wind and solar electricity is useless if it isn’t produced on-demand. It still blows my mind that so many have such a hard time grasping such a simple and fundamental concept.
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by cbmuser 5y ago
All nuclear power plants in Germany are capable to be operated in load-follow mode, see: > https://www.ktg.org/ktg-wAssets/docs/fg-bet-rph-lastfolgebet... Also, nuclear power was never subsidized in Germany: &g
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by cbmuser 5y ago
That’s irrelevant since Germany is often exporting electricity at cheap or even negative prices. The net value also doesn’t buy you anything if you have to import electricity due to lack of local production. France can self-supply itself wi

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