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931.
by corty 6y ago
Just don't use pip, use apt. What isn't packaged isn't worth it anyways. Non-distro package managers, a dozen per language are a disease.
932.
by corty 6y ago
Well, you could just use the first few primes multiplied together as a base. 2 * 3 gives you base6, 2 * 3 * 5 gives you base30. Neither commonly used system does that, base12 uses 2 twice, base10 skips 3. So from a divisibility PoV both are
933.
by corty 6y ago
Doubling and halving is easier in binary, just add or remove a digit ;)
934.
by corty 6y ago
Linux distribution package managers work like this. Updates can run in the background, processes pick up new libraries whenever they are restarted, but updates can happen before that during normal operation mostly without any disturbance (t
935.
by corty 6y ago
Well, you separate the spent fuel into chemical components by suitable chemical processes. One of those components is plutonium salts. So, yes, reprocessing is a rather direct way to nuke materials.
936.
by corty 6y ago
Fukushima were BWRs, and older and far shittier than the PWR in TMI. TMI is how such an accident "should" look like. And of course there are improvements on that in newer generations.
937.
by corty 6y ago
Core catchers do need emergency cooling working. Also, Fukushima had far more basic failures in far simpler safety features being lacking or absent. No pressure-resistant containment to speak of. No hydrogen recombinators. No passive emerge
938.
by corty 6y ago
Similar to how we "know" how many people a low-level nuclear release killed: You know how much of a high dose of some carcinogen it takes for a certain cancer or death risk. You scale this down linearly to low doses. Then you esti
939.
by corty 6y ago
> Look at Fukushima for example. Look at Three Mile Island. That is the kind of accident profile with less shitty reactor designs than Chernobyl and Fukushima you should be looking at. Modern PWRs built today are even safer than TMI in a
940.
by corty 6y ago
I fear Germany will never build another nuclear power plant again. The anti-nuclear propaganda has become a religion now, any argument about safety is ignored mumbling the mantra "but they said Chernobyl/Fukushima was safe",
941.
by corty 6y ago
PV is also cheaper because the possibly polluting production is outsourced to china.
942.
by corty 6y ago
Yes. Producing semiconductors or rare earth magnets is not a very clean process, Silicon Valley has a lot of uglyness left over from such processes. Cheap renewables supplies produced in the far east are certainly not clean in that regard,
943.
by corty 6y ago
Nuclear weapon use in the atmosphere, especially when not near-ground, is orders of magnitude cleaner than reactor accidents. A few hundred kg vs. tens of tons of isotopes released.
944.
by corty 6y ago
In that interpretation, the authors point is even less valid. In that case he just advocates substituting a dark color by a less dark one, wrecking contrast and thereby acccessability.
945.
by corty 6y ago
This might all be true for paintings, but on a screen, #000 isn't black. It is usually a dark gray, depending on the backlight and contrast of your screen. And even with OLEDs, it might be darker, but it isn't really black. So imh
946.
by corty 6y ago
You can also get a trajectory with a stack of CCDs where the trajectory is not in the plane of the CCD. Actually the stack may be very high with quite some distance between individual CCDs, because you need trajectory in and out of detector
947.
by corty 6y ago
I'm not holding my breath for the implementation of this decision. After the public poll, politicians quickly claimed to want to implement this right away. Just to descend into the usual inability to decide upon anything (who wants whi
948.
by corty 6y ago
Wouldn't the application method be a large influence here as well? I imagine that adverse effects from oral application should be more pronounced in the stomach and bowels than with IV use.
949.
by corty 6y ago
Most nuclear plants in Europe can do 5% per minute changes. That is not as quick as for gas turbines, but also not really slow. Load following is just not used very often, because you usually regulate down your most expensive power source (
950.
by corty 6y ago
Very nice writing. The Register is always good for a laugh, but this one stands out.
951.
by corty 6y ago
Most of EIDAS is quite fine, but there are really stupid ideas in there. Remote signatures are signatures where the key user is not the key owner. The key is located with some service provider who signs with the user's key on request.
952.
by corty 6y ago
With lots of BS like EIDAS remote "signatures". I wouldn't necessarily trust this for anything important.
953.
by corty 6y ago
Feature parity is impossible. Webextensions are intended to take away possibilities like altering the UI or calling out to external programs. So webextensions will never ever be on feature parity with XUL addons. Also, changes to webextensi
954.
by corty 6y ago
Without having lived there, but from reading: Shame and guilt is basically non-honor, so the positive emotion used for positive inforcement is a feeling of honor.
955.
by corty 6y ago
Minimum effort. On Linux they are basically only interested in Cuda and Mining working.
956.
by corty 6y ago
Ordering a paramedic is as criminal as doing it themselves. "Suggesting" it might be fine if the paramedics are free to say "no", but ordering using medication by non-doctors is criminal behaviour over here...
957.
by corty 6y ago
Paramedics here are only allowed to do so if a doctor is not available and there is an emergency waranting using medication. After giving such medication, close monitoring and hospitalisation is mandatory, except if the physician arrives in
958.
by corty 6y ago
Half of those "security" features are at best useless and at worst more DRM features anyways. And yes, the firmware update mechanisms in android are abysmal in general, but that this is slightly better in google phones doesn'
959.
by corty 6y ago
Question is if the effect will last or if the birth rate will start climbing due to COVID-19. Then it might have been good short-term but really bad long-term.
960.
by corty 6y ago
Polio is available as an oral vaccine that used to be widespread in the west. I still remember demanding a sugarcube with every oral medication after getting one for the polio vaccination :) That doesn't seem to stop anti-vaxxers: htt

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