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by corty 5y ago
How it worked was: you got mustered for the draft at 17 or 18, and depending on whether you finished school you got your draft notice between 18 and 20. At any point you could declare being a conscientious objector and apply for a spot at T
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by corty 5y ago
No, 10 years, but only for regular weekend exercises (5 times a year or so) plus being on call for emergencies. Whereas military service or other civil service (typically helping in some hospital or care facility) was a 8 to 24 month block
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by corty 5y ago
I think there are 3 stages: Inexperienced, will buy anything that sounds good and trustworthy, no matter whether snakeoil or real deal, because they don't know better. That is most mom&pop shops. Burned, will buy/do nothing, b
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by corty 5y ago
Only about half. The rest is through emailed trojans and RCE bugs.
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by corty 5y ago
Typically only companies that had a disaster happen to them or their customers (like that insurance) will have the institutional awareness. All the rest will file the risk somewhere with alien abductions and toilet paper shortages. When you
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by corty 5y ago
Not really, half the EU, especially the east, sided with the US in the matter. I think it was good that Germany didn't cave (yet), but European unity just wasn't there at all.
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by corty 5y ago
> It is perfectly legal to offend people in Germany. No, wrong, it isn't. https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/183a.html https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/166.html Sexual and religious
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by corty 5y ago
Oh, Google Drive bans advertisements? Interesting... ;)
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by corty 5y ago
You can have strong borders without a byzantine process. For example: Just stamp any entry application with "nope". Predictable, fair, strong, easy, cheap.
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by corty 5y ago
Damore is a taboo topic, just leave it be. Discussing it will only hurt your karma, on HN and even more so out there.
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by corty 5y ago
Yes, and it is nice that they are doing it. But they are limited by their manpower and financials. And they are not agressive enough imho, e.g. by avoiding litigation and extending courtesies like voluntary GPL2 extensions after termination
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by corty 5y ago
Well, maybe. Until the likes of Oracle come along and sue the shit out of your nice little startup for a few lines of wrongly-attributed boilerplate. Licenses aren't enforced by most hippie coders due to lack of interest and money. But
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by corty 5y ago
Because yet another blog needs subscribers...
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by corty 5y ago
There is a snag, one that Popper didn't understand either, but which makes this all the clearer: predictions are never proven correct in science. They are shown to be "not false within the bounds of statistical and measurement err
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by corty 5y ago
Gen4 reactors are an active area of research, but it isn't like there are none. Some concepts go back decades, as do prototypes like THTR-300 that actually produced power for a few years. That stress will limit the lifetime of a reacto
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by corty 5y ago
So Iraq didn't ask for it with WMD? Afghanistan didn't ask for it with harboring Taliban? "Asking for it" is an acceptable excuse for a war internationally.
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by corty 5y ago
Probably Afghanistan was also the wrong target, or at least not the only country in the region that should have been targeted. Bin Laden hid in Pakistan after all, and the Taliban often crossed the border to Pakistan to seek refuge.
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by corty 5y ago
Especially those departments should do so and learn to do it. Financial departments are always the ones complaining about the cost of mistakes, compliance risks (of the monetary kind) and doing due diligence. Preventing the production of wr
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by corty 5y ago
In R, you can use accepted methods of software development and engineering, such as version control, automated testing, CI/CD to catch mistakes and prevent them from causing harm. In Excel? Not really.
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by corty 5y ago
The containment isn't the most expensive part, the pressure vessel is. Single forged part of some magic stainless steel alloy able to withstand 300bar at 500K and high neutron flux costing a billion or more. Gen4 reactor designs try to
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by corty 5y ago
Half of Eastern Europe plus Germany used Western and Russian airplanes at the same time after the cold war ended. Before the Eurofighter finally arrived, the best fighter jets the Luftwaffe had were MIG-29s.
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by corty 5y ago
Not really. Logic in Excel is based on stuff like SUMIF( ...) which is totally unreadable without lots of context about the cell or range it refers to. If someone fumbled the fill command and some cell is missing the formula? You'll ne
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by corty 5y ago
Even then it would be kinda useless, because of the difference between hypothetical billing codes 22934a "Stitches, easy location, no complications" and 22934z "Stitches, weird location, infection present, uncooperative patie
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by corty 5y ago
Most, but not all. That is the entire point: Excel is never safe in any configuration.
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by corty 5y ago
I agree that R isn't ideal, and a proper programming language is preferable to both. Which one of course will depend on the domain, but proper control over float precision, fixed-point arithmetics, bignum and debuggability isn't g
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by corty 5y ago
rstudio is an excellent gui for R. So you can already start with R.
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by corty 5y ago
Big big reason: R doesn't alter data without being asked to, Excel does so, silently, sneakily. Anything important should not be done in Excel. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-
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by corty 5y ago
That is untrue as well. Inflexibility isn't the problem, the cost profile is. Yes, nobody likes running nuclear at half power, because fuel costs are minute compared to the building cost of the plant (Btw that is exactly analogous to t
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by corty 5y ago
Stop spreading that myth. Nuclear isn't that inflexible, load following is possible and frequently done over here. "Modern nuclear plants with light water reactors are designed to have maneuvering capabilities in the 30-100% range
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by corty 5y ago
Depending on whether their CPU usage figures include waiting for memory accesses, any savings in RAM usage might be worth it: current systems do have a lot less memory bandwidth than CPU power, so it is preferable to compute more and load&#

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