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by cyberax 4mo ago
Ah... The AI learned the old HR trick: take 50% of resumes and throw them out without looking. Rationale: "we don't need unlucky losers".
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by cyberax 4mo ago
I'm sure China is going to be yearning for those sweet traffic pattern data during a war. They'll know which Walmarts they need to bomb first. It's not like there are satellites that can get high-res pictures of most of the U
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by cyberax 4mo ago
So do left-wingers. Just go on to one of the anarchist bro groups and listen all about "capitalism is failing us" and "we need to enforce the will of the people". Remember, democracy doesn't mean that "good&quo
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Passkeys are a subtype of WebAuthn keys, not vice versa.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Passkeys (as defined in the spec) by definition don't. Non-passkey WebAuthn keys can have additional attestations.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
> Do you honestly believe in the so called “free lunch”? Yes. Why not? A body is a complex biomechanical system, that can be influenced by certain chemicals. Some of them can solve the underlying problem. Why everything has to be a moral
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by cyberax 4mo ago
There's an alternative viewpoint: democracy is experiencing a revival. The old "cathedral-style" democracy is dying. People are seeing that the "regular" politicians are just ineffective and kinda boring. The old pa
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by cyberax 4mo ago
> It boils off a 1 mile deep water column? Yes? > And you don't need a core catcher when you are already 1 mile deep in bedrock. Yes, you do. Because if the shaft explodes or gets blocked near the top, the fission products can tr
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by cyberax 4mo ago
It boils off the coolant, creating a vapor lock, then water-zirconium reaction happens. Then it explodes and ruins the shaft. So you'll have to drill a rescue well, and then defuel the reactor to avoid any possible contamination. Again
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by cyberax 4mo ago
If you liked "The Idiot", there's a wonderfully bizzare adaptation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255958/ Looks like there are English subtitles that are quite decent.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
For a non-ECC version. A single-module 128Gb ECC stick is about $4500. HBM is even more expensive.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
HA is now pretty good on Postgres. As for scale... Just use a larger machine. This works for regular transactional data until you're at something like Amazon scale. Edit: Think about this, suppose that you store 1 megabyte of data for
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Perhaps we should look the other way: why use K8s if podman-compose can do the same? Maybe we should deprecate it and move towards simpler and more robust solutions?
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by cyberax 4mo ago
With this proposal? There are very few things that will NOT go wrong. I'm very pro-nuclear, but these kinds of projects are just scams.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Isolation from _what_? If you reactor melts down, it will contaminate the water column above it. And by having it inside the shaft, you won't be able to do any maintenance on it. It's a stupid idea designed to filter out investors
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by cyberax 4mo ago
The USSR built a nuclear district heating system in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) but never commissioned it because of the general anti-nuclear sentiment at that time. It's certainly possible and not even very hard (by nuclear standards)
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by cyberax 4mo ago
So it's a regular reactor BUT IN A MINESHAFT!! The reactors yearn for the mines! It's even _more_ stupid!
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Yes, it would. Fuel is around 2-4% of the total costs for a regular nuclear power plant, but that's because regular reactors can burn it deeply. This reactor will only burn a couple of percents of the available fuel, so the fuel costs
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by cyberax 4mo ago
We can then build a primary school on top! And use the water from the well for heating directly. What could possibly go wrong!?!?
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by cyberax 4mo ago
It's an extremely stupid idea. Your whole water column is going to be contaminated with fission products. And you won't be able to get any reasonable amount of power out of that contraption. And even if you are stupid enough to ac
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by cyberax 4mo ago
"Fail-safe" by definition means that the system fails into a safe state. Stopping the trains on comms failure _is_ safe.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Heh. Ukraine is doing better than that _during_ _the_ _war_: https://en.cfts.org.ua/news/ukrzaliznytsia_boasts_97_train_d...
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by cyberax 4mo ago
That's why everyone should use rootless Podman. It doesn't need anything apart from subuid/subgid binaries.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Most scripts now put all the code into a shell function and call it in the last line of the script, so this bug can't happen.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Yeah. My former coworker was researching ways to make steel less "activatable". Turns out that the most problematic contaminant is niobium, so he was working on possible ways to remove it completely. The proliferation risk was rea
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by cyberax 4mo ago
It's called "closed [nuclear] fuel cycle". Just google it. I studied it at a university. TLDR; if you have enough fast neutrons, you can transmute anything into safe materials. Fast neutron reactors produce enough, classic PW
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by cyberax 4mo ago
> Nuclear power is the highest cost source of electricity in LCOE terms [1]. That's utterly incorrect. For a country like Canada (or Germany), the priciest form of energy is solar. Wind is close second. And no, I'm not hallucin
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Less waste to deal with makes it safer, simply because you need to control and manage less material. We also know how to get rid of it entirely, leaving only material that will decay to safe levels within hundreds of years. It's prohib
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Yep, and we end up in a situation where the US-born people are working on "people skills", getting MBAs, and then going into management positions to manage the financialized companies. Except that there aren't that many manag
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Yeah, Chinese-style gaokao would be impossible in the US. And I think it goes _too_ far into the "competitive high pressure" direction. There are many ways to make a more competitive and objective system. I honestly don't hav

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