darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
Obviously Windscale wasn't modern and SL-1 certainly wasn't either. My point was that simple designs are poor designs, that modern designs are complex for good reason. The added system complexity of automation is well worth it
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It seems to me that the simplest reactors tend to be the most dangerous. I'm thinking of the Windscale fire and SL-1 in particular. One of the theories for what went wrong at SL-1 is that it was a murder-suicide, caused by the man t
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Doing good in other respects doesn't nullify their crimes. I'm not saying the substance should be banned; I'm saying this industry needs vigilant regulation.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Same industry, same shameless marketing to kids.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Where do you think the nicotine in any of these products comes from? The whole damn thing is the tobacco industry, not merely the parts of it wearing the legacy brands on their sleeves. The reputation of the tobacco industry is well ea
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Maybe it hypothetically could happen, but I don't think it's likely to. I don't think either side of the aisle has any real interest in discussing the matter.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In many cases people on the streets had strongly family ties, up until their mental illness began to manifest and their family was no longer able or willing to continue supporting them. People get kicked out of their houses because of vi
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Drivers licenses are already contentious in some respects, and a National ID is likely to be contentious in those same respects. Namely, if you create one, is it then acceptable to require voters to present it before allowing them to vote?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's really a matter of how badly the community wants it I think.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> " anyone who says otherwise is either lying " Often to themselves in my experience. People who've not yet discovered any of their own talents are sometimes bitter at the suggestion that talent is a real thing.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The problem is not year-round participation in sports; the problems are specific to the sports themselves. Swimming year-round is very common and the only thing likely to get harmed is the health of your hair. That's because swim
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The result is often a classic game running on a modern system without needing to jump through hoops, which is a huge win to people who enjoy playing the game in question. OpenTTD, OpenRCT2, and OpenMW all come to mind, not to mention the ma
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Ah, a fellow optimist.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If you want a lisp on mobile kick, I've heard good things about lambdanative. It would still be cool to have racket mobile apps though.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
First off, that's a fair viewpoint. However, would you consider venturing outside the cave if you were allowed to leave the cave every evening? I don't use racket at work, but I enjoy using it on the evenings and weekends. For m
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Mixins are pretty cool. I was playing around with 'framework's editor mixins a while ago and found it to be a pretty interesting system.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Yeah I don't use racket's class system on a regular basis for anything other than racket/gui. It's not so much that I find myself unable to do things with it; it's just that it's one of the cases where racket
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by darkpuma 7y ago
My friend offered to grill me a hamburger last Saturday when we were hanging out in his backyard, but I politely declined. His burgers look desirable, but I explained my concern that tasting one of his burgers might permanently diminish my
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The Google ecosystem can drown in bleach for all I care. F-Droid is not bad at all. Downloading apps from the Google store is an awful experience because on that store it's the norm for damn near every application to spy on yo
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Tk from python is pretty damn convenient, being as it's always there. Not the most modern toolkit for sure, but always being there is a pretty compelling feature for some GUI projects.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Arc is an a lisp dialect that's been implemented in racket.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I hope this year it's videoed well. In past years except the last it's been fine, but last year I'm guessing whoever normally does it wasn't available for 2018.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In principle you can get pretty far with racket/gui despite it's limited amenities because you can roll your own widgets with canvas. However I too ran into wanting to create a drag source (not merely target) for files and could
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Rivers are of particular interest because they represent the primary mechanism by which inland plastic finds it's way into the ocean. Coastal releases of plastic only happen in coastal regions. Granted, most of the world's p
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by darkpuma 7y ago
We do have the tools. International economic and military sanctions on regions that refuse to cooperate in cleanup and reform efforts, and international funding for those that do. Other rivers have been cleaned up before, the big 10 poll
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I think the case he's talking about adds about 150g or so. If you're an ultralight hiker who's counting the grams, there are probably better options on the market. Otherwise I don't think many would notice during the
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Feels like RTS games have not fully exploited the potential of multi-monitor setup." Depending on how that's implemented, I could see that rapidly becoming de facto "pay to win".
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Technically you can carve a wood log with a piece of sandpaper, but I recommend a chainsaw.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It took me two readings to catch that "269,000 tonnes" was not '269,000k tonnes' I recommend trying to keep the unit/scale matched up to improve comprehension rates.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
A TON of people have an irrational gut reaction against landfills in general and the concept of burying plastic in particular. There is absolutely no shortage of landfill space, but due to some mafia fuckery in the 80s (MOBRO 4000: http

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