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by derriz 5mo ago
“Better than coal” is a weak argument. Coal hasn’t been in the “game” for decades. The problem for nuclear isn’t anything irrational - it’s economics and operational and deployment flexibility - newer tech like solar PV, gas turbines, batt
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by derriz 6mo ago
I’d guess that the pattern of ball wrinkles are quite unique. It could have applications for secure login - you’d could hold your balls above your phone camera or lay them onto a USB attached mini-scanner for authentication.
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by derriz 6mo ago
When people get excited about fusion as a source of energy, I’m always reminded of Henry Ford’s famous quote: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” although apparently he probably never said that. Fus
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by derriz 6mo ago
> Why would it be surprising? Because I don’t know as much mathematics as you.
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by derriz 6mo ago
When I first read the exp-minus-log paper, I found it extremely surprising - even shocking that such a function could exist. But the fact that a single function can represent a large number of other functions isn't that surprising at a
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by derriz 6mo ago
> In a world where all the cars and trucks are electric you’re going to have to roughly supply your average highway with infrastructure comparable to the energy consumption of the cars on that highway (or the cities around it) This is no
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by derriz 6mo ago
Happens regularly. Last year’s heatwave caused a bunch of reactor shutdown across Switzerland and France - https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/02/france-and-switzerland-s...
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by derriz 6mo ago
Could you explain what you mean here? Hashes are _functions_ so provide the same output given the same input. If you don't reseed the RNG after every hash computation, then you break this vital property of hashes. And if you do reseed,
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by derriz 6mo ago
I would suggest at least having KYC (know your customer) rules which all banks, financial exchanges and traditional online bookmakers are required to implement would be reasonable for these markets? At least it would somewhat hinder the t
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by derriz 6mo ago
Trump leads a personality cult not a traditional political base. There are some who have stopped supporting him because they thought he aligned with their political views but 35% or so of the US population still support him despite his 180
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by derriz 6mo ago
C++ is the last language I'd add to any list of languages used for correct-by-design - it's underspecified in terms of semantics with huge areas of UB and IB. Given its vast complexity - at every level from the pre-processor to t
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by derriz 7mo ago
The phrase is striking but doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Companies make dogfood and sell it and expect others (dogs, who aren't known for verbalizing dissatisfaction with their food) to consume it. The producers of dog
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by derriz 7mo ago
If I were investing effort into acquiring knowledge in this domain, I'd skip straight to Polars. Before I made the switch, I had been using Pandas on and off for more than a decade. I'm not sure how representative this is, but m
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by derriz 7mo ago
It’s called TCO - tail call optimization - and gcc and llvm are supposed to implement it although tail recursive style code is probably uncommon in C or C++. Outside of that it’s common in functional languages where recursive functions are
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by derriz 7mo ago
I'm getting a lot of downvotes for the comment you're responding to so will likely withdraw from this discussion. But to be clear, I deliberately talked of prosecutors threatening charges, not actual indictments. Conviction throu
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by derriz 7mo ago
It's simply a fact that common law jury trials are time-consuming and expensive and cause long delays and bottlenecks in the justice system. Different common-law countries have addressed this issue in various ways. Restricting jury tr
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by derriz 7mo ago
Historically Lego was a construction toy. This is what it was in my youth. These days Lego sell model construction kits - most are constructed once and then the owner plays with the model. This represents a radical and fundamental change
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by derriz 7mo ago
> As with any religion, environmentalism Calling something a religion is a lazy and disingenuous way to dismiss it. The effects of airborne and waterborne pollution on human health has been the focus of scientific investigation for cent
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by derriz 7mo ago
By what measure? Coal hasn't been competitive for decades and the only way it had remained competitive in terms of cost per MWh even back then was if you burned it in huge (> 1GW) plants. 1GW plants are the very opposite of what y
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by derriz 7mo ago
This is a strange claim. During its peak years - in the mid 1990s - Moneypoint (the only coal plant in the country) provided 25% or more of the electricity mix while wind generation consisted of a few tiny pilot plants - contributing a min
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by derriz 7mo ago
This is the fundamental idea behind git - to fully compute/derive diffs from snapshots (commits) and to only store snapshots. While brilliant in some ways - particularly the simplifications it allows in terms of implementation, I’ve
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by derriz 7mo ago
> The idea is I believe from French: maïs, Noël, etc. Apropos of nothing, except that it will allow me to vent a bit, it also changes the rule for the pronunciation of the last consonant of French words. Normally the lack of a trailing &
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by derriz 7mo ago
Unrelated to the fundamental issue (a part of your pipeline generates invalid CSV), I would never store the name of the country like this. The country's name is "The Republic of Moldova" and I would store it like this. Sure
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by derriz 7mo ago
No equity holders got anything out of the liquidation - whether big or small [1]. Preference shares are just as worthless as common stock if there isn’t enough money to cover debt, tax bills, employee statuary entitlements/outstanding
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by derriz 7mo ago
This sounds great. parquet-java is extremely unpleasant to use with its massive fan-out of dependencies, an awkward API which exposes these dependencies causing the dependencies to bleed into a user's code base - the Hadoop stuff is p
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by derriz 8mo ago
My experience of public transport modes in various cities is at odds with this. Trams and trains generally offer far more reliable schedules, frequencies and journey times than busses because they either have completely dedicated alignments
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by derriz 8mo ago
At a certain point a bias in the prng just has to become significant? This will be a function of the experiment. So I don’t think it’s possible to talk about a general lack of “practical impact” without specifying a particular experiment.
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by derriz 8mo ago
HM handles sub-typing just fine? Numerous approaches have been known since the 1980s - Michael Wand’s row polymorphism is one such approach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_polymorphism
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by derriz 8mo ago
Not sure about your opening thesis. The vast majority of employees work for privately held businesses and from personal experience of working in such companies, “management” by OKRs and the like is common in companies who are not listed on
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by derriz 8mo ago
Should be a priority. Without it, your language relies on recursion for Turing completeness.

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