derriz

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by derriz 10mo ago
> It's also just common sense. Centuries of success with empirical based science is a direct rejection of the approach of trusting "just common sense". > Only someone without kids would boil this down to a "single
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by derriz 10mo ago
> I trust my own observations and my conclusion Why would you decide to hold a position strongly based on a minuscule and extremely biased sample set and reject even considering data and studies outside of your immediate experience? Unl
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by derriz 10mo ago
The scales of rollout are so vastly different, it is just noise. China will add 450GW or more renewables this year alone. Even after dividing by 4 this represents more additional energy production capacity in ONE year than their 15 year tar
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by derriz 10mo ago
> The energy mix in Germany leads to a situation where electric cars are dirtier than diesel (for the first ~200000 km / 125000 miles driven). Renewable share of electricity production is about 56% so this claim is not at all credib
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by derriz 10mo ago
China's plan is to add 100GW of nuclear by 2040. In 2024 alone, it added 360GW of wind and solar and the trajectory for renewables is steepening, not declining so this year's number looks like it will exceed this number - 450GW or
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by derriz 10mo ago
The technology of electricity production has advanced since nuclear peaked in the mid 1980s. We have better/cheaper ways of producing electricity than attaching a heat source to tank of water, boiling the water to produce steam, then f
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by derriz 10mo ago
In the first 5 months of this year, China added 198 GW of solar PV and 46 GW of wind. Nuclear is a small side-hustle for them.
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by derriz 10mo ago
Your example of an uninitialized memory situation will not be so compelling for old-school C engineers because they've "solved" the issue decades ago by integrating tools like valgrind into their work-flows. They don't
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by derriz 10mo ago
How exactly can you send a billion dollars to someone in Uganda using Bitcoin? Purchase and sale of bitcoin is highly regulated and obviously tracked - and the blockchain itself provides little privacy - I’m guessing state-level actors have
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by derriz 10mo ago
I was involved in a Scala point version migration (2.x) migration a few years ago. I remember it being painful. Although I recall most of the pain was around having lots of dependencies and waiting for libraries to become available. At th
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by derriz 10mo ago
Or if you do want a manicured plot, just cut them with a lawnmower? The bane of my young life was having the job of cutting the grass around the house - we lived in the country at the time and had about 1/2 an acre of lawn as well as f
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by derriz 10mo ago
> A function that doesn't take an Io argument but wants to call another function that requires an Io argument can't. Why? Can’t you just create an instance of an Io of whatever flavor you prefer and use that? Or keep one aroun
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by derriz 11mo ago
If your program requires executing another program to prepare its options, then something has gone wrong in design or architecture. Configuration is a type of API - and should be designed with the same care and goals including human legibil
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by derriz 11mo ago
> Programming languages have . . . control flow I do not want control flow of any kind in my configuration file. Nor do I want expressions or any kind of evaluation. Greppability is a must-have feature for me. As is simplicity - I don’
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by derriz 11mo ago
I feel the exact opposite (regarding reciprocal tariffs). If your neighbor makes demands and threatens to shoot themselves in the foot if you don't accept, responding by shooting yourself in the face does not seem like a good tactic. U
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by derriz 11mo ago
That’s not the way “latency” is commonly used in my experience. Latency numbers always include queuing time - so the measures are not related or derivable from each other. A process might have a throughput of 1 million jobs per second but i
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by derriz 1y ago
> Of course nuclear is much more complex as a whole, because it comes with at least two, sometimes three different business sections attached by default: Production and sale of rare isotopes, on-site laboratories and research and recycli
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by derriz 1y ago
I don’t understand your point - there’s no symmetry there. Regulated venues dominate nearly every sphere of trading in terms of volume. They have done this by being more attractive to buyers and sellers than unregulated venues - i.e. regula
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by derriz 1y ago
All successful markets in history have been regulated to some degree. A market requires sellers AND buyers and buyers will flock to a market where they're not burdened with the cost and expense of having to do their own research and i
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by derriz 1y ago
I'm not sure how you are measuring complexity. The plant and equipment required to maintain a stable nuclear reaction and extract its heat is far more complex than that required to control a coal or natural gas firebox. This is reflect
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by derriz 1y ago
Electricity prices are set by the French government not the wholesale cost or cost of production. Which is why EDF - the operator of the French nuclear fleet - regularly posts massive losses. Like the €18 billion loss in 2023. https:&#x2
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by derriz 1y ago
I know what you mean - took me a while too. I understood what it does, how the parameters affect what it does and the mechanics of it, but struggled to "hear" it. I even bought a cheap $25 Behringer guitar compressor pedal to see
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by derriz 1y ago
That’s my point - reusing an existing connector type for a new and completely incompatible role will not make life easier. I joked to a friend once that it would be far better if we just used a single connector type for everything in audio
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by derriz 1y ago
Why? The transmission system is used to span distance to bring energy from large producers to large concentrations of consumers. Traditionally power consumption was concentrated in and around cities while power generation happened away f
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by derriz 1y ago
Why would you choose XLR as a connector for an application like this? Why choose one of the most common connectors you’re likely to see in an environment where someone will be mixing audio for a completely incompatible application? Hope t
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by derriz 1y ago
In the last 9 months, we’ve seen the destruction of US international soft power on an unimaginable scale. It’s like watching a family fortune - built up over decades - go up in smoke in the hands of an irresponsible young heir. It will be
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by derriz 1y ago
What's easy about vinyl? If you want a kid to have a physical copies of music, then CDs generally cost between a third and a tenth the price of the vinyl equivalent and are far more "kid friendly" - not just the CDs themselv
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by derriz 1y ago
You can be the most efficient without being the one causing the most death. Maybe Israel is scoring well in terms of amount of starvation caused per hour of genocidal effort?
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by derriz 1y ago
> The sort rules are simple In considering the simplicity of the rule, I think you're using a developers perspective here where we automatically classify numbers and have a clear mental model of the separation between value and repr
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by derriz 1y ago
The most common date format used in Europe uses period separators so can often appear in filenames. Commas are probably more rare. Things like versions are often fractional like v1.3 or v1.11 and can appear embedded in filenames.

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