donny2018

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by donny2018 4y ago
To be fair, watching THREE reactors explode would be horrifying to anyone, any government would have panicked. With that said, I think even this old PWR design has actually proven itself to be extremely safe as it effectively prevented Cher
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by donny2018 4y ago
Is this real? That thing talks as if it was sentient. Or, if it is not actually sentient, maybe we are also not “sentient” as well.
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by donny2018 4y ago
As far as I know, almost everybody gets cold sores. But Alzheimers is much, much rarer than that.
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by donny2018 4y ago
TIL I’m somewhat of a Petri dish myself.
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by donny2018 4y ago
This would be perfect as a Silicon Valley episode.
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by donny2018 4y ago
Is there a heat pump technology that I can just swap my gas furnace to? With no additional insulation requirements and no other strings attached?
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by donny2018 4y ago
Visual Studio for Mac is evolving fast. Today it's much better than it was a few months ago. Now it is a good option for backend development.
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by donny2018 4y ago
What does that mean
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by donny2018 4y ago
True, but again there is Palo Verde nuclear plant that is located in the middle of the desert in Arizona and is cooled by sewage water from nearby cities. Some new fast reactor designs don't even need water for cooling. Also, China has
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by donny2018 4y ago
"Productivity and focus" means focus on producing more chat apps. I predict 2 chat apps next year.
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by donny2018 4y ago
If we remove Chernobyl from this list, we'll find that probably just 1 person died from radiation after power plant accidents. Fossil plants are killing millions of people every year. During heatwave this year, when we had temperatures
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by donny2018 4y ago
Also, we can build a nuclear plant in a desert country (where I live), but not much hydro. In fact, our hydro plants are generating less and less energy every year as our rivers are drying up.
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by donny2018 4y ago
As an owner of an 8gb M1 Air, I now think that a machine for “light usage” that can barely handle a half dozen of open tabs and 1 Docker container shouldn’t cost even half as much. I bought it for about $1700 with 512Gb SSD. In fact, Apple
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by donny2018 4y ago
My M1 Air is a nearly perfect machine, but I continuously find myself looking at the yellow “memory pressure” graph and swap disk writes. I wish Apple never offered 8gb version, as I was surprised to find that MacOS wants to use more RAM th
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by donny2018 5y ago
It’s just an adaptation issue. After switching from Android to iPhone, I forgot about the back button maybe in a couple of weeks.
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by donny2018 5y ago
I wonder how far technological independence can take you. There are still plenty of ways to cut you off from the infrastructure: your banks, your payment providers, your datacenter providers, etc. In theory, "they" can come after
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by donny2018 5y ago
Moderating doesn’t really work if you are an alcoholic. It’s easier to quit than go through torture of waiting for the next dose IMO.
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by donny2018 5y ago
I live in a 3-rd world country that has like 40 times less GDP per capita than the United States. The vast majority of our people work in the fields growing crops and are much poorer than the poorest communities in the US. Our people have t
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by donny2018 5y ago
Ah, now I get it. I thought you were talking about cases when “conspiracy theorists” are actually right, but their positions get poisoned by attributing some ridiculous stuff to them, and/or by artificial influx of similar “conspiracy
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by donny2018 5y ago
>There is a conspiracy theory that this method is used by conspirators to effect a coverup by discrediting skeptics of the official narrative. This is actual public disinformation practice, not a "conspiracy theory".
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by donny2018 5y ago
Hopefully, fusion energy will be reality way before we will be close to depleting known uranium resources.
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by donny2018 5y ago
I’m curious what happens when a number of public speech monopolies align their interests with certain political group and implicitly blend with the government. I guess this theoretical situation is totally legal, doesn’t break any amendment
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by donny2018 5y ago
It’s interesting why they don’t see it coming until it’s too late. This is literally a textbook case nowadays. Kodak, Polaroid, Nokia, Yahoo, etc.
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by donny2018 5y ago
It should be Android’s task to not pass emergency calls to third party apps. Even if you “fix” Teams, any other app still can do it, and you’ll never know.
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by donny2018 5y ago
“An Excel TikToker” and “Microsoft Excel influencer”. These are the most unexpected sentences I’ve read in a long time.
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by donny2018 5y ago
Well, GitHub came back online without me doing anything. GitHub’s life depends on providing a good service to customers. I think occasional downtime is a good tradeoff for what I am getting, as opposed to having to manage my own server.
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by donny2018 5y ago
That’s reasonable, I guess. If that is “capitalism” (with negative connotation) then what is more fair alternative to this?
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by donny2018 5y ago
I agree. But as a rule of thumb, if someone gives you the service for free, they have no choice but to collect value from you by other means. Whereas when you pay money for the service, the business does have a choice not to sell your dat
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by donny2018 5y ago
I don’t know if this is a good indicator or not, but Codespaces costs money. So there is a non-zero probability that you are not the product.
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by donny2018 5y ago
> I am witnessing public schools take math out of the curriculum at elementary, middle and high schools. Is that for real? If true, this is ridiculous. Do American authorities want to introduce some kind of education for plebs? How is su

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