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by fch42 1y ago
Not every non-citizen doing a job in a foreign country does so illegally. Like in this case. What's wrong with foreigners, legally, with visums issued, building factories that then employ locals?
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by fch42 1y ago
Berlin also invested billions into rebuilding much of its metro system in the 1990s and early 2000s. Now, 25y later, with investment having dropped off, it's occasionally creaking. That said, to "beat BART" isn't a miles
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by fch42 1y ago
fair enough to notice though that while the Soviet Union may have had agreed to enter the war with Japan (at the Potsdam conference ?), it had not done so by the time the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima was dropped. It did declare war on Japan th
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by fch42 1y ago
But there are 500 linters to help you with idio(to)matic python coding. Honi soit qui mal y pense ...
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by fch42 1y ago
"secrets in env vars" (or program arguments) always triggers squeamy smirks off me. It's a bullsh*t rule. One that would work is a clear mandate, "if you're found to use env vars / args for secrets, you must de
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by fch42 1y ago
nuclear never got economy of scale? There were hundreds of nuclear power plants built across the world in the 1970s/1980s. Developed countries went from "no nuclear" to "~20..30% nuclear" or more in less than 20 yea
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by fch42 1y ago
AI breeds them, in cosy vats warmed by the exhaust heat of a thousand GPUs.
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by fch42 1y ago
$ date everything date: invalid date 'everything' (UNIX commands _are_ sentient)
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by fch42 1y ago
I can't begin imagining how the paper feels about being pimped out for money...
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by fch42 1y ago
It won't make it impossible for junior engineers to learn. It will simply reduce the amount of opportunities to learn (and not just for juniors), by virtue of companies' beancounters concluding "two for one" (several jun
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by fch42 1y ago
yea, "scapegoat" or "fall guy" would carry a similar meaning to "Bauernopfer" in German.
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by fch42 1y ago
"Bauernopfer" (German for "pawn sacrifice") is a common term in German to mean "sacrificing someone insignificant to get the big guy out of trouble". So the English translation might be machine-done; in the ori
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by fch42 1y ago
Amen to that. I wasn't trying to encourage anyone to try their hand on distilling without learning more about it. Only highlighting that one can "humanly relate" to Kelvin-based temperatures. If one so wishes. And that "
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by fch42 1y ago
The space on tube carriages is used for ... passengers. Unlike long-distance trains (where the locomotive is a rather sizeable unit of its own and has pretty much an electric substation of its own in it), the parts of a tube train reserved
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by fch42 1y ago
250K: quite cold. 300K: beach weather. 350K: you're distilling your own moonshine right ? (worksforme)
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by fch42 1y ago
You can booked timed tickets at https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/visit-the-co... but when it's open on weekends, one can also often just walk in. It's a great place to visit. Entrance
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by fch42 1y ago
Symbian was not quite as great as you describe it there. Asynchronous/message-passing-based alright but with a non-scaling message queue model (servers couldn't horizontally scale because there was only one request queue - you alw
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by fch42 1y ago
Somehow, this sounds quite appealing. I'm waiting for the dystopian SciFi novel now where earth's last survivors blast the escape route through that cloud of satellite rubbish for their Starship (TM), by use of an array of those.
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by fch42 1y ago
> > [ on ARM ] > Hiring data (both open jobs as well as LinkedIn) show otherwise. Their design presence in UK and US is similar in size, and the India one is not far behind. If you're saying here that ARM is a company with a l
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by fch42 1y ago
Final assembly != "entirely manufactured". Cymer brings the EUV lightsource, Zeiss the optics, ASML the mechanics and metrology. Commercial EUV Lithography system(s) aren't "a single parent's baby" even if ther
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by fch42 1y ago
"Ignition" was already mentioned. It has quite a few "anecdotes" about T-Stoff (then German term for 85%+ pure H2O2).
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by fch42 2y ago
It sure can be smashed up like a piggybank.
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by fch42 2y ago
While Ammonia generation "involves just nitrogen and hydrogen", the crux is that it requires high temperature . Haber-Bosch doesn't do at ambient - something like 800°C IIRC. And the heating for such is done by burning somet
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by fch42 2y ago
It's uneconomical only where little used. The conundrum for suburbs is not to put bus lines or trams in, but to get people to switch. Once/where widely used, these services pay for themselves. But an empty bus costs more to run th
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by fch42 2y ago
If you mean "eat or get eaten", then there's a few early red flags that the pursuit of growth and decarbonisation concurrently may well lead us back to that idea. There's a strong correlation in politics worldwide of e
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by fch42 2y ago
As a child aged five, I broke through the ice and fell into a pond that had frozen over. The Kindergarten teacher was both alert and quick thinking enough to get me out fast. I never remembered more of the event that a) I wore a velvety-bla
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by fch42 2y ago
Elon Musk burning down an X Datacenter would have a real Roman Emperor Nero vibe to it.
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by fch42 2y ago
You don't want either alpha or beta in your kidneys, not even for a test. The radiation could cause cancer.
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by fch42 2y ago
the stack (or stacks, for multithreaded processes) is not a "section" as far as executable file formats are concerned. It is amazingly hard at compile time to "know" that a specific pointer is on any stack.
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by fch42 2y ago
Also ... the lifetime issue here doesn't preclude the use of stack-based variables. A "local" variable of main() is "as good as" a global/static to pretty much all parts of the program.

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