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by hakfoo 3y ago
What is it about nuclear that keeps it from coming online quickly? Is it solely regulatory red tape? Do we not have off-the-shelf designs (i. e. from when the French built scores of plants), or are they dependent on a catalog of no-longer-
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The big commercial selling point of E-ink is that it should be able to survive zero power. I assume that's why its first killer app has been pricetags. A store with 5000 items each requiring a LCD pricetag would be constantly replac
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That may be the case, but you'd expect that a service like public transit is likely to have a higher than average number of users (travelers from elsewhere) that don't speak French and they still chose to minimize concessions to E
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by hakfoo 3y ago
This seems like a better choice for the sake of "compatibility". Given that English is not a major local language outside of Hong Kong, I'd expect there's a very high chance that an English-only speaker might need to int
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by hakfoo 3y ago
You'd expect more of these platforms would be all-too-eager to go into the API business. Their value is what exists on the server side-- the networks, the content, the connections. The app is realistically more of a cost centre for th
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I always found the whole ID situation in the US comical. Using the driver's license as a default document seems like it was an accidental thing. You then get the Department of Motor Vehicles involved in tasks outside their scope (i. e
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The issue isn't about propaganda itself, and more that it's hard for anyone to keep up with a fickle audience. Even a "pure entertainment" product that doesn't need to do any particular ideological heavy lifting has
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by hakfoo 3y ago
What I like about Refind is that it tries to actively scan for bootable systems. So if I slide in a bootable flash drive, I get a new icon I can select, rather than having to mash keys to get into the setup program and bypass the default b
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I'd argue that the other aspect is that it abstracts out serialization. I have a small hobby project (a frontend for a TV tuner device) that originally held channel and EPG data in a few python dicts. This was clunky because I had to m
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I'd wonder if the idea of a cycle-perfect emulation for a 2600 is a poor target. It doesn't just rely on cycle-accurate timing of the chips themselves, it's abusing the old analogue TV formats to do its magic, and nothing tha
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Maybe it will force missile-gap thinking to get Western firms to compete directly. I could see Western governments dangling big contracts or research grants to firms like ST and Microchip, just to make sure they have a RISC-V product line
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Whenever I see politicians screaming about TikTok, it reminds me of the South Park Underpants Gnome business model. 1. Build platform teens love 2. ??? 3. Compromise national security. Fundamentally, the product isn't an effective way
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That paradigm used to be a thing for things like home-computer games-- the game might take 5 minutes for an anemic Commodore 1541 drive to load, so you'd use a "freeze" cartridge that snapshotted RAM after the load finished a
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by hakfoo 3y ago
There used to be some restaurants using relatively large-scale (typically 45mm gauge) model railway kit to deliver food to your table. The wagons were large enough to put a basket-style meal or a couple of drinks in each one.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I always figured a valuable long-term asset would be to buy mining rights for landfills; in the future, why deal with international issues to get access to low-grade ores scattered within an entire mountain, when there's a vein of disc
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by hakfoo 3y ago
If skipped segments are such a problem for the airlines, couldn't they fix it by ensuring that they never priced an stopping flight cheaper than any of its subsidiary segments? Or maybe they could develop services that consumed those a
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by hakfoo 3y ago
As far as I can tell, the SPA paradigm solves exactly one issue: Whiny users saying "but it flashes and reloads the header and navigation between page views and desktop/mobile apps don't.". Since HTML never had a proper
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Shorthand scripts, as used by stenographers tome to mind; while there are common conventions I understand that many of them were extended by individual users to the point of being unreadable to anyone else.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
For people who are considering vegetarianism for environmental or health reasons, it's important to be able to say "You don't have to go without." Yes, there are a billion lovely things you can do with vegetables, but so
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It's a pretty nuanced thing. Some large OEMs with the resources to do the design effort could use a large passive heatsink on even surprisingly late processor (i. e. Pentium 4) because they could make a holistic design with shrouds and
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The presence of the second-tier manufacturers forces an interoperable world at the component level. If Samsung made flash that only worked with Samsung controllers and Samsung-exclusive PCB designs, they'd have a far smaller addressabl
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The 'ticket' was poetic language. I'm pretty sure we have some snappy actuaries who can give us a pretty good estimate of how many 60-year-olds there will be in 2050. If done right, it might produce more services than just g
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking. Around here we have a "newspaper" ( https://territorialnewspapers.com/ ) that's mostly distributed in free boxes at local restaurants; it seems to be various articles o
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I wish we could "de-dollarise" sectors of the economy. When it comes to money, we manage to miss the application problem. The classic "people don't want a drill, they want a hole." I don't want $n,000,000 net
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by hakfoo 3y ago
As a Genshin player who has never played BOTW, I'll disagree. What do they have in common? A bright fantasy setting with a large, more or less seamless territory to explore. That's not super-novel; it's sort of what we&#x27
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I'm thinking a stipend eliminates the need for "commercial success". If your band tours to public parks or empty bars, you still get a living wage. If you crank out six paintings a month but they just line the halls of publi
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I was always sort of surprised nobody invented a clear declaration for that sort of thing-- a pre-packaged, battle-tested paragraph you could put in your will that says "On my death, all my copyrights immediately revert to the public d
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I think we need to completely revisit the ownership model here. Kill copyright entirely. (I would vote for anyone-- up to and including Mike Pence-- who made this a major plank of their campaign) We have at least one corner of the univers
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by hakfoo 3y ago
If it means something, I've occasionally seen orders from AliExpress (where you'd expect the goods to be 99% Chinese-made) where the customs declarations/shipping label lists an even lower GDP country as the nominal return ad
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I could imagine it almost working as a two-tiered universe. You'll have a lot of thin-client/remote environments used for places where the primary metric is manageability. Think of how schools love Chromebooks, and places like ca

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