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by jabl 2y ago
I agree with the sentiment in general, but wrt China in particular, how socialist is it really? Yes, it's a one-party authoritarian state that calls itself communist, largely due to historical reasons. But the contemporary Chinese econ
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Yes, it was a bad example. But the underlying issue is very real, in that many important decisions are made with unanimous votes. Which puts the entire EU at the whims of any single country, which could even be compromised by Putin ( cough
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Modern European democracy is indeed not immune to fascism (or something resembling it, to stave of a quibble of what actually fascism means). Most prominently Orban in Hungary. Poland was well on their way towards something similar, but luc
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by jabl 2y ago
> Funny you mention hotels, because I was in one in France not two weeks ago and it had the worst sockets I've ever seen. My worst experience was in a hotel in the US, with the weight of my adapter and plug they just fell out of the
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by jabl 2y ago
Isn't this the common thing in (most of?) Europe? At least here up north it seems to be the standard.
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So then you do what ardour did, bundle (a subset of) gtk2 with your app sources? Not necessarily worse, and certainly a lot less work, than writing your own GUI library from scratch, that you then have to bundle with your app anyway becau
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by jabl 2y ago
There's even a COBOL frontend in GCC these days! That being said, the problem isn't so much the COBOL language itself but rather that all the software written in it is connected to all kinds of database system, messaging systems(?
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by jabl 2y ago
If anything, economies of scale are a powerful argument for free trade. Say, we can have a single company in Taiwan running insanely capital intensive chip factories making chips for the entire world. One downside of this being resiliency;
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Which countries would that be? Capturing CO2 from the atmosphere in order to have a source of carbon is, to this day, a technology in the prototype stage. If you're thinking of Germany during WWII, or South Africa during apartheid, the
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by jabl 2y ago
I'm not familiar at all with the Ferrocene specification, but in general I do wonder if the ISO C/C++/Fortran (singling these out as I'm somewhat familiar with them, not saying there aren't other languages with simi
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by jabl 2y ago
> How was the Alpha a bad bet? Not technically (Alpha ISA had its good and bad sides, but was decent enough), but economically. DEC just didn't have the marketshare and thus economic muscle to survive in a game of ever increasing R&
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> In 2014, a shop called VMS Software Inc (VSI) strikes some kind of deal with HP where they get to develop and support new versions of VMS while older versions continue to belong to HP. As part of this, they finally announce an x86-64 p
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by jabl 2y ago
Also, a Cortex A76 isn't exactly a speed demon, even compared to some used x86 laptop saved from the recycling bin. The Cortex A53 on the original MNT Reform is even worse. Then again, if you're mostly just editing text and doing
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by jabl 2y ago
I have no interest in a one country vs. another country pissing match, just pointing out that (arbitrarily) selecting the bachelor degree as some kind of metric might be highly misleading, at least in the case of Finland.
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by jabl 2y ago
Perhaps we should dust off Keynes' Bancor proposal? :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancor
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> For example, Finland has lower attainment rates for bachelor degree equivalents than the US. This would seem to disprove your point. In Finland, most university students go for a master's degree. A bachelor's degree is often
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by jabl 2y ago
There was a lot of other stuff than just import substitution in the Asian miracle. See https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-how-asia-works
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by jabl 2y ago
Not sure why this is on the HN front page. Post is riddled with errors, although it mixes in a few in-some-cases truths as well. Oh, and [2023].
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by jabl 2y ago
It's impossible to conclusively say whether dazzle worked or not, due to the large number of confounding variables. One study, which I unfortunately forget where I read it, came to the tentative conclusion that it was probably mostly a
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by jabl 2y ago
The key thing is doing the exercise problems; most textbooks have them at the end of each chapter. Yes, it takes time. Yes, you will struggle, and it's hard work going through them. But it's really the only way to make sure you re
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by jabl 2y ago
Somewhat related, I think there were some projects to use VHS video cassettes for data storage too. It was much better than C cassettes, but still a very far cry from what one would consider worthwhile these days. IIRC a couple of GB per ca
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by jabl 2y ago
Well, the EM field CAN be quantified. Just look up any textbook on quantum field theory. And the quanta of the EM field is called the photon. But, to "solve" the wave /particle conundrum, I like to think of it as fields all t
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by jabl 2y ago
The city where I live has a district heating system using water, the temp in the mains is up to 130C or thereabouts. Occasionally there are failures, but they tend to be fairly undramatic. Due to the temperature the water flashes to steam w
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by jabl 2y ago
There's an interesting lecture about the New York city steam heating system by Dan Holohan at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nkgM0qCy5o4
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by jabl 2y ago
Not the OP, but I'll take a stab at it. In C99, C added the 'restrict' qualifier for pointers, which would make function arguments marked with it behave a bit like procedure arguments in Fortran. Idea being to allow the compi
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by jabl 2y ago
I don't actually think mono ever implemented cross-platform versions of the various GUI libraries. There was/is Gtk#, a binding to the Gtk GUI library, which was used for a few Linux apps.
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by jabl 2y ago
I'd love to see it, but realistically that's not the world we're living in. 99% of people will just pick whatever box in the store that looks snazzy and is cheap.
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by jabl 2y ago
It's actually the reducing of the alumina (aluminum oxide) to metallic aluminum that takes huge amounts of electricity. And as mentioned, that is done with carbon electrodes which are consumed in the process, leading to relatively high
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by jabl 2y ago
Complex or not, it's doable as the nuclear power plants in France are doing. Germany used to do it as well, until they shut down all their nuclear plants. Though due to the xenon poisoning, they apparently use the reactors which at the
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by jabl 2y ago
That's correct. There's nothing technically special about the French nuclear plants that load follow. It's just that France has so much nuclear power in the grid that some of their nuclear plants do load following.

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