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by jnxx 6y ago
> "extreme tail risk" scenarios, like climate change Climate change isn't a "tail risk". It is a hard wall our civilization is approaching fast. If we do not solve it, it will undo the conditions we depend on to
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by jnxx 6y ago
So, if I read this right, Boeing's unique feature compared to Airbus was a more direct and manual mode of control, which they advertised as an advantage, and they removed this feature without telling clients and pilots?
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by jnxx 6y ago
But that's the same as with the Titanic disaster. There was an incredible amount of things that came together, flawed design, procedures not followed, a spring tide, warnings ignored, until the iceberg hit the ship. Here a list (and it
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by jnxx 6y ago
He somehow missed rainbow identifiers, which is quite useful to represent the data flow in a function: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ColorIdentifiersMode
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by jnxx 6y ago
I am from Europe and I never thought that for things as IDE drives it has such connotation in the US. I feel sorry how things are. If American society wants to heal from this past, they will need do acknowledge the pain it brought. Heck, in
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by jnxx 6y ago
> cmake's main problem is it's appalingly poor documentation and user experience. "I thought I was dumb until I realized it's the book". Top Amazon review of the top book on CMake. And I am still wondering whethe
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by jnxx 6y ago
So, while not just use distribution package creation and managing tools, like the Debian ones? Or even better Guix?
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by jnxx 6y ago
> However, this implementation in python... eh... I'm not sure about it. It's annoying to require someone to have some particular version of python to utilize a simple build system. I think that Python as a draft/concept l
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by jnxx 6y ago
Is that how cmake came to exist?
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by jnxx 6y ago
> > Build graphs are acyclic. Normal C code, not that I can think of. But it is not difficult to give a real-world example: A LaTeX document with a table of contents and an index has a cyclic dependency: The final document, including
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by jnxx 6y ago
> I use all the above tech and get why it is there, but... seriously as a field this is the best we can do? :/ I think it can be done better, and above all, much simpler. I think "redo" looks like a very simple, good solut
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Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (2012)(pozorvlak.dreamwidth.org)
69 points by jnxx 6y ago|110 comments
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by jnxx 6y ago
This is a long-running project, apenwarr's redo is currently written in Python and will be implemented in C to reduce dependencies. It aims at being "finished" software at some point (similar to, say, TeX). Redo allows to def
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by jnxx 6y ago
One example what you can do with it: https://redo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cookbook/container/
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Redo: A recursive, general-purpose build system(redo.readthedocs.io)
8 points by jnxx 6y ago|2 comments
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by jnxx 6y ago
> In addition, what is the result of 3 mile island? The word disaster comes with a lot of baggage that I would debate doesn't apply, it was an accident without any fatalities. In the Harrisburg accident, the core had a melt-down, an
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by jnxx 6y ago
> introduce huge complexity into simple, well-designed projects why does cmake come to my mind?
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by jnxx 6y ago
German winters are quite windy, especially near the coast. Solar (photovoltaic) has its maximum around noon, when there is high demand. The irony is that in summer, it has happened in several warm years now that nuclear power plants in Fran
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by jnxx 6y ago
And then, there is wave power, which is essentially wind energy decoupled from its origin in time and space, has(had) extremely encouraging working prototypes, like the Pelamis design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3-SXFt
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by jnxx 6y ago
The problem is that companies which do that kind of dark patterns are very likely to ignore your settings anyway in the future. Like, for example, Amazon. What then comes to my mind is the thought: "Well, would I try to do an ongoing d
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by jnxx 6y ago
I can't find it now, but I once read a fascinating history of train braking in the US. Before modern air brakes became mandatory, trains had brake men who had to jump from on car to the other in order to fasten brakes. That had a high
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by jnxx 6y ago
> Median Voter theory [...] political parties take positions that appeal to the median voter That only seems to work in voting systems with proportional representation (as opposed to first past the post systems). The latter seem to prom
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by jnxx 6y ago
May not answer the question, but using LaTeX and producing PDFs from it works best for me. Also, it is free (as in libre) software.
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by jnxx 6y ago
If you want an argument against new nuclear power, you need to look no further than at the costs of production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_... That's a projected 92£ per MWh, with
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by jnxx 6y ago
But then, why would Ru-103 be present, which has a half-life of 9 days? https://www.dw.com/en/slight-radioactivity-rise-in-nordic-co...
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by jnxx 6y ago
So, it seems to come from nuclear fission, likely of civilian origin, and perhaps originating from fuel elements: > The Netherland's public health agency said Friday it analysis of Nordic data showed that radionuclides had come &quo
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by jnxx 6y ago
These sensors can be incredibly sensitive and can capture contamination from small technical or medical radiation sources over a long distance. What is much more of a mystery is how little we understand about the effects of low-dose radiati
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by jnxx 6y ago
> I kind liked washing machines that properly heated to 90C Washing machines sold in the EU can (we have one in the basement). But heating to 90°C is extremely inefficient if 60°C is sufficient, and it is in most cases (we are not any mo
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by jnxx 6y ago
Repairable device of decent quality can also yield much better second-hand prices, which can even drive up the value of the original product. Thinkpad laptops are a good example.
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by jnxx 6y ago
> Why do you believe Windows running on someone else's computer is a threat to your network? For example because it stores WiFi credentials without explicit permission, and even hides the passwords? https://superuser.com&

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