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by jtolmar 5y ago
> Nuke is getting blamed for the Fukushima deaths that were due to the evacuation I think this is fair. /All/ deaths from nuclear and renewable power are due to accidents and bad decisions. Accidents and bad decisions aren&#x27
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Even with all the disasters included, nuclear power is safer than almost all other kinds (the exception being very large hydro plants), per unit energy.
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Say 1 in 10 people have flu and 1 in 10 have covid. In a population of 100, 9 have just flu, 9 have just covid, and 1 has both. Those 19 people present similar symptoms, and anyone among them has roughly a 53% chance of having each disease.
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by jtolmar 5y ago
Although C++ is statically typed, all of the article's arguments in favor of static typing equally apply against C++. Also, the way you phrased your comment is needlessly rude, to the point I almost didn't bother replying. If you
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> Just trying to hit enough milestones to get scooped up by somebody bigger. A few years back, during the peak of the self-driving hype cycle, I considered doing exactly this. I think with a small team of sensor and Bayes filter experts,
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A city bus carrying 20 people has 5% the drivers-per-person that an individual vehicle has. The driverless system only would save 5% the human effort that it would for a solo vehicle, so it needs to be 20x as good before it's worthwhil
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Once you combine those into "use one statically typed language" it narrows down the field to just a handful of languages, though. The "use one language" stipulation requires that the language is actually appropriate in a
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Widespread adoption of this technology would likely lead to more total salmon lives, as wild populations recover.
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Wonderful! I hope they publish the yucky details, it could be really interesting. Also, I know this will be an industrial process for a long time, but I'm having fun imagining a day where a hobbyist can grow meat cultures at home. Like
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A similar program on a municipal level might look something like this: 1) Public funds provide capital to build or buy a dwelling. Public owns dwelling outright. 2) Individuals rent dwelling at market rate. Part of this money goes towards p
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by jtolmar 6y ago
This is the first I've learned about Tamiya 4WD. Pretty neat stuff. Anyone else immediately get the urge to try to adopt a micromouse style robot into one of these? Like put a computer into it that can complete the track at a safe spee
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Some recent projects: - Frontend only, plain javascript, but a lot of it uses a project-specific custom scripting language. This is a game that consists almost entirely of procedurally generated written content, so I write a language that m
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> more salmon than we know what to do with Bury them in the ground as fertilizer? Requires people to fish them up, but maybe we can redirect some of the effort that goes into overfishing to that.
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That can give you the syntax! But what I'm curious about is more the implications of actually having this as a part of the language. Does it open up interesting space in optimization or memory safety?
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I like handles too. Are there any programming languages that natively support them? Like, something that's physically a tuple of (data structure pointer, index), but with the syntax allowing you to directly access it like any other ref
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by jtolmar 6y ago
The biggest problem with fission power is up front capital cost. It takes so long to pay off the mortgage that, by the time a nuclear plant pulls ahead over a fossil fuel plant, whoever decided to build that plant is probably getting ready
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by jtolmar 6y ago
It's kind of a fun skill to learn. Zoom all the way out, find the continent, and focus on water features while zooming into where you want to be. Though the only place I've found the skill useful (besides right now) was, ironicall
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by jtolmar 6y ago
Compression formats have to be small themselves, so they make tradeoffs on what data they can point at to make copies of. Most formats prioritize recent data, since that tends to be the most similar.
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When the Western Roman Empire collapsed, the various successor states didn't have enough organizational capacity / surplus / numbers to do things like arm permanent standing armies with advanced siege engines, or build aquedu
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For an intuitive understanding, try to build one in one dimension. Imagine you have a position that's drifting at a roughly constant, but noisy, rate, modeled by a normal distribution. You also have an occasional 1D GPS reading about t
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What safer alternatives? Look up the deaths per kilowatt hour of whatever you think is safer than nuclear power, you may be surprised.
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by jtolmar 6y ago
Wow, that was fast! I'm impressed. If you want to keep going forward with it, I'd recommend working on making it clearer what the examples do, and looking at sqlc for Go for inspiration. Of the existing versions of this people rep
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This is the nicest one of these from the ones posted, I think it's the model to copy.
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Same here. I'd love to have a tool that just generates an object type for a given SQL query's result rows, and a function signature for its query parameters.
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> On the other hand, having a royal family it cute -- doesn't that count for something :) Preferential hiring if they want a job as a reenactor or tour guide.
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Those personal fortunes are also products of laws. Jeff Bezos is wealthy because he owns a huge number of shares in Amazon. He is able to do this because this is a legally recognized form of corporate governance. Imagine a bunch of Amazon w
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The best solution I've heard is to just spend a lot of effort finding good hires from a variety of backgrounds early on. Then it doesn't matter as much that everyone refers people like themselves. You still manage to cover most po
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Do algebra. A math-heavy job did wonders for my handwriting.
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New development lowers overall housing prices in the surrounding area, but forces the people who live in the affected neighborhood to relocate, either directly or because they're priced out of the neighborhood by gentrification. It&#x2
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I appreciate the structure of that diskprices website, a big list and a filter bar is one of those classic designs that has disappeared in the modern web. Nowadays it'd be an AI-sorted list that attempts to filter with a search bar, th

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