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by mpweiher 28d ago
To me the "Europe now has sovereign access" line by the CEO is a bit of hype, though technically it is true if you view Europe geographically, as he seems to do. Andøya Spaceport has been a place for suborbital/sounding rocke
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Understanding Model-View-Controller (2008)(blog.codinghorror.com)
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by mpweiher 29d ago
1. Who is "they"? Isar Aerospace and Arianespace are distinct entities. 2. Isar Aerospace is the first fully private European company (a startup) to do this. Arianespace and the Ariane rockets have heavy state/ESA involveme
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
I doubt that HN user yostrovs is Trump.
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
So you are opposed to self-determination. Glad we cleared that up. Who then gets to decide? You?
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
> Does French Guyana have a usable space rocket? Yes: the Ariane rockets. "French Guyana" is part of France, which is part of the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana https://en.wiki
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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight(isaraerospace.com)
618 points by mpweiher 1mo ago|204 comments
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
I think people overestimate the effect of representation of specific programming languages or frameworks. I had Codex or Claude create simple web apps for me in Objective-Smalltalk. And it did a good job. I am pretty sure that Objective-Sm
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
> can result in new plants if the private actors starts to invest It is the private investors seeking approvals. Why would they do this if they didn't want to build? After all, these types of approvals and application processes al
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CSS Is Still Awesome(jasonsantamaria.com)
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
> Not according to the standard statistic for electricity generation cost - LCOE According to the IEA it is. If you think nuclear LCOE is high, then you probably looked at the Lazard data. But Lazard themselves say that their figures f
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Hertzfeld, Andy oral history, part 1 of 2 (2025)(computerhistory.org)
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Japan Unveils New Energy Policy Package, Calls for Maximum Use of Nuclear Power(jaif.or.jp)
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
> Storage is the holy grail here. That allows for more provision of wind and solar. Storage makes the already expensive intermittent renewables even more expensive. Germany has the highest electricity costs among the G20. https:/&#
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
> In practice it is expensive to build, expensive to run, and really expensive to clean up. That turns out not to be the case. Nuclear power plants are expensive, but that's because they are big. For the amount of electricity the
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
> We are not building any new nuclear. ? I mean, not building yet, but a lot of new nuclear is in the pipeline. "The Swedish government has presented a roadmap for new nuclear, stipulating that, by 2035, nuclear reactors with the ca
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US Plan Advances for 50-Ship Nuclear-Powered Merchant Fleet(maritime-executive.com)
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Hertzfeld, Andy oral history, part 1 of 2 (2025)(computerhistory.org)
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Radiant Wins $750M U.S. Army Contract to Deliver Reactors to U.S. Military Bases(finance.yahoo.com)
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Quantum Computing Failure Now Obvious [video](youtube.com)
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
From TFA: "What I mean by this is that I think the act of writing code manually and having other humans review it to create useful, working software is headed for extinction." “Since FORTRAN should virtually eliminate coding and
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
Good point! That could explain this move away from tipping described in the article: the economic incentive has disappeared, leaving all the cultural negatives.
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
I always thought "paying" your staff via tips was primarily a tax dodge. Yes, the staff are supposed to declare all their untraceable cash income, but...yeah. So at least some of that income is untaxed, meaning higher net for sa
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Legal Experts Slam IDF for Over-Warning Gazans (2015)(israelnationalnews.com)
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
There has been reporting on this in many places. Here is one: https://packaging-journal.de/en/eu-commission-wants-to-scrap... "According to the Händlerbund, the European Commission's proposal to abolish the
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
A couple of things to note: 1. The EU commission wanted a single central registry 2. It was the member states, via the Council of Ministers, that torpedoed this. 3. The EU now advises its member states to not implement/enforce this 4.
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by mpweiher 1mo ago
This looks like strong evidence against the claim that local models will never be competitive, because hosted frontier lab models will always be better. The frontier models may be better, but who cares if the last generation of models are p
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OpenStar demonstrates dipole fusion reactor concept(world-nuclear-news.org)
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The rise and fall of rationality in language (2021)(pnas.org)
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by mpweiher 2mo ago
Cool idea, but let's take it to the next step: What if the "pseudocode" were real code, but in a higher level language than we have today that can actually be compiled deterministically?

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