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by nailer 4mo ago
> A state-of-the-art molten salt reactor (MSR), particularly a thorium-fueled or fast-spectrum design with online reprocessing, uses thorium-232 (or recycled actinides) as fuel and produces fission product waste with the worst byproducts
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Thorium, an alternative nuclear fuel [video](ted.com)
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by nailer 4mo ago
> that they arent willing to issue corrections for even their most falsified pieces. The Intercept article linked to from your piece 'debunking' the piece ( https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-
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by nailer 4mo ago
Bari Weiss' resignation letter is a good indication of what happened to the NYT in the last decade: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
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by nailer 4mo ago
They could sell a Premium subscription with access + no ads.
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by nailer 4mo ago
I feel the energy conversation is dominated by people that don't realize how far Solar tech has come recently arguing with other people that don't realize short nuclear half lives have gotten recently.
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by nailer 4mo ago
No. Modern like 1950's modern. Unadorned, functional. 1900s: Noveau - plant shapes. 1940s: deco - geometry. Windows XP: gradients, color. Windows Vista: semitransparency. 1950s, Windows 8: 'modern' - strip away unnecessary de
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by nailer 4mo ago
The final name was also called Modern. I know this person worked on Windows 8, but as a member of the public we definitely knew the Windows 8 UI was called 'Modern'.
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by nailer 4mo ago
I don’t think it’s rational to flatten data. If an item contains an array of sub items which in turn contains an array of subitems, that item belongs in one place not three tables. I know those view isn’t popular, but I’ve happily used Lin
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by nailer 4mo ago
Depends how much of the wealth you use but yes you're right - Norway and Singapore offset debt with the fund rather than pay it back.
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by nailer 4mo ago
> sovereign wealth fund? That seems like a great tool for a certain corrupt politician to use as a carrot to make CEO's bend to his/her whims. Taking ownership of these companies is a Bernie thing not a Trump thing, but a sover
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by nailer 4mo ago
X has always been a better source of outages than any official status site. It's either early, before there's anything official posted, or it's something the vendor doesn't consider worthy of an outage because it only af
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by nailer 4mo ago
> But luckily it's pre-printed in the crontab as comments That's true, but most people don't know the numbered manual sections, so they get the docs for the cron table command not the cron table config file.
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by nailer 4mo ago
[1] is incredibly vague. Professors of what specifically? Computer science? Feminist theory? The second doesn't produce 'educated professionals'.
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by nailer 4mo ago
> certainly it would be very difficult to prove liability on OpenAI for this My understanding is that OpenAI products specifically provided help in planning attacks / self harm.
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by nailer 4mo ago
KDE is the ultimate "lost the battle won the war" story. KDE didn't replace Windows as the most popular desktop OS, but 99% chance you're looking at this in a browser that's derived from KDE (Konqueror begat webkit
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by nailer 5mo ago
> Yeah with RPM and dpkg you're trusting the distro, or maybe individual distro maintainers, depending on how you consider it. Not all packages come from the distro. People can and do enable external sources for software that isn&#x
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by nailer 5mo ago
Yes. Also Red Hat is misspelt in the title.
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by nailer 5mo ago
I've deleted and am rewriting this, to be more explicit, because HN downmodded the first comment to hell but I know I'm right and the crowd is wrong. So, explicitly: - pip - Cargo - apt/dpkg - dnf/yum - Homebrew - RubyGe
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by nailer 5mo ago
If you want a usable system, you enable AUR. It's not 'doing it right', it's avoiding responsibility.
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by nailer 5mo ago
> They wrote about it, and LLM can sometimes use that. Once they no longer write about it, what then? That’s a good question but I suspect when new technologies come out, the normally indecipherable specs released by industry groups (whi
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by nailer 5mo ago
> the most recent real-world user submissions to a fact-checking platform 'Fact checking' platforms aren't truth. Many 'fact checking' platforms are self-admittedly focused on left advocacy (snopes), or right win
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by nailer 5mo ago
Rust rewrites are probably going to save Windows from AI too. I have no idea about Apple’s plans for MacOS.
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by nailer 5mo ago
> But then persist in writing programs despite knowing that goal isn't and never will be achievable? Because, asides from users interacting with less programs than they do websites it’s not possible for a user to systematically fix
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by nailer 5mo ago
> > I feel that claiming the web now consistently complies with ARIA is an incredibly bold claim > ... that I didn't make Ok so you agree that the web has not and is unlikely to be ARIA compliant? But then persist in supportin
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by nailer 5mo ago
A user interpreting visual meaning is vastly more reliable than expecting all the websites the user interacts with to be ARIA compliant.
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by nailer 5mo ago
The “what would your previous manager say” doesn’t seem like a psych evaluation
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by nailer 5mo ago
> As you mentioned, without proof. I feel that claiming the web now consistently complies with ARIA is an incredibly bold claim, and the burden of proof is on you but you can test the top 50 websites yourself if you genuinely believe tha
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by nailer 5mo ago
Sad to hear - putting these things on Glassdoor can help more people avoid these situations.
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by nailer 5mo ago
> never, ever forget the entire thing is scoped to “…. at work” I think the mental health startup part and the wide scope of the questions (hardest day in life, not hardest day in career) made it clear that this meant what it said.

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