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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
My thinking is that if you dump brine into the sea you're a putting in a liquid that marine life can swim though and be harmed by. Another problem is just how to get the byproducts of desalination away from the plant. If the salt were
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
No matter how frustrating this might be, it seems several points are clear from this post: 1. Implementations claiming to be 'standards conforming' can and do exhibit this behaviour. 2. The groups that wrote the standards do not,
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Just a crazy thought, can you make boats out of solidified salt? Perhaps with a mold of some kind
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
No, but it has been distilled. The energy needed for that has an associated cost. I wonder what of the waste liquid was in the source to begin with? If you remove pure water from water with impurities you'll be left with concentrated i
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
More plastic to potentially leech out into the drink? I don't know. I'm not a chemist. But if only a thin layer is needed it probably doesn't ablate much. Also, less plastic used means less plastic that has to be disposed of
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Hmm. That's worth conducting more independant investigations over. If it is a problem hopefully better alternatives can be found. Contaminating the drink with metal traces is not great either. Maybe some kind of wax lining instead perh
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
True. At least it's only a thin layer. Why are you sorry?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
How can these individuals feasibly react in a rational way knowing such things, with their local regulations being poor? Were the water sources reliable before these corporations moved in?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
That's bad. Problems can happen without proper safety checks in place. Assuming no contamination otherwise it'd still be better than drinking water from the Ganges though right?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Then I think it comes down to what balance is best for the available resources. I'd rather drink a can of diet coke with aspartame in it than tap water with chlorine in it or bottled water with microplastics in it. Have there been stud
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
I don't drink diet coke to lose weight. I drink it to avoid diabetes. I know it affects the gut microbiome, but sometimes killing off gut bacteria is a good thing (stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria). I eat yogurt as well to compens
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Insightful and worth bearing in mind for the future. But I don't think we're even nearly at the stage where anything like this becomes an issue yet.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
I wouldn't even call it an opposition of ideas. There's just people who understand, like Doctorow, and those that are flailing around.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Doctorow groks the issues of the technological world we live in today much better than most other commentators.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
I have similar feelings about the magazine. I think a lot of the oddness of their views are down to the writers not really being 'digital natives'. There's a hint of them being slightly confused and fearful when it comes to s
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Using Xen ( https://xenproject.org/ ), you can live migrate running Virtual Machine containers from one physical computer to another on commodity PC hardware while continuing to serve requests (no down time). You can then tur
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
All I know is the beyond meat burger I tried was mushy and bland. Quorn's a lot better.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Safe yes, but also bland and with no texture. It needs more umami flavour and fibrous texture. They should mix it with Marmite and celery.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
"All in all I'm being much more careful when researching dependencies and libraries before bringing them in." - As everyone should be. Folks are too blasé about importing bloated dependancies.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
There would need to be a much higher level of societal trust than there has been justification to have in much of the world today. Add to that Tokyo's situation is built on a lot of suffering in silence. Tokyo is nice to visit, but the
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Are modern versions of IBM systems even popular compared to Linux? The reason these systems still exist is because they use legacy versions of software that could be covered by emulation. Any migration whatsoever would be contingent on the
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
"this code is specific to the System/360 Architecture, and so cannot be run on anything other than an IBM mainframe." This is not true. Emulators are pretty effective and can have passthoughs to new capabilities. Like the abi
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
I wouldn't take that bet. I think you'll be proved correct.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
That's why I mentioned js. There's nothing in principal to stop wasm being implemented in hardware. Then it would be native code. Maybe this can be done easily with an FPGA?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
It might involve a performance penalty today, but in the years to come vendors will be investing in making it fast. And Wasm has a much smaller surface area to optimise than JavaScript does.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
I don't care for the eccentricities of the Rust community, but this is a good article that demonstrates an effective approach to invoke code from one language to another. The problem is a toy one that's not the focus here. The foc
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Does the exe generation need any runtime like vb needed vbrun.dll back in the day?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Lots of cans of Diet coke.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
The Terra preta soil is indeed the product of man-made soil management. The trees just kinda grew up from lack of maintenance of these artificial systems.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
This is bloody obvious. Why is this desalination not being done already?

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