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by olau 7y ago
Actually they didn't - they entered into an agreement that would allow them, over time, to order the number of cars you mention.
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by olau 7y ago
It's been a long time since I wrote C, but the main problem in my recollection is that the standard library is not intuitive. Something simple like take a couple of arbitrary strings, concatenate them and return the result without leak
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by olau 8y ago
I've personally done similar calculations before, but I stopped because I'm not sure the assumption of independence is correct. If the pregnancy rate is 18% per year, and you have not had a pregnancy the first year, I'm not s
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by olau 8y ago
Don't take the comparison at its face value, it's clear to me that whoever wrote it isn't really familiar with gettext, or deliberately talking it down. Yes, it's sort of ancient, but the problems mentioned can be solved
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by olau 8y ago
You could try the Microsoft Comfort Curve 3000 keyboards. They are almost like ordinary keyboards, but the extra curving really helps with Emacs. And they're cheap. I also have a Kinesis one that I used for some years. Those require so
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by olau 8y ago
I'm not a scientist, but in software development some people used to think that planning and designing everything up front was a good way to go about things. Turns out that taking all the big decisions before getting your hands dirty a
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by olau 8y ago
Huh? We have already automated most of the farm work in the past century through big machines? It is really what have made our current civilization possible.
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by olau 8y ago
FSF has always been about the users. And that has always been controversial among developers. I remember talking to my brother about it around 1999. The basic premise is relatively simple - with no insight in something very complex, you&#x2
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by olau 8y ago
I think it is supposed to mean that they do not want to institutionalize that some people are more entitled than others. It's about basic human values, not about the organization. Of course, some people will be coordinating and some pe
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by olau 8y ago
You can be a great preacher but a bad practitioner and vice versa. Your story reminds of people pointing fingers at misbehaving children of kindergarten teachers.
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by olau 8y ago
I have. A right way to live with children is of course different from without children, but I don't think the two are incompatible? In fact, I think having children is helpful in improving your own attitudes, because it can be really p
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by olau 8y ago
> Luckily, the field of statistics gives us ways to reason about whether or not to believe an observed effect. What you mean is correlation, right? Effect would imply causation.
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by olau 8y ago
Permissioning is complicated because nuclear plants, even small ones, are complicated. There's a reason real nuclear plants are getting bigger and bigger. You're comparing vaporware to technologies with a proven track record.
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by olau 8y ago
Baseline power is not needed. You need to match the demand. Nuclear is too expensive.
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by olau 8y ago
I think I know where you are coming from, for a nation 1% is significant, but I don't think you realize what the EU budget is used for. 47% subsidies for farmers, 30% regional support subsidies (e.g. they might co-found an R&D proj
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by olau 8y ago
Aw, come on, let's get the full story.
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by olau 8y ago
This isn't really spaghetti code, though, it's a syntactic sugar optimization gone wrong due to the Python 2 str/unicode split. It's in the same league as people overloading operators in C++ to do silly things. While som
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by olau 8y ago
Ah, but in this case you have already done the spec, otherwise the type system couldn't have checked it. With a more loose way of going about things, you don't have to write the spec. Spec'ing is hard, sometimes harder than a
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by olau 8y ago
All big companies make big mistakes. Tesla is much more open, due to their CEO, so you get to see more of the mistakes. I bet you don't track delivery mishaps for other car companies. And Toyota didn't make an electric vehicle. Th
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by olau 8y ago
It didn't sound particularly sophisticated to me. For instance, he asks the rhetorical question, what kind of battery is going to power Tokyo at 22 GW through a cyclone? One way to answer that question is to ponder the following questi
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by olau 8y ago
> Both are in English, so I don't see why they can't just transcribe what's being said. Try writing subtitles yourself, and you'll probably see why. There's a limited space and time budget - people need to be abl
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by olau 8y ago
... and in fact it has happened. With drops for infants that had a 75 times too high concentration: http://cphpost.dk/news/danish-health-authority-warns-of-toxi...
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by olau 8y ago
I talked to a lawyer specializing in data protection a couple of years ago, and according to her, the problem is already there - you cannot satisfy both the GDPR and US law that requires that the US government can snoop whenever they want t
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by olau 8y ago
Indeed! I was in the same boat - also started writing a client, but wasted too much time on the stupid XML stream idea. Basically, chatting is message oriented, but the XMPP inventors thought it would be neat to start the connection with a
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by olau 8y ago
Cross-laminated wood is apparently very stable. People also ask about fire resistance, but the outermost layer gets charred which then protects the inner for quite some time, compared to traditional steel beams where the heat makes the stee
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by olau 8y ago
That's not correct. Denmark is currently is currently at something like 45% of electricity from wind, and going past 50% in a year or two IIRC. It's not base load, because you don't need base load - it's an obsolete mode
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by olau 8y ago
We already know that renewables can handle the entire grid. There are plenty of papers out there exploring this matter. What we don't know yet is exactly what particular technologies we're going to end up with, especially for the
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by olau 8y ago
Also, we've seen more things go wrong. When you design a nuclear plant, you need to do a really careful risk analysis. That's why they are so safe. But as time progresses, and actual designs meet reality and Murphy's law kick
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by olau 8y ago
They used to say the same thing in Denmark. Yet, wind penetration is now a bit below 50%, and the grid is stable, see for instance page 14 here https://ens.dk/sites/ens.dk/files/Globalcooperation/security
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by olau 8y ago
You need to be careful not to compare existing, written-off power plants with new plants. What's compared is what would happen if you start a tender for a new generation capacity - what generation capacity would then win. Regarding you

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