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by pasabagi 4y ago
It's really good for interfacing with C or writing C ffi's. If you're the sort of person who normally programs in a high-level language, then drops down to C for performance, zig is pretty good for that. (If you want to compa
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by pasabagi 4y ago
If you can't see fundamental economic differences between the UK and US, I would caution you that, while it may not be visible from your vantage point in Andromeda, Jupiter is indeed larger than a duck, even if they seem more or less m
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I don't think rust is particularly bad for beginners. It makes subtle bugs harder to write, so the bugs you get tend to be pretty straightforward and easy to diagnose. There is obviously a bit of upfront investment, but it's compa
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by pasabagi 4y ago
> But it is at least now theoretically possible. I have the opposite opinion. I think the UK has been historically hamstrung by its desire to ape the US. The US is a continent-spanning superpower, the dollar is the world's reserve c
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Are we looking at the same graph? Aside from 2012-14, it consistently shows the UK trailing the pack in terms of growth, often by multiple percentage points. Bear in mind, even a single percentage point is quite a big deal: the chinese econ
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by pasabagi 4y ago
It's a bit of a misleading stat - the EU's avg. inflation is brought up by the poorer countries. If you compare the UK to France, Germany, Italy (the normal points of comparison, in other words), it's obviously doing fairly b
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Eh, you're overthinking the vaccine story. It's unsurprising that the UK had better access to vaccines: the UK is one of the world's biggest medical industry centers. The point about inflation and recession is not that it isn
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I think there's a great deal of hysteria about Russian gas cutoffs. German bills are projected to be lower than UK energy bills over the winter[0][1], even though the UK has basically no dependence on Russian gas. A war is an unusual
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Sure, politcal problems are hard problems. However, your original post asserted that the current energy demand of the US cannot be met without coal. You did not say they will not , because of political pathology. It is, however, patently
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Not really? Germany is a mid-range, slow-moving sort of country, and they get about 40% of their energy from renewables. They still get 30% of their energy from coal, but it's being fairly steadily phased out. Energy sources are fungib
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Wait, why? Isn't solar or wind, depending on location, typically the cheapest form of power generation? Most of Europe is off coal. It's not really a necessary part of an energy mix.
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by pasabagi 4y ago
This whole question of 'are material things really all that matters' is kind of boring, but the article does provoke an interesting question: how do you handle bubbles? If you have a colossal GDP, but it's all hinging on a ve
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by pasabagi 4y ago
As I understand it, assembly is also the most manual part of the process, so presumably the wage differential between China and India favours the move regardless.
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Most experts seems to think that interception is basically impossible to do reliably with current technology, even before you get into the question of countermeasures, and that with the sheer quantity of warheads, it's basically a give
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by pasabagi 4y ago
There's definitely a balance here. Every piece of DDR technology I have ever interacted with has flat head screws. From the point of view of interoperability and repairability, that's amazing. From the point of view of struggling
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Maybe 9? If you find yourself making a lot of jigs, small thingies to hold one thing to another, or little mechanisms, it's a huge timesaver. Making a nice adjustable mount for a camera goes from being a lot of machining to a few hours
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by pasabagi 4y ago
It's kind of a genre: watch like, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhLk7L1B_fE , and you can see a bunch of others in suggested links. From what I gather, a industrial-scale air-conditioning unit company basically broke
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Mmmm, there are a few examples of prefab high-rises that have gone up in weeks or months. I guess high-quality is something of a shifting bar, but if you prefab all the pieces, build them at volume, and have enough demand to justify that vo
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by pasabagi 4y ago
If demand is what is driving prices, sure. Except the government has shown time and time again there are mechanisms (e.g reducing stamp duty) that can prop up prices while demand is weak. If you look at the last few years of housing policy,
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I think the US is probably the worst model for any state to follow, because it's just so different to every other state on the planet. The UK's historical position as global hegemon pushes the UK towards maintaining institutio
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Reading between the lines of his quote, my guess is he's angling for some cash from the government, by securitizing the tech sector. It won't work, because the treasury feels that spending money, like eating people, is always wron
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I think people in the Russosphere (or indeed generally) tend to overstate the 'role' of the West. The West tends to be very muddled, and at no point has it been more muddled than in the Trump era, and Russia began their invasion a
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I think the driver is economic: companies are not forced to compensate users for the loss of their private data. Breaches are annoying but essentially harmless for most companies. As such, it doesn't make sense to invest that much in s
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Just thinking the problem through, I think that's very unlikely, unless you're in a pathological situation. So, for a nuclear plant to be profitable in a competitive market, it needs to produce energy for less than its competitors
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Maybe? Because climate change is a self-feeding cycle, releasing large amounts of CO2 early, then amortizing that over decades of operation, is worse than a constant steady release. I guess you're probably right, nonetheless. It just a
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Well, it does. Nuclear plants have very high embodied carbon, as they're made out of large amounts of steel and concrete. That's obviously not as bad as a coal plant or even a gas plant. But 'a lot' is still probably cor
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by pasabagi 4y ago
The history is even weirder: check out the story of Kishi Nobusuke[0], the class A war crimminal who brought the Unification Church into the Japanese political mainstream. Also the Yakuza. Also he's Abe's grandad. [0] https:&#x2F
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I don't know if 'worn out' is the correct term, but I've definitely typed my way through a few x220 keyboards. It just takes one dead key for the whole keyboard to be useless.
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by pasabagi 4y ago
It's a slow emergency in the sense that the effects will slowly increase, but it's very much a fast emergency in that the actions we take now are vastly more effective than they would be in a decade, or even a year. Because
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by pasabagi 4y ago
What mess? I'm not German, but from living here, it feels like the German state is sort of working OK. A benchmark that I feel is pretty fair is COVID death numbers. Germany does OK. Countries like the UK completely fumbled the whole t

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