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by redprince 2y ago
> It would be so cheap we would all be heating our houses with resistive heaters "Too cheap to meter" was a promise in the 50's regarding nuclear power. Since then it turned out to be one of the most expensive ways to prod
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by redprince 2y ago
> There wasn’t even YouTube, or Stack Overflow, or anything much to help in those days. That's right. We would have been completely lost were it not for... books.
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by redprince 2y ago
Right. I'm also getting old and I've learned not to worry about things I can't change. If the world decides through inaction to find out about the veracity of current predictions where our path is taking us, I'll be alon
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by redprince 2y ago
The EQXX is a research vehicle / concept car. Mercedes Benz (and others) use these vehicles to explore new technologies, ideas and designs. They are often not intended for future mass production but elements of them may find their way
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by redprince 2y ago
> like most products connected to the internet, VPNs and firewalls can have vulnerabilities too. Except being exposed without protection to the hostile internet is their very reason to exist. I expect such devices to be developed with th
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by redprince 2y ago
Is it the EU? A lot of people feel that the particular action of Ubisoft of shutting down their online service and thus making their game unplayable should violate some EU law, but I can't find anyone actually pointing to a particular
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by redprince 2y ago
You clearly have rights and you clearly have a choice: You can for example say no to this kind of software and not license it. You could also accept that you will only be able to use the software fully for a limited time and be fine with pa
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by redprince 2y ago
And what exactly have you bought then? I mean beyond hopefully a physical medium, the right to use that software in perpetuity and to transfer that software to others?
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by redprince 2y ago
> taking away ownership of a product we paid for If you should ever bother too look into your end user license agreements (EULA), you'd know you never owned anything to begin with. Nothing was ever sold to you. You acquired a licens
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by redprince 3y ago
That certainly helps with not having to deal with the undocumented (?) Google API yourself. The following is what chrome would use to perform autocomplete searches: curl ' https://google.com/complete/search?client=c
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by redprince 3y ago
Wait... they're catching on to this in 2024? It was glaringly obvious at least 20 years ago that the joint venture model was specifically implemented to transfer know how. It worked quite well for China.
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by redprince 3y ago
> There is bridges between military and civilian nuclear, The article make it very clear: Without civil nuclear power the maintenance cost of the nuclear powered sub fleet would skyrocket. The civil nuclear power generation masks the cos
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by redprince 3y ago
Who hasn't heard of the famous trickle down effect in housing... Where I live, building affordable housing for low and medium income is at the moment financially unattractive, so it isn't undertaken in the numbers required to meet
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by redprince 3y ago
But then people would just have continued to use their old hardware for many, many years, saving money and resources. Luckily that horrible future with diminished revenue for the PC industry was averted. /s
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by redprince 3y ago
PWR is a "Pressurized Water Reactor" using (light) water under pressure as the primary coolant. The Chernobyl block #4 RBMK-1000 was certainly a PWR. While the precise mechanism by which the #4 reactor in Chernobyl was destroyed i
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by redprince 3y ago
I hope these predictions are somewhat more accurate than their previous projections for solar energy. https://nitter.net/AukeHoekstra/status/1507047932226375688#m
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by redprince 3y ago
> yet have never discharged static electricity through any one of my personal circuits How would you know unless you took precautions? Static electricity doesn't necessarily make itself obvious by arcing, yet the voltage can be high
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by redprince 3y ago
The microscope recommendations are a bit problematic, except for the mantis. When you can afford it, get yourself a binocular stereo microscope with sufficient viewing distance from the work piece. In contrast to USB microscopes, those will
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by redprince 3y ago
You can put that into other quality meters as long as their CAT rating is sufficient and was verified by a reputable testing lab (Underwriter Labs, TÜV, etc.). Fluke isn't the only player in town with quality meters. Also don't sk
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by redprince 3y ago
Being there is dangerous. Not only because that storm is really testing the roots of those trees but because in general high winds will cause branches to break off and trees to fall over. Walking through a forest during a storm is an easy w
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by redprince 3y ago
> Why does non-urban, non-commercial (retail) Internet access suck so hard in Germany? To cut a very long story short, what should have happened a long time ago in Germany is to treat internet access at a reasonable speed (however that i
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by redprince 3y ago
> First you say that people should just audit the code if they don't trust it. Then you say if someone wants to read untrusted files they should just spin up a virtual machine? Because of an intended functionality of many of those f
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by redprince 3y ago
> Yea I don't get this, what are chances of a tsunami hitting the German nuclear power plants? - Funny. Quite obviously the issue was not the possibilities of tsunamis in Germany. It was the fact, that this particular power plant wa
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by redprince 3y ago
> Usenet was - by the standards of the early 00's, which is when it began to decline - slow, and asynchronous. Posts could take hours to days to propagate, which meant conversation threads would go off in multiple directions at once
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by redprince 3y ago
Several programs are available to do it: https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Moderated_Newsgroups#Moderation_S... The type and quality of moderation is up to the moderation team. Might be automatic, might involve a review by a
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by redprince 3y ago
I've used Usenet quite extensively in its heyday. At one point I even ran a Usenet site with dozens of peers and thousands of users. All on a very beefy (for its time) Sun E450. In my opinion Usenets greatest strength was also its down
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by redprince 3y ago
> Remember that they caused the stopping of nuclear power plant. In Germany they didn't. The plan to exit from nuclear power was enacted by a conservative coalition of CDU/FDP in 2011. Funnily enough the year before they had di
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by redprince 3y ago
> I’m more inclined to closely watch geopolitical events unfold, as US hegemony becomes slowly unstable and potentially untenable. Wait until you see what millions of people displaced by rising sea levels are going to do to political and
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by redprince 3y ago
> DANE isn't happening. Browsers tried a decade ago and gave up DANE was never limited to browsers. Example: https://ssl-tools.net/mailservers/proton.me Though support in that space is very patchy as well and m
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by redprince 3y ago
> Compressed source code archive is over 300Mb. Much of it not interesting security wise. > That's not a manageable amount for one individual, so I wouldn't expect it to be systemetically reviewed. I settle for people thinki

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