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by renhanxue 2y ago
The author is a historian whose main published work is the book Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States . He isn't very interested in the information itself; he's interested in where it comes from a
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by renhanxue 2y ago
The author is a historian who has published a book that is specifically about the history of nuclear secrecy in the United States. Not about the history of nuclear tech or nuclear weapons, about the history of restricted data , the special
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by renhanxue 2y ago
Some numbers: Swedish electricity production in 2023 was 163 TWh. It's for all practical purposes 100% renewable or nuclear, with a mix of approximately 40/30/20/10 hydro/nuclear/wind/other, where "ot
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by renhanxue 2y ago
That is already a thing, and it's being expanded. The Stockholm municipal energy company is already operating what they claim to be the world's largest heat pump facility with a capacity to extract 225 MW of heat from treated wast
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by renhanxue 2y ago
Nuclear was a thing in the 50's/60's but district heating isn't practical over long distances and nobody wanted nuclear plants in their suburbs. Renewables we already do burn quite a bit of. But really, quite a lot of ho
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by renhanxue 2y ago
Would you rather we'd burn peat (which is also sequestered carbon) instead? Because that's what we used to do. We need to stay warm in winter one way or another. In the 1950's we thought that in the future we'd have nucl
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by renhanxue 2y ago
If we didn't burn waste we'd need to burn something else to stay warm in winter. Currently we supplement the waste with _mostly_ renewables, like byproducts from the forestry industry (e.g. treetops, wood chips, sawdust) and the o
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by renhanxue 2y ago
> Almost all plastic waste in developed countries ends up in landfills, not the natural environment. Here in Sweden less than 0.5% of household waste goes to landfill. Almost everything is burned in co-generation plants for district heat
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by renhanxue 2y ago
The Montreal Protocol was nothing short of miraculous. It was the first international treaty to be ratified by all 198 members of the UN (including the Holy See), and it's been called "perhaps the single most successful internatio
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The trams were already on the way out in the 1950's, they were seen as a thing of the past that were inhibiting the development of the new car-centric urban areas. Several systems closed well before H-day, in the 50's and early 60
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by renhanxue 2y ago
Yeah. The fantastic python library ftfy ("fixes text for you", https://ftfy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html ), designed to fix mangled Unicode (mojibake, of many different varieties), mentions in its
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by renhanxue 2y ago
This is far from universally true. The Saab 37 Viggen fighter jet (which was also the first series produced canard aircraft) is capable of departing from controlled flight into a stalled attitude in no less than five different ways, accordi
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by renhanxue 3y ago
I don't think that's the case outside the US. Sweden here; all of the Amex cards available locally charge a 2% currency exchange fee.
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by renhanxue 3y ago
It's a thing the author of that article does, at least. He's got an article mostly about how to escalate identity theft complaints here that touches on it: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identi
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by renhanxue 3y ago
My point was simply that the fact that there are multiple representations of characters that look the same is just a tiny part of the complexity involved in making text behave like users want. It's not that uncommon for people to think
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by renhanxue 3y ago
Most applications do not do anything useful with in-band language tags. They never had widespread adoption in the first place and have been deprecated since 2008, so this is unsurprising. If you're using them in your strings and those
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by renhanxue 3y ago
> Unicode is, in practice, a system that works the same way for ~every human language except Japanese This is simply not true. As I've pointed out in a sibling comment, Unicode has a lot of surprising and frustrating behaviors with
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by renhanxue 3y ago
If you mean in-band language tagging inside the string itself, the page you're linking to points out that this is deprecated. The tag characters are now mostly used for emoji stuff. If you only need to be compatible with yourself you c
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by renhanxue 3y ago
Video game personality Tim Rogers supposedly has HSAM, and described it like this: > This is a condition which requires me to remember everything that ever happens within my earshot and eyeshot. No: I describe it impressively: it turns l
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by renhanxue 3y ago
Both problems are missing the point: you cannot handle Unicode correctly without locale information (which needs to be carried alongside as metadata outside of the string itself). To a Swede or a Finn, o and ö are different letters, as dist
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by renhanxue 3y ago
The problem in the linked article barely scratches the surface of the issue. You _cannot_ compare Unicode strings for equality (or sort them) without locale information. A simple example: to a Swedish or Finnish speaker, o and ö completely
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by renhanxue 3y ago
The Voyager software was updated repeatedly and significantly in flight while the spacecraft were still in their early years. They were very intentionally designed to be patched over the course of the mission. The software as launched was n
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by renhanxue 3y ago
>The project was not really designed to reach interstellar space originally. Not only that, Voyager 2's flyby of Uranus and Neptune in the late 1980's was originally not intended either. As an aside, to this day Voyager 2 remai
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by renhanxue 3y ago
In the EU pilot-owners can self-certify their aircraft for unleaded fuel, provided that the engine is unmodified and that its manufacturer has approved the use of Avgas UL 91. Print an AFM supplement page and put on new fuel quality placard
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Probably less than you'd think. Levy is delivering a punchy oneliner here; what the Transit Costs Project research indicates is that what's often missing in countries with high construction costs isn't so much bureaucrats as
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by renhanxue 3y ago
Levy's research group calls this "adversarial legalism" and yes it does seem to be a contributing factor to high construction costs.
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Many of the countries he compares against are part of the Western world, though? Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Nordics - all of these have significantly lower construction costs than in the US. What unacceptable methods are you thinking of, h
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by renhanxue 3y ago
It's golang, it has a long and proud tradition of being footguns all the way down.
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by renhanxue 3y ago
StuffIt is a thing you might be nostalgic about if you used MacOS 7 through 9 or so in the 90's. I'm surprised it still exists, I don't recall using it on OS X at all.
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Here in Sweden there are (since last year) no longer any banks that will cash a foreign check, no matter which country of origin, currency or bank. There used to be one that still did it at a quite steep fee, which became relevant for exp

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