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by rmind 5y ago
West Germany during the Cold War? At least technically, USA (following 911)?
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by rmind 5y ago
Crimea was part of the Ottoman Empire for 3 centuries and a part of the Golden Horde for 2 centuries before that. What's your point? Just because some state controlled the territory in the past doesn't mean it belongs to it in the
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by rmind 6y ago
Why rvault? If you are using a simple file/directory/disk encryption with a passphrase, then the data is compromised if: 1) the computer or the disk is compromised i.e. the encrypted data becomes accessible; and 2) the passphrase
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Show HN: Rvault – secure store using envelope encryption and OTP authentication(github.com)
3 points by rmind 6y ago|1 comments
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by rmind 6y ago
You were talking about investing into gas in the context of "zero-emission electricity". Are you seriously drawing equality to gas power plants and an LNG terminal? The purpose of the Lithuanian LNG terminal was diversification
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by rmind 6y ago
In the Soviet and other totalitarian systems the government could build wherever the hell they wanted, so their decision making is really far from exemplary. I have no idea why would you build an NPP so close to densely populated areas thes
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by rmind 6y ago
You have a point here, but I think the proximity is still concerning: compare the distance between Ignalina and Riga with the distance between Belarus' Power Plant and Vilnius. It is worth mentioning that the UN commission has decided
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by rmind 6y ago
It's a bit of a stretch, isn't it? :) In addition to the safety concerns, you are absolutely right that it was also a Russian geopolitical project, though, just with more realistic and with more practical objectives. One of the ob
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by rmind 6y ago
I don't know about China, but I would guess that the economies of scale might have an impact. If you are planning to building 100 power plants, you can probably design your processes such that after the initial production, the further
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by rmind 6y ago
Even for a strong democracy it is tough to sustain the blow of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake followed by tsunami. And no, reactors/technology in Fukushima were not new, they were from 1960s.
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by rmind 6y ago
I agree that INES Level 7 accident (well, a disaster at this level) is very unlikely and VVER-1200 generally ought to be matching the quality of the Western designs at this point. Even if the level 7 disaster would happen, the 50 km distanc
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by rmind 6y ago
Yup: https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1256930/vilnius-han...
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by rmind 6y ago
By the way, just one more point: Generation III+ VVER-1200 reactors and all the systems around them are not the same in different power plants. VVER-1200 is used in Hanhikivi Nuclear Power Plant built in Finland by Russian Rosatom. This par
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by rmind 6y ago
A few points: - The RBMK-1500 in the now decommissioned Ignalina Power Plant wasn't built near a big city, unlike the Belarusian power plant. - Lithuania invested a lot into the safety of the Ignalina Power Plant, installing the latest
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by rmind 6y ago
Some context: - https://www.ft.com/content/a98322de-96f7-11e7-b83c-9588e51488a0 - https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-launched-nuclear-power-plant-despite-safety-issues-/30928660.html - htt
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by rmind 6y ago
Perhaps you meant electric buses, e.g. https://www.dancerbus.com/ ?
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by rmind 6y ago
Lithuania is indeed quite flat, but perhaps not as flat as Netherlands. There are quite hilly areas in the country too. The more important aspect, though, is that the highest car concentration is in the cities and they, in general, tend to
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by rmind 6y ago
Linux, BSDs and all other UNIX-like systems, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, HAProxy, interpreters of Python and many other languages, tons of libraries, ... and the list could go on and go on. A lot of very successful and robust software is writ
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by rmind 6y ago
Well, at least these streets have pavements, but letting cars in the Pilies street (generally a pedestrian street full of tourists) is absolutely ridiculous. Can we start a petition? :)
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by rmind 6y ago
Given the above, it is worth pointing out that the compilers are also much much better in verification and useful warnings/errors. Back in the (very old) days, there was a motivation to cut down PCC (Portable C Compiler) and give the b
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by rmind 6y ago
Well, one argument is that the vendors should not compile C89 code as C17. If you write C89, then stick with -std=c89 (or upgrade to the latest officially compatible revision). It makes sense to preserve language compatibility within severa
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by rmind 6y ago
I assume you mean something like that: struct obj_impl { // real members ... }; In public API header: struct obj { unsigned char _private[N]; // -- where N is the size of obj_i
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by rmind 6y ago
A lot C programmers prefer to keep structures within the C source file ("module"), as a poor man's encapsulation. For example: component.h: struct obj; typedef struct obj obj_t; obj_t *obj_create(void); &#x
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by rmind 6y ago
Just FYI -- there are macros for the fixed-length types, e.g.: printf("U32: %" PRIu23 ", U64: " PRId64, (uint32_t)1, (int64_t)2); Perhaps not as handy as %u32 or %s64, but it's here.
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by rmind 6y ago
There have been some disagreements on strlcpy/strlcat (BSD vs glibc crowd), although by now the debate has died off and these functions are pretty widely used. Also, while here, it would be lovely to have strchrnul() included.
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Worldwide Military Equipment Guide from 2001 [pdf](fas.org)
1 points by rmind 7y ago|0 comments
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by rmind 7y ago
Umm.. that's not really true. Most userspace memory allocators are based on mmap(). Using sbrk() is legacy. The slab allocator (Bonwick, 1994) is the dominant algorithm (both in userspace and the UNIX-like kernels), although there are
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Memory fences, atomics and C11 memory model(github.com)
3 points by rmind 7y ago|0 comments
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by rmind 7y ago
Just some observations: - In my country, Lithuania, tick-born diseases have been increasingly becoming a major problem. We had them for some time, but I think the problem has been amplified by the climate change in the last few decades. At
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by rmind 7y ago
IMO, the countries passport holders can travel should be weighted by: 1) their size and economic strength 2) attractiveness as a tourist destination. For example, right now, Estonian and Polish passports have the same score. However, Estoni

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