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by shakow 5y ago
> I personally cannot help but feel like the strong push for rust in the kernel is overstepping some sort of boundary. Assuming you're not a kernel developer, I don't understand why you need the feel to be offended in their ste
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by shakow 5y ago
It's always possible to argue further, but it's not really what led to the foundation of the HRE. Rather, it was a creation of the pope Leo III which he offered to Charlemagne, as the conclusion of a long feud with the ERE and the
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> Already factored in. I highly doubt that. The Tricastin NPP for instance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricastin_Nuclear_Power_Plant ) is a rather average one, producing up to 3660MW. An average windmill output s
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> About 1500. Nope. Average charge load for a windmill is ~35%, vs. over 90% for NPPs. Thus, you would need roughly thrice as many, and that in places with alternating winds – otherwise you would just get blackouts.
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> Because nuclear is the only one with multigenerational risks that can make entire regions inhabitable. I'm glad to know climate change will be a solved problem for my children. > Hiding waste is not a viable solution to dealing
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> Thousands a year die in coal mines And that's only counting direct casualties. If we were to count long-term illnesses/deaths or consequences on the population like the people reaching gazillions of deads at Tchernobyl do, it
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> If humans build it, it will fail, and a single catastrophic nuclear plant failure isn’t acceptable. We do people focus so much on the danger aspect of nuclear energy only? Why not the thousands of people who died of dam break, the mil
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> They had readied 28 000 tanks before WW2 And the US alone control the first (USAF), second (USAAF) and third (USNAF) air forces in the world. That's a stupid argument that does not have anything to do with the question at hand.
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> There is a bigger differnece between men and women than there are between us and most other animals Says someone who never opened a biology textbook. > The sexes' motivations and perspectives are almost alien to one another. Be
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> counter argument: to advance science we need to get more women into science Not really, just money: unfortunately, women don't have some magical sciencey abilities that make them outperform men. The thing with work is that it is s
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This ( https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/15/18623545/eagle-dynamics-f-... ) happened w.r.t. DCS, and the most recent stuff in WoW is late WWII, s if something was to be revealed, it would interest military hi
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Naive question, but what is the advantage compared to a classical DB dump? Faster?
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> world-class leaders ‶Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%″ -- https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
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> I can't relate to anyone who claims that ∛x is better than cbrt(x) I do. It's a simple \cbrt<tab> away in any editor worth their salt, and it greatly improves readability of computation-heavy code – ∛(ϵ² + ξ³) ≤ Φ(π) is
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> There’s some really really neat projects in the Julia community though, and some super smart and very hard working people Absolutely. The people behind Turing, Flux, Zygote, and many others are obviously gifted. But they really need to
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I agree, I have the same love/hate relationship with Julia. When the stars align, the language and its ecosystem are incredibly fast and pleasant to use. But most of the time, it is waiting for the incredibly slow doc website; trying t
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by shakow 5y ago
> we aren't able to a) make safe use of it Nuclear power was one of the safest energy source in the last century. Even hydroelectrical power, which is quite safe, has been much deadlier than nuclear accidents, and don't get me
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Would you mind sourcing that? The documents I can find ( https://www.bgr.bund.de/EN/Themen/Endlagerung/Downloads/Desc... ) seem pretty happy with the current situation.
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> All you will end up with is your groundwater leeching out the waste No yo won't, because you will think just a bit before drilling the mine shaft over an aquifer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_
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by shakow 5y ago
Of course there is; actually dangerous materials are produced to the rate of a few cubic meters a year: just sink them in lead and concrete and put them at the bottom of a mine shaft. Compared to the result of having billions over billions
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> I think it's easy to assume that in this case Go's regex library would keep an internal cache of expressions IMHO, the stdlib doing implicit memoization is a catastrophe waiting to happen. I think that handling regexps and ca
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> It’s the worse case not average that’s the issue so you normally need to look at the coldest and hottest days not September Indeed, which is why I wrote “The worst peak being at around 80GW during the winter [...]”.
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Those two examples are innovative sister projects (the EPRs) which are infamous in the nuclear community for having gone far overboard regarding both delays and over budget, and are much more representative of France fucking up its indust
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> Which is a good thing Absolutely.
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France is now close to its daily subpeak ( https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/electricity-consumptio... ) and exports ( https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/FR ) 11.5GW while importing 1GW, i.e
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They are a net exporter because they have to sell their wind/solar power for cheap when they have too much of it, but are then forced to buy nuclear/hydro power from their neighbors when their coal power plants are not enough to c
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by shakow 5y ago
1. That's not the point, the point being to illustrate how interconnected the EU grid is. 2. Regarding your comment, I personally don't see Germany importing 72 gCO2/MW power to export 399 gCO2/MW power as a good thing f
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> but my assumption is that they cannot carry enough power Right now ( https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/DE ), Germany is importing from France alone the equivalent of a bit under two French nuclear power plants at
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> You can build a single wind turbine for what, $100K? Even a basic nuclear power plant is now around $50B A modern wind turbine will typically feature a 20 years lifetime and cost a few million dollars to produce a handful of MWs. On th
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> pre-revolutionary France wasn't too dissimilar. In appearance maybe; if you dig a bit under the varnish, the power exerted by creditors over nobles and even kings quickly appears.

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