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by usrnm 7mo ago
China has a huge advantage over the majority of Europe: abundance of mostly empty land with a lot of sunlight, it's unrealistic in places like Norther Europe. But I'm not talking about nuclear alone, it was the best answer in the
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by usrnm 7mo ago
That's why I used the word electricity and not energy. It isn't perfect, but still much better than the majority if the world and even Europe. The fact that even the French themselves cannot replicate it anymore speaks volumes abo
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by usrnm 7mo ago
Google "Messmer Plan". France built 65 reactors in 15 years as a reaction to the 70s oil crisis, and now the majority of electricity in France comes from nuclear without any significant dependency on fossil fuels. The only thing
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by usrnm 7mo ago
How do you control which CPU your task resumes on? If you don't then it's still the same problem described above, no?
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by usrnm 7mo ago
It only seems right because there are no other implementations and the distinction is meaningless. You don't want to live in the world of multiple slightly different implementations all of which you need to support, this is, roughly, w
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by usrnm 7mo ago
It's the complete opposite for me. Rust code, especially async Rust code is just full of noise the only purpose of which is to make the borrow checker shut up
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by usrnm 7mo ago
Of course it has drawbacks, everything does, but my practical experience has been hugely in favor of what golang is doing, at least, in terms of cognitive load and code simplicity. It is very much worth it in many, many cases
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by usrnm 7mo ago
Try golang, where they did the only sane thing: everything is async from the very beginning, no function colouring
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by usrnm 7mo ago
No problem, just don't call it UUID
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by usrnm 7mo ago
I wonder what modern English would look like if the battle of Hastings went differently
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by usrnm 7mo ago
> the principal engineer's role would be to review designs to reduce complexity Two questions: 1) How did this principal engineer get this title? 2) How is he going to get the next one?
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by usrnm 7mo ago
> LLM-driven development could land on a safer language Why does an LLM need to produce human readable code at all? Especially in a language optimized around preventing humans from making human mistakes. For now, sure, we're in the
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by usrnm 7mo ago
> it feels natural to me that the line for images should be aligned with the line for the act itself So, no more crime on TV?
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by usrnm 7mo ago
In terms of the railway? I'd say it caught up with Japan or France, and the US is not even in the race
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by usrnm 7mo ago
Did it? I took a ride on the Shanghai airport maglev around a month ago, and it never went above 300 km/h, which was a real bummer, to be honest.
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by usrnm 7mo ago
I don't get that argument at all. Americans felt that they were missing out on all the fun, so they decided to kill even more Iranians? Does anyone really believe that bombing cities saves lives?
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by usrnm 8mo ago
Which is the exact point I was trying to make? It's still a steam engine, the basic idea is there and, yet, nobody saw its huge potential
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by usrnm 8mo ago
I already use AI tools for more things than just "better search". Like, today. For work.
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by usrnm 8mo ago
> No no, an intelligent person looking at a crude steam engine could see what potential it has. This is not hindsight Steam engines were known since the first century, at the vert least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by usrnm 8mo ago
I put AI assisted code in production every day, what are you talking about? At this point I don't even doubt I'm going to lose the job eventually, the question is only whether or not I will be able to pay my mortgage off first.
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by usrnm 8mo ago
What are you talking about, there are multiple wine-producing regions in the EU, and there is absolutely no problem finding Spanish, Italian or even German wine in any EU country. Even Georgian wines can be found, if you know what to look f
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by usrnm 8mo ago
A lot of very bad things were historically done by men of science
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by usrnm 8mo ago
You're talking about the part of C++ that was inherited from C. Unfortunately, it was way too late to fix by the time RAII was even invented
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by usrnm 8mo ago
In my opinion, it's the initialization part of RAII which is really powerful and still missing from most other languages. When implemented properly, RAII completely eliminates a whole class of bugs related to uninitialized or partially
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by usrnm 8mo ago
To be fair, RAII is so much more than just automatic cleanup. It's a shame how misunderstood this idea has become over the years
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by usrnm 8mo ago
The go way of dealing with it is wrapping the block with your defers in a lambda. Looks weird at first, but you can get used to it.
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by usrnm 8mo ago
Google was freely available in Russia up until 2022 and Yandex still had a larger market share. It really was a solid competitor to Google, much better than anything the EU ever had.
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by usrnm 8mo ago
> Yet, go back far enough and you'll find T-Rexes in the mix Afaik, T-Rex was never a direct ancestor of modern birds, including chicken. T-Rex and birds are theropod dinosaurs, but it was a very large and diverse group of animals.
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by usrnm 8mo ago
I guess, the idea is that you cannot target both America1 and America3 with the same product . Take into account that America3 doesn't have a lot of disposable income in the first place, and going after a similar target audience in an
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by usrnm 8mo ago
How hot is hot, though? Boiling hot or taking it to a hot shower?

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