cathartes

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by cathartes 9y ago
I was a Panix user for many years. Reliable, competent, flexible, reasonably transparent, and a decent value if you're after the kind of thing they're offering. My only recommendation would be to stay away from the local panix.*
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by cathartes 9y ago
> Chernobyl wasn't a bigger problem because of the personal sacrifice of the thousands of liquidators that cleaned it up. While slightly clumsy wording on my side, I was trying to say exactly this while trying to encompass the able
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by cathartes 9y ago
> The point is not how long "temporary" is. It's incredibly hypocritical to complain that nuclear power has some sort of serious "nuclear waste problem" that must have some type of 10,000 year solution while conv
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by cathartes 9y ago
The folks I know who worked the rigs during the "boom years" came only to earn as much as they could before burn-out finally did them in. Some of them miss the pay, but none of them seem to miss the job.
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by cathartes 9y ago
Your sense of "temporary" is clearly much longer than mine. No matter, I'm not sure why we're comparing Chernobyl against these and other environmental disasters when they should be lumped together--these are all sins of
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by cathartes 9y ago
170k dead, and millions displaced. And, honestly, I think the outcry would be furious if such a dam disaster occurred today in the USA, rather than China in 1975. Without sounding like I'm belittling the scale of that disaster, I stil
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by cathartes 9y ago
If you were born and raised in Chernobyl city or Pripyat, your prospects for having a normal life in those places would be dashed almost beyond comprehension. Maybe these places are not especially significant to you or me, but is this not
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by cathartes 9y ago
This is my own objection to nuclear energy. It's arguably very safe. It could be made clean, even the by-products. But a mistake doesn't cost one generation, it costs many . The odds for an incident are supposed to be ridiculo
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by cathartes 9y ago
Except it isn't "15,000X" larger. It's just different . You didn't even acknowledge my second paragraph, and instead decided I'm some shill. If nothing else I say matters to you, let me correct you on this
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by cathartes 9y ago
I'm sorry it was not convincing, but I'm not sure why you're saying my rebuttal is FUD when the PR page is crafted exactly to muddy the very waters of this topic. You driving by "five or six hundred wind generators&quot
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by cathartes 9y ago
TL;DR. AWEA is a pro-wind lobbying group for wind companies by wind companies, and the “facts” in this link have many problems. Some of my responses below: > Turbines almost never kill bald eagles. Better to attribute the ramping of Ba
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by cathartes 9y ago
The "intermittency" is an early adoption problem. When you have enough windfarms more uniformly supplying The Grid across the country, this issue will become less of a concern. What I do see as a big problem is cost. Government
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by cathartes 9y ago
Only rarely. Golden Eagles don't tend to breed all that close to human populations centers, where domesticated and feral cats are usually found. Where they do, they tend not to do well--a steady succession of failed nesting attempts
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by cathartes 9y ago
This is actually an apples and oranges argument. All birds are not the same. What's also problematic with this argument is that even if "house cats" were the #1 problem, you still need to address both problems when we'
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by cathartes 10y ago
Off the cuff, some public examples of his more recent code are contained in ArrayForth, the development environment for the GreenArrays GA144 chip and itself a direct descendant of the original standalone colorForth for PCs: http:/&#x
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by cathartes 10y ago
It's a really sad story. But for me, the upside to this story is knowing that it is still fully possible to disappear in these places, which makes me all the more convinced these lands are worth protecting. For many, the subconscious
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by cathartes 10y ago
Not Ruby--but pretty all of the code I've seen from Charles H. Moore, the "inventor" of Forth. His code tows that fragile line between self-documentation and brevity. It inspires me, giving me firm reminder that computer co
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by cathartes 10y ago
Good to see mention of Talos, even if it never came to fruition.
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by cathartes 10y ago
Avian taxonomists covering the "tropics" of Central/South America have it bad, as do those in southeast Asia. These are areas where the quantity and diversity of species is awesomely mind-numbing, helped not one wit by subtl
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by cathartes 10y ago
I guess it's slightly better than sending seventeen 1.44M floppy disks in the mail. Slightly. ;-)
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by cathartes 10y ago
Why not wetransfer.com? Sending attachments up to 2 GB through their free service is pretty painless, and sure beats Google Drive.
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by cathartes 10y ago
Kurzweil Music Systems produced the 150 additive synthesizer around the same time that also used a 12 MHz 68k. Do you know if this faster variant was encumbered in some way that made it less suitable for use in a "general purpose&quot
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by cathartes 10y ago
No, Talos is certainly not a cheap board, but I believe it was clearly intended by its developer to proverbially break ground for a new ecosystem that wasn't vendor-controlled--with increased adoption, these would undoubtedly get cheap
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by cathartes 10y ago
As the articles mentions, this "AMD Libre Effort" isn't new--the Libreboot D16 was around before the Talos effort. I believe the D16 coreboot(/libreboot) work was also done by Raptor Engineering, which is the group pres
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by cathartes 10y ago
I'll admit I couldn't casually afford one of their desktops, but I pledged on crowdsupply to buy one anyway because I so badly wanted the Talos to succeed. While my credit card breathes a sigh of relief, I'm honestly a bit s
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by cathartes 10y ago
Working with film was fun. It imposed many subjective qualities to one's imagery that do appeal to me--and when it worked, it worked well. But when it didn't, it was very frustrating. I honestly don't miss film or the peri
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by cathartes 10y ago
In all seriousness, why not find a job working on web apps or databases that enable climate researchers? Or even wildlife biologists studying the impacts of climate change on biodiversity? There is no shortage of technical challenges in t
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by cathartes 10y ago
I signed up with a Verizon Wireless data plan a few days before the close of 2015 after moving to a new place. Initially paranoid about data usage and Verizon's integrity in reporting such, I maintained activity logs on all my machine
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by cathartes 10y ago
This is technically OT from this post, but let me try to field your question more satisfactorily than the web pages I'm able to find with DDG: I think the initial struggle will be getting used to an RPN calculator if you've never
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by cathartes 10y ago
I've long wanted to try the 50g, but haven't been able to forgive HP for ignoring longstanding bugs in the 35s and for outsourcing the design of the RPN calculators that they were rightfully renowned for. I ended up replacing my

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