derriz

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by derriz 3d ago
Is supporting a racist, science-denying, authoritarian and xenophobic party which views Germany's European neighbors and allies as threats to its prosperity going to do so? When has strident ethno-nationalism delivered more livable li
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by derriz 4d ago
> have been left almost no-where else to go I’m pretty sure that there are political alternatives to afd’s ethno-nationalism, climate change denialism and Putin-worship
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by derriz 4d ago
Match in what way? The equivalent number for the EU is about 125 tons I believe.
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by derriz 14d ago
Yes consumption varies by month but that's not why nuclear output fell by 30%. There was wide scale unscheduled reduction in nuclear generation this Summer: in Hungary (Paks - reduced to 10% output), Romania (full shutdown of Cernavodă
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by derriz 14d ago
Nuclear is also intermittent - ask Europeans. During January this year, nuclear contributed about 62TWh of the electricity generated in the EU while in June this had fallen to 43.7TWh - about a 30% decrease. The deficit was largely filled
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by derriz 14d ago
> Nuclear power plants are expensive, but that's because they are big. For the amount of electricity they generate, they are cheap. Not according to the standard statistic for electricity generation cost - LCOE which amortizes capit
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by derriz 17d ago
I don’t agree. The technical device we use for creating clear boundaries, useful abstractions and managing dependencies in monolithic code is the function/method/procedure call. The history of distributed software is littered wi
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by derriz 17d ago
Examples? Maybe it’s true but I’d be surprised. Like I said from experience of living under a number of jurisdictions, none will charge a person with murder in those circumstances. Everywhere I’ve lived, if your life is directly threatene
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by derriz 18d ago
> Somebody kicks in your door with a pump action and starts shooting- There are _some_ jurisdictions that require you to try and flee. You kill them and they werent bodily blocking your car in? Murder charge. Which jurisdictions? Is thi
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by derriz 18d ago
I’ve had the same reaction. We’ve seen this play out in other language eco-systems (Java - JAXP, javax.validation, JPA, etc all ended up with a de facto single implementation) and the idea of pluggable implementations sounds appealing but
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by derriz 19d ago
Nuclear in this millennium is not competing with nuclear or other tech from the 1970s - it’s competing with newer technologies (solar, wind, batteries and gas turbines) which do not require 5 to 10 year huge civil engineering works. All th
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Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors (2015)(spectrum.ieee.org)
49 points by derriz 19d ago|67 comments
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by derriz 19d ago
Large scale civil engineering projects will always cost more than simply installing stuff that comes almost fully assembled from a factory (solar, wind, battery or small/medium gas turbines). Opex will always be much higher for a gene
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by derriz 20d ago
Looks like there's contact between the outer diameter of the sun-gear and a surface close to the center of the planet-gear? The link arm is pulling them together and this contact keeps them apart I guess. The rotation speeds are diff
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by derriz 23d ago
Prices would increase making the alternatives more attractive. Oil and gas production is relatively in elastic taking years to expand. The extra installed solar and wind generation - as a reaction to increased fossil fuel costs and supply d
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by derriz 23d ago
Names or evidence. Either will do.
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by derriz 23d ago
Foreign state actors? We have government agents frequenting this website to sew anti-US sentiment? Really? Could you identify some of them? Or at least one or two of the obvious ones?
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by derriz 23d ago
Why does it matter where on the planet the fossil fuels are extracted in terms of dealing with global climate change? The US and Canada combined are responsible for 28% and 31% of the global oil and natural gas extraction respectively. If
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by derriz 24d ago
A long time ago, I had to write SQL parsers (for 3 of the most popular DBs at the time). It is a surprisingly difficult language to parse and disambiguate - particularly when having to deal with the warts of its variants. Sure it's n
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by derriz 1mo ago
> €400 gets you a very, very, very low-end new bike, like just one step above “unsafe to ride” I don’t agree. After my last bike was stolen I decided to buy the cheapest Decathlon had to offer - 240 - for getting around town and there’s
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by derriz 1mo ago
This is the case for me - since the age of 4 or 5. I don’t live in the US but have lived and worked in 3 different countries and the only time it was an issue was getting married. Everything else - bank accounts, drivers license, residency
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Ten customers paying for early access to Donald Trump's social media posts(rte.ie)
3 points by derriz 1mo ago|1 comments
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by derriz 1mo ago
What sort of C++ project requires general recursion to describe its build process? I could imagine a compile step not terminating - due to some crazy template meta-programming glitch but the build system itself? The output of a compile or
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by derriz 1mo ago
Funny I tried the same and it advised a using searing/smoking hot pan. Which is poor advice unless you enjoy the bitter acrid taste of burnt meat. The Maillard reaction doesn’t require those sorts of temperatures (under 180C is hot e
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by derriz 1mo ago
Incompetence is one thing, but the aspect of the current leadership that I (as a non-American) find most shocking is the corruption. That is, the use of state power to enrich an individual and his family members and to bend state institutio
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by derriz 1mo ago
BBQ culture is different in different parts of the world - I experienced what you describe in Switzerland once (bring and grill your own food). Where I’m from, it’s bring your own booze but host is expected to provide all the food. Where
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by derriz 1mo ago
> But of course, as I'm sure you recognize.. I do not. When you say, “what I mean is economic capacity is constrained by demand and raw materials” - that’s a significant deviation from your claim that economic capacity is infinite
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by derriz 1mo ago
I’m not sure I understand? Financial services and insurance make up about 8% of US economy and 5% of that in Europe. I’ve seen no signs that these sectors or the economies they’re part of are growing in an unconstrained way?
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by derriz 1mo ago
> economic capacity is effectively infinite at this point This is a bizarre claim? The total ability of an economy to produce goods and services is most certainly finite. For it to be infinite, we'd need infinite workers, infinite
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by derriz 1mo ago
What economic "just so" stories have I presented? You accept that economic capacity is not infinite, right? Then you need to tell me from which sector would you reallocate workers to doing the things you listed: producing cheap

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