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Sure, you were right. But if you had been wrong and we would now have had superintelligence, the upside for its owners would presumably be great. ... Or at least that's the hypothe…

Have you heard about xenon poisoning? Load following with a nuclear power plant is much more complex than it seems

Natural gas, from the Slochteren gas field, was the cheapest way to heat a home for the past 60 years. It's probably not so anymore, considering the Slochteren field is mostly shut…

I'm from the Netherlands and > The imported junk we get from Netherlands is abysmal compared to anything grown locally, and the reality is that we want the good stuff for ourselves…

If you tolerate this, then your children will be next....

The critical point of hydrogen is 33.2 K, that is Kelvin, or -240 degrees celsius. Any higher temperature than that, hydrogen is not a liquid, and exerts pressure on the walls of i…

Also, there's Leibniz, for Newton :-)

I don't understand what measure of efficiency you are trying to use, in which Diesel would end up being better. In environmental discussions that measure is usually something of gr…

... in which the state still owns roughly 30% of what there is to own. (Source: Pikkety)

I guess the incarceration rate would be a good candidate too

This is in dutch, but it is a very clear exposition on why that doesn't really work out: https://www.wattisduurzaam.nl/16238/energie-opslaan/watersto...

LuaJIT is an example of what happens if you do this right :-)

No horse in the race, but: - The Rust compiler uses the LLVM backend, which is generally more aggressive about optimizations and code generation. The Go compiler is a custom compil…

Thank you for that link! That does look like it is a very similar IR structure indeed. Very interesting.

Hi! Author here. Honest question, because I don't know all the facts: - Given that in this IR, every value has a single definition, and every use must reference that value, I'd arg…

Hi! Author here. I think you hit the nail on the head here. The optimizer is unaware of the control flow, because the control flow is added by the code generator.(And with it, the …

I got that number from here - tried to find a more 'official' source, but water isn't as well documented as energy. Note that those numbers when I last looked into it typically inc…

The current state of the art (reverse osmosis) is already fairly good. The first link I found [1] demonstrates the increase in efficiency - we're talking about roughly 3 kWh/m3. I …

This is actually (almost) legal in teradata sql, which doesn't enforce clause order, but it doesn't accept an identifier as a predicate.

Regarding the wonderfully sci-fi idea of flooding deserts, I raise you the seawater greenhouse company: https://seawatergreenhouse.com/ - which have been at this game for a couple …

Indeed, I owe a debt of gratitude to a lot of people.

These are all good questions, and not so easy to answer :-) Any answers I can give are personal, of course, and may well have no relevance to your situation. a): 'Studying' is defi…

Thank you. I should add I have had support of more people than I can name :-)

I just wanted to share that everything jvns is saying here is true. In 2014, for the Google Summer of Code program, I applied to build a JIT compiler for the MoarVM virtual machine…