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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 recommendat…

> 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 …

> 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…

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 the…

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 b…

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 …

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 ar…

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 od…

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, l…

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 "f…

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 …

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. Wha…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 l…

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 m…

Good to see mention of Talos, even if it never came to fruition.

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 awesome…

I guess it's slightly better than sending seventeen 1.44M floppy disks in the mail. Slightly. ;-)

Why not wetransfer.com? Sending attachments up to 2 GB through their free service is pretty painless, and sure beats Google Drive.

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 ma…

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--wit…

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 Rapt…

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 bre…