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You start with the queen. Everyone knows who she is.

Probably only few. Nuclear attracts dreamers. But would they pay the price, literally? Cost is the real reason nuclear is dying.

Can I recommend playing Bach? The specialization goes both ways, though, I'm much better playing Alberti bass with my left hand compared to the right.

Diamonds? You can use them in a drill bit.

No, you need to match the demand curve at all times.

Source please? The numbers I have seen of real opex paint a different picture. In general, nuclear plants close because of cost.

You just write "spent two years raising my youngest kid [building tree houses and whatnot]". If you keep a bit up with tech, why would anyone think twice about that? They wouldn't …

Yes. Some years ago we ported some code from querying out the data and tallying in Python (how many are in each bucket) to using SQL to do that. It didn't speed up the execution. I…

The suggestion was not to use an LLM to compile the expression, but to use an LLM to build the compiler.

Not sure, but I solved a similar problem many years ago, and ended up concluding it was silly to send all the data to the client when the client didn't have the visual resolution t…

Original Flot maintainer here. I once had to deal with many million data points for an application. I ended up mip-mapping them client-side. But regarding sampling, if it's a line …

The ones about Calvin having an awful day due to what's demanded of him are honestly heartbreaking.

Yes. DJGPP and Allegro was a great help, and a big step up from the old Borland Turbo Pascal I started out with. I remember trying to rotate an image pixel by pixel in Pascal. Alle…

Some years ago I bought a little pamphlet with a few mental exercises by Rudolf Steiner, known for the Waldorf school system. One of them was about building a habit. You find a sma…

Prepper store is potentially misleading, it's shops that are prepared to respond to a crisis for those that didn't prep.

Greenland can become independent if they wish. There would be some things to work out, but the legal framework has been in place since the 1970es. And they seem to be working towar…

Yeah, the only dumb thing about the digital mail is that they're not just using email with an official registry. They could have started some kind of certification thing for email …

I enjoyed reading most of that. One thing to watch out for with immutability is that if you're dealing with personal information about people, immutability is probably illegal. You…

The UK used to have very high subsidies for offshore wind for some reason. The last I've heard, subsidies for new plants are much lower today. As for being cost effective, onshore …

This is false. Take a look at Denmark. This argument was repeated there in the past for "above X", with X being 15%, 20%, 30%, 50%.

I think the problem is that then you need two energy harvesting systems, and there's not just that much to eat nearby. I guess to effectively live a long life by eating other stuff…

I was taught something of the same. But I think it was misguided. I'll note that 1/3 is not a number, it's a calculation. So more complicated. And fractions are generally much more…

Seeing like a state does not argue against the meter system. It just explains that many of these things got traction despite the resistance against them only because the state need…

I recently bought a second-hand Microsoft Surface tablet, installed Debian and now run GNOME on it. The first time it came up and I logged into a familiar GNOME environment was a p…

When you buy one, they come with the warning to drive around first without cargo. But yeah, you need to take it easy. Safe speed is perhaps 10-12 km/h on a bike path with other bic…