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Don't use floats if you're trying to represent an exact value, i.e. someones bank account. But in financial modelling you're generally dealing in probabilistic "expected values", i…

If given a question about reversing a string, it lets you ask the interviewer questions like: * Do you want to do it in-place or as a copy? * Is it an ASCII or Unicode string? If u…

Thanks for taking the time to write these comments. In my opinion, existing tech is able to solve the climate crisis. Breakthroughs can make the solution cheaper and sooner. In my …

The cause is a political battle with Putin over gas. Russia has traditionally used gas contracts with individual countries to buy political influence. Now the EU has a single gas m…

Primary energy consumption isn't a great metric for comparing with renewable electricity, since for conventional plants it includes the unused energy lost as heat. A fossil power p…

There's also ongoing work to build a dependency vulnerability database. This is proposed to be surfaced via a built in `go audit` command. https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/ma…

hmmm interesting - here's an article. https://qz.com/2004569/the-global-chip-shortage-can-be-expla...

All of the car companies, dialed down orders at the start of the pandemic. Now they are all trying to stockpile chips, due to not enough supply. I imagine (no data to support) the …

Travel was open with Australia until the recent outbreak there. Using virus genome sequencing, this outbreak has been traced to a New Zealander who caught the virus in Sydney, and …

There's also ongoing development on "starnix" which aims to run unmodified Linux binaries.

I hope France finds a path forward. Last I read it's sitting on an aging fleet of reactors, and failing to build new ones in a timely manner. The big German power companies definit…

Where is the big increase in coal? If you look at the stats coal use is down. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g... What is not well known in the Anglosph…

NZ Crayfish are called Rock Lobster in the US. http://www.leefishusa.com/products/lobster/spiny

It is phrased this way because the changing climate is what negatively affects civilization. While it is an energy imbalance which causes the climate to change, modifying the energ…

Pedantic answer... You could start at 0 Kelvin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero

China has piloted a number of carbon pricing schemes since 2013. It is introducing a nationwide scheme this year. https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-china-idUSL3N...

"An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without constant manual control by a human operator being required. Autopilots d…

Another chart... Note some stats are percentage of consumption, others are percentage of generation. These differ due to imports and exports. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/…

This assumes that the nuclear reactors could ramp up and down on a daily basis. Germany's reactors weren't capable of load following to the extent required. In fact brokdorf was ta…

Most of Japan's electricity is from imported LNG, so doesn't make much difference to independence. They already import this energy.

You can convert electricity, water and CO2 to fuels, such as hydrogen and natgas. These fuels can then be transported. There are significant energy losses if all you want on the ot…

Phrase it how you will, but this chart shows it clearly. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

The same thing did not happen in Germany. The increase in renewables more than made up for the decrease in nuclear. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g... …