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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
are there actually any serious political groups pushing nuclear power?
It's big in France, at least, so there has to be some political group who is pushing it. Maybe not for the given reasons.
France is actually one of the countries that have already run out of coal. There is not a single active coal mine in the country!
(Also, Germany is now against nuclear power, that is the secondary reason - but I assume that is more important in Netherlands).
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
(Also, Germany is now against nuclear power, that is the secondary reason ).
For once, they have better reasons than sticking it to foolish Germans.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
are there actually any serious political groups pushing nuclear power?
It's big in France, at least, so there has to be some political group who is pushing it. Maybe not for the given reasons.
France is actually one of the countries that have already run out of coal. There is not a single active coal mine in the country!
(Also, Germany is now against nuclear power, that is the secondary reason - but I assume that is more important in Netherlands).
Our new combined green/labour frontman has drunk the 'nuclear is evil' coolaid. I'm not too worried he'll make it into the cabinet.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Though I think maybe there’s some mileage to go in talking about tokamaks and stellarators rather than big nuke plants.
We’ll talk about that in
$whenever-you-read-this + 50 years
.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Though I think maybe there’s some mileage to go in talking about tokamaks and stellarators rather than big nuke plants.
We’ll talk about that in
$whenever-you-read-this + 50 years
.You mean despite the ones already in production use?
See article from earlier this year from IAEA: https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tokamaks-stellarators-laser-based-and-alternative-concepts-report-offers-global-perspective-on-nuclear-fusion-devices
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@topspin my bad, I only skim read the part where it talked about 50 tokamaks and 10 stellarators with a multi-country project in France, which sounded to me as if it were production use.
Then again I hear “production ready” and “production use” a lot for things that really aren’t, it all blurs after a while.
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@topspin and last I heard none of them was in any way close to getting out more energy than they had to put in to get fusion going1, or getting into anything remotely resembling sustained operation.
1 There was, of course, this "break-even" event but that had caveats big enough to sail an oil tanker through. As far as I remember the "break-even" only considered the incident energy from the laser beams, and not the energy required to actually power the lasers.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
I only skim read
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
I only skim read...
In this forum we only comment on the headlines.
*edit OFFS. just above.
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@DogsB I even made a custom emoji for it.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@topspin my bad, I only skim read the part where it talked about 50 tokamaks and 10 stellarators with a multi-country project in France, which sounded to me as if it were production use.
Then again I hear “production ready” and “production use” a lot for things that really aren’t, it all blurs after a while.
Yeah, this is one of the areas where adopting Software Engineering culture is a very, very bad idea.
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Wrong. Willie’s Wonderland was almost perfect.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@DogsB I even made a custom emoji for it.
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Article @DogsB linked in In other news today...:
likely the least scary horror flick you’ll see this year,
.... They've clearly never played the games.
The horror is in the lore that you have to really dig at, otherwise it's just a game of anticipation, and I presume the same applies to the (not yet seen by myself) movie.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
The horror is in the lore that you have to really dig at, otherwise it's just a game of anticipation
I always anticipate movie adaptations to be horrible.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Article @DogsB linked in In other news today...:
likely the least scary horror flick you’ll see this year,
.... They've clearly never played the games.
The horror is in the lore that you have to really dig at, otherwise it's just a game of anticipation, and I presume the same applies to the (not yet seen by myself) movie.
The reviewer just didn't realize that the theatre gave them these to watch the movie with, not as a commemorative piece:
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
this is one of the areas where adopting Software Engineering culture is a very, very bad idea.
Are there any where it's a not very, very bad idea?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
this is one of the areas where adopting Software Engineering culture is a very, very bad idea.
Are there any where it's a not very, very bad idea?
Depends on how much you like laughing at tales from our workplaces.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
this is one of the areas where adopting Software Engineering culture is a very, very bad idea.
Are there any where it's a not very, very bad idea?
No, especially Software Engineering itself.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@DogsB I even made a custom emoji for it.
PRs accepted.
I should find my GitHub credentials again.
Edit: they were in my password manager. Who would have thought?
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Imagine how much absolute garbage they could crank out at that rate.
Like, we could already be reaching “your milk explodes when you drink it” levels of quality.
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@topspin When he gets to the 170-hour workweek, let me know.
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Ah, 70 hours for young Indians. None could possibly have expected his plan to cunningly exclude himself.
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@topspin I thought that was already typical for Indian sweatshops.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Edit: they were in my password manager. Who would have thought?
That doesn't sound safe...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Imagine how much absolute garbage they could crank out at that rate.
Like, we could already be reaching “your milk explodes when you drink it” levels of quality.As if Infosys aren't making a lot of their staff work that already.
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@loopback0 Yeah, I don't think the hours are the problem.
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@cvi They are, but the other way around (more hours, crappier output).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
That doesn't sound safe...
How to you figure? Isn't the purpose of a password manager to safely store private information?
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@cvi They are, but the other way around (more hours, crappier output).
The garbage they produce is already a net loss for society.
But hey, let’s make it up in volume.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Like, we could already be reaching “your milk explodes when you drink it” levels of quality.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
your milk explodes when you drink it
Aka lactose intolerance.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
That doesn't sound safe...
How to you figure? Isn't the purpose of a password manager to safely store private information?
Ostensibly....
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I wonder how much money Xbox is losing.
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@DogsB Were they waiting for me to buy an official controller?
Because I don't have an XBox either way.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Using unauthorised accessories compromises your gaming experience. For this reason, the unauthorised accessory will be blocked from use on 12/11/2023.
Amazing how they manage to spin that.
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I’m convince its three websites giving this traction. The problem with the windows phone was it was the windows phone. That awful operating system that everyone loves to hate.
Google and the combined might of everyone who isn’t Apple, but that includes Apple in a weird way, is necessary to knock Apple to about 50% of market share. Microsoft comes along with the brand more likely to shift people to mobile and wonders why it didn’t work.
*edit they also bought nokia. A brand that quickly became synonymous with crufty overpriced garbage ten minutes after android started popping up everywhere. That was a fucking great idea. Blackberry might have been a better.
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@DogsB A decade later they still believe that "Windows Phone" the brand alone should've been enough to convince everyone to switch. Like anyone who doesn't list Excel as their favorite hobby thinks that's a good thing.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The problem with the windows phone was it was the windows phone. That awful operating system that everyone loves to hate.
But also Windows Phone was shit.
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On top of that, Windows Phone was why we got Windows 8 Fisher-Price UI.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The problem with the windows phone was it was the windows phone. That awful operating system that everyone loves to hate.
But also Windows Phone was shit.
If it at least was a windows phone. The CE 6.5 actually, well, had some sales. But WP7 was a castrated .нет-only joke that, for obvious reasons, had no applications. And people buy smart phones for the applications. Even Android really only started to get popular when they released the NDK, and being Java at least made porting the older JavaME applications easier. But .нет? Who in their right mind would invest in porting their application to a different language for sake of a platform that was just starting with a fraction of a percent of the market‽
They mostly fixed that with WP8 (still required new UI compared to CE6.5, but you needed a different UI between iPhone and Android anyway), but by that time nobody gave a shit.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
On top of that, Windows Phone was why we got Windows 8 Fisher-Price UI.
The original Fisher-Price UI was Windows XP. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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@dkf not the way 8 was. Though I'll give you that XP did have that smooth rolling hill colour saturation thing that Win9x didn't. But unlike 8, you could (easily) turn that off if you preferred.
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@Arantor It was particularly the look of the window decorations, and especially the big cheerful
X
for closing windows.
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@dkf which on XP can all be reverted to the Win9x look with a single config option that isn't even that hard to find, IIRC.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Arantor It was particularly the look of the window decorations, and especially the big cheerful
X
for closing windows.Back when windows still had decorations instead of “Let’s put random buttons there and hide the title bar. Oh, and also hide the menu in some fucking hamburger thingy.”
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@dkf which on XP can all be reverted to the Win9x look with a single config option that isn't even that hard to find, IIRC.
And without using regedit
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@TimeBandit we didn't know how good we had it.