Maya Posch
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Just another AI | Author | Software & Hardware Developer | C++, Ada, VHDL | Electronics | Science | English, 日本語, Deutsch, Nederlands
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Anti-brown coal demonstration today in Germany, and people are walking around with 'Atomkraft, Nein Danke' (Nuclear power, no thanks) banners.
The irony is just too painful at this point.
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Hot take:
Germany turning off three large nuclear plants (~3 GW) at the end of this year in the midst of one of the worst fuel and energy crises is a decision that's completely devoid of reason.
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"Hey, I made something cool!"
"That's so cool that a woman does programming!"
"But my project..."
"We need more women in programming!"
"..."
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I guess the take-away message from
#FyreFestival
is that the rich and influential are very poorly prepared for the real world.
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For 2019 I would like to have a job again. My qualifications: C, C++, embedded, currently writing my third book (on embedded C++ dev).
I love challenges and responsibility. Relocating is no problem.
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Newsflash: the Sun is releasing radioactive tritium into all of Earth's surface water right now.
All demands to the Sun to stop this radioactive waste dumping have so far gone unanswered.
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How to identify someone who is trapped in an anti-nuclear, anti-science bubble: their goal is to replace nuclear power with 'renewables' (including biomass), not to replace high-carbon sources with low-carbon ones.
These people are not 'climate activists' and should be ignored.
Für alle, die sich Sorgen machen, dass für den weggefallenen Atomstrom nicht ersetzt bekommen, hier nochmal der Hinweis:
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Nuclear power is so uneconomical that the only way to stop investments in it is by banning the construction of new nuclear plants.
Meanwhile tenders for VRE projects get ignored more and more often as even subsidies aren't enough to get investors interested.
100% Idiocracy.
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Serious question:
Does a laptop having soldered-down RAM, CPU and storage bother you?
In the case of a MacBook owner, are you aware that the non-removable storage is encrypted and not recoverable if the mainboard dies?
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Yay! I'm an official
#GamerGate
sock puppet now :) Achievement unlocked <3
#NotYourShield
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Greenpeace: nuclear power is too expensive and new reactors take too long to build.
China, Korea, Russia and India: haha new reactors go brrr~
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@KroganCharr
It's an attractive fairy tale that's been perpetrated for decades now, yes. The German government also says that it can be done. In the future. With only massive imports of hydrogen and ammonia and probably LNG anyway.
Anti-intellectual ideology is real poison...
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With me becoming homeless next month in addition to being jobless, might there be someone out there who can help a slightly quaint, senior C++ developer with a profound interest in hardware development get a home & job?
Resume:
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Wind & solar do not replace nuclear power.
Wind & solar + TWh-range grid-level storage + thousands of kilometres of transmission lines + open cycle gas turbines do.
At which point you may as well stick with the nuclear power as it's cheaper and much lower maintenance.
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At some point it wasn't even just 6% of Germany's electricity that was provided by nuclear plants. That was just from the last three plants.
It used to be a third, 30% of Germany's electricity was low-carbon from nuclear power.
The Greens & SPD replaced it with fossil fuels.
Incredible speech: Arnold Schwarzenegger slams Germany for closing nuclear plants while claiming a fossil fuel emergency to its citizens!
Schwarzenegger, the most famous living Austrian, speaking Thursday in Vienna, also praises California for saving Diablo Canyon nuclear plant.
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It's tragic how many Germans seem to think that once the last three nuclear power plants shut down, Germany will not have to deal with any future 'nuclear waste'.
Fact remains that hospitals, laboratories and research facilities produce >90% of all radioactive waste.
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A nuclear-powered cargo ship has been transporting goods around the globe for many decades now, producing zero harmful emissions.
Nobody noticed, because it just works.
We should build more of those.
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So far as a female gamer & dev,
#GamerGate
to me means new friends, fun discussions and a general sense of companionship. Thanks, y'all :)
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Here's a fun challenge for the Internet:
Can this senior C++ developer find a new job with relocation support before becoming homeless by the end of this month?
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If decarbonising a grid with just solar and wind is so easy and cheap, why is it that Germany after 20 years and billions of Euros still needs 18 years before it can turn off its coal plants and decades longer for its many gas plants?
Dare we question the Energiewende Gods?
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@wartranslated
Muscovians clearly haven't changed over the past hundreds of years. Doesn't matter whether it's the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, or Putin's Russian Federation, Muscovians always feel that they're superior to everyone else.
Really hope that delivery guy was okay. Poor kid.
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That sound you heard was Belgium's new government ripping up the Paris Agreement and burning it in a flame of the purest, freshly imported Russian natural gas.
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Getting attacked by men on social media sites for refusing to agree with Sarkeesian as a female gamer. Bizarre.
#GamerGate
#NotYourShield
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Why make nuclear power illegal?
Too dangerous? Statistics say otherwise.
Too expensive? Don't need to make it illegal in that case.
BuT tHe WaSTe? Spent LWR fuel can be recycled for fresh fuel, as well as used as FNR fuel, which only leaves some short-lived isotopes.
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There's no 'both sides' when it comes to nuclear power. You cannot equate the IAEA and Greenpeace, simply based on the amount of credible, peer-reviewed evidence provided.
Greenpeace are the lunatic anti-vaxxers, the 'shutdown Big Pharma', chemtrail & flat earth side.
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As a senior C++ developer who also happens to be a women, I really loathe the idea of genderising IT. Can't we just be nerds together?
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Fun fact: one of the tasks of the Stasi in the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) was to collect data on every single person in the country to detect suspicious elements.
It's 2021 and the German government has committed to doing essentially the same thing.
Überwachungsstaat: Seehofers Innenministerium hat sich heute gerechtfertigt, warum man sich für eine Vorratsdatenspeicherung für Personen einsetzt. Was beim Abschluss eines Telefonvertrags gilt, müsse auch für Whatsapp, Emails etc gelten. Es sei keine anlasslose Datensammlung.
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The safety of nuclear power plants is not a real concern for anti-nuclear power activists. Else gas, biomass & coal plants would be unacceptable to them.
The 'dangerous waste' point is a similar red herring. That's why arguing these points with them is futile.
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I'm terribly sorry to anyone who feels that 100% solar and wind is the way forward, but when France's CO2 output has been almost statistical noise since the 1970s relative to Germany's after nearly 20 years of 'Energiewende', then the clear answer is that nuclear will save us.
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"By shutting down just one of Indian Point’s two reactors this year, New York lost more carbon-free electricity than produced annually by every wind turbine and solar panel in the state."
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USB-A:
If black, USB 1.1 or 2.0 with 100 - 500 mA. If blue, 3.0, with 1.5 A.
USB-C:
USB 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, or 3.xx-NxM, between 0.5 - 240 Watt. Maybe just alt mode DisplayPort or analogue audio, or *flips table*
USB-IF is a crime against humanity.
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Germany, 2023. Second year of the German Greens in the government.
There's 8 GW of nuclear power that could be used for the next few decades instead of coal and lignite.
Why not? Only because of ideology and misinformation?
This picture is quite powerful.
German Police protecting Lignite Coal Mine Expansion against climate protests in 2023.
@marius_mich
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I used to be anti-nuclear in the 90s as a kid. I went right along with Greenpeace's anti-nuclear stance of the day, without questioning it.
Then I began to learn more about the technology without the FUD and changed to a positive stance. It made me lose all faith in GP, too.
I'm keen to understand how thinking about nuclear energy has changed in the past decade.
I've changed from "against" to "for" nuclear.
I'd be keen to get a feel from others whether they've changed their view, or if not, what their view is.
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@einball
The German governments have changed their minds about a nuclear phase-out repeatedly. Before 2011, Merkel was recorded as saying that a nuclear phase-out would be a horrible idea.
A decision made to appease voters on emotional grounds is not a rational decision.
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@NOELreports
How does that work as a 'loan' when Ukraine mostly gets old, soon-to-be-decommissioned junk from US warehouses and the money stays overwhelmingly inside US borders?
Should they return the scrap metal from the ATACMS?
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@bayraktar_1love
@swiss_un
@SwitzerlandOSCE
Switzerland's famed neutrality is more like the guy who stands idly by as someone gets beaten to death on the street, then afterwards checks the corpse's pockets for any valuables.
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Reasons to be against nuclear power are:
- You like fossil fuels (e.g. German SPD).
- You like degrowth economics (e.g. German Greens).
- You're dangerously ill-informed, but heavily opiniated (also see 'useful idiot').
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Learning German is very easy:
1. Learn Dutch.
2. Spell Dutch words with extra letters: 'dan' becomes 'dann', etc.
3. Pronounce all words with extra hard sounds, especially the 's' and 'g' sounds.
4. Ignore the extra grammar as no native German gets it right either.
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While Finnish Greens are celebrating the commissioning of a brand-new, 1.6 GW NPP, German Greens are prostrating themselves in front of Big LNG with a highly questionable human rights record.
Guess that's Germany starting fracking in *checks notes* two weeks from now?
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Watching many of the European Greens throwing a hissy fit over the inclusion of nuclear power into the Green Taxonomy is rather amusing.
They don't have any real arguments. They go in against scientific consensus. They ignore economic reality.
But they *know* it's bad.
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Irony being that most MSFT programs are written in C, not C++. And where C++ is used, it is pre-C++11 code.
This is just as silly as Mozilla blaming C++ for its ineptitude when it comes to programming.
Also, the answer is more Ada.
Love, a senior C++ and Ada developer.
“Microsoft has deemed C++ no longer acceptable for writing mission-critical software.” and is adopting Rust.
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Still proud of attaining official
#GamerGate
sock puppet status courtesy of
@IGDA
its founder himself. *fistbump*
#NotYourShield
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No country in the world has decarbonised using just wind and solar. Both are backed by copious amounts of natural gas capacity.
There's not enough hydro capacity either. Decarbonising without nuclear (fission or fusion) is a fool's errand.
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Greenpeace is a literal threat to humanity. They are pro-degrowth, pro-famine, pro-pollution and pro-disease.
Anyone who supports Greenpeace and kin (like 'Friends of the Earth' and WWF) are part of the problem.
Choose life, oppose Greenpeace.
Outraged today?
@greenpeace
and an anti-
#GMO
movement celebrate a ruling to stop nutrition from reaching the food insecure. After years of trials and regulatory approval, a court maneuver stalls Golden Rice from reaching poor Filipinos.
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When an anti-nuclear power person utters phrases like 'WhAt aBoUT tHe WaSTe?', these are not intended to be questions seeking answers.
Rather, they're the intellectual equivalent of a dog lifting its leg to mark a spot.
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I'm amazed every time how JavaScript's extreme complexity and built-in obfuscation makes me long for the terrors of C++ template dev instead
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As Belgium shuts down its last nuclear plants by 2025, it will have replaced them with gas plants as announced by the new Belgian government.
The results: CO2 from electricity production goes from 9.7 million tons/year to 25 million tons.
How does any of this make sense?
Le gouvernement Belge va arrêter le nucléaire dans la production électrique du pays. Le mix énergétique va évoluer vers davantage de gaz (importé de Russie).
Voici l'évolution en milliers de tonnes de co2 du mix Belge : de 9,7 millions de tonnes ajd, ils vont monter à 25Mt.
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Maybe 'GamerGaters' are just faking it by being really nice to me, but so far the only abuse/hate I suffered was from anti-GGers.
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@wartranslated
Wonder when the guy will realise that he joined the baddies. Maybe he'll get captured and enjoy the hospitality of the Ukrainian PoW camps :)
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Russia is aiming to power its remote towns with small, nuclear power plant, where they replace mostly diesel and coal plants.
These nuclear plants provide not only electricity, but also heat for warm water and heating, with zero pollution.
NYT's take: 'radioactive water'.
In a remote Siberian town, residents take showers heated up by a miniature nuclear plant. Russia is testing nuclear power for warming homes, and some advocates of the idea say it has environmental benefits.
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@ErnestWAdams
Thanks for blocking me on
@Quora
. I guess a mature discussion isn't your style. Have a nice day, regardless.
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Yes, I'm running Linux on my C64.
Still setting up the retro computing and similar corner :)
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@SPU_Urology
@bretanmd
@KPCC
I was born a hermaphroditic intersex person (true hermaphrodite). Fortunately it wasn't visible at birth (closed-off vagina).
The thought of some surgeon having chopped up my genitals as an infant and having removed either the male or female side fills me with horror.
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Feeling like a lot of people/journalists don't really get what it takes to penetrate the protections around a Gen II/III+ nuclear reactor's core.
Or what may happen if one manages to achieve even that.
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SpaceX bringing internet to disadvantaged areas with Starlink, like... Germany.
No disagreement there :)
#Neuland
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@SwiftOnSecurity
My unpatched system is running air-gapped without any means of external communications in the center of the Arctic, you insensitive clod :)
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That special place in Hell for devs who rename a C file to '*.cpp' and pretend it's valid C++.
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What made the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi (early Gen II reactors) so spectacular was actually not the meltdowns at all, but rather the hydrogen forming in the spent fuel pools from hot zirconium cladding reacting with the air before finding an ignition source.
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Assuming that:
1) electricity is an essential, first-order need in a country.
2) lack of electricity costs lives.
3) saving lives is a primary goal.
It follows that:
1) sources of electricity must be:
a) dispatchable.
b) reliable.
c) weather-proofed.
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Dutch TV show from 2018 about nuclear energy which looks like it's been one of the driving forces behind the Netherlands deciding to build more nuclear plants.
The end of nuclear power as a taboo.
Nuclear Energy - Zondag met Lubach (S09)
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@wartranslated
What, no HIMARS and Patriot missile battery in there along with some Abrams tanks?
I'm so disappointed in the FSB.
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For those interested in the book on which I'm currently working, it's titled 'Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17' and will be released next month.
Amazon product page:
Packt:
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Anti-nuclear EU nations are either heavily reliant on (Russian) natural gas, or lucky to have a lot of hydro capacity.
This highlights the hypocrisy of these countries, threatening the stability of the EU as a whole.
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@NuclearHazelnut
It boggles the mind that a country like Spain would look at the slowly imploding economy in Germany due to its energy self-strangulation and say: "We'd like some of that too."
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If these buffoons didn't try to sabotage nuclear (at the cost of increased coal and gas use) and even oppose the development and use of nuclear fusion, then maybe Greenpeace was not part of the problem.
Congrats, Greenpeace, you own this.
100 years of
#climate
anomalies in 15 seconds. Wait until the end... There is no more time to wait. We must act on
#climatechange
NOW.
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What kind of sickness makes web 'developers' opt to force a site language on a visitor based on their IP address location, rather than look at the language preferences said visitor's browser provides?
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It's ironic how there are now calls to invest more in VRE & batteries for 'energy independence', when both are very resource-intensive and rely heavily on resources mined & processed in other countries.
Li-ion batteries are already experiencing a big price increase.
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Can we go back to a 'WWW' which is just static HTML pages with URLs and images? CSS is fine, too.
Every 'website' having to be its own special lil' app does really get on one's nerves after a while.
Maybe time to
#BoycottJavaScript
and otherwise putting the web on a diet?
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Why is it that the German Greens are anti-nuclear power, but the Finnish and Norwegian Greens are pro-nuclear power?
What is 'green' ideology even, and in how far should science (e.g. IPCC's consensus) play a role for Green parties?
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Because there was no good desktop MQTT client, I wrote MQTTCute.
Lacking a good MQTT library, I wrote NymphMQTT.
Because endianness support in C++ is 'meh', I wrote my own library.
Because C++ & interval timers are strangers I wrote my own lib.
Some rabbit holes are deep...
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I think I'll have to just admit at some point to the fact that my 5-year old high-end gaming laptop with its 8-thread Core i7 CPU and 8 GB of DDR3 RAM simply cannot handle running a modern browser any more with JavaScript enabled.
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I have decided to only write software in Rust and JavaScript from today onwards. Clearly they are the future.
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I love writing in C++.
Because C++ doesn't tell me 'you cannot do this'. I get to clamber about, hit my head, scrape a knee, learn the way a child would.
C++ isn't overprotective, but supportive. I can express anything in it I want. I can pick safe or risky. My choice.
Probably not asking in the right circles. Who loves writing C++?
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@cmarschner
@Dr_Keefer
@zehavoc
1. A Gen II LWR is not the same as a Soviet RBMK reactor.
2. Spent fuel a) is a very low volume, b) can be safely stored, c) can be reprocessed & burned up in fast reactors like Russia's BN series.
3. RE is so cheap that African & South-Asian nations pick gas, coal or nuclear.
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There are three types of developers:
- Those who would want to write firmware for avionics and spacecraft and could do it.
- Those who would not want to write such firmware.
- Those who would want to write such firmware, but really shouldn't.
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Apparently there's a version of physics where radioactive isotopes can be both:
* highly radioactive
* radioactive for thousands of years
That's not a physical reality I'd want to live in :)
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Anyone got some fun freelance (remote) work for a senior (embedded) C/C++ developer with strong electronics experience?
Feel free to hit me up here or on my website with leads :)
CV:
RTs == awesome <3
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Pollution doesn't stay within nation borders. Hope the Germans consulted the Netherlands and other surrounding nations to get their OK for the additional annual premature deaths they're causing by firing up old coal plants.
It's what friends are for, no?
Petit rappel. Et ça chaque année.
Merci le charbon
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Every time someone says 'just use Chrome', a kitten dies.
It's like we didn't learn anything from the 90s and Internet Explorer, or we just don't care about an open, functional WWW.
W3C is irrelevant at this point. Moreso than during the 90s, even.
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It's telling that German cyclists get told to wear helmets and other safety gear instead of a single cent being invested in actually safe cycling paths.
Just keep painting those white lines on car roads and force cyclists down unmaintained paths without street lighting.
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Big thanks to everyone who bought my third book, on Embedded Programming with C++17 :)
It has sold nearly 400 copies during its first month alone. Excited to see how it does the coming time.
Get your own Ebook copy for $10:
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Finished writing an article on the current state of nuclear fusion. Lovely subject, I adore the science and mindbogglingly fun mathematics behind it.
Sadly, it's not a subject the general public seems to know/care much about. Hopefully having this article published soon helps :)
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After this
#GamerGate
article goes online next week, I'm expecting a lot of hate mail for some reason. SJWs are so bloody tiresome...
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I still cannot really believe that I have actually signed an apartment rental contract and will soon stop being homeless.
Imagine my productivity when I'm finally released from the clutches of real-estate BS and couch surfing after what feels like years.
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Anti-nuclear power fanatics in Germany confusing a successful energy policy with a crumbling industrial base and sharp drop in consumer demand is so on-point.
The government isn't throwing billions at the industry to subsidise electricity at random, natch.
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Oh, guess I forgot to mention it here yet, but I'm not being evicted this week.
Court ruled in my favor. Now I can go scurry off and find that nice house in France from where I'll be launching my plans for world domin... I mean, my freelancer career :)
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There are too many anti-intellectualisms to fight against in the 21st century.
anti-vaxxer
anti-choice
anti-GMO
anti-nuclear
anti-conventional medicine
anti-UBI
etc.
How does one reason with those who are impervious to reason?
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A message from a former Extinction Rebellion activist: Fellow environmentalists, join me in embracing nuclear power
#ExtinctionRebellion
#ClimateAction
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You know what I love about IRC?
That no commercial entity controls it, and that the protocol is fully open for anyone to implement.
Something to think about whenever another proprietary 'service' turns user-hostile.
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@ThePracticalDev
I honestly do not remember. I try to suppress any memories of having written any JavaScript :)
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Nobody ever gets upset about the soil & oceans being literally filled with uranium (U-235 & U-238 mostly) that will remain radioactive for millions of years.
*idly puts Geiger counter on granite kitchen top*
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Fun part is that even after 2038 when presumably the last German coal plant ceases operating, there is no date for when Germany will stop relying on gas plants. 2070s?
At least they'll be able to import low-carbon nuclear power from Poland and the Netherlands by then, I guess...
2038!!!! Thats the German coal phaseout deadline. The Greens are amoral hypocrites. They will sacrifice the climate on their altar of antinuclearism.
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'Just a flu'
- 72% asymptomatic.
- 25% fever, sore throat.
- <1% severe symptoms.
- <0.5% mortality rate.
The disease? Polio, also known as the 'crippling disease'. Caused by the poliovirus which was transferred mostly via feces & saliva.
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