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CountHackulus

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CountHackulus··on $60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: GE Hitachi Executive
It's absolutely not. Waste is a solved problem, you bury it VERY deep using the same borehole technology currently used for fracking. And I think you grossly overestimate the amount of waste a nuclear plant generates.

Here's a source (also check the sourced on the video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3kLBo_ruo

The problem is more likely PERCEPTION of nuclear waste.

CountHackulus··on Apple Music Classical
I really miss Rdio, it really was the best music streaming service.
CountHackulus··on Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
What hoops do I have to jump through to get some extensions on Chrome on Android?
CountHackulus··on A minor memorial for Leo Laporte’s terrestrial AM radio show
I'll always remember when Leo Laporte and Kevin Rose were racing to see who would be the first person to 1M Twitter followers. Only for Britney Spears to join Twitter and demolish the follower counts.
CountHackulus··on Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet?
The major difference being that Swartz wasn't rich.
CountHackulus··on Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation
He covers that further down in the tweets, near the end of the thread. He doesn't necessarily agree with the Reddit way of doing things, but it has interesting compromises wrt privacy.
CountHackulus··on Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
Of course that would be impossible to differentiate, but adding it to the privacy policy is what Google requests. Adding it and still having it refused can absolutely be blamed on Google.
CountHackulus··on Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use
MiniDisc in an MO media. And I'm not sure about Japan, but judging from what came over to North America and the UK, writing to MD was SUPER popular. Though that might be because the major use case in export markets was as a more compact CD player/writer.
CountHackulus··on Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks
Well that sucks, my mid-2012 MBP needs a new battery. I guess it's back to 3rd party options.
CountHackulus··on Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
Kia Niro EV. It's basically just a car but with EV systems. I've owned one for 2 years now. The newer ones have slightly larger touchscreens for Android Auto/Apple Carplay but there's buttons for everything. The Hyundai Kona is basically the same thing but I don't have one to compare.
CountHackulus··on First flight of the Airbus A321XLR with up to 4700 NM range
Are you Android Auto in Canada? I've had it tell me numerous times that I'd be home at 8:04 micro-meters.
CountHackulus··on IBM's Asshole Test
Cameras existed before 2006.
CountHackulus··on IBM's Asshole Test
As someone who worked at IBM for 6 years, I'm fairly sure no one in management above me had to go through that asshole test.
CountHackulus··on MIT graduate students vote to unionize
Because the goal of the assignment isn't to write code, it's to learn what code to write. If you're copy and pasting from someone else you're potentially skipping out on a lot of learning. Granted, good luck passing the exam with copy and paste, but I've seen someone do basically that for 5 years, don't know if they ever graduated but they were grinding it out.
CountHackulus··on Vanced has been discontinued
My big issue is the backgrounding. I like watching a video while cooking, but I also need to use timers. Not having the video stop and re-orient itself to portrait while I quickly set or dismiss a timer is excellent. I also find the UI during live streams to be borderline unusable on mobile.
CountHackulus··on It's always been you, Canvas2D
The functionality isn't really the same. Yes, you can export animations, but it's much more difficult to provide the same level of interactive game that Flash did.
CountHackulus··on Panasonic to begin mass producing new 4680 Tesla battery by March 2024
Also a Canadian who was driving a 12 year old Mazda 6. Bought a Kia Niro EV in Sept 2020. Was maybe a bit premature but the charging network in Ontario at least is pretty decent. I've had a 30 amp charger installed at home, and I've managed to do Toronto->Ottawa->Toronto in a single day without much issue. The lack of government rebates is really annoying right now, but I don't think the demand is any less. There were only 3 Kia dealerships in Toronto dealing with EVs and they each brought in a single Niro EV per week. Made negotiating on price kind of hard (though not impossible).

That said, I'm with the other people, when your current car is no longer worth it, that's when the right time to get a new car is, and if your car usage lines up well with EVs, it's a great time to transition.

CountHackulus··on Epic Games is making hundreds of temp testers into full employees with benefits
I mostly agree with this, though I will say that in games it's usually producers and product managers that decide on the bug fix vs new features balance. It's not uncommon to ship a game with hundreds of "known shippable" bugs.
CountHackulus··on Google Search Is Dying
That's really strange, I've got it set as the default in Firefox on 3 different computers (2 mac 1 windows) and it's stayed the default over several updates. I think something might be wrong with your computer?
CountHackulus··on I lasted three minutes at Amazon
I've interviewed there twice and I gave up on them twice because honestly it was about the same thing with no one knowing what they were doing and being EXTREMELY slow about everything else. In the space between my first screening and an email to schedule an interview day, I applied at another place, did 3 interviews and a coding test, negotiated an offer, accepted an offer, and quit my current job. It was absolutely wild.
CountHackulus··on Firefox 94 has No Visible Border on unfocused tabs
I don't really have have any complaints, it's really easy to tell which tab is where and the mouseover makes it even clearer. Does it look better? Maybe. Does it function worse? No.
CountHackulus··on Image file formats that didn’t make it
I should pull out my VRML2.0 Sourcebook again, that was a really fun time.
CountHackulus··on Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with YouTube
Same, Nebula/Curiosity Stream, plus YouTube and Crunchyroll (free tier) is more than enough to entertain me when I need it. I don't want to buy content by the "channel" and I'll do literally whatever I need to for it to stay that way.
CountHackulus··on Version Control for Structure Editing
Anyone working with Unity in Git knows this pain.
CountHackulus··on I keep making things out of checkboxes
If you're interested in this sort of thing, check out the TMDC or Text-Mode Demo Competition were it's the same idea but 80x50 text instead of textboxes. Hasn't really been run in a while, but it's a really fun exercise.
CountHackulus··on You Can't Fix Climate Change
Sad but extremely realistic.
CountHackulus··on ChowJS: An AOT JavaScript engine for game consoles
Java is yes, but the JVM runs other things and things like JRuby use the JVM bytecode for invoke_dynamic. There were a few things rewritten to use that bytecode from what I remember but it's been a while since I've worked in that area.
CountHackulus··on Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020)
So what? I would argue that most companies don't live and die on their technical merit. I don't think that Toyota cares if they're using the latest JS framework or if their devs are 10% slower than the SV ideal. I for one struggle to think of a single company that is where it is only because of it's technical superiority, and not because they also knew how to sell that technology, how to talk about it, how to relate with people who should use it.
CountHackulus··on When zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost
There are no zero cost abstractions. (According to Chandler Carruth, and he makes a convincing point). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIkrotSwcc
CountHackulus··on Facebook has sold 4M Quest 2 headsets in the US, recall docs reveal
I've used vroptician.com with my Valve Index and it works great.
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