Skunkleton

I make no claims about my reading comprehension. That last bit seemed too narrow to me. Once you have all the bits in orbit, shielding doesn’t seem too onerous. Is the claim that even space-space shielding + reactor is too heavy to be worth the advantage of the nuclear drive?

First I am reading about nuclear engines applied to Starship. I wonder if it would be more practical to launch the reactor, fuel, and propellant into orbit using conventional rockets. Later a mission could pick up this Nuclear rocket engine and use it as a sort of booster while not inside a strong gravitational field. Ofc that doesn’t sound like Starship at all.

There's more than accidental deaths too. For example, surgeries carry risk.

That's not an ideal world. That's a fantasy world.

Lots of people get unlucky and die. That doesn't mean they should not take the risk in the first place.

He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions.

I truly free market ends in monopoly and total loss of choice. Current regulations seem to end with duopoly which is not much better.

> I prefer to actually own my device

What do you mean by that? Its an odd take in an article about Android users learning they don't own their device.

> and because Android is overall more secure and I personally care about this

citation?

Is it true enough in c++ to be useful though?

At this point most of the reasons to buy a particular phone are inertial or emotional. A high end android phone and an iPhone both provide roughly the same functionality. I miss the times when new phones were more exciting.

> Yet, the Pixel 8 and iPhone 15 lines are price comparably.

But this isn't how pricing works. Even if it did the CPU isn't the most expensive component in the bom, and it isn't the most important component for user experience.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a truly great game. It’s interesting to discuss how that may or may not be replicated. Still, we’ve been going through years of mediocre cash grab after mediocre cash grab. So many beloved franchises have been basically ruined by monetization, and developers that either don’t care, or don’t have the freedom to care.

Knowing what gamers want isn’t hard. They want games that don’t suck. You might try to build something great, and only end up with something good. But if your only real passion is making money, then the games you make will never be “good” no matter how much money they make.

2-3 days? I charge my watch every day, or I risk it dying in the middle of the second day.

Its their model. Its discussed in TFA too.

Why is this called an air gap? It’s not. They are just firewalling off workstations most (not all) of the public internet.

Firefox is maintained by paid employees. This is not the same thing. There is no talk of making this a paid only release anywhere. Please avoid strawmen.

Most Free Software projects are not professional. Time is spent on them for personal reasons. Those reasons may not align with users of that project, but that is just too bad. If you don't like it, all you are entitled to is the source code.

> A better analogy would be Microsoft asking for money to fix a security bug in Windows.

Microsoft has the exact same practice. If you want to tell Microsoft how to spend their time, you better be prepared to fork over lots of money.

Even the term "volunteer" implies too much responsibility. This is a project to which people contribute their time, for whatever personal reason motivates them. If they don't want to do a release ever again, or they don't feel like updating a dependency, or decide the purpose of the project should change in some fundamental way, too bad. This is Free Software, if you don't like what is happening in some project the only thing you are entitled to is a fork.

Dunno if you can/should edit it, but at first glance I read that as C++ being easy to learn and easy to read.

I have a friend with a business in a niche market. His business is driven almost entirely by ads place with google. He’s tried other platforms and had much worse results. Something must be working.

Even better would be to have tools share configuration files. Plain make files don't have this problem. Build scripts also don't have this sort of problem. Ofc once you start with autotools, things go pretty bad. Build scripts usually suck once a project is larger than a toy. Golang has an interesting approach.

Yes. The linux kernel has many things.

You’re so old that your username has a stand alone FPU >:)

This is firecracker, so less than a second I guess?

GPT-4 says: A more accurate and balanced title might be: "Comparing Bard and ChatGPT in Puzzle Solving: An Examination within the Context of a Word Game"

I’ve had the same experience with eyesight. I would also add that it brakes very naturally. Much better than other similar systems I have tried.

Nit: Many can still be a minority.

IMO using socket activation via systemd is a reasonable approach. I don't see any reason a non-service account should be running a service on port 80.

Looking at California's total water usage [1] I would guess we are somewhere around 40 MAF per year (I hope. That can't be per day right??). Based on the probably incorrect numbers above, that translates into around a 20 GW demand for water. The diablo canyon nuclear power plant outputs 16 TWh per year. Terrible napkin math puts that at around 12 power plants needed.

Oof.

[1] https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/

I was somewhat skeptical, but it does look like this comment is correct on the whole. An average household uses around .75 cubic meters of water per day, and it takes around 3.5 kWh to desalinate that much water using reverse osmosis (at scale, probably some best case. I didn't look too hard).

On Silicon Valley Power (suck it PG&E losers), I pay around $0.11/kWh. So a full day's water would cost me around $0.40, or around $12/month if I were to somehow magically do this process at home. That is around 1/10th of my current water bill. That leaves plenty of room to still pay for equipment, distribution, etc.

It sounds like the right time to build desalination plants is now.