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asmodeusluciferon Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office

I know the accounting world MUST have excel.

asmodeusluciferon OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

I barely know openscad (used Fusion 360 before autodesk enshitified it) but gemini is very good at creating code I can paste into openscad.

asmodeusluciferon Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

I followed his column, I seem to recall the last one was about helping his kid build a minecraft server.

I hope Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson cover his passing, they knew him.

twit dot tv

asmodeusluciferon Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821997

asmodeusluciferon Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

Anything is cheaper when you don't count all the costs.

In January 2017 a parliamentary committee reported: "The cost of decommissioning is likely to be greater than the provisions," the technical feasibility is "not fully assured" and the dismantling work will take "presumably more time than expected."

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...

asmodeusluciferon Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

Yes. There's all kind of hydrocarbons that aren't economic or barely so, like oil shale or shale oil, with is rock with a stain on it.

Interestingly, Venezuelan extra heavy sour crude oil is not profitable to use at $55 a barrel, the price before the Iran war, but is profitable when it's over $90 a barrel.

It's easy to make money when someone else pays the costs but you get to keep the revenue.

asmodeusluciferon Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

Anything is cheaper when you don't count all the costs.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...

asmodeusluciferon Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

A lot of countries consider energy security national security, and national security always bats last.

A lot of countries also use it to help subsidize (or help cover up the costs of) their military nuclear programs.

asmodeusluciferon Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

Off topic, but this guy on youtube is a knowledgeable (pro-nuke) resource.

https://www.youtube.com/@tfolsenuclear

asmodeusluciferon Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

I agree, I tell everyone who will listen that no country, not Russia, China, Japan, France, USA etc has ever made nuclear power profitable. And you can't blame it on the environmentalists in China and Russia.

That being said, many countries consider it a national security issue not to be held hostage to foreign oil.

asmodeusluciferon 'Offensively cheap': solar power is looking up

forever link https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Nkrxp

asmodeusluciferon Why the AfD Wins

We can have billionaires, or we can have democracy. We cannot have both, because the billionaires have declared war on democracy. We have to imagine a world without billionaires because the billionaires are imagining a world without us. --Gil Duran, author of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

asmodeusluciferon Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond

I think you're looking for newsmax dot com, not news dot ycombinator dot com.

asmodeusluciferon A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for

That's the one that powers Truth Social

Trump Media and Technology Group announced that it partnered with Perplexity to test and integrate an AI search feature, referred to as Truth Social AI or Truth Search AI, directly into the Truth Social platform.

(I just use the free account from truth+ to waste their money)

how do you reverse a linked list in python

Answers Sources Use either an iterative pointer-reversal approach or a recursive approach. The standard iterative version is the most common and runs in (O(n)) time with (O(1)) extra space:

class ListNode: def __init__(self, val=0, next=None): self.val = val self.next = next

def reverse_list(head): prev = None curr = head

    while curr:
        nxt = curr.next
        curr.next = prev
        prev = curr
        curr = nxt

    return prev

If you already have a Python list, reversing it is simpler with slicing: items[::-1], but that is not a linked list reversal.

asmodeusluciferon Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online

I used to watch defrag (and defraggler). If you have OCD they are very satisfying to watch. The more fragmented they were to start with, the better.

asmodeusluciferon Glacier Mice

Slightly related, ice worms

https://glaciers.nichols.edu/iceworm/

asmodeusluciferon Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise

They just wish away the decommissioning costs by claiming they will last 60 years, 100 years, or forever.

asmodeusluciferon Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise

They use it for national security, not price. They did not want to be held hostage to oil.

asmodeusluciferon Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise

Nuclear power has never been cheap and never will be. Every country that has tried has failed, and that included the Russians, the Chinese, South Koreans, French and the Japanese. And you can't blame it on the environmentalists in Russia and China.

asmodeusluciferon St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

At least they didn't make 300 square km uninhabitable.

https://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/site/portal/kyoten-kuiki.ht...

"Current Status: While "Difficult-to-Return Zones" still exist, decontamination and lifting of orders have reduced the designated area down to approximately 2.2% of the prefecture's total land area."

asmodeusluciferon Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years

I just watched this video by a doctor, and his point was every one of his ER patients had a problem that was years in the making (except for 1, a little girl who swallowed a battery)

I Saw 120 Patients This Week. Here's Why They Were Actually Sick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiVKh97rJsg

asmodeusluciferon Everything you do is being recorded

By leveraging mobile network infrastructure – towers, spectrum, antennas, and some hardware – ISAC can detect, locate, and track objects (including passive ones with no electronics). This will enable a wide range of use cases such as UAV airspace monitoring, autonomous vehicle safety, industrial automation, and immersive AR experiences. Commercial deployment is expected alongside 6G rollouts in the 2030 timeframe

https://www.ericsson.com/en/6g/isac

asmodeusluciferon The Plight of the Martian Farmer

I visited there and as others have pointed out, it's in a north-south running valley, so it loses an hour of sunlight in the morning and an hour of sunlight in the evening.

I was enraptured by the project ever since I saw it in the late lamented Whole Earth Review. I was driving across country and made a detour to see it.

I'm glad it was built and we learned a lot from it. I'm not a fan of billionaires but good on Ed Bass for financing it.

asmodeusluciferon The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?

For more than a decade, one of the most rewarding blueprints for making money online was to “start a blog.“

I can't believe this sentence exists.

asmodeusluciferon The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam

Seriously Crassus. I know the idea of a rich bastard who starts fires and then makes money putting them out is unbelievable in our modern age but it was a real thing.

asmodeusluciferon Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals

By 2016, the gap had begun to appear in biomarker measures. By 2020, it was showing up in deaths from causes such as heart disease, cancer, and stroke. Since then, the gap has only widened. Between 2020 and 2022, only 0.2% of “very liberal” respondents died of internal causes, compared with 1.34% of “very conservative” respondents.

asmodeusluciferon Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

again

asmodeusluciferon Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

I have attracted the downvote bot, it seems.

asmodeusluciferon Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

I don't know if this is true any more, but esquire used to have an extremely good journalistic reputation. If someone said the the sun rose in the east, they would verify the sun rose in the east before printing it.

asmodeusluciferon 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut

It's amazing how scary an obvious puppet in a grocery cart can be.