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kataklasm··on Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023
I'm afraid you're not realizing the impact of your echo chamber. The bulk of german voting power lies in the age group of 40 to 70, measured by voter turnout per age group. People aged 45 and up felt the imoact of the Chernobyl disaster, whole forests in Germany are still not allowed to be foraged for mushrooms because of ground contamination. Those people have their fear of nuclear power ingrained in them and as usual there's not a lot you can do to convince them. As such "Most of the population changed their mind and is pro nuclear." is definitely not true, at least not right now and I doubt it will ever change.

And as we've seen recently in the state of Thuringia, AFD has garnered the top with 35%, that's far from "most people would never consider to vote for".

kataklasm··on Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located
I would look for something like this in the help output, i.e. --help or -h. And of course the manpage if you do supply one.
kataklasm··on Titan sub CEO dismissed safety warnings as 'baseless cries', emails show
Apparently the crew commissioned an emergency ascent right before implosion, suggesting they had a warning of some kind (hearing the ongoing delamination, maybe? scary thought).
kataklasm··on Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet
Am I understanding correctly that you want a honeypot that serves malware?
kataklasm··on Livestream of Reddit subreddits going private in protest
One who does not vote does not have the privilege of complaining about the outcome.
kataklasm··on Gravitational-wave detector LIGO is back
One of my professors worked on LISA Pathfinder, the demo satellite used to proof-of-concept LISA technology until the financial shortcomings in the early 2010s were overcome and he recently said that everyone in the project is hard at work getting ready for the program review, after which either a contract is made or the program is reformulated. But no one will put in the gigantic work needed to prepare such a review if it is not almost certain the program will pass the review and become a contract, so things are looking quite good for LISA and its early 2030s launch!
kataklasm··on Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft
Why the anti-European sentiment in your comment? Let's not talk about the Space Shuttle or the SLS, should we?
kataklasm··on Do Kwon converted illicit funds from LUNA to Bitcoin
And parent was saying that if done improperly the usage of such tools might be taken as a linguistic "smoking gun". So rather than risking that Kwon might have preferred doing it overtly, hoping for plausible deniablity in doing so.
kataklasm··on Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter
I really don't get the underlying smugness of this comment. It outright disgusts me, if I'm being honest...
kataklasm··on After a decade, South Dakota's Amish are moving on
You think women not being financially independent is a stabilizing factor for communities? I can't tell if this is sarcasm or if your mindset is stuck in the 1800's just the like Amish's is...
kataklasm··on Relativity Space launches first 3D-printed rocket on historic test flight
In my opinion printing the whole (±) rocket is a fantastic way to build your first protoypes and iterate your designs with high pace. This will probably not scale very well though, especially for geometrically simple parts like cylinders, as you said. But for novel applications where until recently a part like this couldn't have been manufactured realistically, 3D printing is a very exciting new technology in the field. Take a look at their tank caps, which are designed exactly with printing in mind. They have shapes that before their new processes couldn't have been dreamt of. Very excited to see where this goes! I'm currently doing my aerospace engineering bachelors in Germany, hoping to see similar concepts here or at least in Europe soon!
kataklasm··on Viable superconducting material created in Rochester lab
While I agree F should never be used in favor of K, bar is a common unit of pressure even in metric engineering projects. For strict calculations only using SI units is obviously the way to go. But for science communication and general conversation about engineering, just using bar is often a more easily understood unit because there are more day-to-day comparisons that the average person can make. And thus oftentimes it's easier to comprehend bar than it is Pa.
kataklasm··on Textual is a beautiful Terminal User Interface library in Python
At least for me, apart from all the other obvious reasons to use a TUI, a big part of it is the fact that it's so much easier to get a coherent and consistent user interface with TUIs compared to GUIs. Every GUI uses a different UI system and as such will look incoherent with other apps. Just take GTK vs Qt.The UI of my daily machine looks extremely coherent and most of that is contributed to most of my programs being CLI or TUI.
kataklasm··on $22B project to provide 8% of UK energy via undersea cable from North Africa
Stop spreading FUD.

> Is it even a war Even Russian state-sponsored media/propaganda calls it a war these days. Denying the "Special Military Operation", as Putin wants it called, its approriate label of "war" only acts to support Russian propaganda and lies. Call it a war, because that's what it is. The 380th day of war of Putin's 3-day spec^Wwar.

> [USA] eventually destroying [Nord Stream] Who the actor for the destruction of Nord Stream was is still unknown, there have been multiple different stories about it now, all of them with some plausible and inplausible parts about them.

> Russia always wanted to be a friend with Germany Russia doesn't want to be friends with anyone. They (Putin and his mistresses) only strive to become a political, military and geographical superpower again using the same tactics other tyrants like Kim Jong-un are using.

kataklasm··on Pentax 645 [pdf]
Ian was very forthcoming and helpful when I had a few questions regarding shipping during the Brexit debacle. The prices are really awesome compared to the general market, too. Especially his GX680 stuff, which I ordered a few items of, was always top-notch in quality. Can't recommend ianbfoto enough!
kataklasm··on 20M digits of pi in 1 minute using Julia
One of the siblings posted a link from JPL about the number of digits they use for their highest precision calculations. In that article they also state that 37 decimals would be sufficient for calculating the cirumference of the observable universe down to the accuracy of the diameter of a hydrogen atom.[0]

[0] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimal... (Right before the last inline image)

kataklasm··on US-Japan team hails H2-boron plasma fusion breakthrough
While I don't agree 100% with everything in the article either, you are kind of twisting their words here. They didn't say producing net energy weren't a big thing. They only stated that reliable, grid-ready electricity was even more difficult than net energy production in the first place.
kataklasm··on Experts say humans could be wrestling AI for control by 2035
Every few weeks a "Tell HN:" post makes it to the frontpage complaining about [ Google | Stripe | xxx ]'s non-accessible customer service and how some black box systems just banned their account, [ freezing $100k in credit on their account | denying access to 10 years worth of mail | xxx ].

Choose one from the brackets or imagine your own scenario.

kataklasm··on Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
qutebrowser has support for host-based blocking, which is better than nothing but a far cry from element blocking like UBlock Origin does. For me, qutebrowser's ad-blocking is pretty hit-and-miss, which is why I'm longing for UBlock Origin haha.
kataklasm··on Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
I have been using qutebrowser for some time now and it's pretty nice if you can accept having a browser without UBlock Origin and other extensions ranging from nice-to-have to obligatory. The main advantage and the reason and I can't get myself to switch to Firefox is that it's vim-UX is just flawless. It works amazingly well and is just magnitudes better than any Firefox or Chrome extension that adds vim-UX on top since it's built into the browser natively in qutebrowser.

Maybe I'll switch away some time in the future, but for now the flawless vim-UX, its customizability and my many scripts and custom bindings I've written for it keep my locked in the qutebrowser garden, haha!

kataklasm··on Please help improve Magit
It's not a landing page, which us why it's doing a poor job at being one. This linked URL is the donate page, but if you go up one level to the site root you will see the text you quotednin your comment. I don't see whats wrong with that, since if you enter the donate page presumably you've been on the site root first. Of course, the concept of link aggregation here kind of screws that assumption but :shrug:.
kataklasm··on Show HN: Bearclaw – tiny static site generator with RSS
Have a look at https://bearblog.dev
kataklasm··on Making a keyboard layout
I'm a (n)vim user as well and have been using Colemak for some time now. Since I couldn't get used to the weirdly arranged hjkl layout with Colemak, I've been using some remaps that make everything very nice to use on a Colemak layout. Feel free to message for more information.
kataklasm··on Send Text Securely
This seems to be from the founder of bearblog, a "privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform". [0]

[0] https://bearblog.dev

kataklasm··on Putin, czar with no empire, needs military victory for his own survival
Hitchens's razor: "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."
kataklasm··on Putin, czar with no empire, needs military victory for his own survival
Don't twist my words, that's not what I said. Read again.

My point was never that Nazis killing Russian invaders is a morally good thing, but that a military brigade with a higher than normal Nazi-percentage is following orders from a jewish president and is killing other Nazi types in the form of Wagner Group.

Nazis are bad one way or another. But that they are going against their own sentiments should be food for thought for you. But I know you're not here to argue for real, so why do I bother.

kataklasm··on Show HN: Manage research papers from your CLI
Related: Papis: https://github.com/papis/papis There even is NeoVim integration: https://github.com/jghauser/papis.nvim
kataklasm··on Putin, czar with no empire, needs military victory for his own survival
You're right in that I should've clarified I'm somewhat projecting from the state of the military and law enforcement in Germany. In recent years multiple special operations teams have been dissolved [0][1] due to extremist right-wing ideologies which have been known to exist for years but only after multiple journalistic publications these groups have been dissolved. There's also a history of Nazi and radical right-wing stuff in the regular army. [2][3] Federal Police and the Intelligence Community aren't excluded from this either, especially the intelligence service belonging to the Bundeswehr, the Military Counterintelligence Service MAD. [4] And while I don't have any evidence at hand for this right now and thus it can be dismissed as irrelevant, I have a hunch that it may not be all to different in the various military and law enforcement agencies around Europe.

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/ksk-german-special-forces-company-diss... [1] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-frankfurt-police-unit-to-be-di... [2] https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1142141125/the-rise-of-extrem... [3] https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/10/21/how-right-wing-ext... [4] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-logs-rise-in-right-wing-extrem...

kataklasm··on Putin, czar with no empire, needs military victory for his own survival
Read some about Kadyrov and his henchmen, also called Kadyrovites. Quite interesting and terrifying from the perspective of a somewhat healthy democracy.
kataklasm··on Putin, czar with no empire, needs military victory for his own survival
Unfortunately Nazi and/or extremist right-wing ideologies are a staple in militaristic organisations. But you should acknowledge that the Azov Brigade, an arguably Nazi-infatuated militia is broadly following orders from a Jewish president. That should tell you something about how welcomed the Russian Invasion is in the Ukraine.
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