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korantu··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
I think Zed editor has helix phylosophy of supporting LSP out of the box while having exact vi bindings if it is important.

[1] https://zed.dev/

korantu··on Grok3 Launch [video]
In the opening blog post they mentioned it to be 1 m tokens.
korantu··on Singapore OKs 4,300km subsea cable for importing electricity from Australia
At $4M per km, a 4,300 km HVDC cable would cost a staggering $17.2 billion to import 1.75 GW of energy. Interestingly, building a Shin-Kori equivalent nuclear plant [1],[2] on a nearby island [3] would be significantly cheaper. If they can afford such a cable, it raises the question of whether it's even the best solution in the first place. [4]

[1] Aerial view of the plant: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kori+Nuclear+Power+Plant/@...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kori_Nuclear_Power_Plant

[3] Possible location, suitable by size: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lazarus+Island/@1.2057214,...

[4] Singapore is not denying such possibility https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/nuclear-energy-fus...

korantu··on Rio: Web apps in pure Python
It is very useful to me, even though I know some webdev. For projects where you need to expose majorly python functionality on the web, and don't want to add whole other dimension and toolkits to your python code, this is brilliant.
korantu··on Thousands protest against Canary islands' 'unsustainable' tourism model
This is very dangerous point of view, which will lead to a lot of suffering.

Humanity managed to lift vast majority of itself from abject poverty, grow enough food for everyone, prevent children mortality - unimaginable 100 years ago.

And this is called modernity, which if reversed will bring back hunger and misery.

korantu··on Biden wants a space tax on companies like SpaceX that launch in the US
Depends on FAA involvement in each launch. In case of an airline FAA controls each flight for hours. In case of a rocket launch, most trouble comes from "don't go in that area" type of commitment, plus investigations of something went wrong.

Given that each airline can keep hundreds of machines in the air at any one time, and rocket launches happen weekly at best, paying 10% of the overall fee does not look fair.

Would be happy to know what aviation specialists think.

korantu··on Not the End of the World
The point is general for all living things, though:

> air pollution, climate change, deforestation, food, biodiversity loss, ocean plastics, and overfishing. On most of these fronts, things are worse today than they were in the distant past. But on all of them, progress has been made recently, and we’re on a better trajectory than most people assume—even though that rarely makes the end-of-the-world headlines dominating the news.

korantu··on Seeking help to preserve WWII database on Windows 98
The link loads correctly for me in an incognito tab. Maybe it was something temporary when you tried? Nitter also does the job.
korantu··on Pynecone – Performant, customizable web apps in pure Python
There are libraries which use similar approach but don't employ huge js dependencies, for example https://lona-web.org

Had good experience with them, works out of the box and UI is very responsive.

korantu··on How far behind a plane is its noise?
Suppose observer just woke up / heard plane that is passing overhead.

Very reasonable assumption, as the plane might have taken off thousands of miles away, and will land thousands of miles away in the other direction.

In this case, no point talking about takeoff sound, as it is not detectable already at these distances.

Humans can detect reasonably well which direction the sound comes from. This direction will not match the direction they observe the airplane at.

The article is describing the mismatch between plane real position and the plane position we would detect if we were just listening to it.

korantu··on Big money, nuclear subsidies, and systemic corruption (2021)
Hydro is very terrain-dependent, solar and wind can't do baseload, so for baseload nuclear is still best applicable in most parts of the world. Nuclear saves a lot of lives by displacing other, way more dangerous baseload operations. [0]

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy#contrary...

korantu··on Greece passes first climate law, vows to cut dependence on fossil fuels
having detected traces says that we are very good at detecting traces. It does not mean "threaten all of Europe and Africa".

The death and destruction from tsunami itself was several orders of magnitude more than from nuclear station malfunction. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11...

korantu··on Greece passes first climate law, vows to cut dependence on fossil fuels
Modern nuclear plants can withstand seismic activity.

Current nuclear plants just dont fail in such way as to "threaten all of Europe and Africa"

korantu··on Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
Russian nuclear capabilities now allow complete destruction of any attacking state, even _after_ taking nuclear hit. One just can't invade Russia without complete and utter loss.

This was not yet the case during Cuban missile crisis BTW.

korantu··on Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
Putin actually did not mind joining NATO. [0]. It would make a lot of sense. Mind you, this is after Ugoslavia bombings by NATO.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-s...

korantu··on Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market
The fact that other countries build reactors en masse in 5 years, tells us it is possible.

South Korea is good place to learn from

korantu··on Ukraine warns Chernobyl nuclear plant suffered power outage
Only if heated above 1000C, and if there is enough steam. 20 y.o. spent fuel will not heat this much
korantu··on What America Should Do About Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
In 1962 rockets were vulnerable and could be preemptively destroyed as they were above ground. Therefore MAD was affected by very close rocket location.

These days Russia has rockets in Siberia silos, in submarines all over the world, and in trains moving around ready to fire. No meaningful change to MAD doctrine can be brought from Europe.

korantu··on Nuclear power may be the key to least-cost, zero-emission electricity systems
And still disrupted (dead) lives per energy generated nuclear is one of the safest options. There was hydroelectric fail with 160000 lives lost, and it is not even mentioned when discussing dangers of energy generation.

[0]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

korantu··on ‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6M to U.K. media groups
Interestingly Venezuela is listed as democratic country in this article. I suspect there are a lot of Venezuela people who would disagree with such statement.
korantu··on 1Password Has Raised $620M
BitWarden works really well for me, for example. It is FOSS and has hosted option; Has autofill plugin, android app, nothing required much in the way of configuration.
korantu··on Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt
The point is, they did work with coronaviruses in level 2 lab, and similar works might or might not have concluded by end 2019. (If not by these particular researchers)
korantu··on Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt
In 2016, some of the scientists including Shi and the EcoHealth director, Peter Daszak, used the NIH funding to conduct experiments in Wuhan on live coronaviruses in a biosafety level 2 lab, according to published details of the work from [0]

They did do coronavirus experiments in level 2 facility.

[0] https://archive.is/KwZKn?

[edit] replaced link as FT makes it difficult to refer to them.

korantu··on China issues new encryption import control
Does it mean that latest chrome/firefox will not be available there?

ssh also would need permission?

korantu··on The debate about nuclear power and climate change
This is discussion about nuclear power generation, not of nuclear weapons, though. Quite different things. Nuclear, esp. thermonuclear weapons are indeed designed to inflict untold damage.
korantu··on Why we ought to be looking at nuclear power
Would be first to board such cruise ship :-)

And indeed nuclear is a known answer here.

Not sure if it is good argument for covid-like events though

korantu··on California plans to turn the screws on NIMBY cities
The way you keep your property price up is by not allowing others to build more property around you. When person days - i want to keep my property price up, what he really says is - i dont want more people to live near me.

It is very different from other kinds of values - for example car is getting more expensive if it is fancier/more unique, but its price does not change with production of way cheaper cars , which all can go same places.

This is why insisting on your house keeping same value is very harmful to other people - this can only be achieved by denying these people the place to stay in the same area.

korantu··on Nuclear fusion is close enough to start dreaming
It is more like fission externalities ended up way over-anticipated, almost killing the industry.

Fission is the technology that is statistically (even taking into account all the incidents) safer than most other viable generation options, yet people have very hard time accepting it

korantu··on Clog – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI
I also like the idea a lot. There is another approach, similar to LiveView taken in [1]. There is direct 1-1 matching between HTML and python objects.

Used it to great success to create interactive web UI completely in Python.

[1] https://lona-web.org

korantu··on Clog – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI
The cool idea is that you use language and environment of your choice without having to deal with any JS peculiarities. All the state is managed in whatever way is best inside your lisp code.
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