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New comment by AxelLuktarGott in "Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration"

AxelLuktarGott — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:16:15 +0000

As someone from Europe.. it is not true. There are lots of media outlets with different angles. Certainly lots of Murdoch funded garbage here.

New comment by AxelLuktarGott in "Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow"

AxelLuktarGott — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:31:04 +0000

literally 1984

New comment by AxelLuktarGott in "NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a brief pause"

AxelLuktarGott — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:22:13 +0000

Ironic that iPhones are both expensive _and_ come with planned obsolescence

New comment by AxelLuktarGott in "Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment"

AxelLuktarGott — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:33:33 +0000

Lots of good news in the article

> But, more and more, base-load coal plants have been squeezed out of the market as ever more renewable energy – particularly solar power – flooded the system.

And so the coal power plants needed more money to stay afloat, but:

> But Delta, in a letter written to the body that makes the rules in the market, said none of the 15 banks it had met had been willing to provide it the necessary coverage because of environmental concerns.

And so

> "The coal-fired generation is going to go out of business in Australia over the next 10 years," he said.

New comment by AxelLuktarGott in "EU ChatControl is back on the agenda"

AxelLuktarGott — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:43:51 +0000

Do you perhaps live in the US? The EU didn't shut down any nuclear power plants. Local politicians in Germany and Sweden (and perhaps more countries) did. And they were very much elected. I don't think any technocrats would do something that stupid.

The EU has elections every five years where the members of parliament are chosen. They very much answer to the public. Why would you think they don't?

New comment by AxelLuktarGott in "Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)"

AxelLuktarGott — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 06:39:07 +0000

Is it really better to remove the error case information from the type signature? Aren't we losing vital information here?

New comment by AxelLuktarGott in "How much electricity does AI consume?"

AxelLuktarGott — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:29:15 +0000

The point of mining is that you don't want new blocks too often because it would create too many forks in your chain. The "difficulty" in mining is by design, if we make better hardware that can generate hashes more quickly then we need to make the valid hashes more rare to keep the property that new blocks are reasonably spaced out.

New comment by AxelLuktarGott in "Rule of Three"

AxelLuktarGott — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:37:56 +0000

I find bad abstractions to be a much greater liability than unabstracted code that could be combined into one function but isn't.

It's relatively easy to combine code and much harder to disentangle it

New comment by AxelLuktarGott in "A Full Payment Gateway Inside a Database"

AxelLuktarGott — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:31:08 +0000

Link to the PostgreSQL FSM library used in the talk https://github.com/kronor-io/statecharts

A Full Payment Gateway Inside a Database

AxelLuktarGott — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:31:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ZUa2uwZLc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37132215

Points: 2

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New comment by AxelLuktarGott in "Genes reveal striking diversity within similar ice age cultures"

AxelLuktarGott — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:05:18 +0000

All the past cultures that have monuments that still stand built them to last

New comment by AxelLuktarGott in "Haskell's Operator Glossary"

AxelLuktarGott — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 12:21:49 +0000

I guess it's subjective, but I prefer

  f = h <=< g

over

  f x = do
    y <- g x
    h y