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Unless I missed something they haven’t even completed their technology demonstrator (planned for 2026). No construction has taken place in 2025.

Perfect opportunity to point out that there is a 23x slowed down version of Brian Enos Windows 95 startup sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNIfbdi41ho

We need an app that starts a user defined timer when I open a doom scrolling app. Unless the timer reaches 0, I cannot use the app. So for example, in order to browse reddit, I need to wait a minute. Delayed gratification.

A time capsule still intact on the Apple store.

Vastly better article. More pictures and details.

As a German, let me capitalize letters by pressing shift at the end of the word. Swiftkey had this feature. Afaik GBoard does not.

Do you have any numbers regarding companies that have left Germany because of energy costs?

I think the 4.1 percent that nuclear was providing was not having the impact you are assuming. Also the amount of energy produced by natural gas and renewables more than offset the cost of nuclear.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

Hm, the available data does not support your point/sentiment that energy prices are increasing for industrial customers in Germany. (see https://www.bdew.de/service/daten-und-grafiken/bdew-strompre... or https://www.statista.com/statistics/1050448/industrial-elect...)

From https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/industry-electricity-pr...

> Economist and economy ministry advisor Jens Südekum called the analysis’s results “astonishing.” Commenting on social media platform X, Südekum pointed out that industry prices had fallen “significantly” and that price indicators continued to point downwards. The trend would be similar for private households, albeit at a slower pace, he argued. Once current contracts expire, Südekum said lower prices should become widespread in new ones. “Overall, the BDEW figures don’t chime with current mood in debates, which is that everything is going down the drain due to high energy prices,” he argued.

More often than not it is the wiring connecting the showerheads that is not well done. I got zapped at least once when I worked in Brazil so I took extra care handling the lever that selects the temperature.

I have never seen waterfall in pure form. Mostly some kind of big upfront requirements projects with implementations iterations and a lot of project change management during the dev phase. These upfront requirements periods could be anything from a couple of weeks to a couple of years. While, I don't doubt that long requirements phases can have some value in aligning stakeholders on a new direction, they often became a raison d'être for complete teams - often stopping other promising projects in its wake: "You have to align with project jabberwocky before we can sign off your project." Agile seemed like a way to start early and get reduce the inherent waste by building software on paper upfront.

It's a small world. During Martin Luther King Jr. visit to Berlin he was also awarded a honorary degree by the Theological School of the Protestant Church of West Berlin. The theologian and pastor handing over the degree during the ceremony is part of our family history. We still have a picture of both of them during the ceremony.

Here is a more detailed itinerary of MLKs visit to Berlin. https://www.aacvr-germany.org/dr-kings-visit-to-cold-war-ber...

There is some emulation available for the PERQ A1 in PERQemu https://github.com/jdersch/PERQemu/tree/master/PERQemu

Someone also added the PERQ A1 to Mame in 0.192, but as of now it is still marked as MACHINE_IS_SKELETON

defrost, I assume you meant that most mining for rare earth also produces LLW. I don't see any other connection to nuclear power/nuclear waste besides that. So I assume your argument is that nuclear waste is not bad (or equally bad), since rare earth mining is also a source of LLW?

> I'm not responsible for your inability to see a connection ...

> WRT your self annointed command and control of thread comments ...

> When did dang die and who elected you the moderator?

> Best read cephalic sans rectum.

Be kind. Don't be snarky, Edit out swipes.

The thread was about nuclear power and the accompanying issue with nuclear waste types. You brought up mining for rare earth and naturally occurring radioactive waste in the process.

I don't see how this relates to nuclear power and it's waste issue.

> Low-level waste is basically just ordinary rubbish.

Untrue. You are just making nuclear proponents look bad with your broad strokes statements.

Edit: I am sorry if this came out angry. We need to have a good discussion about nuclear power and it's place in the energy mix. It's clearly losing at this point due to the immense costs associated with it (construction, insurance, decommission, etc.), the risks and the long investment horizon. Handwaving away issues or derailing arguments does not help the discussion.

Look we tried to find a solution for LLWs in Germany with cavern style storage repositories in Asse 2 and Morsleben. Due to many reasons, the costs spiraled out of control and we basically had to switch to overground storage and are in the process of repatriation. The reality is that currently storage of LLWs is expensive (see https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_13212/low-level-radioactive...). The cost of treatment of LLW is difficult to specify. So far I have seen no reports that would compare treatment to long term storage repositories. Even with incineration the ashes still need to be stored for some time until they can be disposed.

Don't change the topic. We are talking about nuclear power, not rare earth.

You said

  *All* of the components of "nuclear waste" are commercially valuable, especially the exotic and hazardous ones.

Which is untrue. Most of it is waste that needs to be dealt with and has no value.

That is not true, stop perpetuating that myth. Most of the nuclear waste by volume is of low level waste (90%) or intermediate level (7%) and only 3% is high level waste i.e. spent fuel. We still have to store the 97% of waste that cannot be reused.

https://world-nuclear.org/nuclear-essentials/what-is-nuclear...

Just a quick heads up. MAME supports Apollo workstations and servers since 0.240

https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/Driver:Apollo

fruit basket.

It's gotten so bad, that I have started to actively look for for products and services with known good customer support. E.g. I switched to an internet provider for SMEs. Costs around 20% more, but has dedicated IPv4/IPv6 IPs and offers a real human help desk.

Also my first thought. Reddit search is woefully inadequate for its own content.

As much as I like Linux on server, sleep on lid close is still a hit or miss. Even worse, for a standard user there is no sane way to solve sleep/wake issues on Linux. Does it work on my most of my ThinkPads? Yes. Will it work on another device? I honestly could not say.

Slowing down the Windows 95 startup sound 23 times makes it sound even more Brian Eno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNIfbdi41ho

I think about this quite often when creating new applications.

Four hypotheses why standard users are often the primary target of design:

(1) Power Users are louder but mostly ignored due statistically being not relevant.

(2) During design sessions the teams empathize with a standard user, not the power user. I've seen this pattern over and over again.

(3) Current web technology makes it difficult to build high density UIs that work well.

(4) Mobile UI first. If it works on mobile, we can just use the same UI for the web.

All this leads to another problem: Your standard users never become high power users on your platform. In the end platforms become interchangeable.

Using the % modifier/prefix in the address bar searches open tab titles only.

* outside of the EU.

Definitly! Check for example https://github.com/ShironekoBen/superrt allows for realtime raytracing on the Super Nintendo using a Cyclone-V FPGA.

This is why history resonated so well with me back in school. Instead of just blindly learning historical facts our teachers requested us to explain what were the grounds and cause of historical events.

I still use this when learning new concepts. I try to Llearn what existed before and why the change made sense.