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dukoid··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
It's why big oil loves it: We need to do nothing now because nuclear is coming "soon"
dukoid··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Show us just a single NPP that is properly insured
dukoid··on Bringing the Predators to Life in MAME
I think it might be this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJliQ2fsiUA
dukoid··on Musashi: Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C
I'd expect the main advantages to be portability and maintainability?
dukoid··on Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics
I wonder if it theoretically could (or already does) benefit from something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCg3aXn5F3M
dukoid··on Compiler for "Easy" language from "Etudes for Programmers" book (1978)
I was assuming it's something similar to PL/0 but the grammar looks quite extensive...
dukoid··on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?
Why do so many drivers kill pedestrians?

Passive voice and saying that they are killed by cars is part oft the problem: https://visionzeroreporting.com/

dukoid··on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"
Ah, now I am glad I stuck with DSSSL :)
dukoid··on Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike
I am not arguing against cars. I am just arguing against the "right" to pollute the environment without taking responsibility for adequate cleanup.
dukoid··on Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike
Why do we still allow drivers to externalize most of the costs associated with cars? There is existing technology to extract co2 from the atmosphere, and the current cost of this should be the free market-based price for co2 emissions.
dukoid··on The magic of through running
Why not think bigger? https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1hwChHpCfdV23GhvcZCun...
dukoid··on A receipt printer cured my procrastination
One "trick" that helped me some times: If you don't make progress with a task, count breaking it down into subtasks as an accomplishment
dukoid··on Boxie – an always offline audio player for my 3 year old
I wonder if one of the Anberinc (or similar) devices with single-purpose software would be an option for people shy of going into hardware...
dukoid··on France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony
What would Reagan say to this?
dukoid··on 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan
I suppose the bandwidth is not the bottleneck currently but mainly the "switching capacity" for this kind of application?
dukoid··on 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan
Yeah I was going to write UDP first but then thought it might be a worse analogy because of that.

So what I was trying to say is: Why can't shipping containers be more "automatically" routed over rail? Perhaps fully automatic rail car couplers would be more helpful in general than yet another gadgetbahn?

dukoid··on 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan
Doesn't seem to go anywhere in the end: https://www.blick.ch/wirtschaft/cargo-sous-terrain-entlaesst...
dukoid··on 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan
Looks like that particular Gadgetbahn is not going to go anywhere: https://www.blick.ch/wirtschaft/cargo-sous-terrain-entlaesst...
dukoid··on 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan
I wish we had some form of "TCP/IP" over rail, where the "packets" are containers or pallets...
dukoid··on Zenv: Forth for the ZX Spectrum
I didn't manage to build any Games with it, but I think it helped me to read Postscript files a few years later :)
dukoid··on The built environment and the determination of fault in urban pedestrian crashes
The intended outcome of so-called "road safety" campaigns, always addressing the victims instead of drivers
dukoid··on Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch
Philips Briliance BDM4350UC
dukoid··on Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch
I have been doing this for years without any additional software: just make sure your monitor goes to blank when locking the screen:

1. lock screen

2. Switch USB switch to the other source

3. Press space to activate the other PC

4. Monitor should automatically sitch to the "new" active source.

dukoid··on Momentary fusion breakthroughs face hard reality
My bets are on Wendelstein 7-X / Stellarators
dukoid··on I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel [video]
I am working on a side project related to dataflow and would like to see some input. Is there a simple way to get into contact?
dukoid··on USB-C cable with the bandwidth and USB type imprinted on the connector
I think it's pretty common to have "Cat X" printed on ethernet cables... Perhaps the same advanced technology could be applied for HDMI and USB :)
dukoid··on Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source
I am happy to give 2^20! Oh wait it's not xor?
dukoid··on The Rules of Margin Collapse
I wish there would be a "lower level" language all CSS and HTML could be translated to, so both levels could have a "reasonable" formal specification...
dukoid··on What should you do with an oil fortune?
How about repairing the damage done by polluting the world with hydrocarbons and combustion products?
dukoid··on What should you do with an oil fortune?
Isn't Norway a bit hypocritical: Amass wealth from providing fossils to other countries polluting the world, then be super environmental locally? Sure, still miles better than most of the other fossil rich countries, but the Netherlands for instance are actively shutting down their gas fields if I am informed correctly..
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