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externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
Sounds crazy, make sure you don’t brake into any of these.

What kind of hobbies you have?!

externedguy··on ICPP – Run C++ anywhere like a script
> Why interpret at all?

a tiny part of points that come to my mind:

- education

- iteration on writing simple functionality

- loading and trying out several APIs to see what's possible (I use it frequently with Elixir / Erlang for example)

It makes life easier for newcomers to wrap their head around something and produce a good solution rather than a "working" one

externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
Thanks, afaiu it's also a research reactor that did not contribute to the grid. Might add research ones in the future, even though I do not see how they would be useful.
externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
Circles are not grouped in any way, just overlaid.

If you hover on the center of the circle you'll see all of the Chinon blocks (they're 7: A1-3 and B1-4). You can search for "Chinon" to see them on the list or just click the circle that will scroll the list to the section where all the blocks are visible.

Will try to find a more intuitive way to show the reactors that are located in the same place.

externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
MARIA is a research reactor that does not contribute to the grid so it's not included.

I indeed missed the other two, added both of them (even though they have no ID provided by IAEA) here:

https://nuclearstations.com/map#6.58/54.044/19

externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
A "nuclear station" is just a sound name I found because other domains were taken ;) APS is a widely used term as far as I understood from wikipedia.

> Are you across the reactors under construction? China has a good number on the go and planned

Some of them are located on the Null Island (0" 0" coordinates) I think, I'll add sensible locations for them.

I don't think it's a good idea to include mobile reactors on the map, but maybe it makes sense to create some kind of a list with them if there's a real need for such a thing.

> Not especially willingly as an active source. The Congo region was the source of much of the Cold War

Isn't France still heavily dependent on uranium from Niger, Namibia?

externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
Research reactors are not used for energy production, so yes, reactors like HFBR in US, Petten in Netherlands are not included.

Maybe I'll add them later, but for this I need to first add sensible filters for clarity, otherwise it will become a mess and won't be as simple to see what kind of potential certain region in some country has.

externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
Keep in mind that I'm stupid in politics and economy and I did not invest meaningful time into studying them, but:

I think generally accepted nuclear power is a literal threat to the German automotive industry. MB, VW Group, BMW, and others are not ages ahead of Chinese manufacturers in EV sector like they are in case with ICE cars.

externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
There are more than 10. It's the Null Island location @hiergiltdiestfu refers to in another comment. Will add the locations to all of them once I have time to put all the coordinates in.
externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
Ideally, this Null Island should not exist on this map I think.

I guess I'll need to research all of them and put a sensible location for each. e.g. Kumharia should be in India, not on the Null Island. Will do once I have more time for this project

externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
Nice, thanks for the ideas and links! Might add this data to the map in the future, hopefully will find a way to do so in a user-friendly way without cluttering the ui.
externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
History has shown that German automotive industry has huge power, so things like nuclear ban, shady emission restrictions, etc. seem like just the tip of the iceberg.
externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
If Germany was so worried about accidents, wouldn't they have fights and serious arguments with the neighbors like France that is packed with nuclear fuel, plants, and the French character of seeking endless revolutions?

Germany intentionally did something that they knew will hurt its economy, there should be a very profound reason for taking such a hit. Who would be ok to take such a hit because of a "fear"?

My generalization about the German nations may be really inaccurate here, I just thought they all had a huge influence on each other (which affects lots of previous and future decisions).

externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
didn't know about this one, looks nice but complicated.

Note: if you want to see individual stations, you can disable clustering on the map I've made on the top right corner there's a control for disabling clustering.

maybe I should make clustering disabled by default?

externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
Indeed. I wonder what are the real reasons behind these bans in German nations. Can't believe it's just for political populism, there must be something more substantial.
externedguy··on Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
sorry, should be fixed now, forgot to scale ram on fly.io :/
externedguy··on How to develop on Windows: comparing native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL
Switch to Linux
externedguy··on CrowdStrike CEO is former McAfee CTO; they caused a similar PC meltdown in 2010
> George_Kurtz, President & CEO CrowdStrike, Former CTO of McAfee

https://x.com/George_Kurtz

https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgekurtz

Déjà vu?

externedguy··on Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27
> Very very few companies build and maintain SDKs for Elixir.

This is true with any tech until it gets traction. React/Next is backed by a big company, but Vue/Nuxt still managed to grab its piece of the pie.

In order to get traction Erlang / Elixir needs enthusiasts who are ok with risking and introducing it to their company or product, at least partially.

No offense, but instead of condemning the Elixir ecosystem, why not embrace it in your company or product, as many have done (including me)? I think most devs should be OK with taking a tolerable risk if they see opportunity to increase productivity by N times

externedguy··on Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
Perfect, yet another reason to use BEAM languages