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T-Mobile Will Shield You from Internet Outages for $30 a Month
  • This sounds really expensive. 5G as a backup makes sense, but 30 bucks is actual primary service money, not just in case money.

    Make it 5 and I would consider it.

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    Small modular nuclear reactors get a reality check in new report
  • Lemy has such a hard on against nuclear

    Maybe you should spend more time outside. Every flavor of nuclear has worse approval ratings than most dirtbag politicians.

    I'm seeing reports by antinuclear think tank grifters shoved in my face almost daily...

    Why do you think you need to PAY people to oppose nuclear? After seven decades of cockamamie “this time it’s different” schemes most people just moved on.

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    Small modular nuclear reactors get a reality check in new report
  • Nuclear technologies missed their window. The use cases where they are the best technical solution now are extremely limited, and that means you can get the investment going to improve them.

    It’s a curiosity now.

    There’s an alternative timeline where Chernobyl doesn’t happen and we decarbonize by leaning on nuclear in the nineties, then transition to renewables about now. But that’s not our timeline. And if it were, it would be in the past now.

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    Sign me up!
  • According to the Breeders, the preferred etiquette for diving into hell is not a swan dive.

    Do a cannon ball.

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    Americas richest 10% is responsible for 40% of its planet heating pollution
  • It’s less bad than I expected, but I am worried about the trend. If you check it the article you see there’s a graph in absolute numbers, and the absolute emissions for the top two brackets seem to be increasing while all the others are decreasing.

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    Writing Python like it’s Rust
  • Python has gotten faster, but it’s still nowhere near what you expect from traditional compiled languages. It can’t be.
    The trick to writing performant Python code is to get good (native) libraries and let it handle the heavy lifting.

    For performance sensitive stuff, the fact that pure Python is very slow really matters. For stuff that’s not performance sensitive (that is, 99% of the code out there) it doesn’t really matter, but even then it’s better to be fast than to be slow.

    Now this is not something I would ordinarily have a problem with. I use Python for a reason and it’s not performance. But if I end up writing Python like it’s rust, I might as well do rust and reap the (massive!!!) performance and memory profile benefits too while I’m at it.

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    Writing Python like it’s Rust
  • My main issue is that you’re going through all that trouble and still get Python-level performance.

    I really like Python, but there are better typed languages out there. Also, faster ones.

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