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Carbon taxes are your typical neoliberal economic non solution. Incoherent policy designed to create as much political blowback against the do gooders as possible.

Processors I mostly write firmware for have little cache at all.

I think cache friendly code also tends to be reason about friendly and debugger friendly. None of that is remotely premature optimization.

Cost of recent nuclear power in the UK comes in at $130/mwh at best. Where wind and solar are coming in at $50-80/MWh.

So for the same rate of investment you can decarbonize 2-3 times faster. And that doesn't figure the long lead times for nuclear vs solar, wind and batteries.

It's depressing how much stuff is based on vibes.

Nuclear loses on pure accounting and time to build.

I'm reminded of tail call recursion in C.

Compiler noid: We added tail call recursion. Is super you should use it!

Me: Can I guarantee it will actually do tail call recursion?

Compiler Noid: If course not!

Me: Nope.

Maybe having a way to enforce that on the compiler. So you can force the compiler to tell you it couldn't eliminate heap allocations.

I've taken to saying Donald Knuth was wrong, premature optimization isn't the root of all evil.

Dependencies are.

Part of that is reading bits and pieces of what Nancy Leveson had to say about the subject. Subsystems even when working to spec can produce spectacular failures.

LatinX to me reeks of white savior and HR speak.

I'm seeing more Silicon Carbide and Gallium nitride transistors in shipping products over the last ten years. With the latter a lot over the last 5 years.

I've only been hearing about diamond transistors for the last 30 years.

I work in a room that's 15X20 mostly by myself. At the rent my company is paying it's about $650/month.

A SW guy in the bay area costs $15,000 a month. And the MBA's won't spring for even 50 square feet of space for them? Which would be what $300/month?

I think you guys should just up and riot.

Some of my engineering professors had a policy that you couldn't get a lower grade in the class than your grade on the final. You could and they said some students did turn in no work at all and still got an A based on the final.

I first saw the claim everything is hunky dory because workers are working fewer hours from a economist probably ten years ago. The idea is workers are choosing to work fewer hours and instead enjoy more leisure.

So to point out how inanely out of touch economists are.

The problem with that is the worker economic base unit is a family not one person. Now compare 1960-70s where one person in the household works 40 hours a week. Compare with a modern family where both parents are working a combined 70-80 hours a week.

So yeah workers are working slightly less hours and families as a unit substantially more.

Fundamentally political systems like you find in Russia are the enemy of the world.

The US in particular had to proactively not enforce British Libel judgements against US citizens. Because the vast majority violate free speech rights.

Also worth mentioning architects have spent so long intentionally designing ugly modernist crap that the public reflexively assumes anything new will be an eyesore.

Worth considering Spain. Spain should be much wealthier than it is. And that's due to Franco.

People have a right to enjoyment of public spaces with out having creepers filming them.

Corruption that will get you sent to prison if your working for a muni is legal if you're running an HOA.

Per capita 2779 TWh is about 1kwh per person per day.

People usually describe poverty as less than so many dollars a day. But you can consider energy poverty as well. There never was enough supply of oil and gas to lift the majority of humanity out of poverty, but there is enough solar.

I am supporting Palestinians with this comment, because being at the losing end of a war totally sucks.

But you do support that because you support wars of choice that directly lead to that. And your justification amounts to nothing but a worthless ethnonational ideal.

And then people like you support Palestinian groups and others like Hezbollah starting wars of choice against Israel. And invariably they lose those wars and it's the Palestinians that suffer the most. And then that is used as a justification to do it yet again.

Berkeley spent $100 million on a round about at Gilman St.

"You can find the “Standard of Care” flow charts for every cancer type. "

This is good advice for any non simple medical problem. Because while you may not have the book knowledge and definitely not the clinical experience you probably can tell when your care is deviating from standard care.

The cause is always a failure of underwriting. That was true of the Savings and Loan Crisis, the Great Financial Crisis.

It feels like each bubble gets bigger.

Lead solder was banned for plumbing in the US in 1986.

""code can be result of macro expansion"

Might be wrong but the big issue with warning about UB probably isn't C it's C++ and it's templates. Modern C is mostly what you see is all there is. Where with C++ lord knows really.

C is often a bit slower than C++. Which also means trading a little speed to eliminate UB isn't a big hit. Where doing that inside a template expansion can slow things down a lot.

My preferred solution is people stop using C++.

I used san RTOS written in assembly for the Atmel AVR. AvrX (by John Barello)

You can look at the code here.

https://github.com/kororos/AvrX

Compiles down under 2k.

The thing is while actually doing that isn't crazy hard, they did that with hardly any existing examples to go by. And without modern tools.

The Santa Clara HWY 85 extension because it was built without federal funds was able to totally ban trucks over 4 tons and 30 years later is in decent condition. It was also built lighter and thus cheaper to build.

I could go outside right now and bang pots together and wake up more people than live in Aniak.