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Re:Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants on Thursday June 18, 2026 @12:59PM (#48588288)
It's why big oil loves it: We need to do nothing now because nuclear is coming "soon"
Re:Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants on Thursday June 18, 2026 @12:57PM (#48588263)
Show us just a single NPP that is properly insured
Re:Bringing the Predators to Life in MAME on Friday January 16, 2026 @08:25AM (#46646126)
I think it might be this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJliQ2fsiUA
Re:Musashi: Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:40AM (#46540352)
I'd expect the main advantages to be portability and maintainability?
I wonder if it theoretically could (or already does) benefit from something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCg3aXn5F3M
I was assuming it's something similar to PL/0 but the grammar looks quite extensive...
Re:Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US? on Thursday October 09, 2025 @08:58AM (#45527065)
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/

Re:Chrome intends to remove XSLT from the HTML spec on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @04:21PM (#44955885)
Ah, now I am glad I stuck with DSSSL :)
I am not arguing against cars. I am just arguing against the "right" to pollute the environment without taking responsibility for adequate cleanup.
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.
Re:A receipt printer cured my procrastination on Thursday June 12, 2025 @09:09AM (#44257383)
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
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...
What would Reagan say to this?
I suppose the bandwidth is not the bottleneck currently but mainly the "switching capacity" for this kind of application?
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?

Looks like that particular Gadgetbahn is not going to go anywhere: https://www.blick.ch/wirtschaft/cargo-sous-terrain-entlaesst...
I wish we had some form of "TCP/IP" over rail, where the "packets" are containers or pallets...

Show HN: A Kotlin DSL for WebAssembly

https://github.com/kobjects/greenspun

The initial motivation for this project was just to see how far one can take Kotlin DSLs.That said, it might be useful for situations where one needs to generate Wasm code in a general Kotlin context.In a way, this project constitutes a Wasm "macro assembler" with the Kotlin as the "macro language" -- at the price of an "unusual" syntax.

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Re:Zenv: Forth for the ZX Spectrum on Monday March 18, 2024 @02:57PM (#39748473)
I didn't manage to build any Games with it, but I think it helped me to read Postscript files a few years later :)
The intended outcome of so-called "road safety" campaigns, always addressing the victims instead of drivers
Re:Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch on Sunday February 11, 2024 @11:26AM (#39336077)
Philips Briliance BDM4350UC
Re:Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch on Sunday February 11, 2024 @10:28AM (#39335617)
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.

Re:Momentary Fusion Breakthroughs Face Hard Reality on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:46PM (#39294090)
My bets are on Wendelstein 7-X / Stellarators
Re:I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel [video] on Sunday January 28, 2024 @09:45AM (#39166239)
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?
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 :)
Re:Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @09:22AM (#38012504)
I am happy to give 2^20! Oh wait it's not xor?
Re:The Rules of Margin Collapse on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:57PM (#37487196)
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...
Re:What Should You Do with an Oil Fortune? on Sunday August 13, 2023 @09:29AM (#37109861)
How about repairing the damage done by polluting the world with hydrocarbons and combustion products?

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