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Re:Writing an NVMe Driver in Rust [pdf] on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @07:26AM (#40510741)
> A lot of memory and thread safety guarantees in Rust are only applicable to user space.

I'm not sure what you are thinking of here. Rust memory safety doesn't care about the environment at all.

Re:Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany on Monday April 01, 2024 @05:38AM (#39892292)
That is not the norm. You won't get charged for smoking in Copenhagen, but it will put you in a high risk category for smuggling so their typical response here is to search you. They were probably under a high workload and had to prioritize heavily.
Re:Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany on Monday April 01, 2024 @05:34AM (#39892271)
And if you were behind the wheel, you will be sentenced for driving under influence. Even if it has been days since you smoked a joint.
Does it handle byzantine failures?
Re:Redis License Changed on Thursday March 21, 2024 @06:45AM (#39776929)
How can it be used at all under SSPL then? There are no operating systems on which Redis runs that uses that license.
Re:UN experts find 'no harmful effects' from Fukushima (2021) on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:00PM (#39695858)
That gives us an upper bound but the real answer could be anything between that and harmless.

So I mean "we don't know" as in "we don't have the complete answer".

Re:UN experts find 'no harmful effects' from Fukushima (2021) on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @01:59PM (#39694977)
Because society does not accept the answer "we really don't know" in cases of public health.
Re:UN experts find 'no harmful effects' from Fukushima (2021) on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @01:42PM (#39694707)
It's rather that just because it would be statistically undetectable, we don't really know what the expected increase is. We really don't have good empirical data on the harmful effects of low amounts of radiation. Especially when the best data we could have had, happened to coincide with an empire collapse with major health impacts on the population.
Electric vehicles are heavier, which means they must spend more brake pads to stop. But they also use regenerative breaking, which reduces pad wear. So I'm not sure if they make it worse or not.
Associated with implies no causality, but of course everybody knows that, right?
The Fyre Truck just keeps on delivering.
So he's pushing an energy solution that requires Tritium. One of the rarest elements of earth. And then has the nerve to accuse fission of relying on rare elements.
> "Overnight, it basically changed the cost per watt of a fusion reactor by a factor of almost 40 in one day,"

So there is this myth that fusion enables unlimited cheap energy. This is 100% false. It's not unlimited at all. Most concepts relies on using lithium-6. That's not a super common element.

But more importantly, it's not cheap. That should be obvious, if you could reduce the cost per watt 40x and still not be competitive.

Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @03:14PM (#39634075)
> Random polls, be they online or via phone, are basically worthless; you know that as well as I.

This claim is so easy to debunk that I doubt you are arguing in good faith.

Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @02:00PM (#39633190)
The entire purpose of joining NATO is to defend against russian imperialism (Something Sweden has a ton experience with, for hundreds of years) Always has been. There is not much point in joining if you exclude that bit.
Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:57PM (#39633158)
Sweden's problem is that we insist on only selling to the "good guys" (for domestic policy reasons), but everyone who is considered a good guy (e.g. Norway) is already in the F-35 program. So we sell to no-so-good-but-not-terrible guys like Brazil, South Africa, Hungary and Thailand.
Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:51PM (#39633071)
This is what we have to deal with. People believing that when our enemies are arming themselves, it is somehow problematic to respond? This attitude is fading in Europe (thankfully) but I still see this far too often.
Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:49PM (#39633045)
EU is technically a military alliance (article 42). Just not as strong as NATO.
Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:45PM (#39632982)
This law was a response to the terror attacks of 2017, and was mostly already done when Putin invaded. As a political thing, Sweden and Turkey informally agreed to pretend this was a concession so that Erdogan could look good for his election.

The problem was then that this lie was just a bit too credible, so people started to believe in it.

Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:42PM (#39632942)
There was no debate because everyone was on board. I'm so sick and tired about people lying about this online. There was an election! And many, many polls! ALL OF THEM SHOWED LIKE 80% SUPPORT!

But the anti-Nato people are butthurt and feel the need to rewrite history to foreigners.

Din jävla fjant.

Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:39PM (#39632885)
There is a legal blocker and that is the war. Nato can not admit a member that is at war with Russia without starting a huge war.
Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:37PM (#39632854)
> Germany is a vassal of the United States

No.

Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:36PM (#39632833)
Sweden hosts US troops already. There was no reason to wait for Orban and Erdogan for that.
Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:35PM (#39632823)
> Why isn't there a NATO base in the US where German military etc. "hang out"?

Because Russia is in Europe, not in the US.

Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:34PM (#39632805)
An anecdote about the maps: When Swedish diplomats were meeting with members of congress before the vote to convince them to admit Sweden they just brought a map. Literally just "here is a map of the baltic sea, this is why you should let us in". And it worked.
Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:32PM (#39632767)
NATO doesn't have "revenue". It has a little to run offices and stuff but it is tiny. The big gain from NATO's perspective is another member and its military capacity, and the terrority. Which is a huge thing, just look at a map.
Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:30PM (#39632746)
Victoria Nuland is a red flag. Conspiracy theorists are obsessed with her for some reason. Whenever she is brought up, I stop listening. She's not that important.
Re:Sweden Is a NATO Member on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:28PM (#39632717)
One thing that isn't mentioned a lot in connection to this:

Sweden and Denmark has a VERY violent history. Hundreds of years of wars. It is said to be the worst conflict in all of human history. Now we are allied and committed to defend each other. That's a huge thing for peace.

Re:Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) on Saturday March 02, 2024 @11:34AM (#39573629)
I think music machines like this would be a perfect application of digital computers.
Why didn't the non-farming population expand to the limits the way the farming one did? Why aren't there two half-starving hunter-gatherers?

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