On the other hand it could fix the internet by automatically detecting dead links and re-routing them to archive.org, the same way that Wikipedia does.
The real danger is that the link shortening service itself goes away, making all the shortened links 404 with no easy way to recover them.
Indeed, after the US tried to get access to data held in the EU (Ireland specifically) because the parent company was based in the US (Microsoft) countries are tightening up their laws around this sort of thing.
Lots of paper designs ranging from concept to detailed plans, that for some reason were all abandoned. A couple of Russian ones actually entered service, but proved to be extremely expensive.
That's a non-answer as it tells me nothing on how to act. If this means we can't have nuclear power then you are by default kicking the problem down the path hoping for a solution to present itself before the problems of global warming are upon us.
Surely it's the exact opposite. Nuclear takes so long to build, and you have to dedicate yourself to maintaining the supply of fuel and the processing of waste for many decades, it's a long term commitment to emit more CO2. Depending on where you get your fuel from nuclear can be up to 110g/kWh.
On the other hand we have proven low emission technologies that can be built up much faster than nuclear. Best of all they provide a decent return on that investment, rather than being a money sink. People are lining up to build them, unlike nuclear where the UK has to pay the Chinese and French to do it for us.
I wish the USB keyboard protocol was more flexible. It's based on the PS2 protocol, which is built around a US keyboard layout. The OS has to translate US key codes into the correct local keyboard ones.
That means you can't easily make a fully custom layout, because you can't just send an arbitrary character when a key is pressed. At best you can pick an existing layout and move the keys around, and even that is a pain on Windows for the Japanese layout.
It's not too bad for your own computers but you can't just plug your fully custom keyboard in to a random computer and have it map properly.
If there is no deal the British citizens could need some kind of visa or pre-check to visit the EU.
There are other benefits we will likely lose either way, such as access to EU healthcare systems on a reciprocal basis. No need to get travel health insurance, just a free EHCI card at the moment.
No deal will have other severe travel consequences, such as UK based airlines losing approval to fly in the EU and British citizens with family members from the EU being torn away from them until they can arrange further visas, which is currently almost impossible for many in the UK.
It's quite possible that doing so would deter a war that would have ultimately resulted in even more deaths than this program *may* potentially result in.
But more more likely is the military using it to kill more terrorists with drones. And by terrorists I mean random people who happened to be in the area they suspect the bad people are. And by bad people I mean people that the US doesn't like and doesn't feel the need to give any due process to.
You could argue that Iran and North Korea having nukes would act as a deterrent and stop people dying. In the case of NK it actually may have. But would you help them develop those weapons?
Logical fallacy. There was a choice of two candidates, likely both would have continued with military action and killed innocent people, and opting for the least bad choice is not an endorsement of everything they do. In fact voting for anyone is not an endorsement of every action they take, either up to that point or in the unknowable future.
They aren't even going to make a decision on continuing with the BN-1200 until next year. After the problems with the BN-800 came to light and required a redesign it's been on hold. Even before then plans were scaled back repeatedly until only two planned units were left.
Like all new nuclear it has the same basic problems. Unknown unknowns costing an unknown amount to put right, at a time when cheap and reliable sources of energy are growing rapidly and attracting a lot of investment. No matter how much geek cred nukes have that isn't going to bring in the investment.
I wish someone would make a good programming keyboard. Some languages have tried to work around the limitations of the US QWERTY layout, such as standardizing on capitalization instead of underscores in variable/function names because the underscore is a stretch to type.
I'm such between UK and Japanese layout now. Both have their advantages and disadvantages but could be improved for coding. I also do custom layout that gives me some useful characters with the alt key, such as the degree symbol, Pi, omega (for ohms), copyright symbol, left/right arrows etc. One nice thing about Japanese input is that it makes entering such things easy.
To become popular though it would need to be competitive on speed, and the WPM of Morse code keyers is pretty low compared to a moderately skilled QWERTY typist.
Drink! AmiMojo jumping into defense when anything remotely negative is said about Marx/Marxism!
I'm not actually defending Marx/Marxism Mr. Anon, I'm pointing out that believing in a Nazi conspiracy theory about Jews trying to destroy western culture somewhat discredits you.
It also makes me wonder if you are just ignorant or are knowingly repeating Nazi propaganda that was used to demonize Jews.
Do you have to drink for this one too? Maybe the mistaken drink you just had can cancel this one out, although it's the weekend so knock yourself out. Glad to be of service in fact, although I can think of better ways to spend my evenings...
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Today's times? Fast talkers have been selling snake oil since the invention of talking.
I'd use AR to solve the problem of annoying ads. Just like we have ad blockers for the web, we could have ad blockers for real life.
On the other hand it could fix the internet by automatically detecting dead links and re-routing them to archive.org, the same way that Wikipedia does.
The real danger is that the link shortening service itself goes away, making all the shortened links 404 with no easy way to recover them.
Indeed, after the US tried to get access to data held in the EU (Ireland specifically) because the parent company was based in the US (Microsoft) countries are tightening up their laws around this sort of thing.
Nice idea but let's look at the reality of commercial SMRs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Lots of paper designs ranging from concept to detailed plans, that for some reason were all abandoned. A couple of Russian ones actually entered service, but proved to be extremely expensive.
The UK has just reduced the tax break on electric cars by £1000 and removed it entirely for lower range plug-in hybrids. It's not serious about this.
Poor triggered Trumpies, facts are trolling them again.
For the record Johnson / Gray got 0.99% of the vote, and zero electoral college nominations as a result.
That's a non-answer as it tells me nothing on how to act. If this means we can't have nuclear power then you are by default kicking the problem down the path hoping for a solution to present itself before the problems of global warming are upon us.
Surely it's the exact opposite. Nuclear takes so long to build, and you have to dedicate yourself to maintaining the supply of fuel and the processing of waste for many decades, it's a long term commitment to emit more CO2. Depending on where you get your fuel from nuclear can be up to 110g/kWh.
On the other hand we have proven low emission technologies that can be built up much faster than nuclear. Best of all they provide a decent return on that investment, rather than being a money sink. People are lining up to build them, unlike nuclear where the UK has to pay the Chinese and French to do it for us.
I wish the USB keyboard protocol was more flexible. It's based on the PS2 protocol, which is built around a US keyboard layout. The OS has to translate US key codes into the correct local keyboard ones.
That means you can't easily make a fully custom layout, because you can't just send an arbitrary character when a key is pressed. At best you can pick an existing layout and move the keys around, and even that is a pain on Windows for the Japanese layout.
It's not too bad for your own computers but you can't just plug your fully custom keyboard in to a random computer and have it map properly.
If there is no deal the British citizens could need some kind of visa or pre-check to visit the EU.
There are other benefits we will likely lose either way, such as access to EU healthcare systems on a reciprocal basis. No need to get travel health insurance, just a free EHCI card at the moment.
No deal will have other severe travel consequences, such as UK based airlines losing approval to fly in the EU and British citizens with family members from the EU being torn away from them until they can arrange further visas, which is currently almost impossible for many in the UK.
Thanks, that made my day.
Still slightly miffed they didn't know who I was though, I thought I was pretty infamous around here.
This is the first effective troll I've seen for a long time. You actually managed to wound my ego.
The third place candidate got less than 1% of the votes and 0% of the electoral college. Voting for them would have been a long term strategy at best.
Go read up on how drones are used in Afghanistan. Anyone in the target area is retroactively designated a terrorist to justify their deaths as legal.
It's quite possible that doing so would deter a war that would have ultimately resulted in even more deaths than this program *may* potentially result in.
But more more likely is the military using it to kill more terrorists with drones. And by terrorists I mean random people who happened to be in the area they suspect the bad people are. And by bad people I mean people that the US doesn't like and doesn't feel the need to give any due process to.
You could argue that Iran and North Korea having nukes would act as a deterrent and stop people dying. In the case of NK it actually may have. But would you help them develop those weapons?
Is there no middle ground between silently objecting to what your employer is asking you to do and quitting?
Logical fallacy. There was a choice of two candidates, likely both would have continued with military action and killed innocent people, and opting for the least bad choice is not an endorsement of everything they do. In fact voting for anyone is not an endorsement of every action they take, either up to that point or in the unknowable future.
They aren't even going to make a decision on continuing with the BN-1200 until next year. After the problems with the BN-800 came to light and required a redesign it's been on hold. Even before then plans were scaled back repeatedly until only two planned units were left.
Like all new nuclear it has the same basic problems. Unknown unknowns costing an unknown amount to put right, at a time when cheap and reliable sources of energy are growing rapidly and attracting a lot of investment. No matter how much geek cred nukes have that isn't going to bring in the investment.
Germany also increased their coal based power generation.
Wrong.
I've been thinking about it for a while... I did a conversion of an old BBC Micro keyboard to USB once.
That's an excellent idea, thanks. It's such a useless key.
I wish someone would make a good programming keyboard. Some languages have tried to work around the limitations of the US QWERTY layout, such as standardizing on capitalization instead of underscores in variable/function names because the underscore is a stretch to type.
I'm such between UK and Japanese layout now. Both have their advantages and disadvantages but could be improved for coding. I also do custom layout that gives me some useful characters with the alt key, such as the degree symbol, Pi, omega (for ohms), copyright symbol, left/right arrows etc. One nice thing about Japanese input is that it makes entering such things easy.
To become popular though it would need to be competitive on speed, and the WPM of Morse code keyers is pretty low compared to a moderately skilled QWERTY typist.
That was my entire point. Congrats on finally getting it.
Drink! AmiMojo jumping into defense when anything remotely negative is said about Marx/Marxism!
I'm not actually defending Marx/Marxism Mr. Anon, I'm pointing out that believing in a Nazi conspiracy theory about Jews trying to destroy western culture somewhat discredits you.
It also makes me wonder if you are just ignorant or are knowingly repeating Nazi propaganda that was used to demonize Jews.
Do you have to drink for this one too? Maybe the mistaken drink you just had can cancel this one out, although it's the weekend so knock yourself out. Glad to be of service in fact, although I can think of better ways to spend my evenings...