I went with the fastest single-threaded performing CPU I could find (compiling is typically single-thread bound unless you have tons of different parallel projects, which I don't),
Uh, you don't split your project into separate files or modules?
Compilation of middle sized or large projects definitively benefits from a multi-core CPU. Compilation is branch-heavy and strictly integer though, so you would want a processor that's good at that. From what I'm understanding you should try out something like ccache instead of trying to upgrade the hardware. ccache makes a huge difference.
The end of Moore's law is due to photolitography limits and SSDs which use Flash memory will hit the wall eventually as well. Currently you are under the illusion that Flash isn't hitting a limit because the manufacturers are switching to 3D-NAND Flash but even that will have its limits. The more layers you add the more expensive it gets to manufacture and there's a limit to how many layers they can add.
You are wrong. The OSI definition of open source software is basically the same as the free software definition: https://opensource.org/osd
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Nokia and Sony Ericsson typically included headphones with their devices. The problem was when you needed a replacement. $$$. Oh and forget charging and connecting the headphones at the same time. And yes we had Bluetooth headsets back then as well. They still suck.
Dunno about that. But there are claims that YHW started as a war god in a polytheistic pantheon and eventually the priests of that god basically subverted the entire religion so that YHW basically reflects the main attributes of all the pantheon. So it's supposedly a amalgam to begin with.
If they had not enough people buying excess power at night to heat up the water storages (for 1/3 of the price at daytime) they would need to shut down nuclear reactors.
Bullshit. The fixed cost of the electric grid and the power plant is still there and needs to be amortized. It's better to sell it at 1/3rd of the price than let the equipment crumble due to old age without selling electricity. The price of nuclear fuel is so inconsequential that it's criminal not to generate power whenever you can.
THAT's how you get to "too cheap to meter" or at least cheap enough.
Every single place which has introduced renewables has seen consumer electricity prices go up rather than down. Think it's a coincidence? If the power is so cheap why are consumer retail prices going up? I'll tell you why. Lots of hidden costs and subsidies. You think pumped storage or running natural gas power plants for peaking is cheap or efficient? In both cases you spending money building power generators that will stand idle a large fraction of time. So it means it is harder to amortize construction costs.
The low prices for renewables are grade A bullshit. I've seen it here in Europe. If you had a property bubble in the US here in Europe we had a renewables bubble as well. The government pays a subsidy for all electricity generated by renewables regardless if its consumed or not. Part of the subsidy doesn't ever show up in the electric bills because the government is siphoning it away from other taxes. The electricity doesn't necessarily get generated when you need it either. So it often is sent to the neighboring countries at NEGATIVE cost (yes we pay them to get our excess wind power electricity) because they can either use it or store it. Why do we even do this? Because they do the same. So sometimes they send electricity at negative cost here too and kind of balances out. Kind of. Because sometimes no one wants the power at that time and long distance electricity transmission lines are expensive to build.
Well I have seen places with coal power plants, it's supposed to be cheap and baseload, and I don't see people doing that.
If the electricity wasn't cheap people wouldn't do it. And French nuclear reactors CAN do load following to a degree, especially for something so predictable as the day/night cycle, so it's not as simple as you think. It's usually a bad idea to constantly spool up and down steam turbines though. Kills efficiency for any thermal power plant.
Facepalm. Germany is exporting power to France. The last 20 years we perhaps imported in total 12 month more power from France than we exported in those month. You should read a few books or google before you make an idiot out of your self.
A recent phenomenon. France stopped building nuclear power plants for a couple of decades and now there are carbon taxes. The produced renewable energy is highly subsidized per kWh in Germany. Plus a large proportion of generated "renewable" energy is biomass. Germany has reduced the renewables subsidies several times because of the economic crisis. Remains to be seen how the industry will fare without so many subsidies to prop it up.
Despite having it announced public yet, France is planning its exit from nuclear power since 20 years. Go figure.
If they are morons maybe. I wouldn't put it past them. There's a reason France is increasingly irrelevant industrially. Those in charge increasingly don't have a clue about what they are managing. The wind mill subsidies are popular with farmers and France has a lot of them. When I went to France a couple of years back I could see the wind mills from the TGV all across the landscape. Last I heard the plan was to build CNG plants using natural gas from the Magreb to cover the shortfalls of the wind mills. France has little hydroelectric capacity they can use for pumped storage. It's sheer dumbassery, the natural power plants will never be able to run combined cycle with variable load like that, but as long as it gives farmers money they think its a good idea.
You are wrong. On average nuclear is about the price of coal. The only time when its half the price of coal is when: a) the power plant is next to the coal mines, and b) you aren't using filters to scrub the coal fly ash from the exhaust.
Fukushima Daichi? NO ONE DIED. It was as safe as you can expect a building to be after an earthquake and a tsunami.
Of course its more expensive. The specs are outrageous and they expect them to withstand an airplane crash or a large earthquake.
As for wind and solar it remains to be seen if after 3 decades they won't break down. Ever read Google's little experience with solar? They figured out they have to clean the panels more than once a year or the performance goes down significantly. To the point where it was cheaper to get it from the grid than clean them.
The South Koreans can stick to a timetable fine. Even the Chinese used to be able to do it before the hysteria about 9/11 and Fukushima. Ever since someone decided the reactors had to be resistant against an airplane crash they take more time to build because they need more concrete to be poured.
The problems with EPR sound to me like design issues with a reactor design that has too low manufacturing tolerances and system complexity for its own good.
There are more people working with pebble bed than the Germans who pathetically pulled the plug on nuclear reactor research a couple decades back. I guess they can continue importing electricity from France as usual.
Well they decided to build there the most expensive and time consuming nuclear reactor around (EPR).
As for it being more expensive than wind or solar that sounds like grade A bullshit. Even with EPR. Probably comparing lowest electricity prices (when the wind blows or when the sun shines) against the average prices. Nuclear is baseload. Most of the cost in nuclear reactor construction is pouring concrete. Once its in place the plant can run for 3 decades or more.
The Chinese were already going to build the EPR in China and they have a license to not only build the previous generation French nuclear reactors, they even made their own upgraded design as well (CPR-1000). It's the UK that is behind in civil nuclear reactor technology. Otherwise they would not need to get it from China and France.
Well high resolution TVs use a lot more power than you would think they do. Between the screen and the electronics to drive it they can easily be one of the major power expenditure devices in a house. They use hundreds of Watts. Now that LED lightbulbs use like 4W instead of 60W like an incandescent did a lot of those old advises they used to make like, turning down the lights to save power, aren't THAT good of an advice anymore.
Going to a lower resolution screen saves a lot of power.
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I went with the fastest single-threaded performing CPU I could find (compiling is typically single-thread bound unless you have tons of different parallel projects, which I don't),
Uh, you don't split your project into separate files or modules?
Compilation of middle sized or large projects definitively benefits from a multi-core CPU. Compilation is branch-heavy and strictly integer though, so you would want a processor that's good at that. From what I'm understanding you should try out something like ccache instead of trying to upgrade the hardware. ccache makes a huge difference.
The end of Moore's law is due to photolitography limits and SSDs which use Flash memory will hit the wall eventually as well. Currently you are under the illusion that Flash isn't hitting a limit because the manufacturers are switching to 3D-NAND Flash but even that will have its limits. The more layers you add the more expensive it gets to manufacture and there's a limit to how many layers they can add.
You are wrong. The OSI definition of open source software is basically the same as the free software definition:
https://opensource.org/osd
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
etc.
Nokia and Sony Ericsson typically included headphones with their devices. The problem was when you needed a replacement. $$$. Oh and forget charging and connecting the headphones at the same time. And yes we had Bluetooth headsets back then as well. They still suck.
What's easier to use? Connecting a wire, or going through menus to setup the Bluetooth headphone, charging batteries, etc.
What's more secure? What's harder to intercept?
You figure it out.
Yes it's better to use the newer Appletalk port than the older Ethernet port. Right? Right?
Innovative my ass. Nokia and Sony Ericsson were combining everything in the same port years before: Pop-Port, FastPort.
And guess what it sucked and having a separate 3.5mm audio jack was considered a huge improvement.
Back then it was considered to be a way to force people to buy their accessories and a cash grab. Now Apple calls it "courage". Hah.
Dunno about that. But there are claims that YHW started as a war god in a polytheistic pantheon and eventually the priests of that god basically subverted the entire religion so that YHW basically reflects the main attributes of all the pantheon. So it's supposedly a amalgam to begin with.
Supposedly.
Ever heard of "damnatio memoriae"?
Also there's little proof that Pontius Pilate was prefect at Judaea and he was arguably a more powerful person at the time...
cbrt(2^4096)=1.014582607681846743926326542084877765671470485443624... × 10^411 bits
A terabyte is 2^40 bytes i.e. 2^43 bits. So yeah. Too much.
I have another XKCD for you: https://xkcd.com/605/
If they had not enough people buying excess power at night to heat up the water storages (for 1/3 of the price at daytime) they would need to shut down nuclear reactors.
Bullshit. The fixed cost of the electric grid and the power plant is still there and needs to be amortized. It's better to sell it at 1/3rd of the price than let the equipment crumble due to old age without selling electricity. The price of nuclear fuel is so inconsequential that it's criminal not to generate power whenever you can.
THAT's how you get to "too cheap to meter" or at least cheap enough.
Every single place which has introduced renewables has seen consumer electricity prices go up rather than down. Think it's a coincidence? If the power is so cheap why are consumer retail prices going up? I'll tell you why. Lots of hidden costs and subsidies. You think pumped storage or running natural gas power plants for peaking is cheap or efficient? In both cases you spending money building power generators that will stand idle a large fraction of time. So it means it is harder to amortize construction costs.
The low prices for renewables are grade A bullshit. I've seen it here in Europe. If you had a property bubble in the US here in Europe we had a renewables bubble as well. The government pays a subsidy for all electricity generated by renewables regardless if its consumed or not. Part of the subsidy doesn't ever show up in the electric bills because the government is siphoning it away from other taxes. The electricity doesn't necessarily get generated when you need it either. So it often is sent to the neighboring countries at NEGATIVE cost (yes we pay them to get our excess wind power electricity) because they can either use it or store it. Why do we even do this? Because they do the same. So sometimes they send electricity at negative cost here too and kind of balances out. Kind of. Because sometimes no one wants the power at that time and long distance electricity transmission lines are expensive to build.
Well I have seen places with coal power plants, it's supposed to be cheap and baseload, and I don't see people doing that.
If the electricity wasn't cheap people wouldn't do it. And French nuclear reactors CAN do load following to a degree, especially for something so predictable as the day/night cycle, so it's not as simple as you think. It's usually a bad idea to constantly spool up and down steam turbines though. Kills efficiency for any thermal power plant.
Facepalm. Germany is exporting power to France. The last 20 years we perhaps imported in total 12 month more power from France than we exported in those month. You should read a few books or google before you make an idiot out of your self.
A recent phenomenon. France stopped building nuclear power plants for a couple of decades and now there are carbon taxes. The produced renewable energy is highly subsidized per kWh in Germany. Plus a large proportion of generated "renewable" energy is biomass. Germany has reduced the renewables subsidies several times because of the economic crisis. Remains to be seen how the industry will fare without so many subsidies to prop it up.
Despite having it announced public yet, France is planning its exit from nuclear power since 20 years. Go figure.
If they are morons maybe. I wouldn't put it past them. There's a reason France is increasingly irrelevant industrially. Those in charge increasingly don't have a clue about what they are managing. The wind mill subsidies are popular with farmers and France has a lot of them. When I went to France a couple of years back I could see the wind mills from the TGV all across the landscape. Last I heard the plan was to build CNG plants using natural gas from the Magreb to cover the shortfalls of the wind mills. France has little hydroelectric capacity they can use for pumped storage. It's sheer dumbassery, the natural power plants will never be able to run combined cycle with variable load like that, but as long as it gives farmers money they think its a good idea.
It takes longer the larger the U-235 fraction. A typical commercial reactor doesn't need that much enrichment (3-5%) compared with a bomb (85%).
The plutonium can be chemically separated from the waste products of a nuclear power plant using something like PUREX.
Power cheap enough that in France they use resistive heating to heat bath water and their houses. And it snows there.
If that ain't cheap I don't know what is.
Centrifuge separation is very tedious and expensive
Not that expensive. I also don't know what you mean by tedious. Do you know how long it takes to manufacture a modern chip with photolithography?
You are wrong. On average nuclear is about the price of coal. The only time when its half the price of coal is when: a) the power plant is next to the coal mines, and b) you aren't using filters to scrub the coal fly ash from the exhaust.
Fukushima Daichi? NO ONE DIED. It was as safe as you can expect a building to be after an earthquake and a tsunami.
Of course its more expensive. The specs are outrageous and they expect them to withstand an airplane crash or a large earthquake.
As for wind and solar it remains to be seen if after 3 decades they won't break down. Ever read Google's little experience with solar? They figured out they have to clean the panels more than once a year or the performance goes down significantly. To the point where it was cheaper to get it from the grid than clean them.
The South Koreans can stick to a timetable fine. Even the Chinese used to be able to do it before the hysteria about 9/11 and Fukushima. Ever since someone decided the reactors had to be resistant against an airplane crash they take more time to build because they need more concrete to be poured.
The problems with EPR sound to me like design issues with a reactor design that has too low manufacturing tolerances and system complexity for its own good.
There are more people working with pebble bed than the Germans who pathetically pulled the plug on nuclear reactor research a couple decades back. I guess they can continue importing electricity from France as usual.
not only needs subsidies, it needs guaranteed profits at time of sale
Just like wind and solar then. Except it actually needs less subsides over the lifetime of the plant.
government funded care of the radioactive waste for ten THOUSAND years or more
Only if you don't have a clue about what you are doing. The most radioactive elements decay in a couple of years.
being absolved from lawsuits for normal problems from radioactivity that result
I would be more bothered with living downstream of a hydropower plant than living close to a nuclear power plant personally.
Well they decided to build there the most expensive and time consuming nuclear reactor around (EPR).
As for it being more expensive than wind or solar that sounds like grade A bullshit. Even with EPR. Probably comparing lowest electricity prices (when the wind blows or when the sun shines) against the average prices. Nuclear is baseload. Most of the cost in nuclear reactor construction is pouring concrete. Once its in place the plant can run for 3 decades or more.
The Chinese were already going to build the EPR in China and they have a license to not only build the previous generation French nuclear reactors, they even made their own upgraded design as well (CPR-1000). It's the UK that is behind in civil nuclear reactor technology. Otherwise they would not need to get it from China and France.
I guess you never heard of leased lines. The concept is quite old.
You pay for having the line, not for using it.
Well high resolution TVs use a lot more power than you would think they do. Between the screen and the electronics to drive it they can easily be one of the major power expenditure devices in a house. They use hundreds of Watts. Now that LED lightbulbs use like 4W instead of 60W like an incandescent did a lot of those old advises they used to make like, turning down the lights to save power, aren't THAT good of an advice anymore.
Going to a lower resolution screen saves a lot of power.
Dogs need to eat protein. If you look the ingredients in a lot of cheap dog feed they are basically soy. Because its cheap
They'll also eat hydrocarbons like bread or rice though. Just expect them to have a high chance to get diabetic at an already age as a result.
You're holding it wrong.