Again from my experience, knowing lisp (yay guix and emacs) definitely helps me write more elegant code in every language.

I also have to explain almost every single thing I write in code review.

Seems like Linus isn’t onboard with this.

To the contrary:

https://lemmy.ml/post/26272942

it would require kernel developers to be savvy in both C and Rust

From my experience knowing how both C and rust works makes you a better developer in both languages.

Did somebody say “provably correct”?

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None! My comment may be misunderstood.

If you’re of my generation you kind of grew up being told fusion energy was the holy grail of energy production as it’s clean and doesn’t produce a bunch of radioactive byproduct. (Stuff like SimCity etc. made fusion reactors seem like a miracle technology)

In reality fusion also produces a massive amount of radiation and radiative byproducts, so it’s not the holy grail of energy that I think most people might assume it is.

Fusion and Fission are two sides of the same coin, so fusion experiments are important because they aid in making fission reactors safe as well!

I’m especially looking forward to seeing how material scientists attempt to solve the massive fast neutron radiation that fusion reactors produce, as Thorium reactors have the same issue.

The primary issue is that deuterium-deuterium reactions (the only practical fusion process that seems to work is deuterium-tritium and deuterium-helium, as you need insane temperatures for proton-boron, so in any realistic reactor deuterium will end up reacting with itself) produce 3 times the radiation of equivalent power output from fission reactions, so you need MASSIVE amounts of shielding for a reactor to run for an extended period of time.

This also highly irradiates the materials inside the reactors themselves, to a degree that maintenance requires built-in robots because the inside of the reactor is too radioactive for humans (this also eventually destroys the robots). The most optimistic estimates for how long a reactor could possibly last is 100 years. At that point the entire reactor would need to be torn down and buried because most of the components would be too radioactive to use anymore. At which point you have the exact same issue as radioactive waste storage, but no recycling process for something crazy like a radioactive isotope of silicon.

However! That’s why these experiments are important! As every advancement they make towards making fusion safe, also makes fission safer, as they’re two sides of the same coin.

And America is taking everyone with them.

Or refuse counseling in the case of transgender kids.

Yea one of the most interesting applications of fusion reactor research is the requirements in advancements for material science also benefits fission and even solar power generation, so the research bears fruit well and above the stated goals.

This is cool but also remember the practicalities of Fusion make it not much better than nuclear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHmHBMaS6Sw

There’s lots of developers contributing to the wifi drivers, there’s just no “lead maintainer” now

and I see it when I’m forced to write fucking YAML for fucking Ansible. I let the GPTs do that for me, without worrying that I won’t learn to code YAML for Ansible. Coding YAML for Ansible is NEVER going to be on my list of things I want to remember.

Feels like this is the attitude towards programming in general nowadays.

Having lived in like 7 different countries for long periods of time I’m convinced there is no objective measure of the quality of food, art, or music.

There are things that have measures if high quality in Japan that American would find absolutely foul, and the same in the other direction.

Agriculture also shrunk our brains

Wait till you see our healthcare prices.

Orthoepoedist visit and back medicine for two months.

Just got these from the grocery store and they’re like the size of an apple.

This is one of those neat factoids that isn’t entirely true.

Japan does wash and refrigerate its eggs, just not all eggs and brands and groceries (it’s not a law).

Refrigerated and unrefrigerated eggs side-by-side

Refrigerated eggs

Most of the low salmonella incident rate comes from a higher inspection rate of egg producers and, here’s the fun one, a higher rate of raw egg ingestion, leading to faster report and response times for when there is contamination.

You really shouldn’t use sites like this for comparison as they’re not really adjusted for average expected living in any certain country.

They’re for if you took your lifestyle from country A and tried to transplant it in country B.

A good example is price per square foot for apartments etc. in Japan doesn’t really say anything about how the average living space is also much lower so you shouldn’t try and buy an American suburban house in Japan anyway.