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[–] sus 2 points 10 months ago

I think my idea of "C replacement" probably fits fairly closely with Odin's creator's idea of "C alternative"..

It's of course impossible to truly replace C with anything since C is an extremely entrenched language what with it being widely used for about 50 years. (and odin probably won't fit every niche where C is used)

[–] sus 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

another language that seems to get close to "C replacement" is Odin. Though it also does feel like departing a bit too much sometimes to be a true replacement.

And what every new language seems to be dead set on is no implicit type conversions which is mildly annoying (But I suppose that's done specifically to protect from gremlins like me)

[–] sus 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Did you even read your own articles?

CBS:

its delayed disclosure of the meltdowns at three reactorswas tantamount to a cover-up

NYT:

Culture of Complicity Tied to Stricken Nuclear Plant

Mainichi:

then TEPCO president Masataka Shimizu had ordered the company not to use the term "meltdown" to describe what had occurred

None of these support anything close to the kind of cover up needed to result in a "nobody can know how many people died" level of lack of information. They're mostly about failing to report the disaster fast enough and downplaying it by using certain wording and having a lax security culture. Not about the government preventing investigations or giving gag orders or something like that.

[–] sus 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

That’s the dumbest take I’ve ever heard on this topic and that’s saying a lot

So which part is wrong? Does pollution not kill millions of people each year? Is shutting down reactors on the other side of the planet a smart move when the causes of one disaster are completely inapplicable to them? Are both of these responses reasonable and proportional?

And how do you know how many people were killed by the Fukushima triple meltdown that is in no way contained and has displaced tens of thousands of people permanently? The answer is we don’t know because the Japanese government has systematically suppressed any reliable information from coḿing out. Which just goes to show that nuclear power is a danger to democracy on top of all its other drawbacks.

you're sounding like a conspiracy theorist. I don't think japan has a police state that is in the habit of suppressing all information. I'll admit zero deaths is hyperbole for fukushima. There were probably a few deaths directly caused by, it, maybe a few dozen (at most, and totally unproven) from long-term health effects, and many deaths from the (unnecessary in hindsight) rapid evacuation. They still pale in comparison to the 19 thousand deaths from the tsunami that caused the disaster.

Which just goes to show that nuclear power is a danger to democracy on top of all its other drawbacks

Certainly not an enormous leap in logic at all. No sir. It's just that the deadly nuclear radiation spontaneously causes the death of liberty. Russia only covers up their nuclear accidents (on those RBMK reactors they are still running) because of nuclear power, certainly not because of the way their society structured.

And who ever said the alternative to building nuclear plants is building more fossil fuel generation capacity?

You just said that. Nobody else said that.

[–] sus 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Nuclear is expensive because when particulate pollution kills millions of people every year, nobody cares at all. But when a nuclear accident kills exactly zero people, we get massive levels of hysteria and shut down a dozen nuclear power plants on the other side of the planet.

Imagine the reaction if there was a single nuclear disaster that killed 9 million people. According to greenpeace that'd be 9 chernobyls, but more likely it would be between 100 and 1000 chernobyls. Do you think people might be a bit upset about that? But with fossil fuels that is now happening every single year, and it's probably just going to get worse. (CO2 emissions are just getting higher every year despite all the growth in renewables) And you get a few news headlines about it and then everyone forgets. Weirdly enough climate change caused by the same fossil fuels gets far more attention, even though those effects are even harder for the average person to understand.

And even with this level of paranoia about nuclear, with the incredible level of security put in with gen 3 reactors that directly contribute to the massive cost and time overruns, we still have these "nuclear is not safe enough" claims flying around.

[–] sus 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

a drone jammer might be extremely illegal for civilian use (at least in usa)

[–] sus 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

my tired ass was convinced that was a baguette and it didn't occur at all how strange that would be

[–] sus 56 points 10 months ago (3 children)

To save even more data, replace every symbol with A. Then just store the amount of As.

[–] sus 1 points 10 months ago

So is printer paper and printer ink

[–] sus 4 points 10 months ago

// guaranteed to be random

[–] sus 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fiduciary duty is real, in many jurisdictions at least. It means that the executives of a company are required to act in the best interest of the shareholders. In 99% of the cases what shareholders want is maximum profit.

But really, in almost every case where someone is found to be guilty of breaching this duty, it's because they actually actively did something fraudulent. Otherwise it's much easier for the shareholders or board to just fire the problematic people and get new ones. It's not like being incompetent is a crime.

for source you can look at eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary

[–] sus 15 points 10 months ago

every large group of people is going to have some psychopaths / terminally stupid

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