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Renewables are not suitable for replacing nuclear, coal and other traditional sources of energy due to the fact that you cannot control production.

Coal has lead to basically zero direct death

This is not true at all.

Direct Occupational Deaths (Mining & Accidents)

Even in a highly regulated environment like the United States, coal mining is not a zero-fatality industry. United States: According to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), there were 8 coal mining deaths in 2025 and 10 in 2024. This is a massive improvement from 1907 (the deadliest year), which saw 3,242 deaths.

In countries with less stringent safety oversight, the numbers are much higher. For example, China's coal industry—though improving—has historically recorded hundreds to thousands of deaths annually.

In 2022 alone, hundreds of people died in global coal mine accidents.

Chronic Disease: "Black Lung" (pneumoconiosis) is still a leading cause of death for miners. In the U.S. alone, thousands of former miners die every decade from lung diseases directly caused by inhaling coal dust.

Not a big surprise, eventually we are going to move to nuclear one way or another

How could amazon ensure that all the products are legit before they are being delivered?

Better question yet, should Amazon exist in this form if it cannot ensure that all products are legit? We quite often assume that the current for of existence is the only way to go about the problem.

With the power of pki and blockchain it is trivial to create a platform (I know because I was part of a team that created one) where traceability is a feature and it is impossible to game the system the same way it is possible now with the current fulfilment situation.

You can always write it in python.

Except you can't. Python has horrendous performance. You can write it in C and pretend it is Python.

What stops those people implementing the standard POSIX in rust or python ? Or even the X windows system or (for clairvoyants) the Wayland in Python or Rust ?

Or even better, they can make their own OS written in these languages (and even call it MULTICS).

This is exactly what is happening in the industry with really nice progress. We are entering the era when bad practices and subpar performance is not acceptable anymore. I am really hoping that Rust takes over devops and data at the very least. It started to enter the IoT space and some OS development (Linux supports it).

I am really hoping that this trend continuous and we start to see more an more device drivers in Rust and other safety and security critical systems.

As far as Python goes, I would be totally happy if Python would become the interpreted language that I could use on the top of Rust and I had to deal with only Rust problems.

there would not be overbooking.

This is not the case at all.

Airlines operate on the principle that a certain percentage of customers are no show. They would like to fly the planes fully booked so they allow some overbooking and they are controlling how much it gets overbooked.

If it was up to CAP there would be 200% overbooking for certain flights and the airline would go bust within a year.

As a former Amazonian too, I can tell you that we internally had several feature request open to certain teams who could not give two shits about customers anymore. We (a bunch of engineers working on the website platform) we enraged about the incompetence some other teams were showing when it comes to customer satisfaction. And I know for a fact that Amazon is not doing everything they can, not by a long shot. The problem is that the way how Amazon operates the quality is really all over the place, depending on teams much more than in other companies.

I used to buy everything on Amazon and slowly transitioned to traditional stores and only buy things that I cannot in an offline store. Btw. the quality declined over time so you can't say that it was never great. 10 years ago you could have much more confidence that you get what you paid for then today.

Which is done purposefully and not by data in-consistency at all.

It is not that I think 50% is a lot but it is the same 50% when amazon is selling fakes. If amazon would be able to sell items that are original and the money would go to the right person maybe 50% is ok. This is not the case by a long shot.

I am more and more inclined to purchase things that I can hold in my hand or have it in the room with me and does not require internet connection to function.

Data consistency is overrated if your business is ok with that. Many businessed are not ok with that. Example: airline, booking process.

why bother with an interpreted language in the first place

+1

As a person who uses Python for 12 years professionally I usually try to avoid it as much as I can. When you have a Python problem you usually have a C, C++, Rust, libc, arch problem that you do not realise. Most of the useful parts of Python are written in C, C++, Fortran, Rust so when you try to deploy it some less frequently used platform it can burst into flames the worst kind of ways. You can try to deploy the AWS Lambda / Python 3.9 and see the lolz. I have spent more hours on trying to get some Python lib work on a platform than learning Rust.

I think interpreted languages are a dead end especially with bad practices. I make my living writing Python but it is a misery every direction. It is not an accident that Rust is the most loved language continuously because it just works. Anything I try to do in it works as expected and I am not walking on a mine field.

Let me give you a simple example how Python can surprise you. Lets create an app in Python that uses a lib called X. You build your project and everything works locally, unit tests are ok, integration tests too and so on. Now deploy this code to AWS Lambda (not your choice, employer decided to go with that). You package everything up on a Linux that matches the architecture of the target (lets say X64). If you are not familiar with setting the target Python version with pip (and most documentation does not mention that for Lambda) you deploy your code and try to invoke it. Fail. You have X.311.so in your deployment package and Lambda tries to load X.39.so. Now you need to figure out how to set the version or have a build env that matches the CPU AND the Python version with the target system.

I could continue this rabbit hole for some more but the point is that you can't talk about Python alone, you need to pull in the Cartesian product of libc, libXX, C, C++, Fortrant, all the compilers for these, cpu architectures and Python versions. On a lucky they you might have a working system.

With Rust everything just worked the first time we tried to use it. I could not believe it how easy it was to put out a working system at the first try. It only beats Python by an order of magnitude in terms of performance but the amount of effort it took us to deploy it was also much less.

It was years ago, I try to dig up the link on Github but can't even remember which project I was trying to compile. It was about static linking on Mac.

I was just saying that syntax arguments most of the time are silly. I like LISP and ML languages, so for me it doesn't really matter if I need to write LISPy code or ML code.

- 100% wfh

- flexitime

- good salary

- more time off than the law enables (we live in the EU so this is not a small thing)

I mean seriously what else?

As a manager I still struggle how to motivate people. There are very few people who just work because they would like to achieve something. The rest of people are using all kinds of excuses to just sit around and do nothing or go for easy wins which are flawed many way instead of putting in the effort to do things right.

I guess: f x -- obscure and mathematical

(f x) -- too many parentheses

f(x) -- PERFECT

“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.” - William Randolph Hearst

I think it is undeniable that new organizations are deliberately misleading the public in many cases, not necessarily part of the conspiracy but simply acting as the agent of the government. There are many cases when is became obvious.

It is also easy to find sources that are free from government collusion usually classified either far left or far right whatever those mean.

It is like buying Oracle or IBM. Companies really like to hire companies like Tata. Why? Because managers are like this. I don't have a better explanation. Best advise I got for you is to find a 3rd party (or couple of 3rd parties) that have good clients. It worked out very well for me. Working with 5 of these and I have a continuous stream of consulting work.

Absolutely not. The last time I have tried Haskell it was failing some pretty basic tasks. The JSON library required to be re-compiled for some reason and it used 20+G of RAM when the build crashed. The community is flat out hostile towards Mac users and a basic request was closed with a comment that Mac is a broken platform and it should not be used. I do not have time for these, Rust offers a much better experience and the community is very helpful even if you are asking silly questions.

As a hobby software engineer who mostly writes ETL jobs in Python the biggest selling point of Rust is Cargo. I usually use a lot of .clone() in my code and most of my fields are Strings which would make a seasoned Rust/C++ laugh at the code. However, the performance of novice Rust beats 10+ years of experience Python by a factor of 10 (favouring Rust).

With Cargo I can build code that just runs. With Python it is always a gamble. Different arch? You need to install different packages to compile the C/C++/Fortran code if the library author did not care about WHL. Starting up an application always a gamble, do we have all the deps? Did we miss some?

And so on. With Rust + Cargo I have confidence that the executable runs. Yes, the compilation is an extra step, but I would have that trade every single time for extra safety and reliability.

At it’s core, XML allows a software engineer the ability to create a vocabulary, and use this vocabulary to describe data.

The lols. This is so good to read that XML allows that.

We are talking about 10+ years old companies. I quite often save significant amount of money for such companies which could have been saved from the beginning by not doing something completely silly.

I am curious what use cases triggered the development of XML for example.

This is exactly what OP is talking about. You have XML instead of ASN.1 Imagine if we had only one way of doing data transfer between computer systems.

Same here. Some projects I work on:

- please put this broken crap of 15 services written in 6 different programming languages on a 50 node cluster so we can read and write data with 300 kbit/s.

2 years later:

- could you do something about this cluster, it costs us too much.

There was a great white paper investigated how software gets bigger and bigger. They used the command line tool true as an example. I can't find it anymore but it was really an eye opener.

Keybase is the only chat client I would pay for without hesitation.

You are assuming that every city allows cars into dining areas. There are many examples in Europe where this is not the case. The whole electric vs combustion car argument is predicated on the fact that we need cars in inner cities at all.