Slack doesn’t have spam coming from outside my company, and any “apps” that “helpfully” bother me can be silenced easily. Contrast this with email where the inbox fills with useless nonsense constantly.
“An unrecognized device signed into…”
“Upcoming birthdays on your team” (not making this up - Lattice sent this today)
Even slack sends me email spam to tell me about messages that are waiting for me in slack. LOL.
Yeah I had issues with the mobile web version as well. Worked for 4 rounds but then the time selector stopped moving when I tried to select, and the map stopped loading detail when zooming in (and wouldn't let me place a pin). Started over and the same thing happened in the 3rd round.
Definitely not in the German speaking countries, we have different blinds. You pull a cord down for the blinds to go up, and vice versa. Then the cord is tied to a hook or button.
Your windows open differently too. Instead of angling inward/outward along either of two axes, ours usually just slide up-down or left-right, remaining firmly attached to the window sill.
No offense, but HN and Reddit are both American created, operated, and primarily trafficked sites. It's not unusual to assume an American audience.
If OP came out assuming a Nairobi design that wasn't used anywhere else, or if they went to the heise.de forums and posted the above; now that would be odd/call-out worthy.
It looks like more than half the traffic is not coming from the US. So even with most traffic coming from the US many here aren't.
Good news is that Ikea had a system like that. So there will be many households in Europe that's also fighting with blinds.
Sure, my only point is that telling Americans to back off of/check themselves in spaces that are their only ones just because English happens to be the most spoken language worldwide (especially in the tech-savvy communities) is always weird. Especially when ~45% of the traffic is American.
If an American that spoke German did the same in a German-majority space they would be met with pretty massive derision.
I was a bit frustrated with my performance in an online game (Battle royale genre) so I just messaged the once EU/NA #1 leaderboard player if he would do some coaching... Did it for one year, once a week, it was such a great experience. He is such a great individual and I took a lot of the mindset he taught me into my professional life
Are power outages even a thing? My PC at home (germany) is always on, so I'd notice, and I'm involved with energy at our data center (Frankfurt, Germany) and home and external data center had no outage for the last 20 years, at a minimum.
Hetzner's hardware is custom built by the manufacturers, for example motherboards by asrock, they even get their own mainboard microcode from asrock. SSDs come from Micron, they have their own chassis etc.
They have a _huge_ testing lab with insane amounts of testing equipment. I never had any problems with their hardware at all. Networking was not that good years ago but is stellar now.
Some is custom built, some (in their server auction) are just bare consumer-grade ATX motherboards in compact shelves.
We ran two dedicated servers at Hetzner for about three years and had two disk failures. These, too, were consumer-grade Seagate disks, and both of them had been in use by prior customers. All in all it was not a bother and we definitely got our money's worth.
How is messaging social media? WhatsApp is basically a more acessible IRC with only one server, images, audo and file transfer. But that's not social media.
Depends on how narrow a definition of 'social media'. I presume with messaging apps you have social circles and you share content whether your own or of others.
I do agree that 'social media' has been used to describe large scale public social media platforms specifically by the reporters/media.
Whatsapp is the best example of how it is social media specifically because the social graph and influences function the same way - although I’m not sure how you all are willing to define it but we can at least acknowledge the overlapping functions - the group chats Im in receive forwarded messages that can contain poor sources, Whatsapp is pretty unique in that it doesnt tell you who it was forwarded from or who created the message originally. I’m in large 256 person group chats, and ideas/news/controversies/coordination spreads like wildfire!
Telegram is much better since people dont see your phone number if you don't want (I dont use telegram for its optional encryption feature), the group chats can be way larger and the source of forwarded messages can be seen and accessed
One important thing to notice is that uranium is a finite non-renewable resource. The Red Book says there are about 3.3 million tons that are extractable for a price of 130 USD/ton. In 2017 the total uranium production was 60.000 tons. Thats about 55 years of uranium left at the current production rate. The Red Book assumes there are another 2.1 million tons likely to exist from geological data, but not found yet and another 4.8 million tons assumed to exist but yet to be discovered.
Now imagine that nuclear power production would be greatly increased. How many years of uranium supply would we have left?
We have basically unlimited uranium. There’s no risk of shortage. The average cubic meter of crust has more breedable fuel energy in it than a cubic meter of coal.
Fission is effectively as unlimited as renewable energy is, about a billion years’ worth of crust. Even if we stick with typical U235 reactors, sufficient uranium ore exists for hundreds of years, although no one will bother to formally “prove” the reserves for a constraint 100 years in the future.
What’s limited is the atmosphere’s capacity for CO2. Not much else matters in the mid/near-term, except perhaps for ensuring we have enough energy for civilization to function.
There is, however, no reason that fission power need be restricted to uranium as a fuel source. Use of breeder reactors would allow power consumption at our current levels longer than the sun is likely to exist.
Even if fission power is not the long-term solution, it is the desperately needed current solution. Running out of power would definitely kill us slowly. Current rates of CO2 production will kill us quite quickly.
This is where fast reactors can help. Fast reactors can be fueled with reprocessed waste from thermal-neutron reactors. This produces many times the energy for the same amount of fuel. We can meet the US's energy needs for well over 100 years with the nuclear waste that we've already stockpiled, and the ultimate waste products have a half life measured in decades and not millennia.
> One important thing to notice is that uranium is a finite non-renewable resource.
One important thing to notice is that place on earth to put wind turbines and solar panels is limited. Now imagine that electricity needs greatly increased ...
We could provide for all the needs of our current power consumption by use of a single very large solar array in central africa or the middle east. The problem is no the availability of wind and solar- those can provide a monumental amount of energy. The problem is that energy and power are not the same thing. We need to be able to store energy widely throughout the grid and make massive transmission system improvements to facilitate the movement of energy from place to place.
Both of these are not fundamental problems, only financial / political ones. If we decided tomorrow that we really wanted these things we could have them.
They are though - we know how to build high capacity transmission, we know how to build complex dispatch control systems, we know how to build energy storage. All we need is the money and factories and brains and hands to build a lot more of them. All that requires is powerful entities to decide it's important - i.e. politics.
Politics is not powerful entities. Do you mean politicians, or governments?
Either way this is a category error. Tesla needs those things and used venture capital. A correct thought would be: governments are one way to do this.
That place is much larger than you'll ever need at the very least in this century (maybe in a thousand years we'll be in trouble, but I imagine that in that era, we'll have completely different issues anyway).
From what I've read[1] it looks like we should be able to use nuclear fission for a significant amount of time (>1000 years). This would involve using uranium and thorium as well as breeder reactors.
> Uranium-235 is a finite non-renewable resource.[1][3]
> As of 2017, identified uranium reserves recoverable at US$130/kg were 6.14 million tons (compared to 5.72 million tons in 2015). At the rate of consumption in 2017, these reserves are sufficient for slightly over 130 years of supply. The identified reserves as of 2017 recoverable at US$260/kg are 7.99 million tons (compared to 7.64 million tons in 2015).[9]
They mention multiple (more or less optimistic) scenarios in respect to finiteness of U235, plus, they talk about the experiences using fast breeders and their current state with respect to market needs.
They calculate 130 years of supply at current consumption rates. Nuclear power supplies something like 5% of the global primary energy, so scaling this to 100% would deplete the estimated reserves in a few years.
Breeders would help, but have so far not been very successful. For example, the German Thorium breeder THTR-300 is considered one of the greatest technological failures in postwar history.
Scaling nuclear power supplies to 100% of global primary energy would change the economics of extraction, do you claim you can predict these things? BTW, scaling it to 100 % is not necessary.
AFAIK, THTR-300 is only one of the different breeder models, CEFR from China <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Experimental_Fast_Reacto...> seems to be working, as a new model <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFR-600> is being built since 2020, sure, recycling uranium is not needed at the moment, so you could argue this is not demonstrating the interest of breeding though it seems to be working to a certain extent.
I think you are missing the important part. Lowballing it, a typical 50 year old reactor produces about 10^7 megawatthours or 10^6$ in power per kilo of uranium. And that actually leaves most of the fissile unused. So... How much uranium can be extracted at a reasonable fuel price like 10% of the end user price? i.e. about 10^5$ per kilo?
Its silly to consider availability at 0.03% of the end product price.
Those links suggest that peak uranium is driven by lack of demand, and not lack of supply, or renewability (including suggestions that we could create more uranium for as long as the sun lives)
And that'll make Europe dependent on Russia. Doesn't sound much of a problem to me but down here, Putin is seen as a somewhat bad person. So, Europe will have to bow to him to have not too expensive gas, I'll have a lot of fun hearing our politicians telling that, poor them, they have to negotiate with him :-)
On the other hand, making Europe economically dependent on Russia lowers the likelihood of war between them and fosters cooperation in other areas. Germany doesn't buy the US narrative that Russia should be treated with hostility at all costs.
> On the other hand, making Europe economically dependent on Russia lowers the likelihood of war between them
No, it doesn't.
Attempting to break economic dependence, or to preempt such attempts in the anticipated future, is at least as common a cause of war as geopolitical competition between powers that aren’t in a dependency relationship.
The CDU has a wing that still depends on old coal-burners for their jobs. Shutting down nuclear was their idea of keeping those folks “working” for longer while solar and (especially) wind were spooled up.
To that end, it’s looking better now that the Greens are in the ruling coalition.
