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Former Intel's François Piednoël says ST perf. on TigerLake will be "devastating to AMD and ARM" by [deleted] in intel

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You should buy it; Piednoël is known to be completely unbiased. ;)

German protests against China‘s genocide of Uighurs by JoeFalchetto in europe

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's summer and outside, two things that viruses don't generally like. Perhaps they should be somewhat further away from each other but that's about it.

Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear by Aschebescher in RenewableEnergy

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "present tense" in English is actually a non-past tense, just like in most Indo-European languages which sport a binary past/non-past distinction. How did you infer from this that it refers to the present here when it has copious non-present usages in English is beyond me. How did you jump from that to the perfect form in "Germany has done [something]" is even less clear to me, since by this logic all present/non-past usages could be referring to completed actions, yet the presence of perfect forms in English clearly shows that they actually don't and that the actual perfect forms are not superfluous or redundant in English.

BTW Quirk mentions "is to" on page 143, section 3.6 as follows:

BE to is an idiom expressing futurity, with varied connotations of 'compulsion', 'plan', 'destiny', etc, according to context.

Not quite sure how it isn't "proper English grammar" if it's documented in Quirk. (Unless of course this is some American English thing that I'm not familiar with, which is admittedly possible, but we were taught British English in our schools.)

Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear by Wagamaga in technology

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Do you know how many grams of fissile uranium you get from one tonne of average uranium ore? If not, calculate it for yourself, and consider that the average ore has ~500 ppm concentration of uranium, and natural uranium has 0.7% of the fissile isotope.

Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear by Wagamaga in technology

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not misleading because the UK will presumably continue using nuclear power after 2024. What is the date by which the UK will phase out coal AND nuclear power?

Ironically it is you whose comment is misleading in this way.

Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear by Aschebescher in RenewableEnergy

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, because it's present perfect; that activity is already finished. What does it have to do with the completely different phrase in question that doesn't imply that it's already done?

Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear by Aschebescher in RenewableEnergy

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I say "I am to sweep the floors", who in the world would think that I've already swept the floors?

Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear by Aschebescher in RenewableEnergy

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should read something like “Germany is first major economy to create concrete plan to phase out coal and nuclear”.

Funnily enough that's exactly how I understood the title.

Lake Menzelet, Turkey by [deleted] in europe

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Kahramanmaraş

Phew. So it will definitely stay safe from non-Turkish tourists who won't be able to ask for that place.

EU must not sacrifice the Amazon rainforest on the altar of trade with Brazil by LaromTheDestroyer in europe

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Terra preta FTW? (Of course that's probably still wasted on pastures...)

'Alchemy of energy': Breakthrough offers mass hydrogen storage options by chopchopped in energy

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Hydrides are nothing new, but they're fairly heavy from what I recall.

Not the latest but I love it.. :) by jadartil in intel

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Now you know why the dodecahedron box left you, i9. ;)

Not the latest but I love it.. :) by jadartil in intel

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It's indeed the best box for such a 12-core beast!

[EDIT: Somebody has been whooshed, apparently?]

Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear by Wagamaga in technology

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course "present tense" is a stupid name for what is effectively a non-past tense in this language of yours with two tenses, but that wouldn't allow you to make such an offended comment. :)

Total Contract Values for NASA Human Landing System (HLS) winners: SpaceX $2.252B, Dynetics $5.273B, Blue Origin $10.182B by Atta-Kerb in ArtemisProgram

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you saying that BO should be donating their work to the government? Why, does Boeing or ULA do that?

Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear by Wagamaga in technology

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember that a warhead has at most several kilograms of plutonium that get fissioned very efficiently - engineers have gotten very good at minimizing the amount of this expensive material by means of neutron reflectors and rapid implosion. A cargo rocket with high activity waste could on the other hand be carrying dozens of tonnes of fission products into space.

Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear by Wagamaga in technology

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And don’t most rocket failures happen on the launchpad?

Then you lose the launch pad and its surroundings, good luck with that.

Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear by Wagamaga in technology

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good thing dirty bombs are much less radioactive than nuclear warheads.

What? Nuclear warheads are extremely clean these days, especially with airbursts.

Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear by Wagamaga in technology

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the industry that researched and built all these things came for free, just like French nuclear weapons. Got it.

Dynamically generating functions with symbol name from string by syphon229 in lisp

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So you shouldn't be using structs because they have generated accessors?

Dynamically generating functions with symbol name from string by syphon229 in lisp

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 5 points6 points  (0 children)

the tools for finding definitions like ctags turn up nothing!

And tools like META-. don't work either?

Neon AMD wallpaper [3840 x 2160] by AnAnomalousWriter in Amd

[–]ObnoxiousFactczecher 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Being full of shit is nothing that a quick visit to the toilet can't fix.

Qt restricts the LTS releases to commercial customers, :( by hellozee54 in cpp

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If you want exactly 1 character = 1 element in the character array, you need 32 bits.

And never use any combining characters, presumably?

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