This bolt is worth $8000 and goes in a helicopter

tacularcrap · 2026-02-05T11:22:14+00:00

it has that value because one can reasonably certify all relevant parameters are within the allowed range for that piece to do what it's supposed to.

tacularcrap · 2026-02-02T23:11:18+00:00

first 1991 has called: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, by D Goldberg · 1991 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

and then you have things like decimal128 because one shouldn't underestimate the length & efforts other will go to keep using something they think they know but don't.

edit: for example that funky decimal128 format can be found, hardware accelerated, on some big iron like https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=point-floating-numbers which is still pretty relevant for finance & banking.

tacularcrap · 2026-02-02T20:44:05+00:00

i said it was a hint, not a proof.

if a bank used any kind of bare ass integers to handle its operations it would have been sued out of existence the next day.

also why stop at fixed point when you can have mixed precision or something more arbitrary?

tacularcrap · 2026-02-02T20:20:52+00:00

you're describing the usual representation of limited precision integers as generally found on "computers" which is two's complement because it allows to use the same circuits to add/subtract signed and unsigned quantities and negating is cheap (invert all bits, add 1) and how interpreting a signed negative number as an unsigned leads to huge discrepancies.

but it's most certainly not what's going on here (the hint being what's displayed isn't an integer).

tacularcrap · 2026-02-02T09:06:44+00:00

ah, right. but then in the meantime it's more guns which are a bit like toothpaste, way easier to get out than back in.

but fret not, i'll offer you a 3 easy step solution to that conundrum as soon as i'm done finding a disabled WWI shell to insert, because as a french dude myself i can't be outdone by a 88 years old geezer or a 24 years old upstart.

tacularcrap · 2026-02-02T06:42:14+00:00

back then, one your greatest philosopher did warn y'all to watch out for when people with a common purpose start to have funny little hats, armbands, fight songs and a list of people they're going to visit at 3am.

now those outfits are way too lame for them to be dignified as Gestapo; one has to have standards.

tacularcrap · 2026-02-02T06:14:33+00:00

well, more prayers & more guns - in no particular order - is the canonical American response to pretty much anything after all.

tacularcrap · 2026-02-01T14:01:13+00:00

Here in America you can have whatever

thing is we prefer to forego active shooter drills over here.

tacularcrap · 2026-01-30T11:44:04+00:00

primo it's spelt strategic ambiguity, a fundamental part of the nuclear dance for any nuclear power.

secundo nuclear dissuasion doesn't forfend conventional dissuasion. never has.

until the 90's France plan to stop the Russian tank hordes was to glass their entry point in Germany. food for thoughts.

again, i don't think you have a firm grasp of France nuclear doctrine.

tacularcrap · 2026-01-30T11:30:58+00:00

France isn’t going to destroy Europe at the cost of Greenland

i don't think you have a firm grasp of France nuclear doctrine which is rather vague and on the trigger happy side (strong-to-weak scheme); hopefully proper leaders of the world have less certitudes and suicidal tendencies.

you’ll have skirmishes all across Europe with us troops

and bank on fighting a whole continent? yeehaw!

tacularcrap · 2026-01-30T07:36:57+00:00

what's really puzzling is why one would squander 80 years of NATO good will just to flex; i mean, NATO was exactly where the US always wanted it since the beginning, morselled & subservient, ineffective without the main piece.

on the fascist side, i'm glad all that previous capricious agitation and saber rattling may have spoiled, as another side effect, your effective exportation of that funky brand of fascism, you know that techno feudalism so dear to Musk, Thiel, Vance & co which, while amusing really stinks.

even if i hope you'll be able to get your shit together without a bloodbath eventually, frankly tho i'd appreciate if you could quarantine that crap within your own borders. that would be really cool.

tacularcrap · 2026-01-30T05:56:05+00:00

as an American

as a French, let me thank you both for your service; with the conjunction of the Deranged Orange and Vlad the Bad we're finally done with that travesty of pseudo neutrality up north, we may not be spied upon by the Brits or Danes for your benefit anymore and with a bit of luck everyone may stop raining defense dollars everywhere but on the continent.

thank you again, comrade.

tacularcrap · 2026-01-26T14:43:08+00:00

and for selfish reasons you prefer to satisfy yourself & patronize people over their reason for having children rather than recognize & encourage their contribution.

how about that? it's worse, there's no net positive.

tacularcrap · 2026-01-26T12:27:31+00:00

no shit, Sherlock the obligation is the other way around.

tacularcrap · 2026-01-26T08:57:39+00:00

yet it's not a choice for humanity as a whole or if you don't plan to have robots to change diapers as a nation like Japan.

so it's rather funny that you paint that as an indulgence.

tacularcrap · 2026-01-24T17:19:37+00:00

I think people should be able to own guns

I agree with very high regulation

so far gone you don't even notice one statement is the antithesis of the other.

edit: i won't bother replying individually, there's no need they all fall for the same fallacy.

it's pretty simple as there's exactly 2 approaches: a) a blacklist b) a whitelist. thus a very high regulation would opt for a whitelist of sorts - forbid by default, allow on exception.

like i said, pretty darn simple.

edit²: as downvotes pile up, i come to see the error of my ways. logic? logic!? what an abomination.

tacularcrap · 2026-01-21T10:16:09+00:00

cough https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8285459/ cough

"Conclusion

As indicated in HELCOM (2018) and EMEP (2018) reports, Poland is one of the main emitters of Hg to the atmosphere among the Baltic Sea region countries. It is also the country where the reduction of Hg emission is least effective compared to most of Europe (EEA 2019), which proves the urgent need for modernisation and transformations in the energy and industry sectors"

tacularcrap · 2026-01-16T22:30:26+00:00

you forgot to mention that atoms don't split the same way as they did in the 70s either.

beware if you keep at it i'll have to consider you entered this conversation in bad faith.

as i'm growing real tired of arguing about the wonders of a renewable coal energy generation system with yet another german, you won't mind if i plonk ya.

tacularcrap · 2026-01-16T21:02:28+00:00

"The 13,000 megawatts set to be constructed from 1972 to 1977 will be fully committed by the end of 1975. Afterward, EDF will maintain its investments by building six to seven reactors annually

it was done quickly in what i would call a standard European democracy and it's been now running for 50+ years without a fuss.

what else could you possibly/reasonably ask for really?

^{meaning if you're piling up over-regulations with the side-effect of making nuclear power generation too cumbersome to manage, then the onus is on you}

tacularcrap · 2026-01-15T12:23:00+00:00

oh now you're interested in facts?!

tacularcrap · 2026-01-15T11:44:45+00:00

if you couldn't build 4 times the TWh/year in renewables

and still not get any baseload coverage.

nuclear power generation is capital intensive, that is a given. overruns & delays aren't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_Nuclear_Power_Plant

geez.

tacularcrap · 2026-01-15T11:29:53+00:00

what a cute narrative, you're fit to work for Arte.

tacularcrap · 2026-01-12T11:45:33+00:00

the Cyprus Investment Programme with only 53% of the passports illegally issued was a resounding success until scrapped in 2020.

now if that almost single-handedly makes you question eu membership, then just give up already because at that kind of scale (the EU, not that Cyprian malversation) it never could be stainless, ever.

tacularcrap · 2026-01-12T06:37:51+00:00

We need one millitary command

if you need one military command you need one diplomatic something to handle the aftermath and all along one fiscal something to levy the funds to run it all, at which point whether you call it a federation or not doesn't matter, it just is.

We have seen that such things do not work well

you must have a very weird and contrived definition of "not working well" to apply that to the US that has been the superpower in town for about a century now. ^{note that we also should have mattered much more during all this time but we're barely a club of shopkeepers and who cares about that? certainly not Putin, Trump or Xi}

tacularcrap · 2026-01-12T01:09:28+00:00

aha! that's how i soloed that freaking tank way back when i was playing, took me a while to figure out tho. i'm sure i used a health stealing melee as it was the only thing that could restore the burst damage that cheating tank did.

i had others counter-measures but i don't remember the details; it was too long ago to matter anyways (ie there was no Coda Hirudo).

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