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Comment Re: Ok, but⦠(Score 1) 145

The problem is that if you do not do an "open" with O_TRUNC on running a command with a ">" redirection in there, you run into a massive host of problems like TOUTOC vulnerabilities. Hence ">file" has only two valid implementations: Illegal syntax or truncate the file to zero length.

There is no time after the command has started running where you could safely allow a CTRL-C that prevents the overwrite.

Comment Re:The hidden subsidies to the nuclear industry (Score 0) 77

Yes. Funny thing is that often repeated lie that nuclear power cannot be insured. It can be and the back-insurers did the calculations back when the question came up. They ended up at something like $5 per kWh, i.e. totally unsustainable economically. The reaction from politics was to put them under strict secrecy. Yes, I have a friend that used to be a risk modeler at a large back-insurer and that knows.

Incidentally, about the same level of self-destructive stupid with gas prices and climate-change not being priced in. True capitalism would have nicely solved these problems. Instead the human race in is entirety got robbed by these assholes.

Comment Re:The hidden subsidies to the nuclear industry (Score 1) 77

Even without considering the costs of waste and accidents, nuclear costs four times as much as wind or solar and has a 20-year lead time.

Yes. It is really the "dumbest option possible". But the nuclear morons associate it with might and power. Which, incidentally is not wrong as the only rational reason to do civilian nuclear at all is access to fissile materials and hence the Bomb. Most politicians and nuclear fans like to lie about this. But here is a statement from Macron that tells it like it is: https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/a...

Essentially he said that the Bomb is impossible without a large civilian nuclear base and a large civilian nuclear base is impossible without the military uses (and financing). Also the reason why the UK builds Hinkley point, which is going to be an economic catastrophe: They need it to maintain their nukes.

Comment Re: The hidden subsidies to the nuclear industry (Score 1) 77

Exactly. Nuclear power is singularly unsuitable to do regulation energy for peaks. Incidentally one of the reason why a grid with more than about 70% nuclear will crash regularly. Obviously, this idea is completely outside of what the nuclear cultists can even understand.

Comment Re:Not just there (Score 3, Informative) 77

There are multiple sites in the ocean off Southern California including dumped munitions, low level radioactive waste, sulfuric acid, and toxic petrochemicals chemicals.

There is a Superfund site at he former location of the Montrose Chemical Corporation in Torrance where much of the DDT related waste was illegally dumped off Palos Verdes.

The full extent of the problem is still unknown. “The more we look, the more we find, and every new bit of information seems to be scarier than the last... This has shown just how egregious and harmful the dumping has been off our nation’s coasts, and that we have no idea how big of an issue and how big of a problem this is nationally."

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