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Comment Re: Its been the cheapest power for a while (Score 1) 103

It might be cheaper on average but price per kWh varies a lot - especially when most of your production comes from solar and wind. Unfortunately, in that case the price is low when those productions are high, and the price is high, when the variable sources are low. That is on truly free market terms, solar and wind have to meet a much lower price than the average to be profitable. It helps, that the two production types aren't in sync, of course.

Comment Why can't the US make it online? (Score 1, Interesting) 114

In Denmark we have a complete online system hosted by our tax authority itself. That is a problem for the 80+ not used to computers, but for the rest of us it is simple. Also, almost everything is reported already by the employers and banks, and we seem to have a far simpler tax system with fewer deductions, which have to handled manually via the webpage.

Comment Re: Wasn't WinNT security certified as well? (Score 2) 32

I read up on it: Windows XP and server 2003 got it according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... . Without applications, and probably because only security features themselves where tested, not the whole system. As I interpret that, the fine grained access control were tested, but the gaping hole in some irrelevant network protocol ignored. Probably the same with Android: pKVM is super duper, but it doesn't matter if there is a huge hole somewhere else.

Comment Mitigate the problem (Score 1) 151

by making it far less useful for the hackers when you accidentally open the mail and follow the links: 1) Secure and sandbox mail client and browser to avoid getting the user account hacked by a unpatched bug. 2) if the link tricks you into typing your password, make sure a password can't be used by itself. I.e. use two-factor auth or VPN to access old internal websites not supporting SSO or their own two-factor auth.

Comment Re: It is all AI driven (Score 1) 80

Python is just the comprise language for everything: Easy for beginners, easy to call C or Fortran to get core algorithms fast, lots of libraries for almost everything. With static type checking you can even build large systems with it. No stupid multi-threading to make programs unstable and unreliable. The only none-religious reason not to use it, is speed. But you should always optimise later, so picking another language will look like premature optimization in many cases... or just conservatism, because you happen to just know that better.

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