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Comment Re:The hidden subsidies to the nuclear industry (Score 1) 92

Saying nah-ah isn't being clever, it's just cementing your ignorance. Fissile material for bombs isn't made from commercial reactors. There's a difference between "reactor-grade" plutonium and "weapons-grade" plutonium. The plutonium that is generated in a commercial reactor is heavily contaminated and incredibly difficult to separate from spent fuel rods. It's simply not done for military purposes anywhere other than one waste reprocessing plant in France, and there were talks about shutting that one down due to its cost.

All nuclear power use special reactors are run to create weapons grade plutonium. They aren't used for power production in any meaningful way as they can only run them a couple of weeks at a time between shutdowns and removal of rods.

Being ignorant doesn't mean someone is "lying" to you. You can use the opportunity to educate yourself, or continue to look like a moron in public.

Comment Re:JPEG 2000 (Score 1) 85

Why? JPEG 2000 is as rare as hens teeth. It's not actively used by anything other than some extreme niches, has a complicated spec, and frankly was well and truly surpassed as an image format. Heck the only reason anyone is talking about JPEGXL is because PDF/A is planning to adopt it in an upcoming spec, and browsers have integrated PDF readers.

Comment Re:Why is XL smaller? (Score 1) 85

Aside from the actual reason mentioned there's multiple "eXtra Large" aspects to this format.

- It supports more bits per pixel than JPEG (which is very important since we've had a use case for high bitdepth images for decades now).
- It supports larger image sizes than JPEG (JPEG is limited to 65535x65535 which is only 4.225 gigapixels if your image is square - trivially hit with panoramic photography. JPEGXL supports 1.12 exapixels which is very large).
- It supports more channels than JPEG (4100, vs ... 3)
- It has a larger specification document too :-)

Comment Re: Why? (Score 1) 18

Fine. Then justify it with cost then. They sure as hell justified breadboards in education due to cost.

What are you talking about? Breadboards are used both in education, hobbyist, and professional environments for variable prototyping where possible due to their flexibility. The only time they aren't used is if a specific design doesn't function on breadboards (high speeds, high currents, noise, etc). Breadboards have nothing to do with being a training tool nor have they anything to do with cost.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 85

20%, but it's only when loading very large images that are scaled down for display.

Once again showing the world you guess and bullshit with authority while not doing the bare minimum to educate yourself. Or do you think 4MB is 20% of 84MB?

If you're going to "help" someone, be right for a change. The screwed up symbol was the multiplication symbol. It's 20x less, or 5% of the original memory use. Stop spreading your ignorance.

Comment Re: Nothing of value was added (Score 1) 145

No one said rust is magic. But but attempting to claim that whole world of memory safety issues being resolved is somehow countered by a single vulnerability is not just dumb, it's mindbogglingly stupid.

Rust isn't perfect. But claiming the old tools were is just spectacularly ignorant, especially given the recent history of CVEs related to those "well-working, _old_ tools".

Rather than your dumb fucking US vs THEM approach, how about you advocate for both sides to improve their code?

Comment Separating from political control is a bad thing (Score 4, Insightful) 78

People who don't understand history think the idea of a currency free from any manipulation by an economic agenda is a good thing. The reality is very different. You only need to look to major economic depressions during times when some countries still had currencies backed by gold or silver. The inability to control the economy through monetary supply caused those specific countries to suffer from economic depression far longer than other countries.

The long timing and severity of the great depression for the USA, France, and Belgium is widely acknowledged to be caused by them switching back to a gold standard after WWI. In fact several countries floated their currency to enact economic controls (France) specifically because there was no other way for them to get out of depression.

But please, tell us who much you want to fuck yourself with your silly math cosplaying as a currency.

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