It’s a shockingly strong movement even still in the US. A lot of education growing up was about how nuclear sludge would ruin everything and basically every “green” movement would still fight nuclear tooth and nail through all sorts of scare tactics.
It’s only in the post climate change world that some are coming around to the reality that France exists and isn’t a smoking radioactive crater.
The German Green party, which has taken part in national governments and is the biggest party in several states, has basically founded to oppose nuclear power.
Economically, diplomatically, strategically, and environmentally probably the dumbest decision they could have made and something they will continue to feel repercussions from for at least another decade.
It’s not as loud as Brexit or Trump but likely equally as damaging to so many causes across the board.
The only silver lining from this monumental fuck up is that since sadly we only learn when consequences occur, they’re finally having to face the music and will hopefully plan for a better future.
You are right that it was a dumb decision, but in this case blame the voters, not the politicians. It's democracy at work, it's what the people wanted. (At least judging by opinion polls and protests and the like.)
Well, the only real downside to this is that energy is a bit more expensive and emissions won’t go down significantly for an extra 15 years or so. Depending on your preferred social cost of carbon that could not matter to you.
It bothers me that pragmatism and understanding things like business, economics, and the like can often be commingled with being greedy or evil.
Yes there are lots of people who use what they learn to justify shit positions but personally I started learning all these things because in any other endeavor you want to take seriously you learn everything you can about it.
The number of people who mean well but then just try to hope their way through stuff and relearn the same basic principles is sadly much too high.
Hell it doesn’t even have to revolve around moral/societal principles. The number of games I’ve seen that could’ve done better if they understood marketing, business, or even basic competitive balance better (even if so you can make your party game more fun) is huge.
But then again we’ve got this generation speed running “why finance laws and institutions exist” thanks to crypto. I guess the silver lining is people do learn a lot more once they’ve had personal experience with it.
If you meet someone who understand business, it's going to color your opinion of other people who meet who seem to understand business, until you either learn business or die.
That's how all prejudices work: We're wired up to be afraid and anxious and to share (and communicate) our anxieties to our friends and neighbours. We're trying to help.
The thing is, knowledge; business, economics, and so on, probably can be used to help people, but in a lot of peoples' recent memories, it's being used to harm.
I lost a lot of my teen friends when I "went corporate", but thirty years later I'm reconnecting with some of them, because people change, and we can learn to recognise someone will participate in capitalism for lots of reasons that are not so simple as being "greedy" or "evil".
But to me, I think it is simple: Capitalism is almost certainly unavoidable, so the world could be better if more kind people participate well in it than don't!
I used to roll my eyes at fictional settings like LotR and Starcraft (Protoss) that pit orthodox/"white" magic versus forbidden/"black" magic, but now I've woken up to see this industry split into such a moral schism in multiple ways. (Aside, of course, from white/gray/black hat hackers, which is more about actions rather than knowledge)
It also seems weird that people are only scanning code that breaks?
I have 0 cred in anything security, so maybe i'm just missing a bigger picture thing, but like...if you told me i had to make some sort of malicious NPM package and get people to use it, i'd probably just find something that works, copy the code, put in some stylistic changes, and then bury my malicious code in there?
This seems so obvious that I question if the OP is correct in stating people aren't looking for that, or maybe I misunderstand what they mean because i'm ignorant?
Ehhh I can see it. The right attack at the right time could directly or indirectly kill people, and that’s ignoring the fact it can cause economic havoc.
Having the entire internet function on a “pay or be nuked” threshold that could easily get much worse if companies like cloudflare become less ethical (not that they’re saints).
Agreed. It quickly becomes "awkward" to go back to using a numpad once you get used to ALWAYS being one key hold/press away from it. I can type numbers as easily as I can type capitals, ditto with every symbol, and my function keys.
Hell I've even worked on a couple of revision on "gaming" layers. Namely for FPS or older roguelikes.
I hate how hard it is to find a split space(feels mandatory now that i'm used to it) 40% with wireless and QMK/Zia/etc. The EPOMAKER-TH40 SHOULD be perfect, but turns out they put out a breaking patch or something and it's not ACTUALLY programmable anymore. I need something like this for 2 setups at homes.
I went around on a couple of things and landed on the split 4x5 Chiri CE for my everyday workhorse since it's easy to carry.
Of note, while that board seems to be out of stock and isn't for everyone i cannot recommend keeb.io enough. They've done a fantastic job of keeping my board running after I had some ESD ruin it once or twice, and have never charged me as it was still under warranty.
With how hit or miss a lot of this niche keyboard stuff is, it's really really nice to find people who stand by their product and can turn things around. I get its got to be a miserable market so I don't demand it, and I'm extremely happy when I do see it.
To be clear you're misunderstanding the position though. Black pawns are NOT in starting position. They've moved all the way across the board. Those are white pawn starting positions.
Glancing at it a chess players first instinct looks to be the "solution".
Assume all pawns are queens, then maximize queen moves, work backwards from there. Couple of other "obvious" assumptions such as minimal black pieces, which means shoving the king in a corner but somehow not in check, Rooks cover the next largest amount of space so they're going in corners, bishops will be mirrored, etc.
Not to say it isn't still impressive, but I always wonder how many "sane" positions there are for solving a puzzle like this in the first place. The paper quotes some huge number and someone else says it's a smaller, but still massive, number, but when you look at the stated goal and start from some obvious starting points, start working out rules (obviously 4 queens right in the middle blocks other queens and costs space), and eliminate symmetrical positions, well you're left with a decently solvable problem. At least compared to the kind of shit that's usually brute force solved.
Edit:
This is actually a fun one to think about for a bit the more I look at it.
It quickly becomes apparent that your basically getting 7 moves out a of a rank/column MAX, so you maximize for that first.
It quickly becomes apparent that the knights L move shape is also the optimal way to start tiling your 9 queens to maximize for squares taken.
As I said before the black position obviously has to be the dead minimum, and it makes sense that'd be a king and 2 pawns due to various end game stuff (basically impossible to prevent the king from being in check otherwise while taking up as much space as possible).
Once you know you're doing that with the black king you'll want to "block" the remaining space with pieces that can't threaten it, so you shove a bishop adjacent (which can still take the pawn), and figure you're going to mirror that bishop because that's kinda how bishop's work in play/mathematically.
It's actually quite neat to see how each step sorta leads you to the next one, like one of those metal puzzles or the sudoku's with unique rules and only 1 or 2 starting numbers.
Still i'm positive if I hadn't seen this picture first I probably NEVER would've gotten this answer correct, but I do think i would've come closer than I ever expected.
Edit 2:
Ahh i do see they have at least one or two solutions that are 218 where there's only 2 black pieces. I'm somewhat surprised that's a possible legal position but so be it. Interesting that still leads to the same net realestate. Thats the one area i'd expect to gain something if you could cheat.
