The question is: What will they do after, when Trump is gone, and his policiey on Chinese imports anf foreign workers are gone with him?
I hope they hurry. Now’s the time!
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BAReF00t commented on China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains asiatimes.com/2019/10/art... · Posted by u/yskchu
Meanwhile in America we have a world class freight system between America, Canada, and Mexico that’s unrivaled anywhere else in the world. Europe uses trucking which is less environmentally friendly[1] than rail. The United States also runs the largest rail system in the world[2] vs any country (and the combined EU[3]).
Europe is leading the world in electrification and they are likely getting that power from greener energies. The US’s diesel-electrics are nasty but hopefully they will become fully electric in the long term or offset in the short term by improving passenger car pollution and building more renewable energy sources.
China’s energy sources are very nasty pollution wise and impact the environment in bad ways (hydro power, Three Gorges dam).[4]
Anyone know the pollution difference from using coal to power a train or using an ICE train?
I’m all for passenger trains and would love high speed rail but I also enjoy a healthy debate with some sources.
[1]https://theconversation.com/rail-travel-is-cleaner-than-driv...
[2]https://www.railway-technology.com/features/featurethe-world...
[3]https://www.railjournal.com/regions/europe/european-passenge...
[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China
Keep telling yourself that…
Here in Europe, we actually use mostly trains. Trucking is for the smaller deliveries, like some five bathtubs from Sweden to Germany.
And we use trains for humans too.
The reason your trains are so long is because they need to go so far.
While around here, we use more local products. As we are still actually separate countries, not one big lowest common denominator culture mush. ;)
BAReF00t commented on I don’t like your web browser, so I programmed a new one medium.com/@voidnill_2896... · Posted by u/void_nill
This is one of the projects that go a step too far for me in terms of minimalism. No bookmarks, what? No, we don't need complicated bookmarking with tagging etc., but what's wrong about having a text file with one URL per line, like qutebrowser does?
And without JavaScript this browser has even fewer features than suckless' surf, the browser that doesn't even come with an address bar. To be quite honest I would love to be able to surf the web without JS, but nowadays the amount of websites still working with that restriction just isn't enough.
Why do we need bookmarks when we have softlinks. They are the same concept, and an OS that makes a distinction, is a faulty OS, IMHO.
Ditto for tabs. The task bar already serves that. It't the task bar's flaw if it isn't hierarchic.
And actually, a directory already solves that too. Which even exists on Linux. (/proc) All you need, is a (filtered?) horizontal directory tree listing for the tasks/tabs and a sidebar with another directory that you can put softlink URL into.
Add a bit of window manager placement automation, and you got your browser.
And with JS, as a former pioneer web developer: A website whose HTML relies on a certain way of being presented or a certain interactive logic, is a defective website, full stop. The whole point of HTML, is that it is semantic markup, and semantic ONLY! E.g. an audio browser must work just as fine with a website. If one’s website fails at that, it’s because of disinfomatiom spread by the What(TF)WG and because of incompetence, and the causing people must be fired.
BAReF00t commented on Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric spectrum.ieee.org/computi... · Posted by u/craigjb
BAReF00t commented on NASA Wants to Send Nuclear Rockets to the Moon and Mars wired.com/story/nasa-want... · Posted by u/n0pe_p0pe
> Because until we find a massive amount of anti-matter
I honestly hope this never occurs, or we never are able to contain/store such a mass for any real length of time.
Because if we can do it, it will be used for a weapon.
Seriously - I can't even imagine what - for instance - one kilogram of anti-matter coming in contact with regular matter - the amount of energy that would be released...it staggers the imagination. Today's fusion weapons release only a fraction of their potential energy; anti-matter conversion would be 100% (roughly):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter_weapon
"Using the convention that 1 kiloton TNT equivalent = 4.184×1012 joules (or one trillion calories of energy), one gram of antimatter reacting with one gram of ordinary matter results in 42.96 kilotons-equivalent of energy (though there is considerable "loss" by production of neutrinos)."
So...one kilo of anti-matter would be equivalent to 42 megatons - which is close to yield of the Tsar Bomba:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
...but in a much more compact package. 50 kg of antimatter - which would be feasible for current launch systems, and comparable in size to current warheads:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W80_(nuclear_warhead)
Well - that's a 2 GT weapon...while I'm sure such a thing has been considered as to it's effects...I honestly don't know what that would be. Best guess might be that one such warhead could easily take out a good portion of say, the west coast (of the United States)?
Ultimately - we are not ready in any manner - socially, morally, politically - as a species to wield that kind of power responsibly. Honestly, even nuclear weapons fall into that assessment, despite recent history - I'm honestly not sure how we have gotten this far without a major nuclear war occurring.
Sadly, though, I know that my conjecture (in which I am not alone, I hope) will not do anything to stop the research - right now, though, the cost to produce anti-matter (let alone contain it) is so high as to make even a small mass cost an exorbitant amount of money. I sincerely hope there isn't any breakthrough on that front.
I honestly think we, as a species, are not ready for it (that isn't to say none of us are - but those who would be responsible with such "stuff" are likely very few - I know I am not one of them).
Well, if we found it, it would already be contained unless accessed by definition.
Also, magnetic fields could definitely contain it, as is already done.
We can already make anti-matter, as it't essentially the process of making matter bounce off, using a photon, in such a way that it reverts its time direction. Or, in classical view: Turn a photon into a particle/antiparticle pair. The problem is, of course, that it first takes those shitloads of energy, that it would release later.
And to actually find anti-matter in nature, you would most likely have to turn into anti-matter yourself, travel back in time, and somehow survive the big bang without touching anything, to come out the hypothetized other side where time is reversed and anti-matter expanded to. Or try to get inside a black hole, and revert your direction of motion (as time and space are reversed in there). Both not yet technically available, to say the least. ;)
BAReF00t commented on I don’t like your web browser, so I programmed a new one medium.com/@voidnill_2896... · Posted by u/void_nill
TL;DR: He didn't!
He wrote a UI for a browser engine (Webkit, of couuurse). Using a UI toolkit (Qt). In a scripting language.
Which is more putting wallpaper on the walls than constructing the building or even painting the walls.
BAReF00t commented on The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries allthatsinteresting.com/f... · Posted by u/heshiebee
Ashamed of it and ridiculed?
I would have tought of it a fascinating and fashionable! Especially with white hair. Man, I want that when I am old!
And yeah, their ancestors might have been incestous. But that isn’t the childrens’ fault, now is it.
Man, … people somtimes.
BAReF00t commented on The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries allthatsinteresting.com/f... · Posted by u/heshiebee
He’s dark skinned. Not really blue. His depiction as blue skinned is more symbolic
So he’s blue-skinned.
Or are you implying he exists or existed for real independent of people’s psychotic heads?
The can have a low rate on pretty much every statistic, while still having a higher total amount of it than us, simply due to.the sheer size of people. They could have an entire state, more modern, rich and with more people than Germany, while keeping their current statistics. No problem.
Also: Are you Indian (I think not), or what is your basis for the ”rootless“ statement. To us Germans, Americans appear rootless. But we are not competent to judge that!
Finally, things like this right here ARE how you get Indians out of poverty and illiteracy! Even if just via the resulting businesses lobbying for more education.