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seren commented on Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR) darpa.mil/program/transla... · Posted by u/steveklabnik

sam0x17 · 2 years ago

speaking of hard, the DOE actually funds a project that has been around for 20+ years now (ROSE) that involves (among other things) doing static analysis on and automatically translating between C/C++/Cuda and even high level languages like Python as well as HPC variants of C/C++. They have a combined AST that supports all of those languages with the same set of node types essentially. Quite cool. I got to work on it when I was an intern at Livermore, summer of 2014.

and it's open source as well! http://rosecompiler.org/ROSE_HTML_Reference/index.html

seren · 2 years ago

I have already seen legacy projects that were designed using Rational Rose, but for some reason I thought it was only a commercial name, not an actual system. Thanks, I learned something today !

seren commented on New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers immune response to malignant brain tumor ufhealth.org/news/2024/uf... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

api · 2 years ago

For cancer you are competing with some amazingly expensive existing treatments like complicated surgery. How does synthesizing a one-off mRNA compare with cutting open someone's brain?

seren · 2 years ago

from my understanding you need a sample of the tumor to design the vaccine, so it is not OR but AND

seren commented on France enshrines 'freedom' to abortion in Constitution, in world first lemonde.fr/en/politics/ar... · Posted by u/Qision

FranzFerdiNaN · 2 years ago

It wasnt under threat, but America shows how easily it can be. But sure, make it about some ''far-left' conspiracy or whatever.

seren · 2 years ago

And closer home, Poland. So it is not a far fetched idea or fantasy.

seren commented on Temenos Sinks Most in 21 Years on Hindenburg Short Report hindenburgresearch.com/te... · Posted by u/fairytalemtg

seren · 2 years ago

This made me check Adani group stock price, it is almost back to the previous level before Hindenburg group revelations.

Some info : https://www.ft.com/content/60205ec6-2798-4085-a4f1-0f162b624...

seren commented on 'A slow fiscal death' awaits some countries in this 'decade of debt.' cnbc.com/2024/02/07/debt-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

seren · 2 years ago

If birth rates are quickly falling, the debt will have to be repaid by an always smaller population, it seems it will make matter worse. (Unless we find out a magical productivity gain that can be heavily taxed by government)

seren commented on Lubricate Your Keyholes practicalbetterments.com/... · Posted by u/DitheringIdiot

yuck39 · 2 years ago

What are the dangers of graphite lubricant?

I lubricate my keyholes with it but there is always some that gets left on the key, and I tend to fiddle with my keys at my desk sometimes.

Occasionally I’ll get some of the graphite on my hands, or possibly even breathe it in I’m not sure. Should I be more careful with this stuff?

seren · 2 years ago

https://www.ilo.org/dyn/icsc/showcard.display?p_lang=en&p_ca...

Inhalation is not recommended, particularly if it happens often.

seren commented on Ask HN: What will your kids be proud of 10 years? · Posted by u/potatomaster2

seren · 2 years ago

I am working on medical device software, processes are terrible, tech stack is not really up to date, but at least, I sometimes feel that I am helping people down the line.

seren commented on Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident? economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

seren · 2 years ago

Never heard of that catastrophe, but an oil rig digging into a mine under a lake is pretty terrible.

seren commented on EU Integrity Watch integritywatch.eu/... · Posted by u/jruohonen

Sweepi · 2 years ago

> And then the powers that be will act surprised when they see that anti-EU sentiment is gaining ground (it's the Russians' fault, of course, if not them, the Chinese or the Iranians, never allow any political agency for people going against unelected supra-national entities such as the European Commission is).

Occam's razor tells me: Its easy for the local politicians to blame "Brussels" for any problem they dont want to deal with / take responsibility for. Its also easy for the population of the respective country to accept this framing, since that relieves them of any responsibility of having voted "the wrong people" into power, or not engaging in politics themselves.

Regarding the "unelected" European Commission: Its members are proposed by the European Council(which is composed of the elected governments of the EU members states) and then subject to a vote of approval by the elected European Parliament. I find it hard to believe that your opinion of the European Commission (or the EU in general) would differ significantly if the European Commission would be elected directly.

seren · 2 years ago

To me it sounds exactly like local American politicians blaming "Washington".

seren commented on Sellafield: Europe’s most toxic nuclear site theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/philk10

gorgoiler · 2 years ago

I can never wrap my head around why costs like this are so high. If you consider most industrial processes involve digging stuff out of the ground and turning it into something else, and that work is done by people using machines built by other people also made of stuff dug out the ground then the cost must surely be bounded by bits of land you have to dig up and people you have to pay to do stuff. It’s not like cleaning up Sellafield requires a 100 high stack of Da Vinci paintings or anything else artificially rare like that.

So with £60k salaries all round costing the employer £120k in total and a 25 year work schedule — that’s £3m per worker. Does that mean 90k people are involved?

Maybe the only part of this that’s so crazy is the 25 year project timeline? By contrast the British Armed Forces must be employing about the same number of people over about the same amount of time?

seren · 2 years ago

I remember an example from another nuclear site cleanup. If you work on a part potentially contaminated you cannot used a normal vacuum cleaner that will disperse some contaminated dust, so you need a special purpose device. Then you cannot dispose easily of the dust, so you need another process. Since the device is also critical you probably need some regular maintenance or tests, so you need someone to manage them.

So basically every single step is much more complex with the associated cost.