Better make your own powerplant Unsurprising if they steal from the same source as taxpayers' electricity, get subsidized for it because "jobs" (that no one gets), finally resulting in raised bills for the rest

The only people who wouldn't agree with what brudgers is saying are obviously people who didn't have bad parents (bad, as in, resorting to any type of abuse because they are incapable of even sorting out their own thoughts and emotions)

A bit of a harsh sentiment, no?

Tbf after reading the article, it doesn't mention why thorium was abandoned in the 50s/60s Article doesn't mention how China's new thorium reactors are different and/or how they extended existing designs

Yeah, true, article doesn't really tell us anything new

Harsh, perhaps, but well deserved (Technology Review used to produce interesting articles back in the day but now just create clickbait, so I'm triggered in this regard).

The reasoning for abandoning it has been communicated as both that thorium technology doesn't align with weapons research, and that working with molten salt at scale is more challenging than water.

I've not seen anything yet that gives details on China's advancements, only that they're actually moving forward with it. I've a notion they are not incentivized to share that information.

Disclaimer: i'm just a random geek on teh interwebs who saw the LFTR Ted Talk way back when and has been waiting for it to deliver the goods for real.

Taxation without representation could not be juvenile thinking, it's a founding concept of my country which seems to be lost today

> Taxation without representation could not be juvenile thinking, it's a founding concept of my country which seems to be lost today

If by "my country" you mean the US, it's perfectly happy with taxation without representation. Current examples include the District of Columbia, certain situations in U.S. territories, and permanent residents. Past examples e.g. women.

Russia and/or China prosecute their citizens for boycotting a foreign parasite state?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antibds_laws.png

They don't have corruption like AIPAC, they mandatory worship of dear leader. Oh, wait.

I can't explain it, no unfortunately

But what about someone maintaining and developing, say, an obscure e-mail client?

If someone's maintaining an old/obscure email client, I would expect them to be importing a TLS library under the "don't roll your own crypto" principle. Assuming it's been updated at some point in the last ~15 years, it's probably capable of auto-negotiating to something better than 3DES.

And if it hasn't been updated for that long, it probably doesn't support TLS 1.2 and is getting rejected from just about everything for that reason.

Spotted my kin!

What is it that makes slashed zeroes so nuch more appealing than the other kinds of "zeroes"? Slashed zeroes are definitely much better than those nasty dotted inverse donut zeroes

How does a dot in a zero even make any kinda logical sense? It's like a piece of dough floating in midair in the center of a donut

Dotted zeroes [insert copypasta] bad

I don't even know why I'm so obsessed with the slash in zeroes

I will defend the honor of dotted zeros! I really like the zero in Space Mono, I think that nailed the retro future aesthetic.

IMH(and no design school)O when the character is oblong and the dot is a circle, it creates a similar contrast to the straight slash through an ellipse, but with less visual weight.

Dotted zeros remind me of the BIOS screen on an old monochrome Compaq luggable. Good times.

Yeah the dot is mostly a manner of preference. It looks less crowded than slashed zero maybe? The dotted zero does disambiguate from U+00D8 [LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98).

but we do live in such a world tho?

HexChat dies, mIRC lives?!