A good alternative is to just run your Terraform yourself in Github Actions or Gitlab CD, and host your state in S3. We are using open-source Terramate to orchestrate Terraform, and it makes the transition and operations super easy.
- team are scientists from the Wendelsten 7-X stellarator plasma physics experiement
- want to innovate on the two most impactful learnings from the experiment towards commercial fusion power, namely
- using high temperatur superconductors in these weird shaped magnetic coils
- 3D printing the water cooling vessels for the divertor
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) have found a way to significantly reduce the distance between plasma and divertor by modelling the X-point radiator.
This was a plasma physics experiment to prove continous operation. Apparently going from 8 min to much larger timespans is less of a leap now.
Next stop in research: divertor design. Right now the divertor is still a challenge, as it heats up too much when the plasma gets hotter. You can see it in the video, the area that gets really bright in IR.
After the divertor is figured out, the blanket comes next. Neutron embrittlement of the structure is another issue. So power generation is still way out there.
Still, a great day for plasma physicists over the world. Decades of hard work went into this. Congrats!
> It's just a "weapon" by the EU to attack any company they want. I'm pretty much sure if I made a hello world program in C, they'd find a clever way of fining me.
Not so. Your hello world in C be just fine. Only if you track data of users that happen to live in the EU. Don't track and you absolutely will not violate GDPR.
Discord broke the law in France and gets fined according the the laws in France.
The flagged issues could have been easily avoided by having a proper GDPR trained lawyer review the service and suggest changes.
I see collaboration software primarily in the context of work in a company. Self hosting OS is something I rarely see, as focus on your own product renders such endeavours a distraction. You substitute money for speed.
I like it when there is more competition. It forces Retool, Appsmith, etc to up their game and not become complacent. One of them may have a couple of extrea feature here or there right now, but 12-18 months from now the current tech lead will become a wash and the race is on.
The big price in this space probably is the great unbundling of enterprise software, i.e. taking a bite out of Oracle, SAP. I attended a top 100 customers event at SAP once, you'd be shocked at the amount of despreration (from massive global 500 companies) to get SAP to implemented the stuff they urgently need. Apparently it takes multiple years on average...
The main impediment to companies adopting entity resolution tech is the incentive structure. Companies want to show growing user numbers, transactions, leads, order, etc. Alas if you look closely and sift out the dupes/frauds, your growth looks a lot less expressive. So why look closely?
The bigger question is why it has come to that, that door #1 is such a joke.
Is competition not supposed to drive down the bargaining power of the investment banks in terms of fees and IPO discount? Apparently not.
Are institutional investors who are part of the 30x oversubscribed and not getting allocations not really upset with this process as well? Why would they not want to pay a higher price and benefit from a smaller IPO "pop" than the 30% build in the system?
There is probably a massive business opportunity to get IPO investors and IPO'ing companies connected in a much more structured and technology based way.
Aah, the quip on the road network typeface... some highlights
> The narrower a typeface gets, the less legible it becomes. We do also know that we have long words in Austria, like “Gumpersdorfer Straße” in Vienna – so now they only use the compressed version, even for short words, because it’s easier for them. Then I get blamed because it’s not legible, but that is not my fault. Maybe it is because I should have said no. When you’re supposed to work for a bad company, like weapons or tobacco, the argument is: “If I don’t do it, somebody else will, so I might as well do it.” If I wouldn’t have done the compressed version, somebody else would have done it, maybe even worse.
> “Shit, Spiekermann, you are right – you make us look better!” – that was my big lesson here: You make them look better, that is your job. We have the skill of showing them, not just complaining about things that don’t work.
> My Dutch friend Lucas de Groot put it nicely when he was learning German: “We have to verglücklichen our clients”, we have to make them happy.
The International Astronomical Union defined a planet [0] as an object that:
(a) orbits the sun, (b) has sufficient mass to be round, or nearly round, (c) is not a satellite (moon) of another object, and (d) has removed debris and small objects from the area around its orbit
The dwarf "planets" often suffer from not being round (enough), and even more from not clearing out their debris in their orbit.