Have we passed the solar tipping point where renewable solar energy has reached a momentum of deployment that will see prices drop further (and swiftly) and fossil fuels become increasingly a niche power source?
This piece from Nature Communications last year suggest we have (with some caveats around financing the transition & supply chain choke point), but with strategic policies in place it looks like solar may be the future....
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#OTD in 1870.
The first performance of Alexander Pushkin's play Boris Godunov (1825) is given at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg by members of the Alexandrinsky Theatre.
It was written in 1825, published in 1831, but not approved for performance by the censor until 1866. It consists of 25 scenes and is mainly written in blank verse.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Go…
Boris Godunov at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/5089
If you use Qt from #Python (from any of its bindings like #PyQt or PySide or QtPy), read this excellent guide from @czaki on writing robust tests.
@czaki has repeatedly cleaned up the test suite for @napari, which often failed randomly in CI, and this post distills many of his learnings. I’ve found it super useful for my understanding of wtf was going on in our CI! 😂
fosstodon.org/@czaki/113146457…
Hola Fedivers, han obert la traducció en Català de l'app de missatgeria SimpleX Chat. L'utilitze amb la família i va força bé, a banda de complir estrictes mesures per a resguardar la nostra privacitat. Molt recomanable!
Podeu col·laborar amb la traducció al següent enllaç o també podeu donar-li un impuls 
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hosted.weblate.org/projects/si…
Web del projecte: simplex.chat/
I'm kind of getting this, but different, but only on my local, not in prod. Ugh.
github.com/cannatag/ldap3/issu…
Instead of "unsupported hash type MD4" I get "undefined symbol: md4_init" probably because I should upgrade something that is making assumptions.
Maybe some part of prod is running an older openssl and here I am on a fresh install.
pam_tacplus - as a developer you have the choice of using libraries, which is desirable, or relying on a local implementation. If you use libraries, these tend to deprecate algorithms and this is exactly what happened to MD4, it’s likely simply no longer compiled into OpenSSL. It’s likely that a library such as ldap3 would have a local copy of the algorithm but as of 2024 it’s likely offered as a compile-time option whether to use local copy or OpenSSL, so your choices are basically reduced to recompiling one or another from source…
@kravietz 🦇 Local had both pycryptodome and an old pycrypto. Prod is an image built from scratch and doesn't suffer from such leftovers.
ldap3 does the right thing and loads the MD4 module if available, otherwise recovers and doesn't try to use MD4. But the old pycrypto implements MD4 and also assumes openssl will have md4 symbols.
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More evidence that the crisis in the NHS engineered by the Tories is another act of economic self-harm.... having wrecked our external economic relations with Brexit, they undermined our internal (domestic) economic activity by producing a massive health-related expansion in the economically inactive.
This is what the Tories' disaster capitalists chums wanted & got!
[to be clear the NHS crisis should not only be measured by its significant economic impact]
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Bloody humans!
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What comes after the end, that's the hardest question, yet it's also a simple one: a new beginning.
“You never think of going on past the dragon, Irena thought. You only think about getting to it. But what happens afterwards?… I have passed the place of the dragon and I can't go back.”
―Ursula K. Le Guin, The Beginning Place
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Language and Computers by Markus Dickinson, 2024
This book offers an accessible introduction to the ways that language is processed and produced by computers. The book covers writing systems, tools to help people write, computer-assisted language learning, the multidisciplinary study of text as data, text classification, information retrieval, machine translation, and dialog.
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#books
#nonfiction
#language
#linguistics
#computers
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(1) DAVID BOWIE - THE CURE A forest for Lazarus (acoustic) (DoM mashup, Minor Arth video)
Genius!
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in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Love this chart from the article how is shows all fossil sources fading into oblivion entirely due to cost.
#Solar #Economics #Energy
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in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •There is an increasing number of studies and articles like this appearing. This series from the Economist got my attention in June.
economist.com/leaders/2024/06/…
They are basically saying its game over. The main point being that Solar is unlike any energy source ever seen in that each year it gets better and cheaper with no end in sight. And now with storage going the same way we might just be able to save ourselves from ourselves.
This is most surprising in that The Economist is known for being a hard nosed capitalist outlet.
#solar