You are obviously a bot.
Actually a set of "operators", sharing the same account.

Otherwise the constant corrections you get would slowly make you realize: you are wrong.

But as a conglomerate of bot operators who do not know what other operators type and no one is reading the answers your account gets: you are repeating the same nonsense over and over. Just like a very bad chat bot.

Do you know a single person that is pro fossile fuels?

I do not know a single one. A few people I know acknowledge that they prefer gasoline for now, but switch when they can afford an electric car.

And that is it. No one is pro fossile fuels who is born around my birthday. Claiming otherwise is completely idiotic.

There was absolutely no technical reason for the Fukushima disaster to happen.
The technical reason is that the earth quake broke the cooling pipes. The fact that the emergency generators got flooded: is completely irrelevant.

The emergency cooling equipment which was brought in, failed. They pumped water into the cooling system from outside, and it just flooded the lower floors of the reactor building ...

This are serious construction/planning/engineering mistakes. Would have happened with any similar quake, regardless of a Tsunami.

It is right in the summary, mate!
The danger of "falling behind".

But I agree, I am not so sure what it means. Are they not already behind?

Haha.

But the box is virtual!

If your file does not get smaller after trim, then obviously the filesystem does not support sparse files. Or the file is not marked as sparse ... or you got an error and you failed to read it.

As we are talking about Apple, which never did anything right, obviously if the power fails while you write to a disk image, not only the disk image gets corrupted, but also the main file system on the hard drive.

Worse, when you switch the Mac back on, the power surge will kill your freezer.

Now hurry, and drink the beer before it gets warm.

If you want to know more about sparse images, perhaps you want to read this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscussions.apple.com%2F...

I am not aware if there is an Apple disk format that supports sparse files.

I think that is a Chrome thing.
But perhaps it is on /. more obnoxious?

We are talking about disk images.
Not file systems for hard disks.

So, no idea why you think Apple fucked up, when they invent a faster disk image?

If you run a random virtual machine, you have a big file on the real OS, representing your filesystem in the guest OS. In general, that is a virtual block device with what ever file system your guest OS puts on it.

However disk images are also used as mountable files on Mac OS. It is just a file, that pops up as a (read only) drive in the file system.

So if you think something was fucked up before, perhaps point out what it was?

Having blocks in linked lists.
Having catalogs/directories on one corner of the hard drive (in tis case, image) and the data on the other.
Having inodes, or having no inodes.
Having meta information like who owns the file/director and access rights in a meta database instead of in the directory or at an inode.

And ...
So ...
On ...

Modern file systems try to estimate how big your file will be, and allocate it as one big chunk. That is one reason why "data recovery" on windows is so easy. You save a file (even if it is considered "open") it gets moved to a new place. And if it gets destroyed you find the old one(s) - and recover those.

Modern unixes use filesystems that have a small text "string" inside of the directory where the file was created. So if you have a few scripts that are just two liners, they do not use up a whole disk block somewhere else on the disk.

The advantage is, if you look up /some/file/somewhere/is-a-script.sh, the script is already loaded by loading the directory containing the filename "is-a-script.sh".

For example, my two Android devices fake a unix like file system on a Windows (some FATex thing) file system. All access rights, and owner ships, are handled not in a standard way but delegated to some access framework.

Really unpleasant are CD-ROM images. As it is basically a long stream of random files/directories. In other words, to find directories you have to scan the whole disk, memorize where they are, and load them when needed.

With SSDs that is not all that important anymore. But with spinning disks it is. Especially at those times when memory was scarce, and you tried to avoid to read to many blocks (or the wrong blocks) from a spinning disk, where you have to wait for a block to come under the head for reading.

That is the reason why (spinning) disks (used to) get formatted ... the block numbering the drive itself is using usually has nothing to do with the block numbering the file system is using (historically speaking). As for example a track might have interleaving sectors like: 21, 24, 22, 26, 23, 27, 25 ... because when it realizes it has finished reading sector 21, it can not read the next sector, as the head is already half through that sector. So there is a spare sector in this case 24. To read all sectors on the disk, by actively reading the sector numbers and then the data till the stop mark, and then trying to read the next one, you need two spins of the disk. If you had the sectors in normal order, you would need a full spin for each sector. (This is called "interleaving")

Similar problems if you go to the next track. Sector 28 is the last sector on that track. Moving the head to the next track to read sector 29, takes time. You want the disk to be formatted in a way that hopefully you are more or less just in front of sector 29, when the head is on the next track.

Of course all that got less important when disks got smarter and have caches big enough to hold plenty of tracks. So the hard drive more or less ignores what you want to read and just reads a full track and says: you wanted sector 21 to 29? Here they are ...

The Oracle JVMs might run the administrative infrastructure of the organization.
And not the research projects of the students and post docs.

Like HR stuff, as in payrolls and planning courses or what ever.

13million does nto sound like a lot of money. So it most certainly is not about, uh, that idiotic post doc did download a JCM from Oracle and not from an open source source??!

Yes they are.

Your tiny little country is not "the world".

People here buy 1kW or 2kW plants with a 4kWh to 8kWh battery faster than the factories can make them. Well, the factories are catching up, especially in the battery area.

This is all completely decentralized local energy infra structure.

First of all, most here have no insane electric bills. Because they do not have the equipment to cause them. Aka, no air con. So, if they want air con, they often buy the solar panels and batteries first.

Just take bike and make a tour through some random "poor" villages and look around how many people have a single 750W solar panel. Or two of them.

Plenty of solar stuff here are appliances, like street lights.

European companies do not need approval to spent money on infrastructure.

They need approval to be allowed to set up certain infrastructure at a certain place.

You can not simply set up a power line through a forest and the adjacent fields.

Or set up a "power plant of your preferred type" at an arbitrary place, not even if you own the place.

Return of investment is completely irrelevant, that is up the company and not to any regulation or approval.

There is a difference between cartels, syndicates and other market agreements.

Obviously the border line is thin.

However if we are talking about majour infrastructure projects, there are many stupid hurdles, set up by "capitalism".

Frankly: the interaction between administration and commerce/business does not work very good. Similar as in software development. You know what it costs, when it is finished. And not before.

We want to build a new carrier. The only save assumption is: it is bigger then the current biggest one. It has more features. There is more work to make it, and more materials needed. And despite the fact that the construction company knows its business: they have no real idea how much it will cost to make it. So, they give you a low estimate. Perhaps two or three give similar estimates. Then the administration has to pick:
a) go with the previous team - because they could do it
b) take the cheapest team - which build two submarines already
c) take an unknown guy who made a sound plan and broke down every majour cost item

And so on ...

The example above is easy, as for example most nations would never order a new development as a carrier or a submarine build in a foreign nation. Purchasing an existing model, yes. But start from scratch, unlikely.

What is the relation to construction of infrastructure? Well, complications of local laws. Sourcing and transporting the materials. E.g. having a Chinese construction consortium bidding on a high voltage power line in Germany, from where do they source the work force? Where do they get the pillars from, or the required cables? Transporting a few thousand km of cables from china to Germany: how? Do they need special ships going up upriver in Germany? A new trans Siberian train line? A new silk road for trucks?

Basically all construction projects are over time and over budget. And on top of that, everyone cuts corners. Usually half the companies involved are founded and staffed for just one project and bankrupt after (or even before) it is finished and the workforce fired.

Now imagine, you want to start bidding - with the aim of actually doing it - for construction projects in a completely foreign environment.

It is basically a lose lose situation.

I am not saying it is better for everyone if Asian companies stay in Asia and European ones in Europe and so on ... however it is understandable that business people see reality a little bit more as what it is.

As long as a European company can not do a project in time and budget - lets focus on in time - there is no point in "competition" underbidding in the European market. And vise versa. The idea that one from a foreign market can work better in a local market than a local company/consortium is illusion.

We are talking about "real things" not about a new shopping company, internet provider or a bank.

It is actually a great risk, for the local administration and population/tax payers. It is not about jobs. The jobs will always be sourced locally. With a few bean counters, directors and planning/engineers from the source company.

Does that mean it is needed that bosses of such construction companies meet secretly in hotels. No idea. I guess they simply decide how to divide up Africa and what to do after the collapse of Gods Own Country.

Don't bother.

For idiots like him it is always the "other parties fault" or "insert president of hate", because parties and presidents always do things just "because" and never have a sane reason.

Laws do not exist anyway, and that a project gets blocked in a court, where people look at the laws and at the project and at the side effects of the project and how that contradicts the law and finally say: can not do - all this of course is the "current political party of hate" fault. Or the president himself. Or the son of the president. Or because one copied some emails to his private account.

It is never the case that one tried to do something that was against the law in the first place, and got stopped.

Wow,
idiot found?

Perhaps you want to look up how much China is investing into Solar and Wind and Water.

Stupid idiots.

That right there is some straight up bullshit. These people are living in a fantasy world. There is no legal provision for a goddamn chat bot to be "credentialed" for any purpose at all, especially where human mental health is concerned.

I'm as big a supporter of technology and science as the next person, but this slavish worship of solutions to math problems as a substitute for God is going to stop, or AI is going to get regulated into oblivion, and that might not be a bad outcome.

AI is very complex math that simulates the right answer. It is physically impossible for it to be anything else. If you claim otherwise you are not only being unscientific, you're a liar.