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  • Yes, I’m not doing almost any of the things we do at work in my network.

    I’m absolutely not running the same software. I’m not organizing the information the same way. I’m not using the same infrastructure abstraction, and even less configuring it in any similar way. I’m not writing the same languages.

    The work environment is dictated by consensus between many people, with varying expertise, and weighted by how much work one is willing to put into each aspect of it. Each of those parts lead to bad tech, even though they lead to good people organization.



  • marcos@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldFactual btw
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    You have some of the world’s cheapest electricity wholesale. You also have a huge variance in prices to end-user, with the people that complain on the internet being among the most expensive in the world… because, of course, people that get cheaper prices don’t complain.

    Also, yes, electricity in Germany is expensive as fuck.










  • officially informed when Brazil achieved enrichment capabilities in the 80s

    That one was about the official nuclear program, that wasn’t intended to create nuclear weapons. The Brazilian nuclear weapons program was a secret out of the clearance level of the official nuclear program so there was never any interaction between them.

    And yes, it was in the later 80s, when Brazil was trying to repair the damaged relations with Argentina.



  • During the last dictatorships in South America, Brazil and Argentina were in a bit of an arms race.

    One day, the Brazilian government created a nuclear program that over the course of several years managed to enrich some nanograms of uranium. The Argentinian gov started their own program as a response.

    When both countries published their data, the Argentinians had plenty of spying documents saying that the Brazilian program had incredibly security, they could only discover a small lab and some people digging missile silos.

    (And yeah, the Argentinians managed to enrich milligrams of uranium, beating Brazil by 2 orders of magnitude.)