Not only are nuclear reactors expensive, the build time is twice what the major nuclear construction companies would say it will take.

Hinckley Point C in the UK is still being constructed - it's a 3.2GW plant, it is costing twice the cost as planned (in 2015 prices) and is going to be 4 years late. In the time it's taken we've installed 28GW of wind and solar capacity.

Qui Bono?

Certainly not the bots that are downloading the music!

The only person I can think of who would benefit for more money going to Drake is Drake.

I don't trust that Tesla will expand it's robotaxi service to 8 to 10 major US cities in less than two months.

Musk has always, constantly and consistently, lied about how long things take, and often they haven't happened at all. He is the master of hype and short on substance.

Will the service go driverless in Austin by the end of the year? I doubt it. Tesla's robotaxis are already crashing in Austin. (https://www.techspot.com/news/110085-tesla-robotaxis-already-crashing-austin-data-points-gaps.html)

but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

When you have a president that lies on average 21 times per DAY (source), what does it matter if an AI does it ? I mean, sure, it's whataboutism, but you can't claim the moral high ground when your high ground is at the bottom of the Mariana trench.

That's amazing, frankly.

I wrote a simple bash script the other day to handle a video encoding queue, with this line:

if [[ $(date +%s -r "$file") -lt $(date +%s --date="1 min ago") ]]

It's running on Debian 12 but to imagine that if it were running on Ubuntu it would have failed?

Wild that this wasn't caught as soon as the dud utility shipped in a distro. I would have expected somebody's scripts to have failed, they ran it under bash -x and thought, "Oh, boy," then off to file a bug.

I like the idea of using Rust and the idea of Software Engineering. But together.

We heard a while back about Google making a nondestructive book scanner that used puffs of air to turn pages and multiple cameras with stitching algorithms.

Is there a home version that people can recommend, product or build plans?

I have at least a hundred out-of-print books, some on taboo subjects, that I'd love to be able to scan and lend out privately.

Frankly this would be a good item to lend around; I'd only need one for a few days a year.

To be fair there's a common way to compile Lua to JVM bytecode so it's likely just a Java front-end, not using the basic interpreter.

Back in the day there was a craze to port Lua, Ruby, Perl, Groovy(!), to run as Java front-ends. Not many got put into production outside of Lua.

However the real point here is that it's now "tell me why I shouldn't use Rust" time.

Moving ABI might be a reasonable objection for a small team but Cloudflare has over a hundred engineers on this so it's not a problem.

They get speed and memory safety in exchange for learning "The Rust Way". Seems like a good engineering tradeoff.

IMO Rust is still for the top 20% of engineers so Java's "solid middle" is still quite safe.

I thought that until I learned that they need weekly maintenance tending.

Somebody would need to build an automated battery watering system for homeowners who go away for a long vacation and forget to water their houseplants.

At some point it's too Rube Goldberg to be usable. Now, a few square miles of grid-scale ... somebody could make a business case where land is cheap and sun and water are plentiful.

Do I have to put out a hit on a whistleblower who exposes my illegal business scheme?

if your PC meets the Windows 11 Hardware Spec.

It's just a silly idea. Especially given how it's usually implemented, where they depend on a manufacturer's “cloud” to work. I don't need “smart lights” that turn on using Wi-Fi; I go to the switch and simply turn them on. I once for fun thought about developing a refrigerator that would warn me when something inside was about to run out or expire, but... After seriously analyzing the case, I concluded that it is much simpler and more reliable to just go to the refrigerator and check it myself.

Translating what the article really meant.

OpenAI spent a fortune on flawed technology, spent even more hoping that the fix for the flaw would be to spend even more (probably the idea of someone in marketing or someone who is in the computer field but recently dropped out of a week-long course), and now that the bill is too big, it hopes to be “bailed out” by the government like the banks were, trying to argue that it is as important as the banks and therefore cannot be allowed to fail.