Renewable aren't actually cheap.
And fission plants definitely aren't cheap.
Especially if you include the unsolved issues such as waste barrels stranded on the beach.
"But but no true Scotsman would put barrels..."
Just shut up.
It's a shame they're going to remove the domes since they're basically 2 giant boobs next to the freeway
p>California is the third largest state in the nation. 160,000 square miles and local leaders still chose to store nuclear waste within the hazard risk of a tsunami in a border state known for participating in annual El Slammo weather seasons.
As I recall, it is also stored at 4 to 5 times the density of the waste stored at Fukushima.
Chernobyl type event; the private owners of such a station would not be expected to pay the full cost of such an event.
The Price Anderson Act (and its amendments) also excludes rate payers from making claims to recover the replacement cost of their homes. Without this Act the nuclear industry would collapse simply because it cannot sustain itself without the insurance indemnities it provides.
How can you state that? I'm assuming you're a Rust proponent from that wild statement, which goes to show you how little you know about the topic.
Yes, memory leaks can and do happen in Rust. Rust is not perfect. Neither are the people who write it.
Most Rust code is written by its proponents' AI models, anyway.
This is an engineering maxim as old as time.
If your response to theoretically old, brittle, and "wrong language" code is "rewrite it in something better", you don't understand the problem.
There has never in the history of software development been an effort to rewrite a platform in another language which wasn't subsequently plagued by all manners of new and interesting problems.
In a best case scenario, the product has an exhaustive regression testing framework, complete unit tests for every function, e2e testing, and reintegrative CI/CD. But that is rarely true for any project, and certainly isn't true for old ones which predate such practices.
You make an important point: the biggest positive contribution to making old tools better without introducing more brittle behavior is with coverage from test suites, and improved code coverage.
This IS the Rust community you're talking about, after all.
While Rust is a fine language, the community tends to be a bit fanatical and irrational. Pair that with a generally shallow technical aptitude depth and a lack of experience, and vibe coding, and therein lies the problem. There seems to be a high intersection between them and the systemd, so that's not a surprise.
And that's without getting into questionable mental health practices that are common in that community.
15-25 kWh drawn by the utility is quite a bit! I hope they're paying him well for that.
Monopolist wants the competition to slow down while they speed up in secret.
They're bringing outside scrutiny into their processes; that's going to slow them down, too.
A few days ago there was a story about how an AI store was failing horribly. It can't do that, but at the same time will destroy us?
Not "at the same time". You're conflating what AI can do now with what it will likely be able to do in a year or five, or 20.
Amodei and others are worried about what AI that doesn't yet exist may do, not about what current-generation AI can do. AI is getting better, very quickly, and unless there's some blocking obstacle that no one has been able to identify will at some point become far, far smarter than humans, individually or collectively. So before that happens, we need to figure out how to make sure that superintelligent AI wants to help us, and wants to do it in the right way.
followed by an em-dash
I guess that proves that even this site is using AI to write their summaries these days.
You're not supposed to sell it. (Does anyone sell euros?) You're supposed to spend it. But hardly anyone takes it.
at some point most people want to sell the Bitcoin for dollars or pounds or euros
The fact that this is even significant (and it is) 15-20 years after the introduction of Bitcoin, shows that it has been a complete, miserable failure.
I think Bitcoin was a neat idea. Shame it didn't work.
If things were to otherwise stay the same, then it would. They won't. Some descendant of "vibe coding" will become the dominant mode within 20 years. Probably a *lot* sooner. Next year wouldn't really surprise me.
Also, Rust is more complex to use than C, so a small program is much better in C. And a large program is probably better in either C++ or Python(with a lot of library calls).
I don't like Rust, so I'm probably not being fair to it, but I struggle to identify a good use case. (Personally, I'd rather use Forth than Rust.)
When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
