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Comment Re:Looking forward to this (Score 0) 189

I see you have no clue how that actually works. No, a Nuke cannot "idle". "Idling" in a thermal power generator refers to keeping steam pressure up, decoupling generators and removing heat input. Gas and coal can do that. All Nuclear can do to reduce power output is an emergency shutdown, possibly damaging the reactor and likely requiring months after to come up again. Hence a Nuke has no choice but finding something that uses its power and that causes negative electricity prices. All other forms of power generation can simply stop producing power and may have to pay for somebody taking their power for a few minutes at best.

Nukes are the only real reason for negative electricity prices on grid-level. Of course the nuclear fans are too clueless to understand that. Your "explanation" is totally bogus.

Comment Re:Amateur Hour in IT Security is over (Score 1) 31

I never made that transition. But keep flattering your ego. Not conductive to seeing actual reality, though. And as a secondary remark, attack code can be completely crappy, insecure and unreliable and still do its job, quite unlike production code. And that is the reason why LLMs can write it fast. Which is something I have been saying for a long time, you are just incapable of reading or remembering.

Incidentally, the software engineer is far from dead. It is just that many people that think they are one do not actually qualify. Regulation, liability and ever raising costs from insecure crap will make that very clear. What we will get is both massive unemployment among "coders" and very high paying actual software engineering jobs. And it is quite possible that LLMs will not play much of a role in their work.

Comment Re:Amateur Hour in IT Security is over (Score 1) 31

We will get liability, like all established engineering disciplines have. There is no other way and, for example, the EU is hard at work with the CRA (which is just a first step). And, guess what, engineering liability is _personal_. As in the person that made the bad decision while being non-qualified, grossly negligent or a greedy asshole becomes personally liable, up to, and including going to prison. And then things will look a bit different.

Comment Re:Amateur Hour in IT Security is over (Score 1) 31

While I agree, this is not a problem on the Engineering sciences side. All these things could be addressed competently and effectively by just using what we know. (For AI this will be simply "do not use cutting edge tech with unknown characteristics and long-term impact for production systems".) This is a practice of engineering failure, it is a failure to hire competent people and it is a failure to make the right engineering decisions. This comes down to greed, stupidity, arrogance, and a "I will be elsewhere when it all comes crashing down" mind-set.

The root-cause is, obviously, the still missing liability in the IT field. We will get that. The EU CRA is a first step and there will be more. And then executives that screw up this badly may go to prison even much later and will become personally liable due to gross negligence or worse.

Comment Re:Looking forward to this (Score 2, Interesting) 189

Selling for a negative price: is still a bargain. Or why the funk do you think the sell is made?

I see you have absolutely no clue how an energy grid works. Negative prices are paid because the tech you use cannot be shut down fast enough. This primary affects nuclear power. If a nuclear reactor is at a certain power level, that energy needs to be used. It cannot idle. It would blow up if it did. And hence its operators need to pay for somebody using their electricity while they slowly reduce power output.

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