Who needs an IDE these days? All of these tools were designed to write code, but really all you need is to view code now and sometimes write specifications.

Most of the time a claude code terminal is about right. I've even become productive on a phone, with voice input.The IDEs just give lots of screen real estate to things I don't need, like a project navigator or editor pane.

On the projects which I vibe up, the IDE gets in the way. On those were I need to look at the source, okay, but them vim or emacs do a better job of visualisation and work over ssh cleanly as well.

The speed with which AI is improving, I am not sure that a study of even six month in age is that valuable.

Of course code review has become a bottleneck. But that also use AI. Indeed, I think, anyone who is writing code without an AI review is a problem.

  We are rapidly moving to a situation where once the need is clearly identified, the code will just appear. Time to move up an abstraction level.

"they say". Of course alcohol dehydrated you. It is as much of a fact as you can get. Clearly evidenced, mechanism understood, and a shared personal experience of billions.

Germany switched it's nuclear off too soon and too suddenly. Spain have managed the transition far better and now have cheap renewables.

Why is per GDP the proper metric? This is going to depend mostly on the kind of industry that you have. If you have lots of heavy industry, then you will have higher CO2 than if you have lots of light industry. So, both per capita and per GDP are flawed metrics and do not carry the full picture. What is clear is that being a large economy with either high per GDP or per capita output of CO2 gives you substantial ability to impact on climate change, as opposed to just trying to pass the responsibility to others.

These numbers are normally based on average power production rather than peak. On a windy day it will be more. But, yes, one small offshore wind farm is going to have a limited impact on the total US supply. You would need to build more.

That is not a good comparison though. You are asking solar and batteries to replicate what nuclear is good at. So nuclear will look good.

A better comparison would be to ask solar and SMR to produce power to meet demand over a 24hr period, where demand is highly variable. Both need significant storage to achieve this.

That is what this train does. It's just that the dynamic charging section is very short.

Well, we won't know for sure unless we try. That they are getting to passenger trials suggest that, yes, it will be cheaper.

Third rails come with hazard, require electrification along the full length which strains local grids, and for long distance can be very expensive. A system with overhead or third rail every 50 miles at or around a station might be very much cheaper.

The dialect is called British English because it is spoken all over Britain and has been for centuries. The existence of Welsh, Cornish and two Gaelics does not negate this, as the spread of those languages has never really coincided with the national boundaries, particularly in Scotland.

The bigger question is why English is called English.

Storage and wind auctions are not linked, but there is 100GWh in the planning pipeline. Not all of that will get built, but it is a 10x increase.

The UK arrests imprisons people for incitement to riot, not mean tweets.

I believe that a good thermal store can increase the efficiency of this sort of plant 30-40 percent, so in that sense quite a lot is in the thermal store.

Yes, of course there is a heat exchanger. It's all very well known and widely available technology. Their claimed efficiency is 70% over 12 hours, so that is enough to make solar function all day, at half the unit price of lithium.

Of course, these figures might not pan out, they might not be able to scale up, or battery prices might drop fast enough that their lower cost might disappear. Or their dome might be too weather sensitive or, or, or. For now, though, they appear to have an early stage product that has a reasonable chance of success.