The power requirements of AI and the upcoming infrastructure demands of EV's are just two examples of what solar and wind will never be able to cover. Unless the plan is to deforest the EU and carpet it with solar panels and wind turbines and continue with reliance on Russian NG, we need to start building nuclear. It's clean, safe, and reliable power. Modern designs can have a plant up and running in 5 years if you remove the antiquated regulations from the age when people had more fear than common sense.

Well the plague is bacterial, not viral, and even the WHO says you shouldn't get the oddball vaccine that was developed for it. Infection is easily treated with common antibiotics.

You also usually don't contract it unless you live in squalor or come in contact with infected animals. And the only way you die from it is if you didn't seek treatment and/or you had another serious ailment and this pushed you over the edge.

Prairie dogs out in Colorado are well known to be plague carriers, the disease never went away, we just know how to cure it now.

If you look at the actual chart provided by Ember (and linked in OP's post) you'll see the solar values are directly tied to the season. By December the energy production of these vast solar arrays drops well below that of even coal.

Nuclear is the only consistent energy source in the EU and requires far less destruction of land than solar. They would do well to invest in nuclear right now to supply future energy projects. The past trend to decommission functional nuclear plants was very ill advised.

Hi. I think you are confused.

Air India crashes/fatalities:
* Air India Flight 101 CONTROLLED FLIGHT INTO TERRAIN -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* Air India Flight 855 PILOT ERROR -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

What does the word perfect mean to you? Those are crashes. People died.

We can even add:
* Air India Flight 182 BOMBING -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Though that's also on the staff at the airport doing security screenings.

Once configured the way I like it, it has been a very good performer with privacy by default in mind. But if FF folds it will take LibreWolf with it.

The problem with opinion pieces like this, there is no offer of a better solution. Chrome? No thank you. Addon capabilities were hobbled on that platform because Google was losing access to your data. This applies to all the chromium derivatives as well like Edge.

I had used Brave for some time as the "lesser of chrome evils" but at least for me it has become unstable and bloated in recent months - hence the move to LibreWolf.

LibreWolf however is not without it's shortfalls - while it maintains parity with the FF releases, the maintainer has their own ideas about how your browser should behave and it requires some technical knowledge to override their decisions. For example - you cannot enable dark mode, a very common configuration choice, by default. You have to edit the config to override the restriction. And trying to set LibreWolf as the default browser requires jumping through unnecessary hoops.

Currently I'm waiting patiently for LadyBird to mature. There's potential there.

This is the WaPo article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

OP used an MSN link which ironically is another way big tech has been siphoning off your data. Google loves to return an entire page full of MSN links because Microsoft has been aggregating and news links for fun an profit using Edge as a default browser. The story should have included eschewing the use of Edge along with Chrome.

Not replaced... slowly made extinct because there is no longer an incentive to get a deep understanding of the underlying code. People entering the field will, by and large, not invest themselves any further than necessary, relying on the tools to do the work for them.

Whats on the horizon are only "highly skilled prompt writers"

The other way to interpret that data is to acknowledge that highly skilled tech workers are a shrinking population being replaced by AI agents and "Vibe" coding.

"Tech Savvy" people represent a much smaller group than you think. And many of them, including myself, moved to an alternative OS when Win11 was announced and have been getting along just fine. The vast majority of my team moved off windows years ago, so it's incorrect to say they stick with windows. What's correct is they represent a tiny fraction of the market base.

The year of the Linux Desktop has been here for some time, and the increasing compatibility with the SteamOS portfolio of games will see more and more of the younger generation adopt it as well.

The primary driver of Windows market share however is on the enterprise side, and legacy consumers. Media professionals long ago moved to MacOS and coders, especially with AI agents beginning to mature, no longer need Windows for SoftDev.

I honestly believe the idea that "AI's aren't GAI because they aren't big enough yet" is fatally flawed. AI's are glorified search engines - they don't reason, they summarize, they generalize. The bigger they get the more examples of what you're looking for can be returned, but they don't CREATE anything. They are trained on what we created and therefor we see human traits in the returned content, but the AI didn't make that content, we did. We're just seeing ourselves reflected back.

I don't believe for a second that the only thing stopping AI's becoming reasoning entities is the size of their dataset. The human mind is vastly more complex than that, it cannot be so easily reduced to a single mechanism.

Gas and Diesel isn't going anywhere - it's still the cheapest, highest energy density source of power for a vehicle and has enormous infrastructure in place to support it.

Hybrids take advantage of this infrastructure by capturing otherwise wasted energy, like braking, traveling downhill, or idling in traffic to expand the efficiency of ICE engines while asking for zero behavioral changes from the consumer.

Live in an apt or don't have easy access to charging stations? Local infrastructure can't handle the load of a swarm of people charging their cars in their garages? Doesn't matter, you're still just putting gas in the tank, only now you're using less gas and benefiting from the latest electric motor and battery tech - increased fuel efficiency, faster acceleration and all without the range anxiety that comes from fully electric.

It's important to ignore the sensationalized articles that talk about an AI "resisting" shutdown. There is no mind behind this - it's expected behavior from the way the systems are trained. AI systems are basically pachinko games where the player is trying to get the ball to land in the "winning" slot, but we don't credit the machines with calculating the physics behind the drop.

"Journalists" need to stop anthropomorphizing these systems. This is literally the age old "garbage in garbage out" scenario for any software.

Good engineers need not fear anything, they will only see an increase in productivity by using AI for mundane coding tasks. Poor performing engineers, and MS only dumped 12 of 400, can expect to be replaced by a very small shell script.

This is the way it's supposed to work. Anything that helps a company drop dead weight is good for the bottom line.

This is a pipe dream - at best it would take 10 years to bring new plants online. The state of AI will be very different by then.

Not that I'm against a push for nuclear, I'm very in favor of that for a variety of reasons, but feeding the AI behemoth isn't one of the use cases.

It's almost never a good idea to leave this value at it's default. For example - the "tuned" profile "throughput-performance" will set this down to 5.