Are there negative implications to these reactors becoming one of the 20-40 ships per year that end up on the bottom of the ocean?
That was the first question that came to mind.
Maybe we can revisit that idea in 10 or 20 years.
Climb in your time machine and go back 30 years or so and look up General Magic. They had ambitions of developing an ecosystem where their device could be a self-directing agent on the owner's behalf - scouring the network (wasn't really The Internet quite yet) and find things, like concert tickets and restaurant reservations, and book them for you.
It was way too early for such ambitious ideas.
(Don't comment that I don't know what I'm talking about. I was there - collaborating with Marc Porat - in the early days).
I think in this case since it was only one region we can fall back to "you shouldn't outsource anything significantly important without the multi-region failover plan"
Given that the outage was claimed to be in Eastern US, why did I suffer multiple service outages in Idaho?
Oh, and by the way - one of the services I lost was Amazon shopping
Regional my ass...
bitcoin is the first tool in human history that lets you own value directly without permission without intermediaries without banks bleeding you dry through inflation and debt.
Crypto "money" is just another form of promise. While I agree it might be useful in a global financial crash, I'm skeptical. For it to have "worth", a huge amount of expensive global infrastructure has to keep humming along. If fiat currency fails, I fear for the reliability and availability of the Internet - and all that essential stuff reachable by way of it.
But more to the point, you seem to be disregarding precious metals. Have you noticed what has been going on recently with gold and silver? And no "Internet" or other "infrastructure" is needed to barter with coins or bars. But - to be fair - you do need to be "face to face". But as I said - if the communications infrastructure poofs, that's where you stand in any case.
It takes many days of coding till 4AM to become a great developer.
What the hell? You go to bed at 4AM? Allergic to all-nighters? How about all-weekers? Sometimes that's what it takes to push through. Of course it's unsustainable, but employers notice and appreciate dedication to get through the tough patch without sacrificing the employer's business for the sake of sleep
In my career (retired now, btw), my longest sustained software development crunch was 5 months. Many all-nighters, more 7-day weeks than I could keep track of. The biggest overall, however, was a one-year dash to slap together a large system (more system design/integration than software development) that was sold way beyond what the product could do. To my pride, the product is still sailing along swimmingly, 3 years after my departure.
And with the all-nighters, you sometimes get to finally go home with a huge sense of pride in a job well done.
"Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo." -- George Bernard Shaw
