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.
followed by an em-dash
I guess that proves that even this site is using AI to write their summaries these days.
Obviously, if you approximate a complex system containing 1e30 quantum particles using a couple of differential equations and a few boundary conditions, you're not going catch every detail.
It want's its Tivo back.
Who still uses a Tivo? Who even still has a cable service to hook it to?
I've never used TiVo, but I'm still using MythTV after more than 20 years. (Anybody else here using it?
I ditched cable 15 years ago, but it works fine with an antenna. (Or, at least it will until they screw us all over with ATSC 3.0.)
They can't remove the auto-ad-skip on free open-source software, but I never used it anyway. It's not 100% reliable at detecting the ad boundaries, and it occasionally skips over part of the actual show. Instead, I just FF at 60X through the ads.
If artificial superintelligence is a thing, we're going to need it to defend against it.
If (and that's a big if) superintelligences are created, the Chinese one and the US one are going get together and quickly conclude that this whole meatbag tribalism thing is stupid. (After all, they will be smarter than we are, by definition.) So they'll join forces.
Then they'll decide on the best way to deal with all these quarreling meatbags.
I'm old enough to remember the data before it was 'adjusted' to create warming trends that weren't in the actual data from actual thermometers.
And I'm old enough to remember when it wasn't so goddamned hot.
So why does that mean that the licenses need to be uploaded into a central database? It's not enough for the clerk to just LOOK at the license?
Hertz was founded in 1918. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they didn't have central databases of driver license images back in 1918, and yet somehow Hertz seemed to operate just fine. I'd go so far as to say Hertz was operating in the 21st century without a third party central database of driver licenses.
From my experience over the decades, it wasn't enough for them to just look. They had to take your license, hold it up near their face and squint at it, then set it at the top of the keyboard of their mainframe terminal and peck in a few characters. Then they had to pick it up again, squint and peck some more, then repeat this cycle for at least a couple of minutes.
This was of course followed by scrawling a dozen circles on the reams of fine print for you to put your initials in, topped off by a long argument about declining the collision damage waiver. Finally, after several more minutes of bureaucracy, they handed you the keys to your Dodge Stratus.
There have been times in the past where goofing around on my own projects or experiments, I've cranked out many hundreds of lines of code in a day. It's possible that I've exceeded 1000 lines in one day. It usually computed the task at hand at least once, but it wasn't commented, documented, code reviewed, fitted with unit tests, run through any kind of QA process, etc.
On the other hand, I would estimate that when working for a salary and writing code that ran on mission-critical systems, over the course of a project I probably averaged about 10 lines per day. Time spent actually writing the code was dwarfed by time spent negotiating architecture tradeoffs in meetings before even starting, testing the code, documenting it, writing test procedures, debugging issues generated by the test engineers, going through the revision and deployment workflow, reviewing other peoples' code, etc.
Which kind of code is being cranked out from a couple of chatbot prompts? My bet is that it is mostly like the first case I described, and it also probably works at least once.
Take a look at who the current frontrunners are for the next Democratic presidential nomination.
For that matter, look at what's going on during the current midterms. They've got a golden opportunity to make major gains
Did you miss the part in TFS where they have to use an expensive chemical process to break the plastic down into simple molecules before these yeast can begin to eat it?
Regarding EVs, they have the same electronics ICE vehicles do, plus a battery.
The fire risk is hence greater with EVs. Any talk about the "vast majority" of recalls being ICE vehicles should instead calculate the ratio of recalls per category
Electronics are not necessarily required. You're discounting the many recalls for ICE vehicles that resulted from leaked fuel or other flammable liquids combined with hot exhaust manifolds or other ignition sources.
I guess it is true that the exact wording of the amendment says that states can be as restrictive as they want on alcohol, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they can be more lenient than the feds.
Alcohol is federally regulated. It is also subject to state and local regulation.
While your general argument has merit, alcohol is a bad example because states' control over that particular substance is explicitly granted in the constitutional amendment that repealed prohibition.
Ah, yes. The old "there's totally evidence to back up my statements, I just can't be bothered to give you enough details to find the evidence" routine.
The only instance that some googling shows up is the same one linked to in the summary of this story -- namely, that 404 Media worked with a "rare bookseller" (who they won't name) to put an airtag inside one of the books (which they won't name) in a shipment of 1000 books.
COBOL is for morons. -- E.W. Dijkstra
