Whatever number Luckey comes up with, expect that to be the new laptop tariff.

NIMBYs would object to the construction of a nearby coal plant as well.

Coal, oil, and gas are commodities. If you dig it up, you can sell it. Wind turbines don't materially affect the price.

The fossil fuel industry doesn't care about wind turbines. The main impediment is NIMBYs.

It was a quid-pro-quo to get rare earths flowing again.
Don't start a supply-chain war with someone who has a more resilient supply chain than you.

Getting high solar output during summer is nice, but they're getting 15-20 hours of daily sunlight in the higher latitudes.

It'll be interesting to see the solar number in mid-Winter, when the days are 6 hours long and the sun is low on the horizon. I suspect coal use will ramp up to keep the lights on and the heat pumps running.

All code has to be reviewed before going live, whether it's written by a human or an AI.

So how do you teach people how to review code? You teach them to code.

Foxconn (Hon Hai) is a Taiwanese firm. It has a lot of factories in China, but it isn't Chinese.
I'm sure they could send experienced Taiwanese engineers to the Indian factories to replace the departing Chinese.

Any idea how Cloudflare distinguishes between search engine crawlers and AI crawlers?
Presumably there are sites that want to be scanned by the former but not the latter.

I can see the benefits of using Rust for system libraries, public APIs, and executables that run with root permission, but beyond that Rust seems like a terrible idea.

I remember seeing a talk by the IT department of a non-tech company. They were re-writing a GUI desktop app that calculates optimal settings for their product. It doesn't have an API and doesn't run as root, but they chose to use Rust because of the hype.

Now they're struggling to find competent Rust developers, and it's running way behind schedule.

You're right. A better measure is annual TWh. Here are the 2023 numbers.
China: 9,456 TWh (not including the extra 2024-25 capacity mentioned in the article)
US: 4,254 TWh
EU: 2,824 TWh (in 2022, and falling apparently)

Ignoring the solar fraction, note China's total generating capacity: 3.61TW
According to Wikipedia, total capacity for the US is 1.28TW. For the EU it's 1.08TW.

Yeah, I probably wouldn't hire anyone who listed CSS (or HTML) as one of their programming languages.

I'd buy a pair of AI glasses if they could translate (subtitle) speech in real-time. Really handy when travelling.

Google Translate camera mode would be useful too.

Probably the first time someone has been more attractive than the actor portraying them.