it’s also it’s own rabbit hole.

I quit all that tech & dozens of learning curves when I realized I was spending more time in the tech zone that than on music. Think how technically shitty that record ‘Louis, Louis’ was, yet it got covered thousands of times. Can’t ‘quantize’ or ‘EQ’ or ‘reverb’ or ‘mike arrange’ or ‘24-track’ a great song.

Oh geez, so your electric bills go up a little bit. But in 4 more years they’ll make so much money you’ll never have to work any more, just party until the day you die!

There are no other alternatives for baseline power generation.

1. Natural gas is FAR preferable to coal. I completely agree that coal is unacceptable.
2. Efficient use of existing capacity: How many heat pumps can be purchased by the decades-long costs of a 1GB nuke? Can your country subsidize low-energy lighting? Installing more insulation in old homes?
3. Datacenter urgency is B.S. … AI slop was supposed to be the topic of this post

You can’t run a national grid on 100% renewables and batteries Of course not, but the quickest and lowest-cost solutions should have much high priority. Ergo nukes should be lowest.

(to my understanding) renewables don’t have the output and stability required to fill that void.

Your understanding would change if you actually looked into the facts and the numbers, and change even more if you’d been keeping track of what financial markets have put their money into for well over a decade.

What has worked great for France is keeping their nuclear mishaps very well hidden… as it did for the Saint-Laurent meltdown in 1980, and at the Centraco plant in 2011, for two examples.

That expenditure would displace the 10x the power which renewables + storage have already proven to do all over the world… that’s what nuclear would replace. Nuclear is never good news.

Well-done, funny stuff!

Amen.

Nuclear energy is never good news.

Solar energy can boil water too. At much lower cost, 10x faster build times, and MUCH less waste … none that has to be guarded for centuries.

Never safe, never clean, never too cheap to meter. The exact opposite of the sales pitches. Rarely built without taxpayer dollars. Name the companies willing to insure one.

That’s not how capitalism works.

I suspect that it’s always been the case that bigger customers are able to negotiate better prices. 1 car a year vs 1000 cars a year? 200 pounds of bread a year vs. 200 tons of bread?

Oh yeah! But not so many people can handle that option.

Absolutely … smart thinking! Each brand is likely to have different ways to lobotomize it, might take a while to decide which is easiest/best return, then start stocking up.

I heard a talk a few days ago, and the fella said that if you want a non-smart monitor, you’ll need to pay somewhat more for what he called an ‘industrial monitor’. He said the ‘smart TV’ is cheaper because of all the data it’ll collect, and they can sell that data to make the price-to-the-user lower. (Don’t know for myself, my old Samsung monitor’s only smarts were to send data out to one URL, and I was able to change that URL to a site that doesn’t exist.)

For 30 years I watched the fossils downplaying, lying about, covering-up the facts about free solar energy (‘oh that’ll never work’), wind ('oh that’ll never work) and other green tech. Now they see the writing on the wall, and they’re buying because that’s the way the wind blows … because They’re rapacious motherfuckers, and never have enough money. They started in the US cutting down all the ancient forests, they’ll forever rape whatever looks like dollars.

I’d never ask a friggin machine to do coding for me, that’s MY blast.

That said, I’ve had good luck asking GPT specific questions about multiple obscure features of Javascript, and of various browsers. It’ll often feed me a sample script using a feature it explains … a lot more helpful than many of the wordy websites like MDN … saving me shit-tons of time that I’d spend bouncing around a half-dozen ‘help’ pages.

Damned good question, and I played stump-the-search-engine for 15 minutes and it’s like they’re AVOIDING that question

But fossil fuel companies don’t want energy storage, right?

Stockholders and aalesmen make them put that towards the end… to make investors feel dizzy I think

It is the case that posts people make on HN can quickly be moved from the front page to the 2nd or 3rd. This may be algorithmic or a moderator decision. A valid point is that there’s no way of knowing why this happens, apart from careful reading of the site’s guidelines. Some users will be bad-jacketed. Some posts can be flagged or simply go ‘dead’, also not transparent.