cbmuser

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by cbmuser 1mo ago
I agree, America should finally build more nuclear power plants. China is currently building 37 reactors simultaneously [1]. > [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/513671/number-of-under-c...
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by cbmuser 1mo ago
»It’s an industrial supply bottleneck and rollout timeline incompatibility rather than a Dr Doom Evil Genius Complex that prevents everyone from deploying solar.« No, it's just physics.
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by cbmuser 1mo ago
»Don't understand why.« Because you cannot turn a large datacenter with thousands of aggregates, power supplies and so on off and on like a toaster.
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by cbmuser 2mo ago
As long as major countries like Germany are keeping their ban on nuclear power, climate change cannot be that urgent.
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by cbmuser 2mo ago
It’s really only economics, there is simply no relevant market for mechanical cassette players that would justify the investment. I don’t think it’s true that the capabilities to make these devices are lost. There are still companies like A
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by cbmuser 2mo ago
What's even crazier is that someone vibe-coded ia64 emulation support for QEMU: https://github.com/syunnPC/qemu-system-ia64
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by cbmuser 2mo ago
»If some businesses get killed in the process, so be it.« The problem with this attitude is that the rest of the world often doesn’t have these strict regulations and as result, businesses aren’t killed but just leaving the country.
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by cbmuser 2mo ago
You haven’t dealt with German bureaucracy then.
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by cbmuser 2mo ago
Ireland consumes roughly 40 TWh per year, that’s less than the production of four EPR reactors or two times Hinkley Point C. The country could easily solve its electricity problems with nuclear power. They can ask South Korea for help who b
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by cbmuser 4mo ago
Might be because the article doesn’t tell you the whole story.
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by cbmuser 4mo ago
Well, it’s HN. People love to spread articles that push renewables. In the meantime, France has the cleanest and cheapest electricity among the large countries in Europe.
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by cbmuser 5mo ago
France is proving every day that load-following is a thing for nuclear reactors. I don’t understand why people keep spreading this nonsense. Just stop it, it’s simply untrue!
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by cbmuser 5mo ago
A nuclear power plant cannot free all of its energy at once as the fuel enrichment is too low for an exponential excursion of power, i.e. an explosion.
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by cbmuser 5mo ago
The nearby nuclear power plant produced these 6 GWh every four and a half hours, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and more than 8000 days of the year.
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by cbmuser 5mo ago
»We're off grid and have 7kw of panels, and 40kwh of 48v lithium batteries, with a generator for backup, which is rarely used since we are frugal with electricity and switch everything off when not in use.« Good for you, but this is ne
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by cbmuser 5mo ago
I find it hard to believe that WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram have almost the exact same number of users. This seems to be skewed data.
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by cbmuser 5mo ago
Would you call it free speech if the whole world was able to track your position anywhere in the world 24/7?
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by cbmuser 6mo ago
> What you should do instead is write all your code so it is little-endian only, as the only relevant big-endian architecture is s390x, and if someone wants to run your code on s390x, they can afford a support contract. Or you can just b
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by cbmuser 6mo ago
Compare the price and carbon density of the French electricity grid with that of California to understand why that rebuttal is justified.
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by cbmuser 6mo ago
Capacity doesn’t matter, generation does.
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by cbmuser 6mo ago
»In 10 years it has not just amortised it's costs, it has made me money, and qualifies as a tax right off.« Great, so basically the tax payer is subsidizing your energy consumption. Sounds like a fair system.
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by cbmuser 6mo ago
Yeah, just build a 300 GW transmission line from the US to Europe. It will basically costs nothing.
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by cbmuser 7mo ago
> It is just so much simpler with electricity. Yet the market still thinks differently. Lots of countries still keep subsidizing EV despite them already being mature technology for such a long time. We didn't have to subsidize the s
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by cbmuser 7mo ago
Unless you produce it using the Sulfur-Iodine cycle in a high-temperature nuclear reactor. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur%E2%80%93iodine_cycle and: https://www.jaea.go.jp/04/o-arai/
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by cbmuser 7mo ago
I'm not sure why your comment is being downvoted, but it's spot on. Rust has definitely gained some ground while they're hardly any relevant products using Zig.
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by cbmuser 7mo ago
A new software stack isn't free. Someone has to maintain it. And if the new software stack just improves a fraction of the ecosystem, it isn't worth the effort.
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by cbmuser 7mo ago
> As always with Zig posts, here come the haters. I really wonder why you even care about it. It's another language stack that would need to be maintained within Linux distributions for years to come (security support, architecture
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by cbmuser 8mo ago
SysVInit on Linux isn’t true Unix though as the way it abuses runlevels to start daemons was never intended by the original designers of init.
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by cbmuser 8mo ago
SysVInit is abusing runlevel scripts for starting daemons which has always been a hack to be able to resolve dependencies between daemons. Learning Linux or Unix from scratch shouldn’t include using crude hacks.
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by cbmuser 8mo ago
Australia is still highly dependent on coal. They’re not a prime example of how to decarbonize an electricity grid. If you want a good example, rather look at France!

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