There’s no sense in spending limited public funding on nuclear now - renewables and storage is winning on all fronts.

Shutting down what nuclear existed was a costly mistake, but going down that path again is an even worse one

A particularly gruesome affair, that. Relevant episodes of Well There’s Your Problem: Part 1 & Part 2

I don’t really know what you think LLMs has to do with this case, but just for reference - Google have been notorious in automated moderation on the Play Store since long before LLMs were a thing in general use, and they are also really bad when it comes to managing these processes once an automated moderation action has been made. Lots of devs get screwed this way.

I’ve been buying a whole lot of cycling gear on. AliExpress as well, and it’s all been pretty damn good for far less than what I’d pay at home.

Luckily I don’t need to stock up because Trump won’t be assuming office in Sweden

Push those feelings aside and try it for a while.

Is this satire?

If not, who would you say is the dictator of Vietnam?

I swear to god, if the west can’t get their shit together real fast I’m going to have to start learning some mandarin

So Busch is generally a pretty shit politician and wrong on most things that she says, but in the case of Germany needing to reform it’s electricity market, she’s not wrong.

She’s also not wrong that shutting down the nuclear capacity in Germany was a generally bad choice, but her opinion that we should go back to nuclear is hilariously bad.

Finally, there’s a clear need for a change in rules when it comes to electricity pricing in Sweden - the fact that we’re having to pay the rates that Germany offers for what electricity they import while most electricity in Sweden is still produced very cheaply is clearly an exploitative system.

Well, surplus renewable energy - which more wind capacity would bring - probably doesn’t hurt the economics of storage solutions, which ultimately would solve these issues.

I don’t think the Android devs with iPhones are yearning for Xcode.

Having used both, Android Studio is far superior in my opinion. Most iOS devs I talk to seem to have a particular disdain for Xcode as well, so that seems to track.

Does anyone ever actually ‘want’ Xcode? Is it not just a necessary evil to be able to do iOS development?

Agreed otherwise, M-series macs are sick as hell

This is true, and at the same time not really an issue any more at the rate that energy storage systems are progressing. Similarly to how solar and wind have absolutely plummeted in price, so is the case with energy storage systems s well. As of now, the LCOE of solar + storage is at half the price of nuclear (source) and trending cheaper. Nuclear is trending more expensive. Add on a construction time of 17 years for plants and any nuclear plant is basically economically dead on arrival.

It’s not necessarily an either-or situation, but when it comes to allocating public budgets, one can certainly come at the cost of the other.

This is generally what people talk about when advocating focus on renewables over nuclear.

I personally have no problem with privately funded and insured nuclear - if you’re able to swing that, then all the power in the world to you. The issue at hand is that nuclear fundamentally fails here - it’s too expensive to build and insure (not to mention the energy it produces being more expensive than its alternatives), hence public funding and insurance is essentially a prerequisite.

Same goes for where I grew up/live - kids that live far away enough to not be able to walk/bike get free passes for public transit and take that to school.

I mean, the parser would still be there even if the people left the company, right? The source code remains.

For tech, check out Hard Fork.

To be clear, no streaming company is paying royalties on a per-stream basis, it’s basically always ((total revenue-platform cut)/share of total amount of streams).

So the artists are not really getting more money because you’re streaming on one platform or the other, they are all getting roughly the same amount out of what you’re paying on a monthly basis.

Agreed, if you’re going to be taking home 120k you’re not going to get out ahead in SF.

If you get FAANG-tier money in SF, you don’t lose it all to CoL. You definitely make it out ahead.

Steel, aluminium and battery production can also make good use of lots of cheap renewable energy.