𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠 @ ChairmanMeow @programming.dev

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Honestly I dislike a lot of the KDE default app names. Default apps should have simple, descriptive names.

The fact that the file explorer is called "Dolphin" instead of just "File Explorer" or "Files" or something descriptive just makes KDE harder to use for no good reason.

I wish I could just easily reconfigure the name and icon of the default apps so it's fixable at least.

The nebulous term is "intent". That's not something that's always clear. Especially early on in the war the argument was that the intent was to destroy Hamas and rescue the hostages. That wouldn't be a genocide. But given what several cabinet ministers have now been publicly saying, we can determine that the intent is present.

The energy grid of tomorrow is is in no need of a baseline supply.

The baseline is often referred to as baseline supply, but in reality it's baseline demand that always needs to be met. A steady supply made most sense in the past, but that's not the case anymore thanks to renewables. Several countries already produce so much power at peak hours, the supply from renewables exceeds the total demand significantly (leading to negative energy prices).

Because renewables are the cheapest source of power by some distance, this means that it's economically the best option to switch all other power generation off. Meaning that to ensure the baseline supply is met, you need a flexible source of power, one that quickly scales up and down without pricing itself out of the market doing so.

The renewable answer to this is batteries. The fossil fuel answer is natural gas reactors. Both options are cheaper than nuclear.

Nuclear takes too long to build and there's just no economic case for it. It's considerably better to invest in cheaper options with a much faster return on decarbonization.

This wasn't true 2 years ago and it's even less true now.

Battery costs have dropped 80% in the past decade.

Here's a reddit comment that pretty succinctly sums it all up: https://www.reddit.com/r/NuclearPower/comments/1h62c1i/comment/m0ecbyq/

It will read a dump from the ROM. The project obviously can't be held responsible for how you may have obtained that ROM.

Those are the references to where the assets are located in the original ROM (that's the data inside those json files). There's no actual asset in there.

You can't do what you say, because the original ROM is required to get the assets. Just this repo gets you nowhere w. running the game.

Decomps are legal because no copyrighted material is being distributed. They typically require the original ROM to run (eg for assets).

AFAIK Taler is for payments, the Digital Euro is for storing value.

The reason for that is that surgeons are rated based on their success percentages meaning they'll recommend against risky surgeries.

The upside of this is that surgeons aren't operating willy-nilly on people and will make a proper risk assessment. The downside is that overweight people have an inherently higher risk of complications from surgery, so some surgeons will pass.

It's not because they think these people don't need it, it's because they think it's too risky. They're usually not wrong about that, you just need to find a surgeon willing to take the risk or, if possible, reduce the risk by losing weight.

I mean several of them acknowledge it, but this guy at least seems to think it's problematic.

I remember a project where someone booted Linux off of Google Drive. Cursed on many levels.

I know that nuclear and hydro can constantly cover it, the point is that when it's very sunny out countries with good solar adoption will already 100% cover it (if not more). The nuclear power at those times has to compete with cheaper solar power, which it loses on price. And because the grid can't handle more supply than demand, it requires shutting something off. The cheapest power is solar so you'd prefer to keep that on for economic reasons, but since nuclear is bad at scaling up and down you have to pick the more expensive option. This increases energy prices beyond what is really necessary.

This also becomes even less tenable as battery adoption increases.

Well that's exactly the popular misconception. The constant part of the baseload is the demand, not the supply. The total supply should always match that of course, but given the variable makeup of the supply, where renewable power sources are simply cheapest and at peak moments will supply the full demand, any other source will have to be variable as well to economically compete. Otherwise it's just making energy needlessly expensive.

Except people will just purchase their own solar, because it's cheaper than getting nuclear power from a battery. They won't wait for demand to catch up, they'll make sure their own demand is fulfilled so they won't have to purchase power anymore.

It's a simple economic rule, if there's a cheaper option people wi shift towards it. You can't force people to purchase your power. You can't stop it unless you ban buying solar, which won't be received well.

Nuclear fills a rapidly shrinking niche in the power mix of tomorrow, and it's economics that's squeezing it out. There's no point in fighting that unless you want to pay more for power than is necessary (which nobody does).

Assuming you still need the nuclear power to fill those batteries that is. Given the rate of solar adoption, that might well become unnecessary.

Rooftop solar takes basically no extra space and it's hard to get even closer to population centers than that.

True, there were several programming mistakes that caused undefined behaviour. Most of these the compiler warns about though, so they could have easily been fixed.

The issues were "masked" so to speak by the debug build (even if not fully gone, the game could still crash). But decompiling the game let modders fix those issues fairly easily, after which it could be recompiled with the proper optimizations.

He tweeted out criticism of JD Vance before. I doubt he'll fold easily tbh.

He lived half his life in Peru as well, so I don't think he's easily influenced by the US government.

The problem with using nuclear as baseload is that people have the wrong idea of what is required from a baseload power source.

A baseload power source's most important quality isn't constant output, it's rapidly adaptable output.

When it comes to cost, nothing beats solar. It's cheap, it's individually owned and especially with a battery the self-sufficiency basically means not paying for power anymore. So, people will adopt solar at greater numbers as the cost of solar panels is still dropping.

Solar and wind at peak times in several countries already exceed the demand. Nuclear, which is more expensive to run, now has a problem, because nobody wants to buy that energy. They'd rather get the cheaper abundant renewable power.

So, the nuclear reactor has to turn off or at least scale to a minimal power output during peak renewable hours. This historically is something nuclear reactors are just not good at. But even worse, it's a terrible economic prospect: nuclear is barely profitable as-is, having to turn it off for half the day kills the economic viability completely. Ergo, government subsidies are required to keep it operational.

Flexibility is king in the power network of the future. That means batteries or natural gas plants at the moment. Nuclear can be useful for nations without those and with a lagging renewable adoption, but it will be more expensive in the long run. It will also become more important to do heavy industrial tasks during peak renewable hours, so that the demand better matches the output.