Wow, some industry lobbyists got government funding, amazing.

Not just in the US, China too is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country

Global fossil fuel subsidies are at $7 trillion, so I guess those are really relevant to our future as well!

No of course not. The subsidies at this point at a crime against humanity.

I don’t want developing countries to waste their money on nuclear power when they can get much more cost effective renewables.

If the renewables are cost effective and provide stable power then I too want them to be priority -near zero risks-, but more importantly industry and business will seek them on their own. I just hold that nuclear power should be part of the mix. Take the UAE for example it is investing in both nuclear and solar.

nuclear power isn’t relevant anymore.

that’s not true. you just don’t want developing countries to have nuclear power.

Stallman warned us, we didn’t listen.

I’m glad to see BadVista still up https://badvista.fsf.org/blog/view/?set_language=en

At what point does this all just become sinophobia?

“Nuclear for me but not for thee”.

The optimal temperature for solar panels to operate efficiently is typically around 25°C (77°F).

It is 34°C (93°F) at night.

Agreed. Developing countries need clean and affordable energy

Not as bad as you make it out to be, and I actually worked in the US with more Chinese engineers than US engineers.

It is not illegal is it?

If it is legal, then thank you China for the free backup.

Summer started earlier than usual this year. The Saudi government needs to install more shades and outdoor cooling, as well as perhaps reduce the number of pilgrims allowed. 1.83 million at once, not counting those without permits, is a lot at once to take care of.

At least the Fediverse exists.

Maybe shouldn’t try to create a country on someone else’s land? Refugees are supposed to assimilate into the culture, not create a separate ethnostate and expel the natives.

In the UAE they steal from hotels

More countries should do the same.

Lots of countries had female heads of state. Here are some Muslim* ones.

*Mauritius and Singapore aren’t Muslim countries but have a significant Muslim minority.

Remember when Google used to give good search results?

Just capitalization and autocompleting variable names with correct grammar is handy

We have had IDEs for decades

I don’t want to doxx myself or blow my own horn. The programming I do, and many developers do, is not something ChatGPT or Bing AI or whatever it is called can do.

At best, it is a glorified search engine that can find code snippets and read -but not understand- documentation. Saves you some time but it can’t think and it can’t solve a problem it hasn’t seen before, something programmers often have to do a lot.

The rate should be about the same since Russia’s population is less than half of the US’s

Am I the only one who has Firefish crash for them?

AI -and cryptocurrencies- use massive amounts of energy and the only value they produce is wealth. We don’t get correct, reliable and efficient results with AI, and we don’t get a really useful currency but a speculatory asset with cryptocurrencies. We are speeding into a climate disaster out of pure greed.