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- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 17 hours ago:
That’s actually an interesting point. Maybe we shouldn’t put nuclear reactors in Germany.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 17 hours ago:
You can’t call nuclear dangerous when it’s literally safer than many other energy sources. It’s like calling Caffeine dangerous when meth exists.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 17 hours ago:
Wait are you saying that renewables have too much environmental cost to make?
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 17 hours ago:
You do know what a city is, right? The regulations on nuclear are also around population density if I remember.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 22 hours ago:
Which cities? I haven’t heard of any cities being made unlivable, only towns and villages.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 22 hours ago:
Since when? There are dams all over the place.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 day ago:
While I think most of this is true, I do doubt your claim that Chernobyl didn’t cause birth defects. Even if it didn’t cause defects in humans because they were evacuated, it still caused birth defects in animals that stayed behind. I mean the thing killed a forest. It’s easier to cause mutations than outright kill something.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 day ago:
There was never any real risk of ruining an entire continent. Stop watching TV shows like Chernobyl for accurate information. Perhaps some people thought that at the time, but we now know that kind of thing is impossible. It could have been a worse accident for sure if there was another steam explosion and it would have effected a wider area, but not even close to a continent lol.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 day ago:
This is the way. Nuclear is actually one of the safer energy sources, and one of the more reliable. It’s also more expensive than most renewables. As always it comes down to local conditions and situations that favor one power source over another - like countries with lots of geothermal that can be exploited or solar probably won’t go nuclear.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 day ago:
Yet it still has much lower deaths per energy generated than fossil fuels, and even less than some renewables. A single hydro accident can kill more people than even the worst nuclear disasters. It’s not fair to pretend that all the other sources are perfectly safe.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 day ago:
A hydro damn breaking has killed more people than Chernobyl before, and probably will again. Renewables are not perfect either unfortunately. Though some are slightly safer than nuclear.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 day ago:
People don’t put reactors next to cities for a reason. Meaning this scenario wouldn’t happen. Nuclear is also one of the safest energy sources overall in terms of deaths caused. It’s safer than some renewables even, and that’s not factoring in advances in the technology that have happened over the decades making it safer. This kind of misinformation is dangerous. It’s also not a good reason not to do nuclear. The reason why renewables are used more (and probably have a somewhat larger role to play in general) is because they a cheaper and quicker to manufacture. Nuclear energy’s primary problem isn’t safety but rather cost. It’s biggest strength is reliability.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 day ago:
Renewables folks are also always looking for things that don’t exist. Like magical energy storage and transmission solutions that don’t cost the earth or have huge losses. Or wave power which still hasn’t materialized after decades of research.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 day ago:
Breeder reactors already exist??? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Notable_rea…
Moving electricity around is a hard problem. Even just moving energy from one end of Britain to the other looses us 10 or 20%, and we are a small nation. If you need to start moving energy in from somewhere actually sunny like Spain you are going to have a big problem.
Crypto isn’t looking for a problem, fiat has plenty of problems, it’s just not an optimal solution. Probably the real answer is not using money at all.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 day ago:
The guy replied with reasonable arguments. You just don’t want to entertain that nuclear might have a place in some countries. Apparently wanting nuclear to make up less than half of energy generation is called being a shill.
Nuclear power is also not a fossil fuel. That’s ridiculous. It comes from elements naturally found on earth that are the product of nuclear fusion reactions in supernova. Not the result of plant matter decaying underground.
Do you not think there are pro-renewable lobbies too? There are lobbies for all power sources including fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewables. Can you link anything that doesn’t come from a pro-renewable lobby.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 day ago:
You don’t actually need to mine more uranium though. You can run certain nuclear designs on Thorium, Plutonium from weapon stocks, or even waste from other reactors. Current generation nuclear designs are laughably inefficient at using the nuclear fuels we have available, and I fully understand why people don’t support them.
Realistically though I don’t ever expect nuclear fission to be as cheap as renewables in most areas. In some places nuclear or another power source is always going to be needed though just because renewables are not practical in certain conditions.
In the long term the answer is almost certainly going to be nuclear fusion or another future power source like neutrino voltaic. Solar and wind power are ultimately just offshoots of fusion, and so is fission if you think about where uranium, thorium and so on come from. In fact all power we know of seems to come from either gravity or some kind of nuclear reaction (inc. geothermal and fossil fuels).
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 day ago:
You do realize that all that is also expensive, and limited? We haven’t invented room temperature superconductors yet, and battery technology is far from perfect. There is only so much lithium and cobalt in the entire world. Yes we can now use things like sodium, but that’s a technology that’s still young and needs more research before it’s full potential is realized. There is also a reason we have overground cables and not underground. Digging up all that earth is hella expensive.
- Comment on where the magic happens owo 2 days ago:
Could honestly try a virtual machine or an emulator at that point. Would be worth a shot.
- Comment on Nahh 4 weeks ago:
Can someone explain what is going on here?
- Comment on Pray for me lads, Imma about to rawdog this without back ups 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think you have interpreted that correctly. People tend to reinstall when changing versions, for example from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04. That isn’t the same as doing updates.
- Comment on Pray for me lads, Imma about to rawdog this without back ups 5 weeks ago:
Honestly if you are that worried about updates breaking stuff, you might be better off using an immutable distro. These work using images and/or snapshots so it’s easy to rollback if something goes wrong. It’s also just less likely to go wrong as you aren’t upgrading individual packages as much, but rather the base system as a whole. Both Fedora and Open Suse have atomic/immutable variants with derivatives like Universal Blue providing ready to go setups for specific use cases like gaming and workstation use.
Alternatively the likes of Debian rarely break because of updates as everything is thoroughly tested before deployment. Gentoo and void are the same deal but in rolling release format so they are at least somewhat up to date while still being quite well tested.
- Comment on Anon recommends a cast iron pan 1 month ago:
What made you think that?
- Comment on Anon recommends a cast iron pan 1 month ago:
Stainless steel pans are amazing when used for the right purpose. They weigh much less than cast iron, don’t require any maintenance beside cleaning them, and they are pretty much indestructible. If you burn something badly you can use metal scowering pads or any chemical you damn well like (including sodium hydroxide that will melt flesh) to get the thing clean again. They are tolerant to any cooking temperature you would ever use, ever. You can’t overheat one with any appliance a normal kitchen would have. This means you can easily pop one in the oven provided it has a metal handle.
The only issue being they have no non-stick properties to speak of and relatively little thermal mass. This is good in that they don’t need long to heat up, but bad in that it’s not a consistent temperature and you have to know what you are doing with the power control to get the results you want. This means it’s essentially useless for cooking things like steak, and difficult even to cook an omelet without using a lot of butter, ghee, or oil. Things like tomato sauces though? Perfect. The stainless steel could care less about the acidity.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
Yes, blink is the engine Chromium uses. Since KHTML was an open source project any project based on it will have to be open source, unless of course it’s just used as a library. Even in that case though blink the engine is forced to be open source even if the browser as a whole isn’t. GNU licenses are considered infectious because anything containing any GNU code automatically and legally becomes open source.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 1 month ago:
Oppenheimer is a mainstream movie though. It’s not that geeky.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
If I remember correctly it’s under a copy left license which makes sense given it’s ultimately a derivative of KHTML.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
Yeah so I also use CachyOS on a couple things and one of them also uses Cachy Browser.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
Don’t Firefox and Chromium already have that?
- Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers 1 month ago:
(Jumping from an insult about dietary preferences to an insult about war crimes is not the same magnitude)
The potato joke is a joke about war crimes even if the person telling it doesn’t realize this. They actually responded in kind.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
For me it was literally the top comment