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Do people just not type fast, ignorant of how IDEs work, or what exactly is the deal? I'd rather have the clarity of everything above. It tells me exactly what I need to know and what I can do with it.

Bug: I can't seem to make any overhead announcements over the PA.

I'm starting to tire of Anthropic leading the conversation on LLMs lately. I like the company's products, but lately their statements are more about squashing competition under the guise of "safety" and boasting about how good their internal models are.

I cannot find boomstick anywhere in here

I have a feeling every major nuclear power probably does at this point. Russia definitely has global GPS jamming capabilities in orbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz23G_UXCGA

Careful, this is going to hurt a lot of feelings.

roughly 100% of the time

I really want these people handling my healthcare and other details about my life.

Private healthcare is much worse, seemingly they have an open access policy. New breaches occur in the order of millions per week. Not remotely newsworthy anymore. (last time this was mainstream worthy was 200M leaked records in 2024). Last week https://www.securityweek.com/4-1-million-impacted-by-adapthe... Week before that https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/more-9-5-million-pati... 2 weeks before that: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/general/carecloud-confirms-...

And it will remain this was as long as the consequences of not protecting our data remain trivial.

if only we prosecuted corporations as people instead of just giving them the civil liberties of one

In my experience, any industry following a security standard halts all effort at security once they're compliant with the standard. HIPAA sets a minimum but seems to also guarantee you will get exactly that minimum and nothing better.

The only thing HIPAA guarantees is that when your data is handed out, there was a policy around it.

Not true, it makes investigating medical fraud almost impossible.

Which people? This leak was caused completely by private businesses.

I'm confused about the read on this too. It reads like a "I don't want the government involved in my healthcare" type of statement, but it's posted in the discussion section of an article about private companies mishandling data.

You want an ID verification company handling healthcare? Even if you're a staunch believer in free enterprise this seems like a capability mismatch.

Take all of the ethanol subsidies and build nuclear, cover parking lots with solar.

This is all we want.


Geothermal needs to enter the chat as well.

I'm not anti-nuclear (if it's "done right"), but the economics of it are not very competitive. I think it's a technology we should not abandon (I'd love to see SMRs find a way to be viable and secure).


I would love the idea geothermal, I'm just not aware of a lot of places in the US that can take advantage of it :/

Iceland on the other hand....


There's a lot of development in leveraging fracking tech, Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), as well as some other wild shit like using masers: https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-newberry-volcano-marble-f...

There's plenty of geothermal in the US to be tapped into, we just need to invest more in it. It then becomes the perfect baseload utility.


Enhanced geothermal systems could expand geothermal power generation - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67204 - February 19th, 2026

Map: https://www.nlr.gov/docs/libraries/gis/high-res-images/geoth...


Or build renewables and storage and get massively more energy, in a few years rather than in the 2040s.

Not sure where this fixation on new nuclear comes from?


It's the magic bullet that will solve emissions, I suppose because it's advanced technology and the hippies are against it.

Ignoring the enormous cost, and long build times, plus the fact that when it gets hot they have to be turned off like last Summer.

Yeah, they have their place, but renewables are the real hero here.


I had Claude make this table of CO2 emissions per capita and nuclear energy share, from 1960 to today. https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/9ef28451-1f6c-4809-b575-4...

I think people like nuclear because, over the last half century, CO2 emissions per capita have been drastically lower in the places nuclear has a larger energy share, like France.


Nuclear made a lot more sense back when solar panels and batteries were less mature.

With how insanely cheap solar and batteries are getting, it doesn't make much financial sense to build new nuclear plants anymore (for grid generation, they're still great for things like military ships).


Which is an argument for the Messmer plan half a century ago. Now what we spend our money on for the 2026 version of the Messmer plan.

When it began to dawn on them that their political "side" was intentionally ignoring climate change to boost fossil fuel profiteers they fell back to mocking hippies and silly women environmentalist for supporting feel good renewables instead of manly nuclear.

It made them feel much better, so now they need to desperately avoid learning anything about either renewables or nuclear power because their ego will collapse if confronted with reality.


Their side will never learn, as it isn't an education issue, but an ideology issue. Anti renewables is deeply ingrained in their identity and belief system. We just need to keep powering through the energy transition while ~2M voters 55+ age out every year. You're not going to logic and reason someone out of ideology [1] [2]. Same reason 100k churches are going to close over the next 5-10 years [3]. The ideology ages out, because it is rigid and in many aspects, unwavering versus being able to change.

Not many coal generators (~182GW) [4] and mines [5] in the US left to go. Keep going. Fossil gas gets pushed out next.

(If the US replaced all of the ag land it uses for biofuels, about the size of Oregon, with solar PV, it would produce more power than the entire country consumes while being wildly more efficient)

[1] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/idaho-coun...

[2] https://www.datawrapper.de/_/vecRk/ ("755 counties have ordinances against renewables, and 61% of those counties are rural.")

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49644302 (citations)

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704064 (citations)

[5] https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=03b7a02fb9c24967918...

("Progress occurs one funeral at a time." -- Max Planck)


I think one of the most important videos for the solar salesman here in the comments to read is about inverter instability and what it does to a grid at large scales.

That and the subsidy, rare earth, power output decrease, and China manufacturing problems (them undermining the market with intentionally low prices to kill US solar). All of these problems have solutions, but the main problem right now is partisanship.


>That and the subsidy, rare earth, power output decrease, and China manufacturing problems (them undermining the market with intentionally low prices to kill US solar

But solar panels last a long time. If china starts turning the screws tomorrow, current panels will still work.

You're basically complaining about a Chinese subsidy, and potential issues that we will have years to address, if they become issues.


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