One of the bigger problems with nuclear is the complete collapse of investment and the industry in the past 30 years. Rectors have a design life. Society learns, develops, improves. Industries are built to support other industries.

Here we are now with proposals not to build new reactors, but rather to restart ones that are well and truly end of life. Reliability bathtub curves are a thing, and end of life reliability rapidly drops. Add to that nuclear reactors are virtually impossible to bring to an as new state due to irradiation of the system's materials, eventually the reactors need to be shutdown and replaced. We used to do that. We don't do that anymore. As such the rate of 3 incidents across 400 reactors throughout the past century in the USA is not a rate that can be used looking forward. We should have been building reactors in the 90s, not talking about restarting reactors now from the 70s. The same argument was in place for Germany recently. The question should never have been whether they should shut down nuclear reactors, all but about 5 of them were already beyond their design life and should have been shut down already anyway had the industry followed their own healthy and functioning cadence.

As for the industry part of my comment, when we don't build something, the services required to build them disband. This doesn't just magically get stood up when we want to build something again. Nuclear engineering has been a dead degree for a while, expertise is hard to come by, EPCMs who are capable of building a nuclear power plant are hard to come by (and that's one of the reasons why every project seems to suffer such catastrophic cost/time overruns). I'm reminded of the discussions in Australia a few years ago. During the election the Liberals had a plan to build 8 nuclear power stations in Australia. Leave aside the NIMBYs, and the banks, and the legal hurdles, one of the most outspoken critics of the plan was ... the nuclear industry in Australia, who barely has the resources to keep OPAL running. They said we need a decade of education, before we can start talking about designing and building new reactors to say nothing of the fact that the largest contractors all said they don't have the resources for the plan.

It's nice how everything just falls in place in SI units. 1m^3 of water = 1000kg = 1000L. But hey it's not all good. WTF is a Joule anyway? When we take 1L of water and raise it's temperature by 1 deg Kelvin it takes 1 kcal of energy, but those damn French bastards think that should be 4.184 kJ? God dammit :-)

In case it's not clear I'm just poking fun. Both sides have some good measurements. Well. Imperials has some, and SI has most but hey I'll throw a bone when it's worth it :-)

You had to multiple? I just added 1. :-P

Well yeah smug people are usually dumb. Normal europeans on the other hand know they simply multiply by a factor of 10 for everything, and every unit sort of falls in place.

I've seen that in PADI centres, probably a reflection that PSI is a silly unit no one understands. The ironic part there is PSI is descriptive, BAR is not. I always like pressure units that describe that the relationship is force over area. Sure a Pascal is 1N/m^2, but then most people haven't a clue what a newton is either and the size is large enough to make the unit too small to be really useful... to the point where Pascal is virtually never used as a unit without a prefix (kPa is common)

Come the fuck on.

In my career, I have worked (professionally) with Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, OS/2, SCO ODT/OSR, a bunch of shit I can't remember, and every Microsoft server platform since NT4. My current environment is 98% Microsoft. That doesn't make me stupid and incapable, that's just where my career took me.

Is... English not your first language? I ask because you appear to be way overthinking this.

The metaphor was perfectly clear to me when I read it.

It never ceases to amaze me to see people's mind blown when they realise they can simply multiply SI units by factors of 1000 to do conversion. Congratulations you special little boy.

Standard utility units: KW and KWh for your tiny little home and your car battery. MW for grid scale generation capacity. TWh for national scale production / consumption figures. All powers of 1,000 with no calculator needed, neat huh.

Though my favourite is still when I am standing in a diving centre overhearing a group of tourists being taught basic pressure at depth tables. The Americans are like For every 30ft the pressure increases by 14.7psi so when we go to a max depth of 60ft we can expect a 44.1psi pressure on our bodies. Then they turn to the European tourists: every 10m adds 1bar of pressure, so 0, 1 10, 2, 20, 3. And the Americans are all like WTF why do we have it that easy?

One of the things that I have noticed in the past is that features remained stable when they were specifically coded. In the move to AI I wonder if the stupid fuzzy training and inference just fucks up and doesn't recognise features exist anymore. I've noticed this in my car which arbitrarily decided that Gemini Google searches the names of songs rather than defaulting to playing them on Spotify. When leaving work I used to ask "Is it faster to take the A4 or the A24", Gemini used to do a Google maps update and compare the times, now it reads the damn Wikipedia entry for the A24 toll project and replies with the official estimate of how much time the new road was going to save.

None of these changes were the result of a software update.

AI is a dangerous moving goalpost. We've reached peak enshitification. No longer are humans required to enshitify something. AI can do it itself.

False. There's only a small area of any part of either country where solar moon exists. For example, daylight savings time ends in November. At that point the state of Maine will have noon at 11:15am. In the meantime over in Indianapolis solar noon will be pushing 12:28 (OVER AN HOUR LATER).

The idea that solar noon should have any influence on this is just stupid.

Nope, that's a disaster. Standardising working hours across much of any area is where we got to as a society because it was the best way to manage interaction with each other on a larger scale. That's the reason clocks are moved rather than individual opening hours. We didn't end here by decree, we evolved here because it was the best solution.

Oh god, that sounds like the worst of all options. It's 11am somewhere in the world, can you guess right now if the schools there are open or not? You get on a plane and visit another country (I know Americans calm down it's not as scary as you think), do you now what general business hours are?

I know this is Slashdot and we all got shoved into lockers at school and want our retribution, but I don't think forcing non-nerds to wear calculator watches is the answer.

The the idea that this is some major issue is really undermined by the width of existing timezones. Go drive across the state border and ask the first person you meet if they are less healthy and more mentally harmed than you are.

God knows the happiest and healthiest people in the world are in Scandinavian countries, and they don't see morning light for half the year regardless of what timezone they have. But no doubt someone will jump on this result to push their own personal preference.

I just ran this through Google translator to see what CEO speak works out in English:

Google is a "model for how technology companies and the energy industry can work together to irresponsibly restart end of life 48 year old outdated energy infrastructure in a way that delivers grid-wide electricity without the pesky need for investing in modern safety standards for all, funded by private entities."

There's more than one, and you don't have to argue anything, I'm willing to walk away, there's nothing really useful to say anymore.

I'll even grant all photos are AI generated, it doesn't change the overall point. It's the association with the bills, together they form a picture that he really doesn't want. Even if I just ignore Epstein, and all his buddies, so that entire mess never happened, the bills alone are bad enough to label him. Let's not hold up on the point if they're AI generated, or AI altered, I can grant that, and it doesn't change anything, really. I'll quote the original point I made, in two parts:

Part A:

Part B:

The entire point of that was to mention he's doing the opposite of keeping kids safe, and collecting data he should be trying to distance from. In a very rough overview, and I'm not a lawyer or legal professional, but I do watch legal review, Carney is trying to legislate CSAM collection, why? C-8, C-22, C34, and C-36, they don't require Epstein for Carney to be guilty of what I'm calling him out on. I don't believe all the photos are AI generated or AI altered, I think I've clear on that, but either way, he's still in a world of trouble from what his party is doing. That's not false information, I've listed the four extremely problematic bills, so if the RCMP is going to make posts on Social Media about keeping kids safe, why are they not calling out the Liberals?

Err... definitely not "regional slang." Literally the dictionary definition of the word "hatch" i.e. "to emerge from an egg."