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The budget overruns are predictable. To the point where you can confidently predict that neither year nor the budget will stay as they are currently predicting. Honestly, it sounds more like wishful thinking at this point. I would say late 2030s at probably > 40 billion is realistic. They'll find a way to make it worse. Maybe they'll get lucky and only overrun only a few billion. Every year it overruns will cost billions.

The reasons listed in the article dance around the real underlying reasons and causes which relate to nuclear plants being a once in a generation kind of thing at this point. Most of the people executing these projects are on their first nuclear project. And they have to re-learn a lot of the things that make these projects complicated. There is no learning effect between projects. And in so far there is, it seems to be a negative one. And by the time they are done, there's a new generation that needs to build the next one.

The timescale doesn't help either because lots of things change and assumptions get broken. For example the relationship with China looks a lot less cozy than it did ten years ago. And that might change substantially again in the next ten. So them being a major partner in this project complicates things. In the same way, the relationship with Russia changed so relying on them for supplying the fuel rods might not be as good as an idea as it was back when Finland started planning its plant (the predecessor to this one). It's hard to predict these things on a multi decade scale. So, we're talking major changes with suppliers, project participants, and probably technology as well. And the competition.

The reason renewables are running circles around everything else is because planning cycles are short (<1-2 years), knowledge isn't lost in between projects, and consequently these projects are fairly predictable in terms of budgets and generally low risk. There's still some risk but most of that is bureaucracy. And it gets better with each project because of learning effects. Once you've done 100 wind mills, doing a 1000 more is going to be a lot easier.

Hinkley point C is about 3.4 GW of energy. Not nothing. But the UK has added a multitude in wind and solar since planning started and will add another multitude of energy by its completion (whenever that is). It's not even going to be close. Coal had a major market share when planning started (more than nuclear). The last coal plant in the UK closed last month. By the time this nuclear plant opens that will be ancient history and most of the grid in the UK will be wind, solar, batteries, imported power from abroad (cables), and a few gas plants. The good news would be getting rid of those remaining gas plants.
Do you mean it's competitive due to the longer lifetime?

Is the operation cost of the reactor over such a long duration not significant?

Also why are you comparing 8gw to 3.2gw? Is it due to peek output?
if so won't this be solved by grid level storage?
Exactly. Came here to say the same thing. I live in zone 2 and I'd say that majority of the households don't own a car because they don't need one. We only got a car after we had kids and used to Uber around when we needed a car, a lot cheaper than full time car ownership.
> The only non-cgi part of the video was when they showed a regular cart unable to handle plain stairs.

I disagree. The video showing the drone being pushed around by the experimenters is not CGI. It is real footage.

It is weirdly evenly lit, and the cart moves weird of course, so maybe that is why you think it is CGI?

> A place that needs people to carry stuff between levels has elivators and ramps.

Sure. This is more of a “look how clever our controller is” kind of research than a product anyone expects to produce. In other words the outcome here is the learnings from the controller development, not a hovering noisy, windy, dangerous, low-endurance wheelbarrow product.

It is like all those videos where they kick a robot dog and the robot dog keeps walking. They don’t do it because they expect that the future will have a great need for kickable robot dogs, but because it demonstrates how roboust their controller is.

What would be interesting here though is showing the same drone with an off-the-shelf software being pushed the same way. So a software which just tries to stay level and hover at a fixed distance from the ground, but doesn’t have their their clever controller running on it.
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> instead of fixing after a year

Back in those days phones would effectively become obsolete after a year or two anyway (from the perspective of a significant number of consumers) so I'm not sure that mattered too much.

Also there were plenty of Android phones with replaceable batteries available for years, the market just didn't value that compared to the visual and technical design improvements that weren't compatible with user-replaceable batteries.

Also modern batteries are generally a lot better.

> Prime example of that is when apple removed the ESC key in favor of a touchbar

How? Apple tried that, it failed, they recognized their mistake and reverted to normal keyboards i.e. it's an actual case of the free market working as expected and the opposite of what you're claiming. Also how do you think Apple could have made more money by adding the touchbar? Surely it's significantly more expensive than an extra row of keys...

Of course it didn't stop Dell going down the same path a few years latter due to who knows what reasons...
A lot depends on how much you value some very illiquid assets. But there's no doubt that London is full of people (both British and not) who have more money to throw around than the King. He is not 'even' a billionaire in terms of his personal wealth.
C3 is feature stable now, but still pre-1.0, that shouldn't stop you using it in production though. That said you'll want to be engaged with the community for updates, and if you encounter any issues.

What potential uses did you have in mind?
It is happening. Companies start to be more and more aware of the high cloud costs. Cloud is nice to spin up a project and have some elasticity in the performance requirements. But once it's running more stable and predictable it tends to be cheaper to have it running on premise.
Go, Yankees!

Chinese authorities should be thinking: never stop your enemies when they are hurting themselves. The ex leader of the "free world" can't win anymore?
Is that not what the ARIA standards are for?
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Only in Europe.

Please give us 30% of Steam. Tnx.
Less disrupting the day for who?
If the article is right, watching the dinosaurs fail will be a sad sight, but I see a hope for a next era of small and swift mammals - small, task-specific, often local run models running on my phone, PC, VPS ...

AGI to end the humanity will need to be financed by the Chinese Communist Party, though.
Caffeine sensitivity and metabolism is highly, highly individualized, and it's affected by medications, etc. Its a much better idea to learn your own body tolerance/limits than rely on a generic app. It will vary.

You might also have many other reasons to limit caffeine besides being able to sleep at night - heart issues or migraines for example. An app can't take these sorts of things into account.

Caffeine pretty much doesn't effect me, so I will have a cup of coffee and go right to bed if I want to. I also can be a regular consumer for weeks-to-months and stop suddenly and have none of the terrible withdrawal symptoms people always talk about.
Not Valve's fault that user-space Linux is run by a bunch of unpaid headless chicken with no overarching vision, sense of momentum and direction, while Win32 is a rock-stable API that games are already using.

Until there is a Linus figure that coordinates the userspace and organises a common platform API with long term support for closed-source software, Proton is the only pragmatic choice.

Valve want to get off Windows ASAP, not necessarily waste money chasing windmills driven by silly ideology that native is better.

I love Linux, I have used it for 25 years, and even I accept that native games run WORSE than their Proton counterpart.
Are these huge differences in efficiency visible in financial numbers?
That is the equivalent of a multi million $ yearly income for the psychiatrist. That's insane. Why aren't there more people getting into this profession? In Turkey, you could have a private psychiatrist working for you full time for $14k...
That statement says more about your own personal work ethic than remote working.
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Gaming rigs cost is mostly GPU. Compilers love cores, ssd, ram in that order.

Gaming rig is not great for compiling. And vice versa.
> Well, I live in Europe and over here this is how we roll.

I have several cousins in Europe with kids, and that is not how they roll. They rarely drive >50km.

So who should I believe: your n=1 sample size or my n>1 sample size?
I’ve created hundreds of millions of dollars of value working remotely over the past 10 years of my career. Companies are entirely free to skip out on that if they like. Fine by me :)
„Sans nucléaire civil, pas de nucléaire militaire“ as the French say…
They're not holes (though there are probably many vias there to connect to the ground planes and signal traces, but on this board the vias will be tiny and will either be under the solder resist or under the solder blobs). They're soldering lands for where the two halves of the mainboard are soldered together into a sandwich via some kind of thicker PCB interposer, which can carry the signals between the boards. This is probably an order of magnitude or more cheaper and far, far less volume-consuming and way more robust than standard mezzanine connectors. But rather tricky to repair!

Look at the video in the article around 7:29.

The article calls out the soldered-on heatsink plate, but it's not very clear from the pictures how it actually works in the stack-up without reference to the video. I don't know why they didn't do a better close up of both sides of that, maybe it's in a different article.
That's a very snide remark that is insulting to a lot of people.
You're in luck, globalization is already ending thanks to the American general disinterest in patrolling global shipping lanes + the shale revolution.
The FTC is actively engaging in a monopoly case against Amazon: the organization whose job it is to break up monopolies certainly believes them to be one

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/...

Edit: Amazon, not AWS. Sorry for the confusion!
> Neither smartphones nor Macs have been powerful or ergonomic enough to play current-generation games for decades. So the user base is almost entirely people who don’t play games.

Current Macs and iOS devices are powerful enough. There's a handful of developers shipping full current-gen games to both platforms.
By the sensible definition, it isn’t.

By the definition that killed Aaron Swartz, it probably is.
100% agree. This is fine if you're experimenting with product discovery or small projects.

> Or the guy is a x100 developer.

Haha, I've had 0.1x developer* as my bio on the cringe blue site™ for the past decade or so. I just want to make toys.

* inspired by a post by this post by Benji Weber: https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2016/01/25/why-i-strive-to-be-...
I have this same problem with books. One thing that helps with nonfiction books: just skim it. Especially if it's a pop-sci, business type book that is a lot of unnecessary fluff to make word count. When it gets tedious, skim the rest. Read the headlines, a few paragraphs, skip all the anecdotes. You still get the idea. You don't have to force yourself to choke down every word.
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> Also swearing can be cultural. For example wear I live in Spain swearing is part of the normal language. Grandparents all say words like coño and de puta madre all day long and nobody seems to blink when their 4 year old kids do the same.

I am Spanish, can confirm. Also, the bleeping that you hear in American TV shows and the whole concept of F-bombs (or similar) sounds ridiculous and extremely prudish to us.
That doesn't really make sense. AWS is very profitable [1]. That means that whatever the amount of money they put into engineering, their customers pay, and then some.

As for the customers, very few of them operate at a scale that requires the monumental amount of engineering required to replicate the whole of AWS with its many dozens of services.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-reports-...
This is the first filter on the incoming mass layoffs.
Okay I’m really going to prioritize throwing away my old android devices now.
To be absolutely fair, after the iPhone 4, they could and should have totally focused on repairability above everything else.

Sure we got some more pixels out of cameras but that's not much when you've got to throw them away after X years.
Really? I have had package manager failing experiences since I installed Arch. About 1-3 times per month yay will fail requiring me to use pacman to update. Once I run pacman I can run yay to update my AUR deps when the selling point of yay is that it’s a completely pacman-compatible interface. It’s package situation is so fuzzy though that the community actively encourages you to install multiple package managers. There’s a 3rd pm I can’t remember the name, just a lot of effort for simple things. Often the advice is to read the wiki pages which is nice but Debian I rarely have to read a wiki page or search because everything installs with sane defaults, doesn’t require building for the most part, doesn’t ask me if I want to keep make dependencies when I do build with a default to yes. Arch leaves files behind when I uninstall. Arch doesn't let me know I have extra dependencies I don’t need. Pacman requires reading quite a bit of manpages to understand how to do simple tasks. Arch just feels like a messy experience.
Can't believe we live in a timeline when using Qt is laudible
Dogger Bank will when fully built-out at a cost of some £11bn.

Lifetime cost will be much lower - near 0 staff - no anti-terrorism policing operation - no fuel. If it were onshore, cost would be significantly cheaper and would be able to scale onto the grid and generate revenue (nearly) one turbine at a time as they are installed which makes a massive difference for financing and servicing a debt.

Cost wise certainly not orders of magnitude difference, and it is competitive. The sensible non partisan thinkers out there know it isn't a choice of building one or the other, you build both.
> Why did they have to use some super strong glue for their batteries when a tape or a set of screws did the job in the past

Because these are soft batteries, unlike the previous generation batteries? Like, again, there are way more thought going into stuff like this than “I hate the Earth”.
Maybe, maybe not.

But in responsible disclosure you usually give a 90 day notice period before publicly disclosing and "forcing" them.
AWS claiming that on-prem solutions are competition to UK regulators is like Apple insisting the App Store isn't a monopoly to EU regulators, Google asserting that Chrome isn't dominating the web to the DoJ, or Microsoft denying its omnipresence over the workplace. It's laughable. Seriously, did anyone here actually bother to read beyond the headline?
You just set up a quick video call. I do it all the time.
Spoken clearly by someone who lacks experience with having children.

Look, it works pretty simple. Witching hour is right before dinner time. Kids are grumpy / hangry (hungry + angry). On top of that, young children have a short attention span and patience. Children certainly can socialize (after toddler age), but while sitting still at a restaurant table? Not for long. A tablet or smartphone is a tool to keep them distracted during waiting. Heck, playing is learning too, so it is IMO a learning tool.

That said, I can recommend a family restaurant.

For example, on vacation to Texel we went to this one [1]. I have not even seen the indoor playground (only outdoor) as the two times we were here the weather was great. Tons of children playing, the picture you see of the outdoor playground is not even 20% of the whole playground. It is quite large, with a special area for toddlers.

Moreover, we went to a family friendly bungalow park with activities for children, and the restaurant on the park (we didn't go to it this year but previous year) has an adjacent playground. If you're on a more tight budget, the same exists for camping.

Do children socialize on playgrounds? Toddlers kind of don't. They're still in their own world, at best they play 'parallel'. After toddler age? Absolutely. They form new bonds, become friends, they play together. They also get into conflict with each other, which forces them to learn conflict solving skills. They practice motor skills and build muscles. But I couldn't leave them completely alone, so I stayed in the vicinity. Hence, I did not socialize (which, as autistic as I am, I do not mind :P).

On top of that, I remember going to McDonald's as kid in the late 80s (it was one of the first McD's in my country) and they had a playground with balls in it. Also great fun. For the record: I did have a Nintendo game watch and Game Boy back then. But in the McD's such wasn't necessary.

And finally, to all those people who claim they want to socialize with strangers they visually meet. Yeah, that is why people sat on banks reading newspapers, why walkman and discman existed long ago already, why the hairdresser has magazines, why trains have a silent area where you can read a book, etc. Let's face it: not everyone is an extrovert.

[1] https://www.catharinahoeve-texel.nl/kids
The battery measurement software will never work again with any third party battery replacement. You will never know your actual battery value and the phone may shut off when there is plenty of juice available. Also Apple has software to detect if any part of the phone is replaced and will refuse repairs if any part is replaced. I was told this by the Best Buy authorized repairman as he spent 20 minutes checking my phone and I was told not to leave because they would refuse the repair if my phone had been touched!
Sometimes (with older games) I force proton installation instead of the native port because it runs better.
I like Machine Learning Street Talk discord server.
there are several problems here:
1 - this nuc plant in uk is a 'customized' one because uk has different laws compared to france. As result when you want something custom for the first time - it's both expensive and time consuming.
2- solar/wind can be scaled faster leading to faster decarbonization but makes the grid more unstable, just like the prices. Some tell you can use batteries for this but battery tech isn't there yet, you need absolutely huge amounts of them to cover the deficit reliably,especially for uk. Transmission&balancing costs are huge too. Right now uk's strategy is gas + more imports, usually from france. Afaik there aren't any countries globally(without big hydro resources) with a clear plan to ditch gas and reduce imports from nonfossil neighbors to cover own needs with renewables, be that California or Germany. Even green hydrogen plans are still a pipedream. It's ironical that even Norway with huge hydro resources is considering kickstarting some new nuclear plants
Not to mentioned the cost of using the train vs driving.
Almost every battery is done this way, and literally every repair shop can easily replace them. Maybe find something actually worth getting angry over.
> It is about how many people can travel safe

This is not false, but it isn't either completely true!

Those pesky car commuters keep driving because they have yet to be offered a solution that decreases the only metric every commuter is interested in: clock time from door to door.
Yet Proton game work better and with greater performance than most native ports, which are created once by third-party teams (i.e. Feral), never properly tested or rarely updated.

Soon Wine will have Wayland support and 99% of those ports that no one is willing to update will remain stuck on X11.
I Cant't hide the tab bar without some userProfile.css hacks, while in Zen it has first class support.

It's more a matter of saving precious vertical space.
Large C++ projects aren't exactly known for their stellar compile times either.

Coming from a C++ background, I don't find Rust compile times to be that bad for comparable sized projects in C++.
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Off topic question, but what do investment bankers even do for all those hours every week?
> Additionally the wind farm requires backup

So does a nuclear reactor.
"Wanna grab a coffee?"
i mean you can look here https://app.electricitymaps.com/map how much batteries are doing for uk vs gas/imports...
In Person management is the best way to make poor leadership work through constant oversight and changes (the dreaded "over the shoulder" management).

Great for bad/mediocre managers, horrible for workers.
That sounds like an odd setup. Any chance this was near the airport?

Also did you visit the Netherlands, or only Amsterdam? Because honestly, Amsterdam is in a league of its own with the hordes of tourists who have no clue what they are doing on a bike.
> Don't let yourself be chained by artificial frameworks that were arbitrarily formulated by someone who feels everything should be on schedule.

Can't agree more. Just please, please consider the context of this site when reading:

https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/this-is-not-writing-or-prod...

The only advice that really works for me is this: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/share-your-unfinished-scrap...

- happy 0.1x developer
The description on that page is entirely about the Amazon store business not AWS.
The failure of the organization to meet productivity expectations without questionable forms of psychophysiological manipulation of employees should not be met with open arms.

Yes, it can be effective to deploy such methods over the limited physical access to employees, but ultimately it is an unsustainable method of control that arguably breeds a cohort of disinterested middle managers over time. A successful organization for its goals has the most motivated workers, needless of such methods of control.
CAN, MOST, Flexray, LIN, K-Line were all invented for automotive use.

2 wire Ethernet is also a thing that they spearheaded.
Rough estimate for decomissioning the reactor could be something like £5Bn.

Decomissioning the offshore wind turbines could get into the same range though, assuming £400M per installed GW (nameplate), this would be £3.2Bn

Numbers need to be taken with a large grain of salt.
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The dutch also invested in having a completely flat nation.
As a Londoner in the ULEZ with a car and a bicycle, there were a lot of other changes in that general period to push people away from driving and towards cycling and the like. Blocking streets to cars, removing parking places and the like. I now find with an ebike getting from a to b in the center takes like 1/2 to 1/3 the time as driving - the cars are all stuck in non moving queues at traffic lights.
No, not in a chance. Vanguard needs to be developed from the ground up to be able to support Linux.
I see. Yes, I already hid the stock tab bar years ago and forgot about it.
I feel like I sympathise with books related section: https://www.owsiak.org/reading-books-you-are-doing-it-wrong/
Nah I better err on the side of caution with this - plenty of examples in history where life’s were utterly destroyed even though every sensible person was ok their side - snowden is just one extreme example but there are many others.
> With Intel's patents on emulating x86 on other CPU architectures,

AMD released the x86-64 documentation more than 20 years ago; any patents on that (which includes SSE2) would have already expired by now.