VibeSurgeon

My understanding is that all nuclear power plants have a primary closed loop system (for the direct contact part), but the secondary cooling system, by heat exchange with the closed system, can either be evaporative or by heat exchange with an available body of water.

Alright, so we mandate it, and then nuclear power plants are on the same level of consuming water as data centers - which is still not good, that was my point, mind you

Nuclear plant has closed water system and usually dumps heat to nearby lake or sea. It ofc has environmental impact but less on freahwater usage compared to AI data centers that cool machines using freah water and in a way hard to recover water.

Why would a data center not be able to employ the same mechanism of having a closed water system and dumping heat?

Waste management is an issue for sure when it comes to nuclear, but the economics of nuclear is arguably the bigger problem - not to mention their uninsurability.

one of them is awful for the ecosystem, pollutes our water supply and fresh air,

These things only really follow as a consequence of them being powered by fossil fuels - the only thing the data centers themselves generate is heat and consequently they require water for cooling.

However, nuclear is the undefeated champion when it comes to generating heat and requiring water for cooling, so if I were concerned about the impacts of a data center with regards to water usage, I’d be equally or more concerned about the construction of a nuclear power plant.

Wind and solar on the other hand have none of these problems

It’s not quite techbro fantasy, the actual point of the whole thing is marketing.

It’s worked quite well at that, the amount of coverage they’ve garnered from the stunt is remarkable. Bravo, to be honest

As well, they don’t vibe code …

They do, and pretty heavily at that. It’s well known that Claude Code is written mostly by Claude Code - and you can tell from the quality of the tool, as well as Anthropics general uptime numbers

Right, so this image cuts off the Y-axis. Looking into it, it’s 100% uptime for the green parts of the line, and the second horizontal line is for 99.9% uptime.

I’m fairly convinced that GitHub didn’t manage to keep a clean 100% uptime before the acquisition, so this is more likely to be faulty data - basically underreported downtime figures prior to the acquisition

Reading what the law actually says, these seem to be sensible changes, bringing the rules in line with European standards.

Preventative checks are used in Sweden where there’s evidence for their efficacy - for example, mammograms for all women over 40, screening for colorectal cancer for everyone over 60, etc.

It’s just that evidence for efficacy is the bar that each screening has to clear, and general yearly health checkups did not clear that bar.

The middle racks host weird temporary services while the side racks host the regularly stocked services

Stop resisting is too cop-like for my taste, I’d prefer:

I once again must ask you to stay down

I imagine having to commute for that amount of distance in a car each day is not helping. I hope your situation improves, you do not deserve the pain

If you know where to look, you can get a very respectable bike for not a lot of money.

Especially considering that car prices have more than kept pace with bike prices

This is an ecofascist-though, you should reevaluate it

No, I’m saying that Argentinians adopting chicken as a staple in their diets to replace their beef consumption is a good thing for the environment. I don’t wish any economic hardship on any of them.

Not Invented Here includes the whole stack, including the operating system and the hardware

Congratulations, you just posted the dumbest comment on the site this week

I think an article in Swedish news ran about chicken becoming more popular in Argentina following the extended economic hardship under Miles.

To be honest, this is maybe the only silver lining of an otherwise fully shit Milei regime. They eat way too much beef in Argentina - they are the country that eats the most beef per capita by a large margin.

On the use of dollars internationally in tourist contexts, I once spent a few fairly unpleasant days in Cancún (the rest of the Yucatán peninsula and CDMX were great, though!), I noticed that a lot of shops and services would accept dollars, which Americans more than happily made use of.

The crux of it was that anything paid in dollars had its price, when compared to pesos, inflated to about double.

It was essentially a form of idiot tax.

If you get a push notification on your phone, everything you see in that notification must by definition pass through the push notification service.

This is immediately disprovable by anyone who has ever implemented push notifications on Android