In my opinion you are mistaken , affordability does not mean home appliance.
Hydro is pretty cheap , does not mean it’s fit for home.
Here the best scenario is similar to Singapore - Australia or UK - Morocco remote solar grid.
This innovation is very interesting compared to Water- Hydrogene electrolysis that is a bit expensive and needs metals that are going to become difficult to source in the coming decades.
Appreciate the graph in the article , this time the numbers actually are calculated by engineers from DoE , not by Journalists...
Even if the plan is there , without an “economy of war” and the implication of basically every single American it’s nearly impossible to reach those types of deployment.
Money is not the answer to everything , as pointed we are also going to reach “civilization” types of limits with land and ressource exhaust...
My humble opinion is we should simply consume far less energy and accept a much simpler lifestyle, that would be much easier ...
No surprise, just like Uber , Airbnb etc..coinbase has been overstaffed ever since they raised a major amount of capital many years ago...
Hence , I don’t see what 5K people can be doing at coinbase since some startups in Europe are doing the same with like 100 people...
It’s been known for years : startups overhire and lay-off when recession comes up.
With the “nazi revolution” in the 50’ , most startups rely exclusively on “Social Darwinism” , to solve problems or improve products , by having them fight internally and let the best ideas come to executives. Of course only employees who know how to navigate corporate politics are able to reach them and win those fights..
Those 1000 were not part of it, but they will have no problem finding another position somewhere else.
> I think FB, Goog, etc. could lay off thousands with no adverse effects and in fact an increase in velocity, quality, and quantity of new features/products.
You can add Airbnb,Netflix,Uber they often attend conference to describe their architectures.It’s obvious most of these people have no idea what they are doing have no clear direction. They are just havin’ fun will trying to navigate corporates politics. Even the stuff that is published online it’s scary to see their is no technical leadership what so ever.
To be fair I’ve worked in fortunes 500 as well, 60% of the workforce can be replaced with automation.
Since it’s cheaper and less risky they just keep hiring people for repetitive tasks , it compensate the technical debt.
>I would assume any modern processor would make a context switch a one instruction affair.
Has been the historic assumption, has been proven to be wrong by every possible benchmark.
Consider tech empower[0] for raw stack performance , runtime level threads outperform IO threads since OS thread were designed to be mapped on physicals cores.
This is very expensive and inefficient.
Creating one thread for every request you have ( Apache + PHP ) will exhaust the hardware after a few thousands/qps target.
Runtime can indeed have millions of those “lightweight threads” without killing your machine since they create a pool from physical threads and tap into IO events to efficiently switch or resume contexts. This is by far much faster.
In Fortune 500 ? YES , pretty much everywhere.
In Startups ? It's Kotlin or Scala mostly.
JVM is far from being unpopular , but fore sure it's not as sexy as ['React','Deno'].push(...)