I also know nothing of the drama, but what I picked up from the first blog post was that even with access to near unlimited funds and unreleased god-tier coding llms from a trillion dollar AI corporation it was apparently impossible to fix a backlog of bugs in Zig code but it was possible to fix them by automatically doing a rewrite in rust.
I can see why that might feel like an existential attack on Zig even if starts with a bit about how great Zig is.
So pointing out that the zig code was full of bugs because the author was doing weird stuff and ignoring advice, couldn't hire/retain any good Zig devs because he mismanaged people and is the kind of guy to do a full rewrite because that's more interesting than fixing bugs or learning the old tools feels like stuff he'd want out there in the public domain.
Developed economics should have been planning to double their electricity use for decades now. Electrification of transport and heat should double electricity while simultaneously halving energy user overall.
Is an utter failure that everyone is acting surprised by this increase.
Everywhere being authoritarian throughout all time seems a fairly good summary to me?
The Romans nailed Jesus to a cross, the American south bred human slaves, Europe regularly had crusades and pogroms, post-war America supported a crazy number of military dictatorships, the Iron curtain, Communist China and so on.
I think we're worried about the Trump administration lying about what they talked to the Russians about. A translator with loyalty to the USA might request what they heard.
Climate change denial is getting pretty unsubtle when this guy is joining an explicitly pro-CO2 organisation.
But if the pro-CO2 guy hates wind solar and batteries I guess that's a good thing since the world is rolling them out at astonishing speed. Bad news for fans of CO2.
My assumption for these new nuclear startups is that they are scams.
Once they start making deals with the government on the basis of which Christian Nationalist church they belong to that pretty much tips over from suspecting a scam to suspecting I live in a Stephen King novel.
You might be referring to this but on top of hardware decode some Bluetooth setups can send the actual AAC file to the headphones and decode it there.
Traditionally Bluetooth audio meant decoding and reencoding it into a crappier codec before transmission. So it's an efficiency and quality win.
I think some Google Pixel Bud Pro earphones do this for Opus but that is rarer (there's a few other codecs that have been done like this over the years by different manufacturers).
The low end of costs for new build solar and wind in the US is nearly identical to the average running costs of fully deprecated nuclear plants in the US according to Lazard.
Solar low end $38, Wind low end $37, Nuclear running cost average $34, Nuclear new build low end $141
Normally I'd say that renewables cost is likely to continue to fall over time, but with Trump in charge and putting his thumb on the scale that future is a little cloudy. These are all long term investments and risk causes higher prices.
Either way if a nation is looking to get out of nuclear today then it's not a clear cut case to say that they'd lose money by doing so.
I want to live in a world where this part leads the article:
> For many Spanish consumers, the glut is a blessing, because the price they pay for power is linked to what producers get on the wholesale market. This year their rates have been among the lowest in Europe — about half of what Germans pay.
And the grumblings of speculators are relegated to the second half of the article where I clipped that from.
Offshore wind is cheaper than coal in China now. Which also makes it much cheaper than nuclear in China.
Onshore wind is only very slightly more expensive than solar in China too, most projects overlapping in cost ranges, both roughly half the cost of coal.
This is reflected in their deployment numbers, which also feeds back into cost reductions.
Is it relevant that the paper linked has been retracted?
> The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article. An investigation by the journal found evidence of authorship manipulation. The Editors-in-Chief therefore no longer have confidence in the provenance and reliability of the article contents. The authors disagree with the decision to retract.
> Some of its key issues include lowered wages for politicians, ending the tax payer funding of various sculptures, monuments and art, large scale remigration, a stricter immigration policy, and free dental care.
I can see why that might feel like an existential attack on Zig even if starts with a bit about how great Zig is.
So pointing out that the zig code was full of bugs because the author was doing weird stuff and ignoring advice, couldn't hire/retain any good Zig devs because he mismanaged people and is the kind of guy to do a full rewrite because that's more interesting than fixing bugs or learning the old tools feels like stuff he'd want out there in the public domain.