692: A Thinking Hitch
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People really don’t like AI. (Sponsored by AI.)
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@curdriceaurora The point I was making is illustrated well by this chart, which features the plant in question. The US changed trajectory in a big way after the high-profile disasters. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=57280
@siracusa What i was getting at is that may be turning. Plant 3&4’s design and construction phase might do what happened with France - just replicate one single reactor design everywhere.
@atpfm John seems remarkably ill informed in his assumptions about nuclear power in the USA. Nuclear accounts for nearly ⅕ of US electricity production. 94 current reactors produce the most nuclear power of any country today. (obviously China will probably surpass soon)
@pmcg My point was the change in trajectory after the high-profile incidents. “More than 100 orders for nuclear power reactors, many already under construction, were canceled in the 1970s and 1980s.” This chart shows it well. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=57280
@siracusa True, nearly all cancelled even though no radiation emitted from 3miisland. And it's difficult to spend so much on new nuke without gov’t assurances, and as you guys did mention currently they are more interested in 19th century coal.
@atpfm @siracusa something which wasn't mentioned with the terminal apps and other tools that use config files (yaml or json) is that it gives you the ability to easily add those files to a git repository for backup and version control. I don't think you can do that with the options in MacOS app preferences.
Setting up a new computer from scratch just involves pulling down the files and putting them in the right spot instead of having to remember the settings in a GUI were set to.
@Avendor You can do the same thing with .plist files, which is where GUI Mac apps read and write their settings.
@atpfm A couple of things related to the AI discussion. Tom Bailey writing in Power Magazine wrote about phantom data centres: https://www.powermag.com/phantom-data-centers-didnt-break-the-power-grid-they-proved-it-was-already-broken/
You mentioned legislators mandating that data centre construction should include clean energy production. Ireland has done that. See: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/01/15/ireland-tells-data-center-developers-to-bring-their-own-clean-energy/
And the Irish Government LEAP program: https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/publications/leap.html (1/2)
@ianRobinson Yes, that’s the phantom data center link I had in my queue.
How about naming it "A Reminder App"
Person 1: I really need to be more organised.
Person 2: How about trying A Reminder App
I like to think mine are the worst!
- “MarcoMinder”
- and if you dislike the misspelling, just go with “MacroMinder”?
- there’s always “Arminder”
@marcoarment @atpfm you're welcome :)
@atpfm “freind.com” -> “friend.com”
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@chrisfinazzo Fixed, thanks!
