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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • It might seem that way but it’s a fairly arrogant assertion. They’re a sophisticated organisation with a lot of well experienced people guiding them. As an outsider it’s easy to criticise their seemingly endless series of bad decisions, but I’m still confident that internally all of these decisions seemed like a good idea at the time.

    Besides which, this would be a good reason to fork their codebase rather than starting from scratch.













  • Great points.

    I think the option of nuclear needs to be on the table, and in some (or many) circumstances it might be the best fit.

    Presently in Australia one of our two major parties is campaigning on a “pivot to nuclear” platform, but we’re kind the polar opposite to the netherlands (both figuratively and literally?). The vast majority of Australia is sunny desert, girt by sea, with a tiny population in on the coast. My state is something like 2,000km by 1,250km, with about 2 million people. Nuclear just doesn’t seem like a good fit right now.

    My concern is that with this pivot to nuclear we basically just keep burning coal for the next 20 years while we’re building nuclear plants.

    It might be a great idea to build several reactors, while we furiously build out wind and solar.

    There are some gargantuan solar hydrogen cracking projects not far from here in the planning phase which just sound amazing to me.