dalyons

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601.
by dalyons 3y ago
Do you have an explanation for how nuclear would actually be better? As far as I understand it’s terrible for orbital insertion levels of thrust.
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by dalyons 3y ago
Hmm? It’s been for the most part faster than RDS when I’ve used both the Postgres and MySQL versions. Less random slowdowns that’s for sure - the log storage system is a lot more predictable than traditional/ebs ones
603.
by dalyons 3y ago
I can’t tell if you’re trolling or not, as those are even more terrible options for analytics workloads . You must be
604.
by dalyons 3y ago
In the last 10 years? Outside of govt? That sounds horrifically inefficient for 2024
605.
by dalyons 3y ago
Because chemistry and IT/swe are not the same jobs. And America also needs chemists
606.
by dalyons 3y ago
They’ll just pass another law to make it illegal to go off grid in a grid serviced area. Pge/cpuc corruption knows no shame
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by dalyons 3y ago
The IEA says it will peak in 2025. And they have consistently underestimated predicted renewables growth VS actual every year for the last decade. https://www.iea.org/news/the-energy-world-is-set-to-change-s...
608.
by dalyons 3y ago
yeah, thats https://ramp.network/ . Also called Ramp. I made the same mistake previously.
609.
by dalyons 3y ago
its effectively their competitor
610.
by dalyons 3y ago
No? I mean there might be some of that (although I doubt it), but you can just look at test data which has nothing to do with the driver. Crash tests, rollovers, crushing , glancing, etc all dramatically safer with modern improvements.
611.
by dalyons 3y ago
That era is dramatically less safe than say, 2010+ though. That’s why I ended up upgrading, the survivability stats are stark
612.
by dalyons 3y ago
Succession gave us a doomed billionaire backed campaign filled with “con-heads”. Time for phillips-heads I guess
613.
by dalyons 3y ago
I do. I grew up in Australia and there has been basically uninterrupted crazy property price growth for 25 years. Always a reason why it would or should go down, but it never has. Canada is the same as far as I know. You might be very disap
614.
by dalyons 3y ago
What database systems are you aware of that take advantage of these modern network advances? Sounds like spanner , but any others?
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by dalyons 3y ago
Software isn’t nearly as expensive as building airplanes, and the cost of being wrong is infinitely lower. That’s why we build it fast, and iterate quick. It’s not a good comparison.
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by dalyons 3y ago
This is 100% my experience, and this is a very astute observation : > It's easy to say "don't do that" but shit happens: large legacy codebases, social factors, and individual incentives of backend and frontend teams
617.
by dalyons 3y ago
What? How is the land getting “salted”? The small trace amounts of metals in the solar panels stay inside the solar panels. They don’t melt into the soil. And you just take the panels away when they reach EOL.
618.
by dalyons 3y ago
Nuclear will always be “big projects”. Renewables don’t overrun much.
619.
by dalyons 3y ago
Another factor here is that for many reasons startup equity (and thus startup comp in general) is much less valuable statistically than it was 10-15 years ago. Everyone knows that it a shit deal now, so many of the best engineers, those who
620.
by dalyons 3y ago
Why is it not a good place for families? Anything other than the expense I mean
621.
by dalyons 3y ago
my place in Tahoe is in California but the power comes from the Nevada grid. It costs 14c, so 3x (!!!) less. It’s pretty rural and tree dense :)
622.
by dalyons 3y ago
Hawaii, a remote island in the middle of the pacific, pays less than the 2024 pg&e prices for the bay area. PG&E are the worst.
623.
by dalyons 3y ago
> The same economies of scale that have made solar+wind so cheap also apply to nuclear tech. They really don’t. Nukes are fundamentally extremely complex pieces of technology, that also happen to benefit from being physically large. They
624.
by dalyons 3y ago
instead of posting a poorly informed take, you should go and have a look at their list of product offerings. They havent been just a "notification API" for a long time now.
625.
by dalyons 3y ago
That’s a really interesting insight!
626.
by dalyons 3y ago
30 years is a generation, it’s a timescale that doesn’t surprise me as much given how much macro economic change there has been. 5 years feels like yesterday, and china is not materially different economically in that time AFAIK
627.
by dalyons 3y ago
That graph is impressively steep… ~18 million to ~9 million in ~6 years! That’s a massive cultural shift in a really short timescale, most birth rate changes are slow declines over decades. I wonder what changed in 2015 to start this ?
628.
by dalyons 3y ago
I’m sure OP knows this. But practically that just never happens. Big companies are bureaucratic and process filled with exception
629.
by dalyons 3y ago
That’s a very cynical take on an industry (tech) that is mostly in my experience filled with folk who are intrinsically motivated. The whip makes productivity worse for folk like that, beyond the very short term. They quit.
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by dalyons 3y ago
And I “guarantee” the opposite. Nuclear is fundamentally massive complicated technology that just wouldn’t benefit from cost reductions due to manufacturing scale in the same degree. Solar is so so simple in comparison, that’s why it’s gott

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