VibeSurgeon

My understanding is that all nuclear power plants have a primary closed loop system (for the direct contact part), but the secondary cooling system, by heat exchange with the closed system, can either be evaporative or by heat exchange with an available body of water.

Alright, so we mandate it, and then nuclear power plants are on the same level of consuming water as data centers - which is still not good, that was my point, mind you

Nuclear plant has closed water system and usually dumps heat to nearby lake or sea. It ofc has environmental impact but less on freahwater usage compared to AI data centers that cool machines using freah water and in a way hard to recover water.

Why would a data center not be able to employ the same mechanism of having a closed water system and dumping heat?

Waste management is an issue for sure when it comes to nuclear, but the economics of nuclear is arguably the bigger problem - not to mention their uninsurability.

one of them is awful for the ecosystem, pollutes our water supply and fresh air,

These things only really follow as a consequence of them being powered by fossil fuels - the only thing the data centers themselves generate is heat and consequently they require water for cooling.

However, nuclear is the undefeated champion when it comes to generating heat and requiring water for cooling, so if I were concerned about the impacts of a data center with regards to water usage, I’d be equally or more concerned about the construction of a nuclear power plant.

Wind and solar on the other hand have none of these problems

It’s not quite techbro fantasy, the actual point of the whole thing is marketing.

It’s worked quite well at that, the amount of coverage they’ve garnered from the stunt is remarkable. Bravo, to be honest

As well, they don’t vibe code …

They do, and pretty heavily at that. It’s well known that Claude Code is written mostly by Claude Code - and you can tell from the quality of the tool, as well as Anthropics general uptime numbers

Ear plugs help. There are good ones that don’t bother you that much when sleeping.

My impression was that full size was equivalent to original here, that may have been a misunderstanding on my part.

My goal is to have an easy ride were I show up without sweating. I put assist on medium and keep the ride easy.

People on pedelecs typically do not break a sweat, unless they are exceeding the assisted speed, since so little effort is needed to be put in, in order to get 250w of help.

Using the throttle to break inertia at every stop is absolutely a part of that, as is being able to go at a fast enough pace were I’m not peddling for the better part of an hour.

Breaking inertia on a pedelec, despite them not having a throttle, is very easy, since the 250w of assistance. Also, wouldn’t you be closer to half an hour than an hour if you’re frequently riding at 20 mph?

We are not Europe, we are far more spread out in the usa.

I thought this kind of thing was only repeated by anti-transit/anti-cycling infrastructure people, but here we are. I’m not sure what makes you think a 9 mile commute would be an impossibility in Europe - that’s the distance I used to commute back where I lived before, and I live in Europe.

The consequence of regulation will be people like me returning to a far more dangerous form of transportation.

If you’re insisting that you’re going to switch to a car if you can’t have a throttle on your ebike, that’s your decision to make.

With a pedelec, you would get the power boost when pushing on the pedals, and you could turn it off if you’re not into the assist. With regards to speed, it only assists up to 25 km/h, after that it’s all leg power adding additional speed.

Fundamentally, if you ride the way you do, then there’s basically no limitations under pedelec rules, so you should really welcome them - they only limit people using their throttle-supplied bikes in a less safe manner.

Pedelecs that stop providing power at 25 km/h are still not going to be licensed under the proposed rules - in line with EU rules on the matter.

E-bikes with a throttle are really just stealth motorcycles, and it’s reasonable to treat them as such.

In image compression, you can only ever lose information, you can never gain any. Hence, if you want the highest available quality and don’t care at all about space savings, you should select the original.

As mentioned in another thread on the topic, the proposed rules essentially bring the e-bike rules in California in line with the rules in Europe.

I don’t think energy should be wasted being against this

Right, so this image cuts off the Y-axis. Looking into it, it’s 100% uptime for the green parts of the line, and the second horizontal line is for 99.9% uptime.

I’m fairly convinced that GitHub didn’t manage to keep a clean 100% uptime before the acquisition, so this is more likely to be faulty data - basically underreported downtime figures prior to the acquisition

Reading what the law actually says, these seem to be sensible changes, bringing the rules in line with European standards.

Remember that OpenAI were the people behind the DotA-playing model, back in 2017, called OpenAI Five.

While not free, I can recommend both Slay the Spire and Balatro as ideal mobile games. You won’t regret it if you manage to find the spare cash

I can’t really say that I have an issue that needs to be resolved, though.

I just scrape my tongue a bit with the toothbrush at the end of brushing my teeth, this seems more than sufficient

Preventative checks are used in Sweden where there’s evidence for their efficacy - for example, mammograms for all women over 40, screening for colorectal cancer for everyone over 60, etc.

It’s just that evidence for efficacy is the bar that each screening has to clear, and general yearly health checkups did not clear that bar.