Nuclear and solar have competing problems. Nuclear is a baseload generator. It can’t ramp up or down fast enough to meet the daily demand curve; it needs a steady, stable load, 24/7. The steadier and stabler the load, the better. If the load drops off overnight, nuclear has to dial back its continuous output to match that trough. And again: It can’t ramp up and down fast enough to match demand, so it just has to stay at the lower “trough” level, with the remainder made up by various types of “peaker” plants.

To make nuclear as efficient at possible, we need to drive consumption to that trough. We have to increase overnight demand as high as possible, to minimize our reliance on inefficient peaker plants.

Now, look at solar. Solar stops generating overnight. Solar can’t possibly meet overnight demand without storage, and grid-scale storage solutions are fundamentally limited. To make solar as effective and efficient as possible, we have to move as much demand to daylight hours as possible, where it can be met directly by solar generation, without storage.

The two technologies require opposing demand incentives. Making one more efficient necessarily makes the other less. Whichever choice we make here, the other one is relegated to a limited, auxiliary role in generation, and can never reach its full potential.

That should prevent future issues. If you’re trying to rid yourself of sardonic people, you really don’t need me fucking up your therapy.

You should go ahead and make me #5.

The algorithm just looks at whether you have ever commented on a video. If you have, it determines you are permanently under 10.

Seems pretty effective.

Check permissions on your home folder. Make sure everything is owned by your new username.

I had a separate partition mounted on /home on my old system. I remounted the same partition at /home on the new system, and got the same bootloop issue. The problem was that the old permissions were for 1001:1001, not (newuser):(newuser). Had to log into a TTY and chown (newuser):(newuser) -R /home/(newuser) to get everything working.

The last data I have is from 2017, and claimed 92 reactors on 81 ships. I believe that is 70 submarines with a single reactor each, and 11 carriers with two each.

Oh, do it. Come on, SCOTUS, do it. This’ll be hilarious.

Its not your doctor who is going to be asking AI. It is your insurance company. And the AI is going to tell them that you and your doctor are trying to defraud them, because that is what your insurer wants to hear.

They keep getting worse, too. I loved my Galaxy Relay. I bought a Moto Z because someone was making a keyboard backplate for it… And they killed off the project a few months later.

The only thing worse than the on screen keyboard is Blackberry’s physical keyboard. Give me some kind of slider.

Identifying and responsibly disclosing security flaws is legal; publicly exploiting them is not.

“Security Flaws” implies that there was some attempt to restrict access that could have been considered “security”. They made no such attempt. Everything was openly provided to the general public.

Putting a big bowl of candy on your front porch during Halloween is an “invitation”, not a “security flaw”.

I start typing in URLs that aren’t linked anywhere on the site, then I’m accessing stuff the site hasn’t explicitly indicated I have access to.

Doesn’t work like that. With the policy you describe, anyone who ever sees a “404” error is a criminal.

I don’t have to publish everything I am willing to offer. You are free to ask for something I may or may not have. I get to decide how to respond to your request.

To use your analogy, I can walk up to your door and request a glass of water. You’ve never explicitly offered a glass of water to anyone; I’m still allowed to ask. If you dont want me to have your water, you can say “No” or you can ignore me.

When you go ahead and give me a glass of water, you don’t get to claim I stole it from you. It is not theft to ask.

You have to make some sort of effort to have your web server limit my access, and I have to make some sort of effort to convince your webserver to bypass those restrictions before you can claim I am exceeding my authorization.

Terrible analogy. A webserver is not at all like a door. It doesn’t block or allow traffic to and from your file system.

A web server is more like a receptionist. It handles requests. “Can I have your basic catalog?” “Certainly, here you go.”

“Can I get this item from your basic catalog?” “Certainly.”

“I don’t see it in your catalog, but my buddy said he got this other item from you. Can I have this other item too?” “Absolutely.”

“Can I borrow your stapler?” Sure. “How about a pad of paper?” “Of Course”. “Can I just have the contents of your supply closet?” “Here you go.” “How about your accounting files, can I get those?” “No problem!” “How about your entire customer list?” “Consider it done!”

When you hire a receptionist and specifically tell them to give customers anything they request, that’s entirely on you. You have to at least make a token effort to restrict access to only authorized users before you can even claim that a particular user was unauthorized.

This wasn’t burglary. This was putting up signs that say “come in” and labeling everything in your house with “free” stickers.

Need? Of course not. Desire? Certainly.

Gotta be at least 60 degrees at a time, or you can’t reset the wrench to the next position.

Open end wrenches for external hex bolts are usually cocked 15 degrees so you can do as little as a 30 degree swing. Flipping the wrench switches the head from 15-degree left, to 15-degree right. Adding the 30 degree swing gives you a total of 60 degrees, which mean you can grab the next face on the bolt.

But Allen wrenches don’t have such a feature. You need at least a 60-degree rotation before you can reset the wrench.

There isn’t a biologically significant difference between clothing made from various grades of nylon, polyester, polypropylene, spandex, Lycra, acrylonitrile, etc. You probably wear clothing made from each of these families or similar, related materials, each comprised of dozens of “chemicals”.

But you’ll turn up your nose at the thought of several of these materials combined into a single pellet?

All those chemicals are slightly different length hydrocarbon chains. Functionally, they are nearly identical.

I’ve found Jami from another comment a few hours ago, but I haven’t downloaded it yet. But I think it expects an existing internet/network connection, where Briar seems to be focused on getting messages across through any means available.

I’ve never used it, but I’ve heard of “Jami” that is supposed to operate in a similar fashion.

AFAIK, yes. Latest release is from March of this year, and they have commits as of a month ago.

Are you familiar with Briar?

Works over internet, TOR, local wifi, bluetooth, even “sneakernet”.