Don’t get me wrong, I too want nuclear power, but we need to hit it hard enough and without outsourcing, and to do it long enough to build institutional knowledge and get costs down. I kinda want the Rolls Royce SMR to work out, but britain is crap at building anything.

Why so many still import from Russia

Isn’t that US related trade restrictions? Also Kazakhstan supplies some 43% of the world supply of Uranium, followed by Canada at 14%.

the tech to enrich and process it

If you watch some of the early American nuclear projects it seems like its about as hard to work with as coal, and enrichment means spinning it. Its all known quantities.

Also while I’m here, the quanties of nuclear waste are so small compared to the literal mountains of flyash power plants make. And the french are really good at reprocessing it. I think we can do better than what the Americans did with their miniature nuclear reactor on Greenland (just flushed the toxic waste into a cavern drilled into the ice, along with all the poops).

Also, nobody ever seems to want to talk about the radioactive output of coal stations just burning coal with trace radioactive elements in it. Just straight up the stack and over the neighbourhood.

It was also fortunate that all it did was contaminate some towns and land forever uninhabitable.

I kinda understand the paranoia, I just wish I could hope that economies of scale would kick in after a while but we’ll just not build another one for almost exactly the right amount of time for all the institutional knowledge to disappear.

I’m sure McKinsey are making a killing. All those risk assessments need 6k/day consultants.

a good learning example would be recreating his designs yourself in CAD and writing your own firmware, or rolling your own version of QMK or whatever its running

RP2040 is another jellybean part, much of a muchness. I’ve got both on devboards in my parts box.

Then they have successfully found where they rank in a mixed field.

It was (briefly) useful for buying and selling illicit substances.

You’d think it’d be by weight or some other performance metric with women dominating at the lighter end of the spectrum.

To be fair, I’ve washed more adept developers out of the bottom of my coffee cup on monday morning.

I feel that its not that LLMs are showing intelligence, its just humans don’t always.

Commerce doesn’t give a shit. The article is about commerce. Don’t be pissed at me for the way the world works.

I’ll have to take your word for it. I can’t be bothered setting up quassel.

I think this is an excellent idea, alas I don’t know anyone from lobste.rs and I just cannot be bothered with going on IRC in 2026, so I guess I don’t get an invite

Trade and inter-country cooperation and commerce weren’t being shaken down as hard before Trump.

Gunman Taco Truck

I had to google that and it looks like a mobile flash game from 2010

I hesitate to ask, but I wonder where his training comes from.

When its just serving and gating access to flac files, it really isn’t that complicated of an application, and serving content is a known quantity with cheap tooling.

Just don’t use vercel, bro.

ssh keys are your stumbling block?

Last time I checked someone stole all their data and it was only 300TB.

Data is cheap. Even cheaper when its peer to peer.

Decades of nice safe cooperation and suddenly everythings fucked and now we can’t trust eachother.

Its what happens when you let the mob run a country and it runs around smashing everything