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You can run nuclear (or gas or whatever) at a minimum to keep the network stable. Read my comments. Solar and wind are very unstable and unless you have the latest generation hardware (costing hundreds of millions) you need some stable source.

The government refused to protect nuclear plants when prices went negative for a long time, so of course they were turned off because the companies were losing money. That was the obvious plan all along.

And no more blackouts because now they are running nuclear 24/7 to keep things stable.

And again, it's not completely Spain's government fault as it obviously came from the EU and their anti-nuclear stance.

> Damian Cortinas, chair of ENTSO-E’s board, told the Financial Times that “the issue is not about renewables” but about the grid’s ability to manage “fast voltage variations” that can destabilise the system. Unusual oscillations triggered a cascade of plant disconnections, and grid managers lost control. The real lesson is not that Spain has gone too far on wind and solar,

YES THEY DID, they went as far as making nuclear power plants shut down due to negative prices so their reliable stable power wasn't a pacemaker anymore and it blew up in their faces. And this was a topic on TV shows with several experts alerting of this FOR MONTHS before the blackout.

Sure, there are new technologies to stabilize solar and wind's fluctuating outputs but they are no just plug and play. Those are very, very complex systems that take years to set up properly. While there are nuclear power plants are just there collecting dust because the EU pressured Spain to make them unprofitable to maintain so they would be shut down.

Luckily, the US-Israel-Iran war made the EU leadership turn and now they want nuclear. I hope it's not too late.

AI (even if pseudo-AI) is already a huge productivity multiplier and becoming better... but due to demand also becoming more expensive. And if things keep going this way, only corporations with deep pockets and the top 1% will be able to afford it upfront.

I wish Gen Z channeled their anger into making distributed AI instead of turning their backs on the problem or doing protests that will get nowhere since Boomers are still the biggest voting block.

small + local + distributed

Where is the Gen Z hacker movement? The very few into AI are all sellouts wishing they could join a big lab.

It's even in the movie. Zuckerberg was inspired by Hot or Not and used his friend's chess ranking algo for Facemash (comparing college girls). And that inspired him in part for making the Facebook.

Some day I should write about a very similar experience at ~7yo with my slightly older cool cousins showing me things as shocking (or more) out of their (MD) father's huge library (hush-hush). Things like high resolution pictures of extreme cases of venereal diseases, malformed babies, you name it. It messed me up for a bit that the first pictures of adult genitalia were so disturbing.

So when years later my internet-savy friends got into gore I couldn't get that much into it.

The viral chart is about Codex 86.1M installs (up from 5.8M) in the week of 27/5-3/5.

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!20oI!,f_auto,q_auto:...

> Torvalds said that disclosing the bug itself was enough, without the pursuant circus that followed when a major problem has been discovered. [1]

So it's not surprising Dirtyfrag was disclosed by a fix in the Linux kernel. [2]

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/torvalds-criticises-the-securi...

[2] https://afflicted.sh/blog/posts/copy-fail-2.html

People are blaming the guy who wrote the exploit for breaking the embargo but it was actually broken in Linux by publishing a fix [1]:

> on 2026-05-05 Steffen Klassert pushed f4c50a4034 to netdev/net.git with Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org.

Once a fix is out it's usual for researchers to race to make the first exploit out of it.

[1] https://afflicted.sh/blog/posts/copy-fail-2.html

People are blaming the wrong guy for breaking the embargo but via this blog post [1]:

> on 2026-05-05 Steffen Klassert pushed f4c50a4034 to netdev/net.git with Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org.

Once the fix is out it's usual for researchers to race to make the first exploit out of it.

[1] https://afflicted.sh/blog/posts/copy-fail-2.html

Thanks.

Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054182

Or disable algif_aead module as in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957409

Are Googlers themselves happy using Gemini coding agent instead of Claude Code or Codex? (no snark, I'm really asking)

Yes, they are loaded, that's the point. It's a rhetorical method to (hopefully) make people consider that point of view.

I hope you enjoyed the hormonal reward you got when you copy-pasted that amazingly deep proverb.

Let's expand on it a bit. Is the world a mirror to street salespeople? Is the world a mirror to stalkers? To sociopaths?

> One of the things I like about this is that OP is giving people genuine compliments without any particular agenda.

IMHO that is as fake as a car salesman. Mature, cultured people will say thank you and think "what a nuisance". I prefer being open about my motives. Smart people appreciate truth over compliments. And if the dumb/immature get offended, good riddance.

I used to be a big fan of HtWFaIP, but eventually I realized it's not healthy.

My grandparents just bumped their volunteering from weekends to weekdays. Then my Boomer parents switched to leisure activities and travel (they stopped volunteering when they retired). I prefer my grandparent's retirement, but now that NGOs got professionalized and became extremely political that is a no-go for me. I didn't like to be bossed around by a 30yo narcissist driven by maxing out his EOY presentation (to keep their comfy job).

I'm considering to retire in a small town where distant relatives live and hopefully get busy by volunteering there somehow. But it's never that simple.

Bait question titles piss me off. But there you go, I removed it.

> If it was actually productive

They are extremely productive if you use them right. To the point it worries me how clever these pseudo-AI models can get in the next year.

UK: hold my beer...

I prefer distributed power, not a democratic system as it's often abused.

If large models become a +100x productivity multiplier they can charge crazy money for access. So rich/money people will dominate the world in no time. Today many corporations are happy to pay $5k/mo/user. Everyday people and small companies can't afford that. I can't. We need to build an open ecosystem that at least shrinks the gap.

Learn to run your own models. Get yourselves at least a cheap GPU or even share one with friends. Join groups. There's a lot to do from data to fine-tuning.

The other day Anthropic cut off 100 users of a company without warning and stonewalled them: https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1sspwz2/psa_anthr...

Guys, did you bother checking the poster's profile? https://xcancel.com/lifeof_jer. SEE THE TWEET BELOW. Smells like a ragebait post to me. Also search online for his alleged "PocketOS" company with software for car rental businesses. I couldn't find anything on Google. (Of course, I might be wrong)

"The future of SEO is AIO" https://xcancel.com/lifeof_jer/status/2034409722624061772 March 18

Long chats are mostly cache. For coding agents this is like >90%.

CoRecursive had a really good episode about this last August:

"Coding in the Red-Queen Era" https://corecursive.com/red-queen-coding/

Cool story, SEO bro.

I meant it as a simple to understand parallel. Absolutely deep reading and thought is much better than Wikipedia or an LLM chat.

Speak for yourself. I now dare to code much harder problems and learning is bliss. No more having to sit down to dig needle-in-haystack through horrible documentation or random Stack Overflow posts.

LLMs are a magnificent tool if you use them correctly. They enable deep work like nothing before.

The problem is the education system focused on passivity (obeyance), memorization, and standardized testing. And worst of all, aiming for the lowest common denominator. So most people are mentally lazy and go for the easy win, almost cheating. You get school and interview cheating and vivecoders.

But it's not the only way to use LLMs.

Similarly, in Wikipedia you can spend hours reading banal pop-slop content or instead spend that time reading amazing articles about history, literature, arts, and science.

> DeepSeek is famous for publishing everything. They might take a bit to publish source code but it's almost always there.

they-might-take-a-bit-to-publish