"every dev can use kubectl to deploy" may be less horrific than the previous situation but it's still pretty bad practice tbh. So is "a script to automate all the kubectl invocations".
There's existing tooling for that : Skaffold, ArgoCD ...
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There's existing tooling for that : Skaffold, ArgoCD ...
Because of renewables' intermittency, there's an upper limit on how much you can have of them in the mix. If the rest of your mix (even just 20%) is coal, your CO2/kWh average is destroyed because its emissions are so much worse than the rest.
There will always be a minimum need for a "base load" energy source in the mix, and only two of them are low carbon : hydro and nuclear. Germany doesn't have the geography for hydro, but they decided to ditch the other one... guess what happens next ?
It has nothing to do with the country's population and industry size, because these figures are the CO2 emitted per kWh of electricity.
The problem is simple : Germany chose to shut down nuclear power and to invest massively in renewables (€500B in wind and solar) Wind and solar are of course intermittent and, because you can't store electricity at scale, you cannot run a country's electricity grid on these alone, especially a country with heavy 24/7 industry. That is the central lie of the German Energiewende.
In reality you always need some more stable energy sources to handle the "base load", they can be : - Hydroelectricity (if you have the right geography) - Coal - Gas - Nuclear
Of these four, only hydro and nuclear are low CO2. You can see on Electricitymaps that some countries like Norway are doing great because they have Hydro for their base load. Germany doesn't have the geography for that, unfortunately.
The only low CO2 choice remaining for German base load is nuclear, but we know what happened to that...
There was a focus on (mainly Russian) gas, which is slightly better than coal, but Putin is using this as a geopolitical weapon now.
So that leaves you with coal, and there are two big problems with that :
1. Coal emits SO much more CO2 per kWh than renewables or nuclear that it completely destroys Germany's average CO2 emissions score. With coal in the mix, you would need not 50% but maybe 90% of renewable electricity to compensate for the insane emissions of the small % of coal. Unfortunately as I mentioned, 90% of renewable electricity isn't possible because of intermittence. Which means Germany won't ever solve this problem unless A. a breakthrough in energy storage is discovered (good luck) or B. it restarts its nuclear power plants and builds new ones. That is the embarrassing reason why many German politicians would rather talk about the % of renewables in the mix (which is completely meaningless for climate), rather than the CO2/kWh figure (the only thing that counts for climate) where Germany is doing so badly (on average 6-7 times worse than France)
2. Air pollution from coal power plants causes over 10.000 premature deaths in Europe every year Most of the coal plants in the European top 10 are located in Germany. Imagine the reaction if a neighbouring country operated another source of energy (say, nuclear) that caused 10.000 deaths / year in the region ? Fukushima was one (1) direct death by radiation, btw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...)
It's great news that apparently, 60% of Germans are now in favour of nuclear power. I hope that the generation of 1970s Die Grüne activists that caused these disastrous energy policies in Germany are voted out of power asap.
For some use cases, you're even better off upgrading the base model M2 Air to 512GB vs upgrading the RAM from 8 to 16GB for a similar cost. This is because swapping suddenly becomes twice as fast.
No it's not the same thing, and that's the key point. If you tell people that masking doesn't work (which is false) then of course mask mandates won't work because adherence will be low. A self-fulfilling prophecy really.
No, that was a misinterpretation of the review in the Covid-skeptic sphere. Cochrane have had to issue a statement to clarify : https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventio...
tl;dr : half of the people given masks in these studies didn't wear them consistently or at all, dragging efficacy results down.
I've read somewhere that Germany closing its last nuclear power plant will raise Europe's CO2 emissions by more than all of the country's air travel emissions in a year.
Not sure if you're trolling but a quick search finds that "rail travel accounts for 14 grams of CO2 emissions per passenger mile, which is dwarfed by the 285 grams generated by air travel, and the 158 grams per passenger miles from journeys in cars."
France (OVH), Sweden, Norway, and (usually) Switzerland are much better (thanks to nuclear for France, and hydro for the others).
So I'll wait for benchmarks. I can recommend the MaxTech channel on Youtube for this sort of stuff.
Four TB4 ports is plenty for 99% of people.
Long Covid alone is going to hamper any economic recovery. It's a mass disabling event. The sooner we recognize this and start tackling it, the better : https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-workforce-absenteeism-pro...
Better in my experience : https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/
You can't directly compare salaries with the US though : the tax and benefits structure is vastly different.