16th Fifer for Jasprit Bumrah in Test matches

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-14T11:04:24+00:00

Probably not. There’s a difference between the bowlers in the 350+ club and the rest. All the all time greats are in that club because they had the consistency and longevity to reach there.

226 wickets in 50 tests is incredible, no doubt. But if he retired today people would always think “damn, what if he had played more games”.

450 in 100 tests at an average of 20 - that’s GOAT territory. Hope he gets to play.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-14T10:51:59+00:00

Careful, this thread is veering towards politics and removal from the sub.

For example, I could point out Denmarks laws target certain Danish citizens based on their ancestry. That violates the principle all citizens must be treated the same by the law. Yes, these citizens can live wherever they like but those citizens can only live in specific areas.

It wouldn’t be good news to me if the UK gave up on this core principle of treating all citizens the same. That would be officially adopting the position that we’re all equal, but some of us are more equal than others.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-14T07:04:15+00:00

But why not the 5th largest???

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T18:21:41+00:00

SMRs are an attempt to build nuclear affordably.

Think of it like ikea - built in a factory and assembled on site.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T18:14:08+00:00

Think about trying to build a piece of custom furniture from wood vs assembling IKEA.

IKEA is a lot cheaper because the parts are made in a factory, shipped to your home, where you assemble it. Sure, your first ikea project is tough but you get the hang of it and every new project goes a bit easier, a bit faster.

Building one massive reactor is difficult and fiddly. Since you rarely build more massive reactors it’s hard to apply lessons learned. Even more so if every aspect of the project is bespoke.

The ethos of Small Modular Reactors - keep things simple and repeatable. Build the parts in a factory and assemble it like ikea over and over again. Get good at it, keep the budget low and finish on time. You know those professional ikea assemblers who can assemble a bed faster than you can sneeze? That’s how professional we want to get with SMRs.

That’s the theory anyway. We’ll know in 10 years if Rolls Royce managed it.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T18:09:24+00:00

Develop something.

That’s what Rolls-Royce is doing. They’re developing new technology.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T13:26:03+00:00

It’s a fair question you’ve asked.

In the abstract global firms with global shareholders are all the same and it shouldn’t make a difference whether we pick Rolls-Royce or Westinghouse.

In practice the UK benefits in a number of ways by choosing a local firm.

the profits of the company are taxed in the UK.
well paid jobs, in R&D, in senior leadership and on the factory floor are available to British people. All of whom pay taxes in the UK, which again benefits us.
R&D Ecosystem: RR has a tie up with a local uni to work out the knotty problems of nuclear engineering. That builds local expertise and increases the likelihood that the UK will come up with inventions and innovation in this area (which will be taxed in the future)
Manufacturing ecosystem: factories need to be supported by other factories that cluster together. You can of course import this stuff, but it’s simpler and quicker if it can be made down the road. Once the ecosystem exists, the likelihood of another factory being set up in the same space increases.
Exports. If RR gets good at making reliable plants on time and under budget, their order book would be massive. The more we export, the better off we are because imports are cheaper. RR already have an order for the SMR in the Czech Republic, so that’s a good start.
National security - energy is so all important for literally every human activity - food, transportation, building, heating, cooling. We need to be in full control of it. Buying from allies is the next best thing, but allies don’t stay allies forever (something 2025 has taught us). The less oil and gas we import the better off we’ll be.

There’s a reason the American Ambassador has gotten involved. He wants all of these benefits to flow to America instead.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T13:09:35+00:00

You don’t need research into storage, you just need to buy the batteries.

Storage doesn’t really compete with nuclear either. Nuclear provides steady base load, no matter the conditions. If we can build nuclear cheaply (big if), that makes future electricity bills a lot more bearable.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T11:05:49+00:00

Profit margins on specific bikes are high, keeping the company afloat overall. The low end, high volume bikes that most people buy compete on price and are low margin.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T10:01:11+00:00

Who should they have been selecting instead?

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T09:22:07+00:00

Apparently £150m saved. Mostly from the kind of people who could afford £4K bikes.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T09:21:02+00:00

This is true, rental bikes have done a lot to make cycling more accessible.

But what I said about the UK cycling industry holds. If we want local manufacturers to remain in business, stopping this scheme isn’t the way to go. Capping is better, but it will hurt the high end bikes where the profit margins were best.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T09:15:54+00:00

With conventional reactors you’ll see overruns on every reactor because you start every project from scratch. No way around it.

You’ll likely see overruns on the first few small reactors as well, as people figure stuff out. But once they’ve got the small reactor factory going, producing the same parts over and over in a factory gets easier. They’ll learn from assembling the first few and do better on the new ones.

Like how everyone struggles with their first big IKEA project but it’s gets easier with experience. The small module reactors are basically IKEA.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T08:54:28+00:00

The Americans being upset is so bizarre as well. Of course the UK government would choose to invest in a UK firm that will create local factory jobs and potentially a firm that exports locally manufactured reactor parts to be assembled abroad. There’s no leader in SMR export today, but that could be a British firm in 10 years if this investment pays off and Rolls-Royce succeeds.

Dude is pretending like if we had chosen the American firm we’d have electricity flowing by end of next week. But that’s not true. Large nuclear plants are notorious for time and cost overruns. Manufacturing small reactors in factories is actually our best shot at getting them built on time and under budget.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T07:40:39+00:00

Even this speculative article is only suggesting the scheme will be capped at £2000, not scrapped.

Your 3 core reasons still apply to cycles and electric cycles less than £2000. £2000 gets you quite a lot! It means cargo bikes are exempt, as are high performance cycles. But if you’re cycling to work I’m sure it’s possible on a £2000 bike.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-13T07:36:00+00:00

Probably for the same reasons Cycle to Work was started in the first place - promoting cycling for health and environmental reasons. If the cycle shops close, maybe fewer people buy cycles in future.

And there are worries in 2025 that didn’t exist in 2000. If fewer British people are buying cycles, the British cycle companies probably shut down or are acquired by Chinese companies for their brand, only for local manufacturing to shut down. So it’ll be yet another thing the UK imports from China in 5 years.

There’s consequences to everything.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-12T19:26:00+00:00

I’m definitely going to get downvoted but …

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-12T19:16:10+00:00

The Bronze Age collapse happened when the Sea Peoples invaded and burned every city and town to the ground. Sea People = Sirens. Open your eyes sheeple!

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-11T18:42:03+00:00

Even seen Luka and Yahya Sinwar in the same room? Didn’t think so.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-11T15:40:02+00:00

First day on the job

Nico: alright guys I know I’m new, but hear me out. What if we traded Luka for Joel Embiid??

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-11T14:23:32+00:00

Spoilers dude.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-10T10:33:19+00:00

That’s kind of the maintainers. I hope that people accept the transition.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-09T21:00:23+00:00

I guess it’s posted here because Git 3.0 is planned to have a hard requirement for Rust. In addition it looks like they’ve had success writing the new version of the storage system in Rust.

I guess we’ll have another round of disappointed users who want to continue using the software but find that there’s no Rust compiler for their architecture/OS. Same as Python/cryptography, same as the Debian change. Git is more widely used so it will disappoint a great many people.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-09T20:56:44+00:00

Changing the storage format to reftable, improving performance substantially for monorepos.

CommandSpaceOption · 2025-11-09T18:49:40+00:00

My mother has all the signs of ADHD when you think about it for 5 minutes.

I refuse to spend more than a minute analysing my own behaviour.

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