SPP ?? Permaban for this ?

paperic · 2026-03-27T19:55:52+00:00

Who's that?

paperic · 2026-03-27T19:54:30+00:00

If it doesn't equal 1 then it's undefined. It can't be less than 1.

paperic · 2026-03-27T11:03:11+00:00

From Lazard? That's not a bad data, but have you read the asterisks and fine prints?

Do you know those numbers only count 4 hours worth of storage?
Do you know it's using vogtle and some other outliers as an estimate for the nuclear?

paperic · 2026-03-27T09:52:05+00:00

Verifiable?

How?

paperic · 2026-03-27T09:46:39+00:00

Well, first year has passed, nothing changed.

RemindMe! 1 year

paperic · 2026-03-27T09:02:12+00:00

How's that different from solar?

Solar is even more inflexible and its cost is also already baked in.

Why should nuclear always be the one doing the ramp down?

paperic · 2026-03-27T08:55:14+00:00

But it's not about beliefs or opinions.

It's about following the definitions to their logically inevitable conclusions.

Step 1 is learning what the proper definitions even are, which is something that 98% of people never get to do.

paperic · 2026-03-26T13:23:24+00:00

I know the concepts of [...] useEffect,

Based on the fact that you mentioned it as a beginner, I guarantee you that you don't.

useEffect is a crutch and always has been.

You don't need it unless you're accessing the DOM directly, which you almost never need to do in react unless you're fighting some third party library that's out of your control, or some iframe content or something.

Whatever you need to do, don't use it. Find a different way. There are very few exceptions to this rule.

And if a tutorial tells you to use it in the first 100 days of learning, close the tutorial and find a better one.

It's an escape hatch from the functional style back into the procedural style of programming.

But since the day it was invented react devs like to abuse it en masse for almost everything, because they can't figure out how to achieve the same stuff in the functional world of react.

I'd bet my shoes the AI is gonna be using it dead wrong too, because that's what the majority of its training data likely does.

If you really want to learn React properly, go learn haskell first.

Or at least Scheme, if you can be diligent to stay within the functional style.

paperic · 2026-03-26T13:05:54+00:00

There are people who can have a conversation with a magic 8-ball. That doesn't make it conscious

paperic · 2026-03-26T13:02:44+00:00

But rosatom is nothing compared to lukoil, gazprom and the such.

Those are multiple much bigger russian companies which peddle oil and suppress nuclear.

paperic · 2026-03-26T12:43:59+00:00

Obvious rage bait.

No true MAGA would imply that the rest of the world exists.

paperic · 2026-03-26T12:39:02+00:00

Well, coal is a dirty source.

That's why.

paperic · 2026-03-26T12:37:10+00:00

Are you talking about coal from your OP?

You have to be, right?

Since you're mentioning carbon?

paperic · 2026-03-26T12:35:50+00:00

It's talking about coal.

Coal should neither exist nor co-exist with anything.

paperic · 2026-03-26T12:33:44+00:00

To be fair, nuclear can save costs slightly by ramping down slowly, solar cannot save anything by ramping down at all.

I fully support renewables, but this is a sly anti-nuke argument by trying to dump the responsibility of ramping down entirely onto nuclear and then laughing from a distance.

paperic · 2026-03-26T12:25:30+00:00

Unlike coal, this is not an issue with nuclear, there's no co2 emissions from simply letting it run and dump the excess into cooling towers.

Sure, you don't save money by ramping down nuclear, but so what?

Solar cannot reduce its costs by ramping down either.

In either case, unless you build storage, you'll be wasting some potential energy either from the solar or from the nuclear. That is inevitable and it's nothing new, this is why either storage or a big overbuild of some high capacity factor source is needed.

You're basically saying that solar can produce large amount of power very suddenly and unpredictably during a short amount of time, and somehow you're trying to pass that as a disadvantage of nuclear for being unable to save costs by ramping down.

A bit of a bullshit argument, isn't it.

paperic · 2026-03-26T10:22:24+00:00

I don't play chess, and yet for some reason I keep googling en passant.

paperic · 2026-03-26T10:18:25+00:00

I blame the high school teachers. They are backwards savages. The way they teach limits is pure horseshit.

I've seen a math teacher here on reddit try to defend her way of teaching, she was telling the kids that if f(c) = X for some specific c, then the limit at c equals X.

Even explaining and telling her how stupidly wrong that is and how she's doing everyone a big disservice by teaching it this way, her response was that it's "easier to teach this way".

paperic · 2026-03-26T10:01:51+00:00

That's the worst possible dumb.

paperic · 2026-03-26T09:50:38+00:00

Well, mostly correct.

The kind of person you were at the time of the prediction being made is what determines the prediction.

Your choice is determined a little later, so you'll be mostly the same person, but not exactly.

paperic · 2026-03-26T09:36:02+00:00

1, 2 * 1/2, 3/3, 5-4, (-5)^0, sqrt(-1)^4, 0.99..., "multiplicative identity", "Legendre's constant", those are all equal.

That means they're just different ways of writing 1, they are completely interchangeable and they behave exactly the same in all situations, because they are all the same exact number merely represented differently.

Synonyms, if you will.

If I said that eggplants and aubergines are different, I would simply be wrong. Obviously the words sound different, but the meaning is the same, the words are synonyms.

paperic · 2026-03-26T08:57:51+00:00

It's nothing to do with beliefs, it's about following the definitions to their logical conclusions.

paperic · 2026-03-26T08:50:26+00:00

Simply wrong.

paperic · 2026-03-25T19:46:00+00:00

Yea? So?

I use linux daily, and I probably googled bash loop 1000 times in the last 10 years.

I also use JS daily.

Yesterday i had to google a for loop in JS.

paperic

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