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Nuclear + Batteries could be nice too because the reactors will be always working at optimal rate without having to start/stop them to adapt to demand and let the storage manage peaks and lows. So investment in one domain can help the other too.

Can but investment in two things with the fundamental same topic can lead to diversation of funds.

Only if the nuclear investors are completly different than renewable than that would be a good idea.


It always involve an undefined behaviour at creation of the 'null reference', there is no legal way to create it.

True. In any case references solve only half of the problem because it lets you state "this function will not take a null pointer". You still cannot say "this function may take a null pointer" unless you use a very unusual convention of saying that any pointer argument may take a null pointer.

I don't find that convention unusual. That's how I (and everyone at my company) writes code every day. If an argument is a pointer, that means it may be null. If it may not be null, it should be a reference.

And the libraries that you use?

E.g.,

std::size_t std::strlen(const char* str);


AI needs heavy fortifications, moats and watchtowers around it.

Maybe the average question will be more "high level" now that all simple questions are answered by LLMs ?

Technically there isn't a recession but, if you split by sectors, you see that all sectors not related to the AI investment boom are in the red. The question is: is it a natural consequence of investment shift to better technologies or a real problem that is temporarily hidden by an AI bubble ?

(https://fortune.com/img-assets/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Sc...)


A citizen that don't vote for the most important election is clearly not very active.


My cousin was in a coma for 3 months over the election. They didn’t vote. Should we just deport them now?

Was a stupid fucking take.


Is there a particular meaning to 'active/inactive' that I don't know that justifies your out-of-proportion outrage? What is the problem with observing that 35% of Americans just don't care enough about this subject to go vote ?


Math.

“Half the country voted for X” isn’t accurate math. People just excuse away hard, hard logical facts and it makes me pretty fucking mad.


What a stupid fucking strawman. Was ~35% of the US population in a coma when the elections happened?

We are talking here about people who chose not to vote.

Strictly, yes your cousin is a passive citizen. But no sane human will call them out on that because obviously they had bo other choice.


The people you are replying to are trying to have a meaningful discussion by providing references and some basic argumentation. Can you add some link or arguments that explain more strongly your point of view instead of using strong affirmations ('misinformation', 'debunked', 'nonsensical') without any trace of argumentation and no reference at all ?


I’d recommend reading my comment more carefully. The argument is pretty clear and straightforward.


Maybe it was initially supposed to be a sort of "3-value boolean" (true/false/undefined) and not a standard bool. You can (rarely) meet this pattern in c++ if you use boost::tribool or in c# if you have a nullable bool. There is probably similar thing in other languages.


It was definitely just bad code.


Even if the computational power evolve exponentially, we need to evaluate the utility of additional computations. And if the utility happens to increase logarithmically with computation spend, it's possible that in the end, we will observe just a linear increase in utility.


Regulated price in France:

- 0,1952 per kWh for uniform price.

- 0,1635 / 0,2081 for day/nigh pricing

- 0,1232 /... / 0,6468 for variable pricing

https://particulier.edf.fr/content/dam/2-Actifs/Documents/Of...

You have a very bad deal if you pay 0.97€ per kWh.


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