Wait a little bit to see if it gets debunked.
Honestly a pretty smart strategy. Wiser than most.
Dyslexia probably explains a good part of the IQ test result actually. IQ tests are notoriously terrible at measuring intelligence of people with something like dyslexia as far as I know.
It was a little trickier than I remember, they actively promoted illegal ways to obtain the keys, provided the tools to illegally bypass the DRM with them and (and this is what likely caught Nintendo's attention) they were very actively monetizing it. This was enough to get Yuzu branded as an illegal tool sold to do piracy with.
Ryujinx was far more nebulous as few details were leaked, it seems there Nintendo just swung it's big legalese dick around. Probably helped by the Yuzu settlement.
The Switch emus included certain decryption keys, which was a pretty balant violation to be fair.
Perhaps photonic processors will be the next big thing. But that's still well in the future.
Nuclear is there as a back up for when the sun doesn't shine, the wind doesn't blow, you don't have enough space for renewables, or you've reached the capacity for building and repairing renewables (Either logistically, in lack of expertise, or lack of public support).
Nuclear is a terrible backup. It's far too expensive, requires a ton of highly educated personnel we don't have and is not flexible enough to act as a quick backup if renewables fluctuate too much. On top of that there are very few moments where there is almost no wind or sunshine over a very large area all at once, making it economically unviable to an enormous degree.
Obviously the best backup is battery storage, which is ramping up in production capacity quite quickly. And it allows far more decentralisation: a lot of homes can be fitted with a small battery pack, which combined with some solar allows them to be basically off the grid. Combined with more research showing PV cells are still up to 80% the efficiency they were designed for after 30 years (suggesting they last far longer than estimated), it seems solar is becoming an ever stronger long-term solution. It's also becoming cheaper each year beyond even the most optimistic scenarios.
But even something like gas is a more preferable alternative to nuclear. It's very cheap and still viable when needing to spin up or down quickly. It also requires less educated personnel than nuclear and most countries have at least a few built already. Sure there's more emissions, but for those 30 days of the year you really need them that's still well over 95-98% of emissions cut when compared to the current fossil fuel mix.
nuclear should never be a reason not to invest in renewables
Unfortunately it is, because money is finite. And investers choose whatever is most viable, which increasingly is not nuclear.
I'm hopeful for fusion, but as always that's at least a decade away from commercial viability.
Is SMR a joke to everyone?
Yes, because it hasn't really been demonstrated to be particularly viable. You don't need tons of small reactors, that's way too much logistical and regulatory overhead for little capacity. And you need way more auxiliary infrastructure and personnel that way, driving up costs that exceed what you save by modularizing them.
In October 2023, an academic paper published in Energy collated the basic economic data of 19 more developed SMR designs, and modeled their costs in a consistent manner. A Monte Carlo simulation showed that none were profitable or economically competitive.
In 2024, Australian scientific research body CSIRO estimated that electricity produced in Australia by a SMR constructed from 2023 would cost roughly 2.5 times that produced by a traditional large nuclear plant, falling to about 1.6 times by 2030.
They're not as complementary as you might think. Because solar and wind fluctuate during the day, any additional power source also needs to be able to spin up or down quickly. And nuclear doesn't do that, it takes time to do so. Worse, because nuclear is so expensive the only way it gets even remotely close to becoming economically viable is if it's running all the time. And that's precisely what it won't be able to do, because solar and wind are simply cheaper; nuclear will be pushed off the market.
Energy storage is genuinely a cheaper and more viable option these days. I think I saw someone calculate recently that producing the equivalent amount of energy in solar/wind/storage as a nuclear plant would cost less than half the amount of money to build, and even less time than that.
I think nuclear is cool and fusion is probably the future, but for now I don't see it making any kind of financial sense.
Mostly because nuclear is incredibly expensive and takes too long to build. If we want to achieve net zero anytime soon, going all-in on renewables is currently the most economically viable option.
Plenty of fun to be had with LLMs.
If Microsoft is unable to verify ownership of the account, they shouldn't take ownership of your files.
You said in another comment that you deal with misinformation online by just waiting for it to get debunked.
I have completed a masters degree at university. An IQ test showed my IQ is higher than 130. People around me consider me a pretty smart guy.
I have never even thought of your way to deal with misinformation. It's the simplest thing too, just wait. It's brilliant too, because it almost never fails and anyone can do it without any practice or training. The source of the misinformation doesn't matter, if it was spread via the news or on a forum online doesn't matter... It always works.
It might actually be the perfect solution to this problem. And I never even thought of it! When I read your comment my first thought was "Oh my god that's brilliant".
You might not be very intelligent. But you do seem wiser than most. Everyone has their own shortcomings, their insecurities, stuff they hate about themselves. For you it's your intelligence, for others it is how athletic they are, or their looks, or maybe they really want to grow a beard, they think they're not sexy enough, not nice enough, want children but can't have them, or maybe they wake up worrying about their micropenis every day.
I can't tell you to just love yourself and who you are. I know it's not that simple. Looking at this in a different way than you probably have all your life is not easy!
I can only offer you this: my girlfriend has an uncle with a severe learning disability, severe autism and he also had a stroke when he was young. He went from an already not very smart carpenter to effectively a man with the brains of a five year old, unable to drive anymore and not able to do his job anymore.
He had to be placed in a care home. He "works" by folding envelopes or sorting lego pieces. And someone needs to explain that to him too, almost every day, again and again.
His brother, my girlfriends dad, is what I can only describe as a shithead. He was violent to her, ignored her wishes and was just cruel. She was traumatized by her youth, because her mother died young because of an accident and he quickly married again, to a total bitch this time. She hates her dad with a passion.
This uncle however is not violent. Never has been either. If another person who is in the care home hits him (some are sadly aggressive and get angry easily), he doesn't react back. They told him he can push them away, but he refuses. They sent him on a self-defense course, which he did, but he refuses to use what he learned. He says he doesn't want to.
There isn't a fiber in that man's body that is violent. He is never angry with others. He is always happy to see us and enjoys the little things in life.
I consider him a good man. I consider him better than a lot of people I know who are perfectly normal. And that's probably what he will be remembered for: that he was a good person.
Your friends aren't your friends because you're not smart. They probably just like who you are. And if my girlfriend's uncle can be a good person and happy in life, then I believe that you can be too.
I wish you all the best.