France, with an effectively zero-carbon electricity supply, now needs rapid electrification to continue decarbonising (it has cut emissions by 32% compared to 50% by UK).

When Great Britain meets its Clean Power 2030 targets, whether in 2030 or a few years later, we will need to do the same.

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I had loads of wording problems with this. "Entropy can be defeated through intelligence"?? "Present sacrifices are justified by future flourishing" disagree, because it's fact dependent.

I said 2014 because I thought that was a decade ago lol

Writing, then image gen, now coding - if you'd polled experts in 2014 for an over under on where we are now it would have been 95%+ going for the under surely. Feels hard to be confident there won't be more significant advances

putting all my money on the models leveling out and then human intelligence coming down to meet them

should be "large amount of land *or nuclear* is required"

passed away, I'd love him to have been able to update the book himself.

It would be a great project (and I think one he would have approved of) for someone of a similar mindset to go through it and do so now.

the (still ~accurate) calculations showing that for fully carbon free energy production a large amount of land is required. I think this is still going to be a real problem as we continue to scale up renewables production. Fortunately the economics have dramatically improved. It's very sad that he

He discusses it in chapter 25 (it's free online, see my link above). You can update the numbers to current ones fairly easily because the reasoning is very transparent. Chapters 18, 27 and 30 are also relevant. He was concerned with the economics and NIMBY resistance to renewables, the latter from

This is an international phenomenon, when I was younger every major left-ish protest movement would get at least partially co-opted by the SWP (or a front), which it turns out was simultaneously covering up the fact that its leader had (allegedly) raped another member.

Claim in last sentence is that they don't really count (obviously not true for any reasonable understanding of the phrase)

But we don't do that because it's plainly not desired - resisting the gender marker matching presentation in favour of some invisible characteristic, suggests identification isn't the goal

Kind of weird that passports have your gender (or is it now effectively sex in some places?) If you need more identifying characteristics many other characteristics would seem better, eg. Adjacently, chromosomes, or like a fingerprint. Eye colour!

I instantly recognised that first shot with the shields despite seeing the film once, two decades ago.

Figuring that all those French Poetry professors got away with it for years and trying to emulate their juice

Maybe this is already available but formatting/type check mcps should be part of the standard tool stack too.

Would love to see someone package up a sandbox cloud VM service along with one of the new tool chains. The constant rebuilds some of them do to check correctness limits how much you can use your laptop!

There was a teacher at my school who lived with a former student of his. The story was that their personal relationship had started at the leavers ball so was OK.

My model is of niche forum culture (eg lowercase something awful sub forums) but for the global business boomers.