Notices by Bruno Nicoletti (bjn@mstdn.social)

@kravietz @cstross Thank Putin and COVID for those problems, everything was affected, including nukes. Actual data says average cost overruns for nukes is 120%, for solar it is 5%. Solar deployments are increasing year on year, because they are so damn cheap. Eg. in the first nine months this year Pakistan, installed 17GW of solar, causing reductions in grid demand. Over the year, they will produce the equivalent of a 3.5GW nuke, trying building one of those in 9 years, let alone 9 months.

@MisterWanko @cstross TIL that John Norman (real name John Frederick Lange Jr) was a professor of philosophy. WTF???

@cstross Silly question and I hope not too rude. Do you get paid a percentage of the selling price or a fixed amount per book sold? (I have the book paperback already)

@cstross She also thinks catering neurodiverse children is a con. She’s a terrible person.

@baldur @mawhrin My 15 year old read your toot over my shoulder and her reaction was “Well yeah.” with a shrug and an eyeroll like it was the most obvious thing ever that AI isn’t all that. Even teens can see through of the hype.

@HistoPol @mina @si_irini @Yeekasoose @mikako6 @pmj Hey! Some of us (then) teenage SciFi nerds read and watched the same stuff, but reached entirely different conclusions! Not all of us thought they were blue prints to follow. The various Torment Nexii (Nexusus?) were dystopias.