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I guess if you feel like you're not wasting enough money on roads this would certainly be a way to waste a lot more.

A guy describing his most basic bitch lifestyle as unique and different from everybody else.

Sure they can. They just have to do it in a way that doesn't create a disadvantage for other advertising providers.

Google isn't allowed to stop others tracking you without also removing their own ability to track you because that's anti-competitive.

> so more layers of abstraction can be added

The problem is that they're not layers of abstraction, they're just layers.

An actual layer of abstraction should allow you to replace or combine the lower layers. But we just have layers without abstractions.

The trade off has changed over time as memory access has become a bigger and bigger bottleneck. But caring about this is still "premature optimisation".

The claim of 20x program performance difference is overblown. Compilers can often remove virtual function calls, JITs can also do it at runtime. Virtual function calls in a tight loop are slow but most of your program isn't in a tight loop and few programs have compute as a bottleneck.

Measure your program, find the tight loops in your program and optimise that small part of your program.

Contractor is the wrong metaphor. They're building a house based on a plan already designed by an architect.

Software isn't the making of a thing, it's the designing of a thing.

Ask an architect how long it will take for them to design your dream home.

The numbers from the article are:

* $300 million for equivalent solar

* $200-400 million for equivalent onshore wind (they don't mention offshore wind which is more cost effective over it's lifetime)

* $1.5 billion for the SMR

Assuming solar and wind stay the same price for the next decade (which they definitely won't) that's a 4-5x construction price difference. The article didn't mention lifetime, decommissioning or running costs, which is likely a significant difference too.

So it's estimated to cost 4x the cost of wind or solar today and it's not being deployed for at least 10yrs. Sounds like a bargain.

If you have any unauthenticated routes that you don't want arbitrary websites calling.

> using JWT in a typical SPA <-> API scenario. Is this typical? It's a pretty horrible setup. Cookies have a lot of great features that 'store a JWT in LocalStorage' just doesn't have.

> You kids have no idea how easy you have it.

Sure, but the needle has moved. The thing that took you two weeks to write in 1987 isn't even considered anything useful by today's standards. The parsing needs to happen in real time, it needs to provide machine learning assisted auto complete, it needs a web UI and UI needs to show you an animated graphic of the scene you're describing, etc.

'Shellshock' was sitting there since 1989 and only detected in 2014.

South Seas Company, 1720

> These companies are profitable, but only because the process relies on a supply of cheap fossil fuels. If solar panels supplied the energy, the extra costs and space for the energy supply would again cancel out the savings in terms of space and costs.

Given that solar has become so cheap that new solar is able to compete with existing fossil fuel power this conclusion seems outdated. Solar can be placed in many places where it's not possible to plant in to the ground and it also doesn't account for power from other renewable energy sources that aren't available to plants in a field ie. Wind and Hydro