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4.98 birds/GWh in the fossil fuel estimate comes from unrealized climate change expectations. They also only looked at two coal power plants for the remainder of the study.

The nuclear source bird death estimates are extrapolated from one bad weather incident over two nights from a single plant on the Florida coast.

This is not a serious or rigorous study. Is there anything more recent?

Three, actually. There’s two just in Anchorage.

Swift actors seem to differentiate from other actor implementations (see Erlang) which have a decoupled message queue. Calling into a Swift actor may be non-blocking, but the result must still be await'd and from the actor's perspective all calls are sequential and synchronous.

By this token, actors seem to be the language-level implementation of a class where all methods are asynchronous, and also being protected by the same lock.

The novel feature seems to be cooperative scheduling amongst actors.

Firefox (and every other 3rd party browser) internally uses the same web rendering engine as Safari. Rolling your own renderer + JS engine is not allowed.

You can only have 3 apps + 3 extensions installed on one device simultaneously, however.

The next update to Swift Playgrounds is supposed to allow full iOS app development and submission to the App Store with no Mac involved.

Look also at Pythonista and a-shell for useful, if limited, programming environments. Both work by translating code into JS or wasm.

> Under normal circumstances though, health and safety oriented regulatory bodies such as the FDA play an absolutely essential role in protecting us from bad actors.

Does it though? There's a perception that government agencies are impartial watchdogs, but this belies the reality that governments have agendas of their own. The FDA is so politically removed from the people it was created to ostensibly protect that there's now little incentive for it to relieve real suffering today. A brief example:

My brother and thousands of people suffer from type-1 diabetes. We have had the technology for years now to create an artificial pancreas, but FDA and EMA regulatory procedures have stopped any device from being sold. People are creating their own DIY systems because no commercial, professionally-developed, reasonably-priced alternative exists yet.

This isn't snake oil. There are solutions for many people's ailments available today. And the FDA is a massive giant standing in the way of people living healthier, unencumbered lives.

Treat people like adults. On the whole they're pretty good at figuring out what's best for themselves and taking care of each other.

Joyeux Noël tout le monde!

I have a Dell XPS 9570 as well and I love it, it's been one of my favorite dev machines ever.