𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠

Ignoring that the UK isn’t part of the EU, the EUs privacy laws extend to all European citizens, and it has treaties with most of the world (including the US) allowing it to enforce those.

It’s literally happened to every single version of Windows, 10 and below.

This has literally happened repeatedly in the past. Just last year an exploit came to light affecting Windows XP that was so bad Microsoft had to release another security patch for it. WannaCry and NotPetya malwares used similarly severe exploits in 2017.

The point was that they haven’t always held themselves up to those standards and have sometimes only used professionals espousing a single viewpoint (where multiple exist).

I should mention this isn’t bias, iirc the channel did release a video apologizing for some of the issues (though not all), so it wasn’t even up to their own standards by their own admission.

There’s a wikipedia entry listing some of the controversies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzgesagt#%3A~%3Atext=While+some+commentators+have+praised%2Cand+use+of+emotive+language.

Looking things up now, I see that the plagiarism case was slightly different: they had published a video on addiction, which was fairly explosive in its claims. Turns out it was citing basically just one fringe researcher who was also accused of plagiarism. The claims did not seem to hold up to scrutiny.

When another channel doing a series on how pop-sci influencers can sometimes spread misinformed ideas asked some questions to Kurzgesagt, they were immediately a bit apprehensive but agreed to do some interview questions, though with the caveat that they were busy with other things and needed a few weeks before it could take place. Then before the interview took place they suddenly put out their own apology video and took the addiction video down. At no point was it mentioned that another channel prompted this action, it was presented as some kind of inward reflection that they had come to themselves.

Well, unless some exploit is discovered that doesn’t require user interaction. Then merely being connected puts your device at risk.

And given historical precedent, it’s going to be a matter of time until one is discovered.

I mean there’s been some controversy surrounding a number of their videos. Some were under fire for poor research or demonstrating a singular, not widely-held view on certain topics. And I think for one video they were accused of plagiarism iirc. This was when it was still somewhat early days for the channel, haven’t followed them since so not sure what the state is now.

Yes, that is what a fork is.

IIRC there were also some trademark issues?

I think you got that mixed up, the VSCode icon is in the Soydev square.

Nuclear power requires a lot of water for coolant. Usually they use river water and release the heated water back in the river, which quite heavily disrupts the ecosystem.

Additionally, during heatwaves (which we’re getting more and more of) the river water may get too warm to use, so the reactor has to shut down (happens in France almost every heatwave), which is bad as that happens when power usage tends to spike.

Nuclear is also extremely expensive, costs many years to build, not to mention we don’t have enough educated nuclear engineers nor build capacity to keep up with the demand for new power. It’s why investors generally don’t bother with nuclear much, outside of specific niche cases. Not to mention the carbon footprint of building a power plant.

It’s also likely going to get more expensive to run in the future. As renewables keep contributing more power to the grid (since they’re so cheap and getting cheaper still), power generation will also fluctuate more. Meaning, other power sources need to be very flexible in when they output power themselves. Nuclear is famously quite inflexible, it takes time to spin up and wind down. There are reactor designs that are better at it, but even for those shutting down the reactor for a couple hours tends to be economic suicide as well. This exact reason btw is why gas is still used a lot; it’s cleaner than coal at least, but also very easy to spin up or wind down without creating much extra cost. And it’s much cheaper than nuclear (leaving more money to invest in renewables).

Nuclear could be great, if it was A) cheaper, B) faster to build and C) more flexible. And no, so far SMRs have not proven to be any of those things yet.

No, it was Iron Sky (2012), with the Swastika-shaped lunar base.

… Let’s not give Elon any ideas.

I mean he literally felt he needed to point out he didn’t think Hitler was the worst, which I’m sure you can have a very academical discussion about but it’s really weird to just bring that up out of the blue.

“Oh yeah Hitler is totally terrible, horrible. Not the worst though, but horrible I tell ya!”

They accidentally added a zero, it’s supposed to be 1000m (doubke 500m).

That sounds boneheaded. Comments are a feature for a good reason after all.

See, that to me is an example of a useless comment. The only way I’d justify it is if you have some validation that checks if all public methods have xml comments or something. But userId: ID of user sounds redundant to me.

What code is doing should generally (exceptions are always possible) be evident from the code itself, through clear naming, concise functions with singular goals and proper code structure.

Why code is doing what it does can be helpfully explained through a comment. X may update Y because of business decision Z, so putting a little bit of background info on Z can be very helpful for a future maintainer who might understand what X is doing but might not know why it’s doing so in the first place.

If your code requires a lot of comments to make sense, the comments certainly can be a code smell.

Apparently someone asked him if they could create a website with an AI Pope Leo that could answer questions.

Isn’t Stephen Crowder the guy in the change my mind meme?

Technically one was cloned off him at some point. The actress who played her ended up marrying the Doctor though.

It’s also a dlc song for Hearts of Iron 4, which in and of itself isn’t a game that promotes fascism but there is a weird far-right subculture that does use it to praise stuff like Nazi Germany.