Why does a plugin system immediately imply sandboxing?

Because a box is an intuitive way to limit the blast radius of arbitrary code? But the wasn't a requirement, I'd be fine with sandbox-free secure plugin systems

There are tons and tons of successful plugin systems out there that do not have such ridiculous requirements. I have thousands of VSTs installed and have never been RAT'ed. What happened to practicing internet hygiene?

At some point we need to acknowledge the problem is cultural, and address accordingly. I realize that the business objective for many is to make computing as brainless as possible but we need to be pushing back on that.

Instead we have forums full of really smart people demanding a nanny state. Yuck -- what a sad and pathetic state of affairs.

I am so sick of monkey-see monkey-do in business.

Doesn't matter if it is privacy preserving, it is still an evil thing to do

Your browser discloses a lot more fingerprinting data than this

You might want to familiarize yourself with the ten principles. Trash service would undermine some of those tenets

You're right minus the profits, nobody's really making any money off the Burn except maybe fancy RV rental places or whatever.

Are you on the outside looking in or are/were you an active burning man participant?

Why exactly does "actual nerds who care" stipulate writing code?

Dude this relentless LLM optimism is exhausting

It was sarcasm, sorry.

> if we already have this assumption for software engineers,

Assuming what exactly? That they write more code? Better code? Better designs? Better architecture?

Because only a few of the above assumptions are arghuably true.

because intellectual property laws are inherently worthy of respect and they are never used against consumers ever

No corporation should be entitled to 200 year monopolies on what amounts to bits of information.

I really wish the same could be said for San Onofre. To say nothing of its value as a landmark -- it will live on in our memories as the great San Onofre boobies

One upside -- is that SONGS being decommissioned gave the energy storage market the ability to level up in a big way back then. They filled part of the gap with some large MW procurements. Allowed BESS to be part of the collective energy solution. Nuclear + Solar + BESS + some small amounts of NG is a dream team.

"Ironically, what originally motivated pumped storage installations was the inflexibility of nuclear power. Nuclear plants’ large steam turbines run best at full power. Pumped storage can defer surplus nuclear power generated overnight (when consumption is low) to help meet the next day’s demand peak."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-pumped-hydro-energystorage-renai...

Main challenge with pumped storage is its geographically limited, always a custom project, and large scale deployment.