They're incomparable.

In Fukushima four PWR type reactors (which is just a large metal pot) melted but stayed inside the containment vessels.

In Chernobyl, an RBMK reactor, which is a ginormous slab of graphite, exploded outwards and burned for ten days, releasing mind-boggling amounts of radioactive hot particles into the top layers of the atmosphere, thus contaminating the whole world.

Incomparable.

the ocean is a pretty fine place for radioactive water to be. the Pacific is really big and radiation danger is dose dependent.

That's relative. People eat seafood. Which is why this was a concern for many of the neighboring countries.

Contamination from Fukushima has been found thousands of miles away across the Pacific Ocean.

That says a lot more about the sensitivity of the instruments than about the severity of the accident.

interesting, any sources? (looking for a personal recommendation)

Well.

There are dogs roaming around the Buryakovka nuclear waste storage facility. About ~10 years ago I have been told that their average lifespan was in a ballpark of three years. Make what you will from it.

OTOH Przewalski's horses are just thriving in the Zone!

That sounds quite accurate. The average lifespan of a feral cat in the wild is said to be a year or two. Much shorter than the domestic equivalent.

Actually some lands were returned back to commercial usage. The land is extremely beautiful and rich. They have even created new resorts on the former land of the Exclusion Zone. [1]

I have been a part of the working group researching possible commercial usage of contaminated land, which should not be returned into agriculture or cannot be made livable BUT is perfectly suitable for things like prison, recycling plant or launch pad for space.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/JU3HHsz1hHyGak9U6

"cannot be made livable BUT is perfectly suitable for things like prison"

That sounds a bit dark.

My dream project for the Chernobyl Zone was a Norwegian style prison combined with college and completely and totally isolated from legacy soviet penitentiary system.

So that we can take younger first offenders and rehabilitate them and give them purpose in life.

Unfortunately, no one in the government we did discuss that gave any shit about the future of younger generation of Ukrainians.

Well, that sounds a bit nicer.

(I assume what makes it acceptable for a prison, but not "livable" is that prison inmates do not roam around, but are enclosed in a artificial compound?)

And for whether government is interested, I suppose also depends on how much more expensive it would have been?

> what makes it acceptable for a prison, but not "livable" is that

Much simpler. The main concerns are digging (radioactive fallout is about 30cm deep into the ground at this point) and unmapped hot spots. Basically, there could be a patch of the land with radioactivity high enough that it has to be either deactivated or tagged out.

> government is interested

One of the cultural gaps between us, russian [1] people and western world is the vast depth is misunderstanding of the function of government. Our governments is only interested in personal enrichment and the well being of people is never a factor. Literally.

[1] as in "slavic people", not "citizens of russian federation".

Origin and history of English word slave

https://www.etymonline.com/word/slave

slave(n.)

c. 1300, sclave, esclave, "person who is the chattel or property of another," from Old French esclave (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin Sclavus "slave" (source also of Italian schiavo, French esclave, Spanish esclavo), originally "Slav" (see Slav); so used in this secondary sense because of the many Slavs sold into slavery by conquering peoples.

The majority of food sold in the US satisfies the criteria you have laid out here.

Is the line still clear?

My neighbor got robbed the other day walking home from work. That means it's okay for me to rob them too, right?

I think it's like this in most countries - the police will only care about protecting the elite class. Sometimes the elite class feel threatened by high crime levels so the police will crack down on petty crime, but it's always in a way that makes the numbers look good, not a way that keeps people safe. They'll investigate the crimes that are easiest to prosecute.

I would like the majority of food sold in the US to improve in quality. I would support passing legislation to force the issue.

These questions sound very rational until you realize that sugar, performance cars, military technology and history lessons can tick all those boxes.

Can you recommend a history lesson that will destroy my life in seconds? Book, podcast, youtube would all be acceptable formats.

Tim Snyders videos

Maybe I haven't seen enough of his videos. They seem generally informative? Perhaps a bit depressing but I wouldn't say that watching a Tim Snyder video can ruin your life like gambling can.

Ok, so add "is it easy / quick / cheap to acquire?". Performance cars (I take measured risks at the race track) and track days / race tires aren't cheap. Not in any sense of the word.

Unsafe driving in ANY car? Yes - but that's already illegal.

Performance cars are very cheap to acquire temporarily.

I can literally book right now, for 4 long laps, for £99 any of the following (and that's a a very small subset of 30 similar cars): Lotus Evora / GTR 1200bhp / Lamborghini Gallardo / Dodge Viper SRT VX / Huracan... Unless you'd say these are not performance cars?

Not sure if the history lessons are a joke, but sugar is rightfully taxed or otherwise disincentivized in many countries, because it is highly harmful to society as a whole. Sports cars definitely get some yes answers, and are also rightfully taxed in several countries.

Military technology may be an exception as "necessary evil", but also is a bad example because it id not consumer-oriented.

As a Ukrainian I can tell you that deaths from history lessons are pretty much not a joke.

> The category has never once, in sixty years, produced a product that reliably made good

In the same article the author was mentioning a few expert systems from the past that were quite obviously successful.

> on the promise printed on its marketing

Ah, _that_ promise. That promise is never fulfilled anywhere nor it is expected to.

Yeah I don't quite get his point here. He seems to be complaining that enterprise companies buy from other enterprise a d larger companies instead of him. It's a tale as old as time.

Enterprise buy from large companies because those large companies come with support teams, liability, expertise that you don't need to manage internally.

It rare I read an article that actively annoys me but there's something about how this is written that seems a little arrogant.

> seems a little arrogant

A little. But it's a nice article nevertheless.

> The category error under all of this is the assumption that you can take a document library or a wiki [...] and make it intelligent by attaching a language model to it. But you cannot.

Imagine a model with a reliable 100M context window. Then all of a sudden you can.

> The information the intelligent answer needs was never in the wiki in the first place.

Oh well.

Unfortunately they forgot to remove Rust coreutils and sudo-rs from Ubuntu prior to releasing 26.04.

I am starting to suspect this even might be intentional.

Those packages can simply be reverted like dracut, at least for a few months of testing.

And yes, using a user-base as Beta testers is fairly cheeky. =3

> Those packages can simply be reverted

For now, that is. I am afraid that they will stop providing coreutils and sudo for some of the future releases (like they did with upstart) because obviously they know better what's good for the users.

> We are releasing GPT‑5.5 with our strongest set of safeguards to date

...

> we’re deploying stricter classifiers for potential cyber risk which some users may find annoying initially

So we should be expecting to not be able to check our own code for vulnerabilities, because inherently the model cannot know whether I'm feeding my code or someone else's.

Hopefully not, because checking your codebase for vulnerabilities is really valuable.

I hope it’s just limits on pentesting and stuff, and not for code analysis and review.

But how do it know?