Why do we close down working nuclear power plants?

Almost always because they are so old they are close to failing.

Because it costs too much to keep them running safely.

Citation needed. Moving the biggest polluters from Earth to space makes a lot of sense. I am not sure about economic realities.

To be clear, I think there's a lot of reasons to do cool things in space (Moon base, etc.). However, we're kidding ourselves if we think one of those reasons is "make a profit based on the intrinsic economic value of the endeavor".

>> Perhaps unsurprisingly, the batteries won't be cheap

Could we get a price comparison per driven distance? Without it these numbers look good but I would be interested in the price too

Seems to me that you got a quality management problem. Does not matter if your team is in-house or remote, software quality is a problem. I would try to understand why your code has those problems.

> As we are growing we're running in to the limits of what this product can offer. We're being hampered in our speed of execution and missing crucial insights.

You need to hire few very skilled software people, it seems you can afford them.

> Migrating onto Kubernetes can take years

What a heck am I reading? For who? I am not sure why companies even bother with such migrations. Where is the business value? Where is the gain for the customer? Is this one of those "L'art pour l'art" project that Figma does it just because they can?

FWIW... I was pretty taken aback by this statement as well- and also the "brag" that they moved onto K8s in less than a year. At a very well established firm ~30 years old and with the baggage that came with it, we moved to K8s in far less time- though we made zero attempt to move everything to k8s, just stuff that could benefit from it. Our pitch was more or less- move to k8s and when we do the planned datacenter move at the end of the year, you don't have to do anything aside from a checkout. Otherwise you will have to redeploy your apps to new machines or VMs and deal with all the headache around that. Or you could just containerize now if you aren't already and we take care of the rest. Most migrated and were very happy with the results.

There was plenty of services that were latency sensitive or in the HPC realm where it made no sense to force a migration though, and there was no attempt to force them to shoehorn in.

It solves the "we have recently been acquired and have a lot of resources that we must put to use" problem.

> excavation only begun in 1995.

We are at 5%.

It is great that we need a linux kernel feature to be ported to Windows so we don’t have blue Fridays

Either your are a pro LaTeX user or you did not use the more advanced features.

Or I just didn't have the issues you or others did. Tex distribution can make a point, also editor most likely.

I have used LaTeX extensively over the years until Typst came along. Typst is exactly what I need. A lightweight syntax alternative of LaTeX without the issues. It supports SVGs and many more things that are very useful.

Typst a way simpler approach to this:

https://typst.app/