This isn't about coal emissions or clean anything. It's about killing the coal industry before the cryptocurrency industry can buy in to make their own electricity.
Bit late for that now, innit?
January 2022: https://abcnews.go.com/US/bitc...
February 2022: https://www.theguardian.com/te...
December 2023: https://www.indystar.com/story...
I'm a bit concerned that we are now using the term "ransomware" to include situations where data have been exfiltrated. It used to only mean that the data were encrypted in place, and the ransom was for the decryption key (which you still can't trust, btw. How do you know that the data weren't altered during the encryption or decryption process?).
A case where data are exfiltrated is more properly referred to as a breach.
Are we just being sloppy with language, or does calling it ransomware give companies cover to avoid penalties and responsibilities associated with breaches?
I just did my taxes with TurboTax - had tried TaxSlayer which has more free/cheap offerings (I use it for my mom-in-law's taxes) but didn't have the payment option I was looking for. Not only does TurboTax keep trying to upsell, it also keeps asking for permission to share my data with world+dog. And if I revisit a section (income or whatever) it asks the same upsell questions again that it asked the first time I went into that section.
I have kids. I don't need anyone else to beg me repeatedly for things.
As of March 2024, Windows has something like 72% desktop/laptop OS market share; Mac something like 15%.
Microsoft seems to be going after a problem it doesn't have.
...why I feel like I'm 215 years old.
I've got kids in a public elementary school in the US, where kindergarteners use iPads while everyone older uses Chromebooks.
Adults who think you type fast, imagine if you had started at age 6.
I read the comments to see if anyone would mention Pick.
I'm off to have PTSD, now.
168,032 vs 168,395 seems pretty close... if US tech industry headcount in 2023 was the same as it was in 2001. Which it wasn't. A Deloitte report from 2021 indicates the industry grew from ~3.6 million workers in 2001 to ~5m+ in 2021. So the 2023 layoffs affected a smaller percentage of the workforce.
Of course, that ~40% overall growth in industry headcount pales in comparison to the growth seen by MFAANG - 4x for Microsoft, 15x for Apple, 40x for Netflix, 50x for Meta (just since 2009), 600x for Google, and 2000x for Amazon.
Fusion had "a chance" for quite some time. But this result here is based on simulation and theory and basically an educated guess, not much more.
if the tech being talked about is ReBCO high-temperature superconducting tape, and the person talking about it is from MIT? They're well beyond simulation and theory. They built a full-scale magnet back in 2021 and generated a 20 Tesla field - and kept it at that strength for over 5 hours.
However, in recent decades - well after the start of ITER (and thus not employed in its design) - there was a massive change on the scene: the commercial bulk availability of room temperature superconducting films. These allow for magnets with double the field strength, which basically lets you scale down the size of a commercially viable reactor by an order of magnitude. And not only that, but they offer a whole host of other advantages, including easier / cheaper cooling, easier ability to open up the reactor to get inside to replace the liner, and so forth.
It's a complete game changer for the industry. That doesn't mean "viable nuclear power overnight". Heck, it doesn't even prove economic viability at all - you can't predict that really well in advance. But what it does mean is that, yes, at a reasonable scale, we can build productive electricity-genereating fusion reactors. This isn't some exotic, "This One Weird Trick Lets You Make A Great Fusion Reactor" thing - this is well established, well researched physics here. Just with better magnets. And those better magnets makes a *huge* difference.
You meant to say "high-temperature" superconducting, not "room temperature" -- we're still talking 100 Kelvin, give or take. But being able to use cheap, easily-produced liquid nitrogen for cooling rather than liquid helium is a big deal, yes.
This might even create a market for the older hardware, if that's the only way you can prevent being upgraded....
All, now? A decade ago the law required solar hot water OR photovoltaic OR a high-efficiency gas water heater.
I'd be happy if they've tightened it up to drop that last option.
Is it better than "nothing" though? How many snow days does NYC have? Shouldn't the kids have a chance to go sledding, build snow forts, have an epic snowball battle?
They used to just build it into the schedule that there would be a small number of surprise skip days. Is that really so terrible? It's not like remote learning addresses the daycare issue - parents need to have a plan for the home day whether their kid is outside getting exercise or inside staring at a screen.
I must admit I was shocked that the problem hadn't been solved in the last three days.
I know some of these outfits were offering to install solar setups with no up-front cost, then pay for them by selling homeowners the electricity they produce over however many years, and presumably selling any excess to utilities. Okay, so if you're a homeowner with a no-up-front-cost solar system, paying the company, and the company ceases to exist, what happens? Of course, I presume they get snapped up by someone else and you pay them instead, but... what if they don't?
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect "Hungry." -- a Larson cartoon
