From what I can tell there are a remarkable number of people who appear to be grinding bullshit culture war axes rather than engaging in things like reading comprehension.

It's not that things haven't always been bad, but it feels like half the posts here the people aren't even reading the posts they're responding to.

The problem is that Weibo has approximately zero market share outside of the Sinophone sphere, and as far as I can tell it has no real interest in changing that.

It is hard to call something an "alternative platform to Twitter" if even basic documentation like the "registration help" links on their signup page are only in Chinese. Meanwhile you can't get serious penetration in China as a media platform unless you get the buy-in of the Chinese government. The net result is that these platforms aren't even in real competition with one another.

The Snowden slide deck on PRISM is over a decade old, and my expectation is that all of those providers that are still relevant have fixed the issues in question.

Uranium just isn't that scarce, given its very high energy density. That is especially the case when you start requiring designs that work for non-fissile fuel.

Broadly speaking the designs that work for 0% fissile Thorium will also work for the 99.3% U-238. The only thing for which there's any scarcity at all is U-235, but even then the fuel is cheap compared to all the other costs of power production)

(There is a legitimate issue that these designs require more highly enriched uranium -- that's a tradeoff to allow smaller scale designs. SMRs are suboptimal for bulk power production in general, but that market is long term going to renewables anyway.)

But this isn't some fundamental restriction. There isn't some magic reason that only Russia can make HALEU. It isn't like Russia is sitting on giant natural HALEU fields that go through HALEU pipelines through the Baltic sea to keep Germany warm during the winter.

HALEU production is an industrial process, and that industry can be built anywhere as needed. There's no large scale HALEU production in the west because there's no demand for it yet, but uranium enrichment is a well understood process.

(There is, of course, proliferation concern as with any sort of enrichment.)

That's an interesting thought.

One of the key points with particle/wave duality is that at higher energies these wavy things become a lot more particle-like. That's why you don't see a fastball showing weird quantum effects -- the wavelength of a fastball (considered as a single object) is miniscule.

Achieving a "superposition of less extreme electormagnetic waves" in this context would have the same level of difficulty as achieving a superposition of fastballs.

I would expect this one to be fairly mild -- it's entirely conceivable that this is a microcode bug to begin with and the fix would be approximately zero cost. At worst I'd expect the cost to be disabling the FSRM optimization.

Speaking as an Android/PC user, can you carefully explain to me how I'm supposed to turn off smart quotes on the iOS devices of people who are posting to Slashdot?

There's a lot of axe grinding here. The axe grinders always lump the two companies together and ignore the fact that the vast majority of the problems people are complaining about are caused by Cruise vehicles, because that doesn't fit their agenda.

The instructions indicate that calls will always meet preconditions, and this one states that "col is a valid column index in box"

It was even worse: the issue wasn't even so much the paltry prize as it was the fact you couldn't disassemble the drive.

The sorts of attacks that would plausibly read an overwritten-with-zeros drive would require disassembly.

I am confused what Biden has to do with this discussion?

Further:

this mission in question dates from January 7 2021 -- which was before the start of the Biden administration. The article in question is from March 3 2021, only six weeks into the Biden presidency, and presumably reporting issues that were weeks old. To the extent that Biden administration would even be relevant, you have to keep in mind that they were taking over from an administration that was actively hostile to the transition. It isn't surprising that there might have been minor food quality mishaps left over from the previous administration.

If you're comparing that to digging trenches in the disposal area for the most famous nuclear disaster ever, you're just fucking delusional, and I strongly suggest you double check that your account hasn't been compromised by Russian trolls.

Oh, hey, since I didn't provide an example, how about the famous 1995 Fox River Grove collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., in which a critical contributing factor was that the driver of the bus did not realize that the back of the bus was fully clear of the tracks.

There have been plenty of incidents of human drivers causing catastrophic failures due to ignoring signals at level crossings.

For that matter, there have been plenty of incidents of cars stalling on tracks due to other failures of car systems, and cars stalling due to the driver falling asleep at the wheel while waiting for a light.

Right. The wording is wrong, but it is clear what the question is actually asking. (i.e. the "oldest" age of death among people currently alive)