Not all of the 1200 who died on October 7 were killed by Hamas. Many of them were actually killed by the IDF under the Hannibal directive. Basically the Hannibal directive says that it's better for an Israeli to die under IDF fire than the government be forced to negotiate their release. It's not clear how many died due to IDF fire, but one location apparently had about 75 vehicles destroyed by the IDF returning to Gaza -- most of them probably with would-be hostages.

So, Microsoft now has both the financial resources and the power need that could justify a serious research/development project to produce a production Thorium reactor. -- The original problem that the DOE had with Thorium reactors was that they were almost useless for producing nuclear weapons (an important 'side effect' of Nuclear power back in the '70s). Microsoft has no need (one would hope) for nuclear weapons, but could definitely use the thorium promise of a far smaller radiation waste footprint.

We need to push courts to make speakers more accountable for their lies, not the platforms. It's currently too difficult to take people to court for intentionally, or grossly negligently, spreading lies -- especially those with big audiences and big money.

If you can't take the speaker to court, you shouldn't be able to scare the platform into censoring them.

Yeah, I admit, that I'm not gonna complain about an extra 7 days in space -- but these are millionaires who probably have lawyers on staff waiting for stupid things to do. Suing for the 'extremely long flight delay' under airline rules might be a good bit of fun in addition to the extra floating time.

You can find problems in either direction. Engineers without MBAs go for perfection without understanding the human and cost aspect. MBAs without engineers work to maximize profit at all costs -- without considering the safety and long term costs. The proper solution is a careful mix, BUT If I was going to fly in an airplane, I think I'd go for one built by engineers over MBAs.

Reminds me of IBM packaging early PCs with Windows licenses when they had OS/2 and it was arguably a better OS in many respects.

Having worked on MMO platforms and video games, I can tell you the misery of working 800 hours of overtime in a year to support policing/EMS dispatching and mobile apps was not as miserable as what I lived and saw as a game dev. I have subsequently worked on another platform for online gaming and felt the same way there. And phone app devs are constantly crunched brutally because of the small budgets everyone expects to spend on a phone app.

The video game industry preys on young devs and brutally treats almost all of them. I had friends went from our company when it was folding up to Ubisoft and their workload there was even more miserable and unhealthy.

Now, I tend to find $80 for a game to be too much for my wallet. That said, I don't think games are easy or can be done cheaply - content and the engine underneath takes a lot of work to get right. I just don't have the $.

That said, I wouldn't be a game dev again for any reason other than abject desperation.

Some of them have lots of pretty things to see... but have less actual useful contact than a MUD.

If they pitchforked AMD for borking itself... that'd be some amusement....

From what was seen lately, they seem to reference an 'internal storage quota issue'.

Maybe somebody accidentally tried to backup all their data and it choked their own storage network.... lol.

Or somebody let something run that wasn't well tested.

Microsoft can mess up just about anything. Back in the days of Windows 3.1, I ran into a problem where adding memory to a laser printer caused the mouse driver to die. Removing the memory fixed the problem.

Did the fallout cause the rain to fall, or did the falling rain bring radioactive particles out of the clouds and cause 'fallout' readings to increase? Was a similar effect seen in years when nuclear testing wasn't taking place?

The 'ban' was useless and racist. He was essentially banning Chinese people from coming to the US, but US citizens were allowed to go from China to the US with no restrictions. I.E. they were allowed to infect Americans on their returns. All it provided was a false security.

Splitting hairs. By calling "hoax", he downplayed the seriousness of the situation, and encouraged his followers to ignore the situation. This allowed the epidemic to spread essentially unchecked over that time.