So much (maybe too much) of research is focused towards what might be publishable, patentable, and saleable to the exclusion of just about everything else. This places a large incentive on the risk-averse and incremental. Even in the places where the most basic research is done such as universities, there's a been a large push towards only approving and funding experiments and studies that might more easily lead to discoveries that can be marketed and sold as a product vs anything else.

They don't have to be large, nor do they have to be located far away. Both are currently true regarding old reactor designs from the 1960's and 1970's.

China has opted into using modern modular designs that take way less time to build, have a much, MUCH smaller footprint, and can be located right in and around cities.

The problem, as usual in this regard, are NIMBY's, special interest groups, and the fossil fuels industry (who started the entire anti-nuclear movement to begin with).

France did after a large portion of their vineyards got hit by a fungus that American vines were immune to.

A vacancy tax would help somewhat, but in the case of the United States, it's the Chinese and the Dutch in most of the country, while Canadians dominate in Florida.

Small business, medical, etc are starving for applicants. Where the cuts seem to be coming is in the overly saturated desk job areas like the management layers, HR, etc.

Twitter laid off a ton of people, but most of them from reading in various sources, seem to be the "middlemen" in any organization, with very few engineers or programmers getting the axe, while groups like content moderation, HR, sales, management, etc got walloped.

What he likely did, is print out a certain drain valve part that can be used as an autosear in Glocks, and not an actual stand-alone autosear. The first is legal, but the BAFTE has been cracking down on anyone importing them from China that isn't a registered parts dealer for the machines they are actually for.

I have the misfortune of dealing with Windows 11 because it's what already came pre-installed on my wife's rig. It's very much like WinME/Vista/8, in other words, the completely shit version that everyone should skip if possible.

Unfortunately for those of us on Win10 who refuse to upgrade to that steaming pile of crap, MS has started nagging the shit out of us via Windows Update with a big yellow warning saying an important update isn't installed (meaning Win11) without disclosing that they mean Win11.

Especially with huge supplies of certain gasses required by semi-conductor fabs currently tied up in the Russia-Ukraine conflict (being that they are in the ground of Ukraine).

Except we know China does want this according to their long-term plans. They've been making every move you could possibly make as a nation to spark a global conflict over the last 20 years without actually firing the guns, so to speak. Many of the things they have done just in the last decade have more than met the criteria for a declaration of war.

This doesn't just target support and maintenance, but the big ticket development centers like EE/SE engineers and chip designers. I read an article on this the other day, and one company in China lost it's entire 1400 member workforce of engineers, programmers, and designers (read: every member of the company that wasn't something like HR or janitorial staff) when this went into effect. Several other companies also lost their staff.

So, he really did pattern it on how Microsoft has done things.

They tried config files in Windows before, and application developers just decided to shit them all up and dump them wherever they felt like, including in the directory structure of the host OS.

Going back to that idea is just as stupid as maintaining a registry.

SystemD from my experience and reading, is everything Microsoft has ever done wrong with the start/boot process of Windows, copying it wholesale, and applying it to Linux.

Anyone who has any dealings with IBM whatsoever in the last 30 years can tell you someone at IBM did have some say in the matter because that is how IBM operates and has always operated, no matter what categorical denial you try to vocalize. They are one of the companies known world-wide for micromanagement of subsidiaries.

What EULA and TOS, out of the 46 different programs pushed out to student Chromebooks over the lockdown period in my wife's district, the only ones that had any presentation of TOS/EULA whatsoever were from Google and Microsoft. Every other company presented no such thing with their software.