I also squinted at that, my guess is this is more about the cooling part, or worse, the changes in the software/hardware maybe being so meaningful, the speed of the algorithms for maneuverability is so improved the engines can't keep up but that would mean the software was flawed for targeting unreasonable specs.

But even if it's just electrical power for the new components and compute workloads, I could still see this requiring different engines: it may not be easy to convert jet engine power to constant electrical power. Remember jet engines need to be so efficient they even lack a proper, reliable self-power-on mechanisms (like commercial jets): they need and external battery to perform the operation regularly (even though they can, in rare exceptions, self power on, at the csot of risk to the batteries).

that's Meta's goal: reduction of staff through suggestive quitting.

Just like since the beginning of the year, this is yet another company looking to use employee's unwillingness to come back to the old model as just cause and "suggestive" layoff for them cutting costs. Why fire when you can just get a large chunk of your workforce to consider costs and work-life-balance impacts to change jobs?

I've seen this happen in my country: companies cutting cost-less or cost-trivial benefits which have 0 impact on productivity, just to tip employees to going for other non-greener pastures during this time of hiring freezes. This is a side-effect of the great hiring of last year, where companies doubled down on hiring post-pandemic and now they don't know what to do with all the workers when they would rather have liquidity to invest in goods and infrastructure that gain value during this market dip.

are you telling me the shits can be measured properly when fiber shit is so different from the other? And that the measurement actually means anything when you can't measure absorved cals when you don't have an accurate number for intake cals?

Or that all the energy was expended as heat? Worse even, are you telling me you can actually measure a person's body energy accurately, even in an hermetically-closed room by heat alone, when it's pretty much impossible to hermetically seal every nook and cranny, and even if you seal it with the best materials, there will be loss and that loss is certainly on a larger variance than 100 cals in a single day? 1 calorie (or 1KCal since these are probably what they refer to) is 4 BTUs, when a standard human emits 365 BTUs per HOUR idling, or 8760 a day (for reference, 116 KCals is 460 BTU, or roughly 4.2% of a human in in a day just idling). Do they have rooms where they can control for 4% heat loss over 24h? I seriously doubt it.

To be fair, calories is a horrible unit for food intake control. It's about time we found something better, something more meaningful.

It says: "On average, they (people who ate unprocessed food) lost 217 calories a day on the fiber-rich diet, about 116 more calories than they lost on the processed-food diet."

So... first let's address the obvious curveball: they only lost 116 calories LESS.

Second, the second not-so-obvious curveball, yet obvious nonetheless: counting calories of processed food is certainly easier than unprocessed. You can mostly estimate calories of fruit, nuts, lentils, peas... They have much more empty space, and even their weight is a bad measure because they vary wildly. Processed food is very predictable nutritionally. The 116-calorie difference is, for all intents and purposes, meaningless.

At least certainly not as meaningful as: you want to lose weight? JUst calculate for less calories than you consume naturally OR naturally+with complementary exercise on your routine.

Exercise is, for the most part, complementary, you don't really need it for a diet. You need it for other health reasons. Although some say exercise will make you burn specific calories better, it may also have an adverse psychological effect of making you crave more calories. And trust me, a diet is hard by itself already, you don't want to try and get thin on the handicap of craving for EVEN MORE calories than you already wrongly do if you're overweight. Diet first, exercise when you've attained your weight target.

Quote: The article notes pointedly that memory chips "aren't usually considered a cybersecurity risk because they don't require any specific software or run code. They're mostly basic grids of transistors used for storing data and, as such, haven't typically been a vector of attack for hackers."

So much to unpack here... First, as others have pointed out, this is not just the memory chips but memory PRODUCTS. Micron makes RAM and NAND chips but they also make controllers, memory sticks and SSDs. The ban is on PRODUCTS.

Second and most importantly: "memory chips aren't usually considered a cybersecurity risk" wait WHAT!? Yeah most memory issues may not originate in chip or RAM flaws, but most security flaws are usually related to memory. Be it memory access (e.g. to get keys/passwords), memory replacement (e.g. to perform arbitrary execution of code, usually by escalating its privilege when replacing existing privileged code), and even the simple act of knowing partial memory data can induce in predictions that can be used for the above.

And 16 years ago too. Will people ever learn?

Say what you will but while it's your computer running their software. You always have a chance to NOT use their software.

micro-generation is the buzzword for consumer-level energy. The concept I'm trying to argue is similar but also applies to those infra you mention. We may need to rehash our current urban and industrial layouts, but with localized, adjacent access to energy, even large factory and long-distance railway can become independant on a larger grid, which then isn't as vulnerable but will also be much more efficient since most energy is already lost in thermal resistance anyway due to how we do it right now.

I wasn't trying to imply it was a revolutionary new idea. What is so surprising is how it is still so overlooked. And unfortunately I have a theory - people say that Europe has stagnated "militarilly" due to long peace and protection from the US and the few nuke triad states we have locally. But more impressively is how we have stagnated energetically. We have leaned on cheap and pipe-accessible oil and gas from all around us, under the impression Russia wouldn't ever care, but also that the mediterranean acted as some sort of filter of conflict with African and Arabian Peninsula. We are now seeing how we depend on both Russia southern southeastern fuel and how unprepared we are for the lightest imbalance, economically but also socially. In a continent where public opinion has such an effect on democracy, not only are we faltering politically (looks at Italy, Hungary, Poland, squinted at France, said goodbye to the brits... a large part of it due to Rusian influence on social and common media - this also happens and is happening and happenned in the Americas, US too), but we can be so badly maimed economically with the slightest touch on our fuel, we immediately go back to thinking of nuclear as an alternative. It's 2022 and it's about time we took action with a true renewable and microgeneration push. Large oil conglomerates and their political influence need to be phased out of our democratic systems, especially at the EU level where political bias should be near 0. It's about time we push our politicians to act in our true best interests not with capitalistic geopolitical worldviews, using foreign policy, money printing and trade bans to force a hand (this is not true diplomacy IMHO, and it's not better than full scale war if it eventually triggers a fulls cale war...), and they should be doing so focusing on internal policy for independence on every aspect of self-sustainability. And then we can think about diplomacy or the military. We need to stop relying on China and SEA imports, on foreign fuel, and thus foreign influence. We do not want to become the next Africa in terms of debt to China, or India/Iran in terms of dependency to Russia.

Seriously, are these guys comparing pirating software and media to harassing and abusing others online? Damn, I love that (most of) Europe still fortunately doesn't give two shits about consumer-level piracy.

And I can't understand how science fiction and Russia are getting this right, and before most others. And my guess is China has noticed, and they're all getting it right before western democracies are forced to take measures due to climate change (because the current external threat does not seem to be enough to induce change, but climate eventually will through public opinion towards renewables and micro-generation).

Russia may very well win the war out of a lack of backup infrastructure that can withstand targetted electrical grid attacks. I am, unfortunately, somewhat confident about this. While you can move people and smaller infrastructure, you can only keep a fight going if your country doesn't become unlivable and undefendable out of lack of basic conditions. Electricity now drives most basic living conditions such as, but not limited to, heating, health, food, communication but also the economy. Take electricity away, eventually Russia will be able to swat out the Ukrainians willing to fight. And if not swat them out, they will bend their will through public opinion that the war cannot be fought. If you can't feed your children, you will eventually have to accept rule of this aggressor state.

There's this new Amazon show called The Peripheral, and they casually dropped a new armaggedon scenario that not only, but centrally, involves a US blackout triggering it. It did sound silly at first glance, but it clicked just minutes after they may be getting it right, as soon as I connected the dots on current Russian offensive actions - killing the electrical grid infrastructure. It is so simple, so effective, and cheap, now imagine it becomes even cheaper through the use of our own common internet which every grid pretty much relies upon these days. Europe isn't prepared for this for sure, and I fear we western Europeans may have to find this the hard way, and without much time to prepare for it now.

that education is the cure for stupidity

Didn't expect HDO Max to pull a Netflix so darn soon. This is in line with cancelling fringe shows such as the OA, The Expanse (dropped by Netflix, saved by Prime, then dropped) or Sense8 (saved by Netflix but ALSO dropped). It seems to me top execs in streaming services must have something against the spiritual/esoteric or deeply Scy-Fy shows, even if they actually make it. Star Trek/Wars must be the only exceptions.

real money (i.e. a fiat currency) doesn't produce anything either. The arguments that all of the descriptions Buffet and co. used are based on the notion that digital tokens are akin to a product, when in reality they are akin to a commodity, from which you can extract value from their use to produce something else. Crypto currencies are currencies. Nothing else. They are based on the value people put on them just like any other currency, or commodity.