It would be kind of neat to see the algorithms for AI hand it off to a GPU or one of the fancy cores on a modern CPU.

But I can't see that really happening because machine learning algorithms requires so much processing power and modern graphics do the same so you just don't have a lot of head room.

they'll do the same with this shit.

Yeah, us old farts won't cave, but the kids will just grow up with AI Slop as normal. They won't know what they're missing.

The same Technology that made the "white man" more fit is also now destroying the environment and making us all unfit.

Ukraine can't be Nazi because it is not operated along Nazi ideals, and because the majority of the population is not made up of Nazis, not because of who sits in the big chair. Having Nazis in it doesn't make it Nazi. Nazis went all over the place, and there are descendants of Nazis who may still hold Nazi ideals all over the place. Ukraine has a neo-Nazi problem, but so does the USA. Do you call the USA a Nazi country? It sure does look a lot closer than Ukraine right now.

If that was true then we don't need lecturers anymore since all the material already exists. No the primary job of a lecturer is to *teach the subject matter*. Whether the material used are AI generated or not is irrelevant. The question is a) are they correct, b) are they able to be understood. If a lecturer checks this then there's no reason not to use AI to generate it.

You said the second most important thing is that lecturing is more than just standing there. That I would argue is the most important thing *in the course*. Critically *someone* needs to do it at some point. Not necessarily in the lecture. Some of the best courses I had had the worst lecturers. But the way exercises, practical activities, and labwork was designed is what generated a lot of learning. Really I think some of my lecturers being replaced with AI could have been an improvement.

The risk is outsourcing the thinking itself to AI. That hits all the problems you mentioned.

Firstly, no they aren't. The final drill pipe may be a few inches in diameter, because that is all that's needed, but the initial hole is actually quite wide often wider than 1m. This allows the drillers to create stacked casings to handle the pressure of the oil field. You only see the few inches drill pipe, or the top of the drilling rig, but much like a Forstner bit fits in the chuck of your drill but is able to drill a 2" wide hole in your cupboard door, it's misleading to look only at what you see on the surface.

For regulator maintenance you just winch the thing back up. It only needs to be done once a year or every two years anyway. This isn't a problem.

Also not a problem, this is where you actually can look to the oil and gas industry. They are talking about 15MW/reactor, the weight and self supporting requirements of this cable will be far less than a typical drill pipe, and also it doesn't need to support its weight, it just need to have buoyancy control. The whole point of this project is to be immersed. It doesn't need to support its *surface* weight, it needs to support the remaining force not covered by buoyancy at a specific segment at a specific pressure/depth.

That's the end of my non-problems.
There are MANY problems with this scam project. Partially economical, partially that they aren't solving any real world problem, and partially that no one has built such a small reactor.

Probably they are tired of people's stupid fucking responses. This is approximately the first time I've pointed that out without getting downmodded, and it's not too late for that to happen either. Only one of these proposed reactors has received type approval and then NuScale decided not to build one because it wouldn't be profitable even if someone else split the costs with them. My only question is, are the people I see frothing for SMRs invested in the scams, or just so dazzled by promises of shiny shit that they will attack anyone who points out the emperor's lack of clothing? I suppose that this can only be answered on a case by case basis, but I'm having trouble imagining a credible third option.

Indeed. Literally every SMR project is burying that lead. "We can put them in ships." "We can put them on the back of buildings." "We can put them in the bottom of a 1mile deep hole."

No one every points out the "them" here doesn't exist.

That's literally what they are talking about. A small SMR generating less power than a single wind turbine, dropped in the bottom of a 30" wide hole.

The problem here isn't digging the hole, it's that no one has built an SMR the size they are proposing, and that the economics are fucking horrendous. They buried the lead a bit in TFS. For the 1.5GW "groupings" they were literally talking about drilling 100 of these holes next to each other.

Native means comes with the system. If you have to download it separately, it isn't native. It used to mean built in and operating without translation layers, but modern software is generally built with layers on layers from the get-go so that's no longer a meaningful distinction.

Windows' support for basic VGA mode does not constitute meaningful support for GPUs which have not been released because you can use almost none of the functionality. So sure, it "supports" them... but only well enough to download a driver for actual support. Anything supported for more than the most trivial mode actually is supported with a driver more complex than Standard VGA already included in the system.

"Linux" does not have printing support, it has support for the technologies needed to connect to a printer. "<x distribution> Linux" has printing support.

While you're right you're missing something important on the other end of the pipe. 100C steam is great for making tea but you cannot generate power from it. You need pressure. Pressure changes the boiling point.

At horrendously inefficient turbine may only just provide a limited amount of energy at around 160C. But typically you want FAR higher than that. For practical reasons you want a large power plant to run a turbine with >150bar saturated steam. Ideally to actually get some actual efficiency in your rotating equipment you want supercritical steam above around 220bar. The steam temperature most thermal powerplants aim for is in the order of >375C.

You'll need a deeper hole, or you need to face the fact that a lot of geothermal plants are located in specific regions for a reason.

That's not to say a 1mile deep hole is useless. This kind of temperature may be very suitable for district heating. That sounds not very relevant until you see what percentage of energy consumption actually goes into heating houses in colder climates. So we can swap that heatpump with a liquid/liquid heat exchanger and with our 1mile deep hole not generate electricity, but rather reduce its consumption.

That is simply false. Firstly "flywheel" effects are far superior with grid forming inverters than rotating machinery. It's why batteries are currently overtaking traditional rotating peaking plants in the role of stabilising the grid (not actually providing storage for the night). Secondly solar can react far better to changes in the grid for load shedding.

The problem in Spain had nothing to do with the actual grid makeup, it was exclusively regulatory failure. The Solar / Wind were not asked to be involved with frequency regulation so they didn't disconnect from the grid during the overvoltage event, and traditional spinning plants didn't do it despite having the capability to completely avert the outage. This was analysed and given the equipment operating on the day there was no reason for the grid to go down if the generators were given the correct instructions by REE. The fact that the entire morning there were frequency oscillations were a good indication that too many plants were operating as load followers rather than frequency regulators

This was purely a grid planning SNAFU where the wrong people were told to do the wrong thing. All technical equipment was in place to handle the situation and the traditional spinning storage (your all important flywheel) were actually the first to disconnect itself which initiated the cascading failure. Those blaming solar and wind were exclusively politicians with an axe to grind and a few people within REE who tried to cast blame away from themselves (despite their own report).

This should be a career-ending move.

You would think, but just like in corporate America where someone runs a company into the ground then is hired elsewhere for an even bigger pay package, he'll be picked up. All will be forgotten.

And if Microsoft made the driver for windows, then that would be true. We're not talking about a 3rd party support from someone else here, it is in-box just a component that isn't shipped by default, it is still a windows first party component made by Microsoft.

To extend the thought let's look at some examples:
- Does windows natively support Hyper-V, or WSL? I don't think anyone would claim it doesn't, but it's not installed by default. You need to select it as an optional feature later.
- Is selecting it as an optional feature in one tool vs the other relevant? It's a windows component that acts on the system level, not a user facing program, so the Microsoft store vs features menu isn't relevant on any technical level.
- Now the question is one of cost. Is it no longer native because you have to pay?
- By extension does that mean Windows doesn't natively support attaching to a domain controller or hosting a remote desktop since those a features you also need to pay for?

Also what does your idea mean for Linux which is a complete collection of different tools patched together. Where does native start and end there? Kernel? Well then nothing is really native. Modules? Well they are optional extras to download from different people. What about userland components? Does Linux not have native printing support, no native graphics support beyond spitting out into a VESA terminal?

Native means at the OS level, by the OS vendor (and I'd argue in Linux by the distro maintainer). By the way, yes windows does natively support all GPUs that haven't been released yet. There's a reason it can still draw the screen after you nuke your NVIDIA/Intel/AMD driver from orbit: Microsoft provides a first party basic graphics driver. It's in-box.

There's worse ideas.

In practice the US has a lot of space and sunny weather, and tech has advanced. That combined with the regulatory environment means renewables are almost certainly going to be quicker to build up to the capacity needed.

But like I said, there are worse ideas.