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Comment Re:Weaning China off CUDA (Score 1) 40

Note that China doesn't need to build GPUs. It just needs to build AI chips, which is much simpler since you don't need to invest vast numbers of man-years into developing the graphics side.

Build something as fast at AI processing as an x70 Nvidia GPU and put 128GB of RAM on the board and much of Nvidia's market simply disappears.

Comment Re:Communist gonna communist (Score 1) 40

Whacking the EPA effort at curtailing pollution in minority areas.

Adding voting restrictions that impact minorities more than white areas.

Invading Northern cities with large minority populations with Confederate armies (Nat. Guard)

Whacking ACA which benefits minorities which are more likely to be lower income.

Causing Red states to redistrict in the middle of the census cycle (gotta steal the next elections) to remove minority representations.

Claiming that Haitian pets are eating Ohio babies (or whatever he was whining about in the last election).

Pop. his alleged administration with white, rich guys rather than having minorities represented.

Discouraging immigration from non-white countries.

Whacking Medicaid which skews towards benefiting minorities.

I can already hear your whining about how this or that policy is not aiming at minorities, but those policies are designed to play the probabilities toward screwing minorities. That's how Maggots like you get to claim he is not a racist. He is, and nothing you bring up will change that.

Comment Re:USA *deserves* the kick to the ego. (Score 4, Insightful) 64

Yes. China is trying to build a Falcon-9 competitor while SpaceX is working to make Falcon-9 obsolete.

Based on the summary this seems to be comparing government-funded space programs while ignoring the commercial space programs. A single Starship, for example, apparently has a similar internal volume to the entire ISS, though obviously it would shrink once you added life support and other hardware required for people to live on board for long periods.

But still, dock four Starships to a central module providing power and other requirements for long-term habitation and you have something with far more volume than ISS for probably a fraction of the cost of a single ISS module when it was launched twenty or thirty years ago.

Comment Re:"Lefist Rag Calls for More Trains" News at 11 (Score 1) 64

The wet market hypothesis claims the Covid outbreak began in the Wuhan wet market in December 2019.

We now know from analysis of stored patient samples that it was in Italy by October 2019(*) and have inconclusive tests from September 2019 so it may have been there earlier. I also have been told by people working in medicine in North America that they have found positive stored samples from patients in October 2019.

So wherever it came from, it almost certainly did not originate in the wet market in December 2019 and appears to have been worldwide by October 2019. This explains the 'super-duper scary spread' in spring 2020 because it had been going around for months and as soon as they started mass testing they started finding lots of people who tested positive.

(*) And we already had pretty good evidence of this in early 2020 as an Italian virologist had been tracking an unusual respiratory disease through the winter before it suddenly became The Pandemic.

However, this is getting a bit off-topic for railways, unless it spread by rail.

Comment Re:20% as much CO2 (Score 1) 64

Yeah. One of the reasons the buses suck so much here is because the bus drivers won't force the scumbags to pay the fare because they don't want to get attacked by scumbags.

Most of this kind of transport planning is created by people who think we're still living in a prosperous, high-trust society where people will obey their dictats. And we're not.

Comment Re:STOP KILLING OPERATING SYSTEMS (Score 1) 106

The only reason most people run Windows is to run crappy old Windows software from years ago. So the faster Microsoft kill backwards compatibility the sooner they kill Windows.

Which they probably don't care about as apparently most of their profits come from "The Cloud" these days. Which probably explains why Windows tries so hard to steal all my data and shove into "The Cloud."

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