Letâ(TM)s take a look at some woke stances then.

- Black Lives Matter - ah yes, very oppressive.
- Womenâ(TM)s rights - yup, still sounding oppressive.
- LGBTQ rights - yup, same theme.

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Iâ(TM)m not seeing where the oppression comes in?

The right seems to think that it comes in when you get

- Cancel culture - meaning âoewhen we stop listening to you when you say horrible thingsâ
- Race based silencing - meaning âoewhen we put black peopleâ(TM)s view points on an equal footing to white peopleâ(TM)sâ
- Critical Race Theory - meaning âoeteaching people that weâ(TM)ve historically been pretty horrible to black people in the USâ

Sorry, Iâ(TM)m not seeing how any of that adds up to oppression unless you think itâ(TM)s oppression to no longer be treated as superior.

This is nothing to do with wokeness. Woke culture is about not being an arsehole to other people. This is about⦠I donâ(TM)t know, no guns because theyâ(TM)re terrifying and scary to executives? Maybe Luigi got to them.

So do paraplegics, all the time. Are you saying that those people are not lacking legs?

So youâ(TM)re saying that because they have a mental health condition they donâ(TM)t deserve to have any accommodations? You wouldnâ(TM)t say âoeoh please, people who canâ(TM)t walk are either babies or amputees, the whole wheelchair ramp thing should be binned immediatelyâ

If you have the president of the United States, who is blindly followed by millions, slandering you, of course trust in you goes down. Itâ(TM)s not the universities that have lost their way, itâ(TM)s the orange turd in chief who never was on the way.

Every study out there says that weâ(TM)d be as productive, or more so if we worked *less* in a week, not more. But noooo, mr âoeyou canâ(TM)t win at life if youâ(TM)re not a burnt out wreck by 33â canâ(TM)t deal the idea that he doesnâ(TM)t control you for the maximum possible number of hours.

I suspect if intel fail, then AMD is next, if they donâ(TM)t quickly pivot to designing ARM chips. Microsoft would see the failure of intel as a reason to drive windows for ARM much harder.

I mean, if Intel were willing to fab apples designs, I can see Apple biting. It would give them leverage to get lower prices from TSMC at the least.

The trick is that to compete in that segment you need to nail the gameplay. Nailing the gameplay is something much harder to pin down and understand than whether it looks pretty. While itâ(TM)s much cheeper to release a good game in this segment *if* you nail the good game part, itâ(TM)s very unreliable as a source of income if you havenâ(TM)t nailed it yet.

Nope. If I had the choice of paying $21 for Max, or $10 for Apple TV, I know which of the two premium services I'd be choosing.

I mean, youâ(TM)re right that itâ(TM)s not here, but this is probably the safest fusion bet there is. We know really quite well how well Tokamaks scale. We have loads of examples of them, and we can predict really quite accurately how theyâ(TM)ll perform at this point. We know that there power density can be described as

(Beta_N ^ 2 R B^4) / q_* ^ 2

Beta_N and q_* are design features of the geometry etc of the tokamak, we know whatâ(TM)s achievable, and have plenty of examples already. That leaves you with two levers to pull - R (the major radius), and B (the magnetic field strength). When we first started building tokamaks we used copper for the magnets, we moved on to super conductors and increased the magnetic field strength, and then hit a wall. So that left us with only one lever to pull - major radius. Thatâ(TM)s why when you look at ITER, you see this *giant* device that costs billions. We know exactly what we need to do to break even - we need to increase the radius, and the power density will go up linearly, and weâ(TM)ll get there.

The thing is, in relatively recent years weâ(TM)ve got good at producing a bunch of new superconductors. We can now make REBCO tapes of significant length. The nice thing about REBCO, aside from not needing to be cooled as much as traditional superconductors, they can stand much higher magnetic field strength before they give up on superconducting. CFSâ(TM)s approach here is simple - build a device the size of existing tokamaks that weâ(TM)ve built at universities and research centres, but build it with REBCO superconducting magnets. That gets you double the field strength, which gives you 16 times the power density. JET already got to a Q factor of 0.72. And that was with copper magnets. Itâ(TM)s really really clear that SPARC *will* get to a burning plasma, because it can be more than 16 times as efficient as JET.

Thereâ(TM)s basically one question for whether ARC will work or not. When (not if) SPARC achieves a burning plasma, will all our techniques and algorithms for controlling the plasma still work, or will the new regime mean we have to completely re-learn how to do all of that stuff.

Long story short, can it fail? Yes - itâ(TM)s not done it yet, of course it can. Is it likely to? Not very. The physics is pretty well nailed down for most of this stuff.

Hahaha, not a chance. Theyâ(TM)ve run off with the cash, had a fun life, died and handed the problem on to someone else already. And frankly, even if they were still around, the chances of a C suiter being made to accept the consequences of their own actions is near zero

Yes, and that means that mastodons protocol is fundamentally incompatible with states that implement this kind of draconian law. Thatâ(TM)s what I mean about the court just saying âoeweâ(TM)ll change your softwareâ. They wonâ(TM)t say âoewell okay, since you explained how your protocol works and how other people can run servers without verification you get to ignore the lawâ, theyâ(TM)ll say âoewell donâ(TM)t write and use software that does that if that violates the law.â I think mastodon would have more success by going on an offensive. Sue a major email provider for not verifying the age of people theyâ(TM)re sending and receiving emails from. Demonstrate that laws like this effectively outlaw email.

Itâ(TM)s not going to fly. The law is telling them to change their software or get the fuck out. Saying âoeour software doesnâ(TM)t support itâ wonâ(TM)t get you anywhere. No oneâ(TM)s software supported it, but they changed their software because of the law, thatâ(TM)s the point.

No, there's not going to be a french police man on a plane. There's going to be a ban on them doing business in France (or the rest of Europe).