The Fort St. Vrain commercial reactor in Colorado was gas-cooled and ran on a Th232-to-U233 fuel cycle. Fissile U235 was used to get started, but almost all of the energy output was from fissioning U233 produced in the reactor.

Plus, IBM owns RedHat. So that's probably something. Then again, maybe that is the hyper growth software and services bit that they want to keep.

That skill proved useful in his later career.

There is still tons and tons of captchas going on. Sure, some of those have been replaced with doing a checkbox, but I am seeing captchas as a whole more now than say 5 years ago.

sure, but they could have still allowed it to work, they chose to make it stop working.

No new features, or bug fixes fine. But to remove windows 7 games from running on windows 7. (or even win xp games)

I swear I have dues ex working on my rig..... I'll have to go double check but I recall doing it somewhat recent...

(sometimes i have to use older wine installs, and or lutris for some games)

What really bothers me, is trying to get older games ported to say ubuntu 10.x or 16.x(from gog), that don't work anymore, or at least wont without a lot of work.

Nope. These circles are simpler than that: they will be buying $38B of NVIDIA hardware.

This one is an outside loop I believe. Oracle -> Nvidia -> OpenAI -> AWS -> Nvidia. Not sure how the moey is making it back to Oracle. That's probably part of a differnt circle.

It absolutely never did for "most jobs" other than "unskilled labor". There is a long histor until recently of appreticeship systems and on the job training for anything that's more complicated than menial manual labor.

Not sure what you're on about with your immigrant non-sequiter. Virtue signaling perhaps?

Way to invent wht the OP said out of whole cloth and make it about you. Bravo!

Just so you can better make sense of this: it 1.) wasn't about you 2.) it wasn't infantilizing because it's largely true of most people 3.) again, it wasn't about you 4.) nobody said an "intermediary step" was "required".

Current iron-air batteries have efficiencies around 50%. That is, put 2 kWh in, get 1 kWh back out. That ruins the economics of a lot of potential applications.

My hyperbole got the better of me again. You are not the only one. Little House on the Prairie is remarkably good television. It definitely beats doom-scrolling on your phone.

Getting together with my college friends to watch Star Trek the Next Generation was awesome. Those are definitely core memories. But even then there were issues. I never got into Babylon 5 because I worked while that was on. I recently decided to watch them, but it's not the same thing.

My kids (I have 6) get together every Sunday to watch "Dancing with the Stars." They are always a bit sad that they are days late to be able to vote, but the fact that they can watch on their time means they get to watch it together. I feel that's progress. Quite a few of those style of shows have call in votes specifically to drive viewership at the same time to boost numbers.

Netflix Disc was awesome. I also miss that a lot. If you aren't interested in live content you should be able to get the shows that you want at an incredible deal. These days I personally mostly watch Youtube. But I sometimes sign up for a month of one of the services to watch a particular show. They basically all allow you to cancel any time. There are also DVR tools that record over the air television that are pretty good. Depending on where you live you might be surprised at what is available. Plus, there's always piracy. Another advantage that sports television has over serial shows is that live television is much harder to pirate. Chances are good that your friendly neighborhood pirate site has all of the episodes of whatever it is that you want to watch.

If you are paying sports fan prices for television without watching sports, then you are definitely not getting a good deal.