At least they are installing renewables as fast as they can.

It's quaint that you think the United States is still a republic. It's a monarchy, and Trump's handlers are likely moving currently to make sure that when Vance succeeds him, that the Executive branch and a Congress that will be, through the use of naked force if necessary, remain filled with Republican paper tigers to complement the paper tigers in the Supreme Court, settles into the oligarchy the Framers always really intended it to be. The military will largely be used to recreate the American hemispheric hegemony. The National Guard and ICE will be used as foot soldiers within the US to "secure" elections.

The morons that elected that diseased wicked and demented man have destroyed whatever the hell America was. As a Canadian, I can only hope we can withstand this hemispheric dominance and the raiding of our natural resources to feed the perverse desires of the child molesters, rapists, racists and psychopaths that have already taken control of the US.

Doubtless, I will be downvoted by the remaining MAGA crowd here. You know, the guys that pretended they refused to vote Democrat because Bernie wasn't made leader, but are to a man a pack of Brown Shirts eagerly awaiting the time when they imagine they can take part in the defenestration of American society.

I have a combination of prescriptions that mean that I can't use contact lenses. I see quite a lot of people wearing glasses, and Zenni, Warby Parker, and the other online companies have said they sell a decent number of frames with plano lenses (meaning no prescription), presumably for people who want the look.

Eventually, you won't be able to tell. Someone will come in wearing glasses, and the tech is going to be too small and streamlined. There are also companies working on embedding augmented reality capabilities in contact lenses fed by tiny cameras placed just out of the field of vision. You'd be able to see them only in very specific circumstances. Power feed is a primary challenge right now, but it's probably not an unsolvable problem.

Just looking at the technical side, the cost to the end-user of streaming that much data would be exorbitant. Compressed video or even once-per-second snapshots would eat up all the mobile data, and the battery life would be measured in single digit hours.

No one else is going to risk making a part that one of the big defense contractors has under copyright with an exclusivity lock even if the US government says they can. The smaller ones just can't afford the effects of a lawsuit or the risk of treble damages if they do. That's why forcing a right to repair into the contracts is so important.

*once per week, not per day.

In any case my server with 2x 32GB sticks in it registers a hardware error slightly less than once a year (last one I see was in September 2024) and it's not like I live in a hardened bunker.

That is not cosmic rays. Are you sure your nextdoor neighbour isn't running a secret nuclear reactor?

Yes bit flips from cosmic rays happen. If you were to to say once or twice a year then I'd blame it on a bitflip (that's about in line with what Google's study estimates a a server with large amounts of memory would have), but if you were getting errors daily then its time to replace your RAM. If it's seemingly random across the memory channels then new CPU/Motherboard.

Well you're more than welcome to fly on Boeing...

You're assuming a lot. The software rollback may very well have to do with changes in error detection and correction routines. Hell here's a super oversimplified example: When you update your BIOS on a server there's a good chance you come out the other side with ECC turned off.

This isn't unreasonable. I've experienced a large compressor shutdown costing many millions of dollars thanks to a firmware update on a safety system from Honeywell which had a bug in error detection and handling which caused a simple random single hardware fault to escalate to a redundant failure that shouldn't have occurred. Honeywell withdrew the update globally and we were advised to roll back. This kind of shit happens.

No they should not. They should spend their money focusing on designs that are inherently resilient to soft errors rather than spending a fortune on buying hardened silicon to address a singular cause of a potential error. Boron-11 silicon is predominantly used in the medical imaging, space, and nuclear industry where equipment is expected to be continuously bombarded with high levels of radiation. Flights just don't qualify for that level of mitigation requirement in the silicon manufacture.

Where did you get $72bn from? Right in TFA they say $30/share equates to $108.4 billion which is ultimately what Ellison's offer was. I don't think anyone has pretended that the cable part of the business is worth zero. Netflix's bid is $27.75/share

1) What are the maintenance requirements for this and are they competitive with the shipping industry's goal of employing the cheapest 3rd world labour they can get their hands on?
2) Are there negative implications to these reactors becoming one of the 20-40 ships per year that end up on the bottom of the ocean?

2nd? Amateur!

Your UID is low enough to understand that you can post things without putting a return address on the envelope, even if we weren't talking about publishing open letters, or the concept of email.