Seems accurate though.

I don't think Intel would be running Windows in this application anyway. It's more likely to be Linux or another *NIX-like

60 years ago, it was possible to run programs from anywhere in a university campus, as long as there was a dropbox for your punch cards and a pigeon hole for the results. Oh, and 24 hrs for the operators to actually run your program. I imagine at Intel, they'll be a team of guys/gals in white coats setting up experiments and running programs, then submitting results via a secure network. The actual hardware being operated would probably be stored in a climate-controlled warehouse and only powered up when needed in an airgapped test rig

I do! Would go nicely with my PDP-11's

Lets launch tons of space junk to monitor tons of space junk!

I still think Elon Musk and Starlink are some of the worst offenders, but then i consider any small "throwaway" satellites like cubesats to be equally as bad. Fact is, space is getting cluttered, and a lot of these satellites have very short lifetimes. Most have a 20 year lifetime, tops, whereas really, with the technology available today, we should be ensuring satellites have a 50 year lifespan at least.

Who said we need to make bombs from it. Plutonium is a great fuel for reactors, too.

Coal ash from power plants can be more radioactive than uranium mine tailings.

CO2 emissions are problem now. Nuclear, if stored correctly, is a problem that gets better the longer it ages. Literally just dig a big hole in a geologically stable area, and pour it in. Problem solved. After about 1000 years, it so depleted it's barely a risk.

Ideally, we would want to focus on renewables, and store excess energy for when we need it. But another solution (which so far has been barely even mentioned) is just always> create excess power, but have "smart" loads connected to the grid to quickly suck up that excess power. Things like bitcoin mining operations, which can be spun up and down in minutes, might be a profitable method of using up excess energy in times of low demand. This would make nuclear much more viable, as the biggest problem with nuclear is it's hard to ramp up and down fast, unlike fossil fuel plants

Most modern (doesn't support EFI, and most have since dropped the legacy booting, because frankly there's very little need for it outside of industrial controllers. My HP Z600 was probably the last hurrah in BIOS-based machines, and that's clocking on a decade of service

You'll have to pry the first gen Intel Atom from my cold dead hands

The concept of faxes is quite old, yes. But the modern format of faxes is very much a product of the late 20th century. You can't just plug in a teleautograph into a phone like and start sending War and Peace across it.

256k is still very little. With a page holding 3000 characters, roughly, that means that 256k would only hold about 150-200 pages of text. Depending on format, that could be more, or less. Sure, that's probably the length of a short novel, but it's really nothing when you have other overheads like a text editor and OS eating into it too.