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Comment Re:Espionage (Score -1, Flamebait) 23

Six years after [SpaceX's] Falcon 9 began launching Starlink satellites, Chinese firms still have no answer to it... The government has tested nearly 20 rocket launchers in the "Long March" series

Props to keeping the underpinning technologies secret for this long. That's almost as big of a feat as the engineering itself.

Keep crowing, the Chinese will eventually solve their launcher issue, US launch companies will get some ferocious competition and no matter how much their genius CEOs claim to thrive on competition they won't like it. Soon after you'll find the lot of them lobbying the White House for sanctions on their Chines competitors.

Comment Same old story ... (Score 5, Insightful) 41

Graduate Job Postings Plummet, But AI May Not Be the Primary Culprit

This is an old story and some of us are old enough to have seen it before:

1) Corporations scream for experienced people.
2) Corporations lament how they cannot justify the expense of providing new graduates with experience.
3) Corporations bribe politicians into allowing the import large numbers of experienced foreign labor.
4) There is a popular backlash against immigrant labor.
5) We have arrived at the exact point in time where we are now.


Lather, rinse, repeat the same stupid cycle ad nauseam except at each iteration the anti-immigrant sentiment grows, the corpocrats and the politicians get richer and everybody else gets poorer.

Comment Re:Requisite California Bashing (Score 1) 212

So basically your real world name is Captain Ahab McMAGA and your California is your white whale?

Do you always try and abuse feminist SIGN language to try and Shame your point across, or did you actually have a valid retort that might be worth more than the Cali-politik selling this story? Proof is in the pudding. Let’s see if California evidence can argue the benefits of this far better than their politicians do when they sit down with Shawn Ryan.

Most are more than willing to help out a fellow American. The burden of proof, is now on California to prove they are wanting and worthy of others help instead of just looking to reduce their insane costs created by thy own fucking hand. Go figure a lot of other struggling taxpayers are not looking to merge and absorb the cost burden of California.

If their grid was SO next-gen amazing, California wouldn’t have to sell this idea as if their life depended on it. Gotta love how TFS tries to sell the idea of “low-cost wind”. As if it’s a horrific collusion between God and Mother Nature established in the 3rd Century that’s always screwing California over with a horrible blow job..

No, you are completely overthinking this, I was merely using sarcasm to mock you and your angry little political manifesto.

Comment Re:Requisite California Bashing (Score 1, Insightful) 212

Happy to be one of the eight.

Yup. Dunno about the other 7, but this sounds an awful lot like a personal problem to me.

It’s also called States Rights. Californians have every right to vote with everything from their voices to their wallets, which no one was bitching about having that Right when they were the first state to legalize weed for medical use. Or when they decided to enact “sanctuary” status for the unhoused and undocumented that also choose to mainly congregate in that state.

For all that bullshit bragging about how California has its own GDP and how we’d all be dead without them, California is quickly showing its true colors with regards to costs and expenses. They don’t want to create a combined grid sold under the guise of a “market” (as if this has a chance in hell of being a co-op). They fucking need to.

Should we help them? Sure. We’re the United States after all. Should we trust them? FUCK no. Audit every penny and “need” to spend it. California’s insanely expensive “economy” doesn’t need to be infecting the rest of the country. Time to stop lying about how that would benefit anyone other than those drunk on greed who created California-flavored costs.

So basically your real world name is Captain Ahab McMAGA and your California is your white whale?

Comment Re:China wins (Score 1) 49

Sure you wanna throw that stone when the west is locking up people for mildly criticizing Israel? Not even their home country? When Britain has labeled a pro-Palestinian protest movement terrorists?

No, and that is just another aspect of deciding whether we want to live under the rule of law or be ridden over roughshod by the rich and/or powerful.

Comment Re:China wins (Score 1) 49

You don't think China and other countries haven't done this too? The elites worldwide will have access to AI with the sum of human knowledge. While you guys lose your jobs to robots.

China also locks its citizens up in reeducation camps for disagreeing with the government. Do you want to copy that too? At some point we'll have to decide whether we want to live under the rule of law or be ridden over roughshot by the rich and/or powerful.

Comment On the flip side ... (Score 4, Informative) 105

Cancer Death Rates Fall One-Third in US Since 1990s as Prevention Efforts Take Hold

On the flip side, contagious disease rates are increasing sharply as Trump administration charges forward with systematically dismantling vaccination efforts under the banner of dumbfuck.

Comment Re:good value for money (Score 4, Informative) 76

OK Mr Starmer. Laugh it off, pay $600k per Afghan (using others' money of course) and live your best life until karma catches up. Meanwhile Brits are suffering the most massive decline in living standards in decades, unable to afford food or heating in winter.

Well, I know it sucks but you can't just argue that people who helped UK forces fight terrorists should be left behind to be murdered by the Taliban as a cost saving measure. The only reason this is necessary is because the Tories made these people's names public back in 2022, that and Trump/Biden comprehensively messing up the Afghanistan withdrawal but it was mostly the former. This operation would cost a fraction of what it does today if the Tories hadn't published that list of names. I don't particularly like Starmer but in this particular case he really is doing nothing other than cleaning up a classic garden variety Tory mess here and Tory/Reform-UK muppets like you taking the piss out of him for it really is the pot calling the kettle black.

Comment Re:good value for money (Score 1) 76

This isn't a price tag. This is the cost of running a covert operation to exfiltrate thousand of people in government aircrafts. But it does not mean this huge value was paid to someone in particular. Mostly it's accounting for the cost of their army to fly their own aircraft. Maybe they account for the salary of the soldiers who took part. But those soldiers would have been paid anyway. Maybe they account for the depreciation of the aircraft. But if the aircraft was not really damaged then it's not really a cost.

This operation would also not have cost anything close to this much if Trump and Biden hadn't messed up the Afghanistan withdrawal so spectacularly. That being said, respect to the British who, for all the incompetence surrounding this operation, are at least finally exfiltrating these people instead of having ICE hunt them down and returning them to the Taliban for execution like Trump is doing. I expect a large portion of the cost is bribing Taliban officials to not murder these people after the Tories released their names on the open internet.

Comment Re:Junior developers (Score 2) 58

> do not expect the slowdown to apply in other scenarios, such as for junior engineers or engineers working in codebases they aren't familiar with

If the juniors are working with the same code base, with the same AI that makes same incorrect suggestions which seniors reject and if AI is not slowing juniors down, doesn't that mean that juniors will accept the changes made by AI and pollute the code with wrong decisions?

I could very well imagine AI helping me to get a handle on/oversight over code bases that I'm not familiar with as well as really huge codebases where I'm familiar some parts but don't know every nook and cranny, or for insanity inducing tasks like finding memory leaks and heisenbugs but in terms of helping me code I'm not so sure. That sounds like a crutch that might be good for junior developers until they outgrow it. But why are we even talking about this? Aren't we all about to be replaced by ninja level prompt engineers straight out of primary school?

Comment Re:What will the numbers be in December? (Score 2) 74

Getting high solar output during summer is nice, but they're getting 15-20 hours of daily sunlight in the higher latitudes. It'll be interesting to see the solar number in mid-Winter, when the days are 6 hours long and the sun is low on the horizon. I suspect coal use will ramp up to keep the lights on and the heat pumps running.

Northern Europe has a lot of wind turbines, and the winds are stronger in winter.

On top of that N-Europe (Blue) also has a lot of hydroelectric and in some regions geothermal power. I'm afraid MAGA drones will not be deriving any enjoyment from seeing the lights in N-Europe go out next winter because the sun ain't shining nor will they see coal use ramping up because nobody in N-Europe uses any significant amounts of coal.

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