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Comment Plan9 versus Cloud (Score 1) 36

From a big-picture business perspective, is it fair to say that Plan9 has been obsoleted by Cloud computing, ala AWS, Azure, etc?

Of course there's no end of minor technical differences, but that's not the point.
If you really want "The Network IS the Computer", you don't want Solaris or Plan9, you want Cloud.
And you can get it now, with proven ability for many years by now.

Comment Trade ? (Score 1) 193

Maybe we could make a deal: We keep tourist ashes off the moon to respect their sentiments, in exchange for them allowing us to mine lithium in "Rotten Moon pass" -- a pre-descrated name if you ask me. (*) And also, in small print, "we" insist that anyone dying on the moon is allowed to be buried there. (For some defintions of "we" and "us", of course.)

Now, do we have a deal?

(*) https://www.theguardian.com/us...

Comment Re:A trap for moronic investors (Score 1) 177

Someone has to go first. And indeed, the first ones of anything are often perceived as "morons". But without a first, there is no second, or third, or other incremental pathway to success -- unless some good fairy named Scotty beams us down a working solution, complete with full documentation.

Comment Contradictions (Score 0) 177

Yes, the USA is in total decline, we can't possibly compete with the Chinese. And USA features prominently in that list of "none of these countries has a modern and reliable operating reactor to make the design a reality."

But just change channels and read all about the amazingly successful US Navy nuclear-powered fleet. Proven safe, effective, and reliable. Of course, shippers would be wise to have a few soldiers-sailors onbaord to deter Somali pirates who wouldn't know better than trying to steal it with their bare hands - but this doesn't seem like limiting factor, more of a mindset issue.

Navy Reactors

Comment Oh the irony (Score 1) 129

All this griping about cost overruns and unable to build these things according to a predetermined âoewaterfallâ schedule⦠as griped by a bunch of software project specialists. Why donâ(TM)t you go share your revolutionary new agile methods with those nuclear guys - you know, just make it up as you go along, only work on the most valuable sub-components as determined by worker votes and T-Shirt sizes, have weekly customer meetings to find out which flavor of welding is preferable today, etc.

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