smaller companies would come out of nowhere and eat the lunch of more established players by out-innovating them.
That is actually what is happening right now. You are just to blind to see it.

Some game studio from some surprising location would come out with AMAZING AAA games at twice the speed and half the cost.
To write a game you need an idea first. And: marketing you still need.

But for now, the only people making money are selling tools or computer chips or building data centers for this circular AI economic bubble.
There is no bubble. This si a stupid /. myth

No idea what is wrong with you idiots.

We are experiencing the 6th Kondratieff! We are in the middle of a gigantic industrial revolution. If you would not insist to make China your enemy, we could get their AI super chips. And you had not the power problems your data centers are producing.

We are in the beginning of the biggest industrial revolution mankind ever experienced - because it is mind and knowledge based - and you idiots put your head into the sand and call it "a bubble". As if AI will go away and kind of explode? This is the first industrial revolution which YOU experience during YOUR lifetime, and you insist to ignore it? How brain dead is that?

Stop running around singing lala lala - I can not hear you.

Seriously: good luck!

At least he ended another war on his birthday. People will be lining up to give him peace prizes.

Has an agreement actually been reached? Both sides agree on the terms?

How much was given away to get it?

How will Trump and his stooges spin it?

How long will it last?

I hope you'll forgive me for being skeptical, give what has happened up 'til now.

I have 40 kWh of batteries in my home, for backup and time-shifting, and I participate in a grid-stabilization program with my power company. The grid never draws significant energy from my batteries -- grid stabilization doesn't need a lot of energy, just a brief spike of power to keep things stable while the operator makes other adjustments. Historically this has been unnecessary because generation was from big spinning turbines and their inertia was enough to smooth out spikes and dips in demand. But renewable-heavy grids don't have the tons of spinning steel, so batteries increasingly fill the gaps.

What do I actually see when the power company draws from my batteries? I see an otherwise-unexplained spike of 5-10 kW flowing from my batteries and into the grid, for a period of 2-5 minutes. 10 kW for 5 minutes is ~0.8 kWh, which is 2% of my house battery storage. I see a draw that large maybe once per week; usually it's much less. Bottom line: the impact on my storage is insignificant, and my house batteries are smaller than what most EVs have (my EV has a 100 kWh battery pack).

What do I get for allowing the power company to do that? For the first year of participation, I got a check for $2000. For subsequent years I'll get bill credits of up to $50/month, applied to energy charges only. I'm not sure how much that will translate to, since my net energy purchase is usually zero (thanks to solar panels). It's a great deal for the first year. Beyond that... we'll see.

That's why everything running in the cloud runs in containers on a cluster (Kubernetes or similar). If a physical server dies, the cluster control software just drops that server from the cluster. Load management then automatically moves the containers to the remaining servers in the pool. When enough servers are dead they send a tech and a truckload of replacements out. Same for storage: everything's on RAID arrays and as physical SSDs die the array drops that drive and keeps on going with no data loss. Once enough drives in the bay are dead they send someone to swap them out and the RAID controller takes care of initializing them and restoring data from the existing drives as required. It's not uncommon for 30% of the capacity to be out-of-service before replacements are ordered.

They still have to catch up to IBM's old mainframes though. Those you could go in during peak business hours and start pulling and replacing CPUs and memory modules and I/O controllers while everything was live and not disrupt anything.

Energy-based weapons? Mostly still not practical, and the real-world versions (lasers, masers) predate Star Trek.
If you think that, you are completely out of the loop.

You still did not explain your point.

GB/UK has border controls right now.

It had them when they were part of the EU.

They will have them regardless if they rejoin the EU or not.

Stupid idiot.

What the fark has having border controls to do with being a member of the EU or not?

Every border country (or airport) of the EU has border controls.

Seriously: stupid idiot very much?

Almost all Java 1.0 code written in '95, on the other hand, still runs fine today on Java 27 or whatever the latest version is.
That is my experience, too.

But why did you need to recompile 16/32 bit apps on windows?

An enterprise app has nothing to do with

How your fat fingers are unable to interact with a laptop or why your eyes can not see the text on your screen, or why hitting shift 5 times opens a screen reader and so on

Perhaps you do not know what an "enterprise app" is?

Hint: it is software were no normal user is interacting with.

Not sure what you're speaking about. VIM classic differs from normal VIM in that they do not use LLMs to help develop the editor itself, nor do they accept contributions from those that do. Where as the original VIM editor maintainers now use AI and LLM for bug fixing, feature developing, etc.

My last 99 investments were flops ... so this one has *got* the be the big one.

I thought we were talking about aliens.

Not aliens with lumps of rubber glued to their heads.

Correct, they have a same - spelling different pronunciation - word for pint.
And actually, I use that too, when in France. Unfortunately most shops only sell smaller beers.
But a (modern) French pint is usually indeed 500ml.

Yes,
and?

What is your point?

I fail to see it. Perhaps you would like to make a sentence that explains what you actually want to say.