In the last few weeks republican politicians and their supporters have publicly said Nixon shouldn't have resigned and was treated unfairly. Apparently what he did was totally fine by them. Vance in particular expressed sympathy for Nixon. Who's woke now? Surreal.

Giant black-body radiators are required. This is the the number one reason why space data centers are not practical. The radiators would be many times bigger than the satellites themselves. Every watt of energy generated by the solar panels has to be radiated into space. This is not something that can simply be engineered around, as the OP seems to think.

Silly assumptions? A matter of Engineering? What about physics? Maybe listen to real engineers for once. They've been showing us the actual numbers that state clearly this AI data centers are not possible. Sure you can get lots of solar power, but that's not the issue. The issue is cooling, requiring huge radiators that are far bigger than each satellite. Besides the impracticality of it, you have other issues like air pollution (already a problem with starlink deorbiting), light pollution (who needs the stars anyway). Apparently no on in Musk's circle is asking, "but should we do this?"

On this and the birthright citizenship ruling it is astounding that any of the justices would have dissented. This is clear-cut constitutional law. The fact that Roberts is willing to throw out a hundred years of precedent on several matters is deeply concerning. It really shows the constitution, the rule of law, the stability of precedent are all just recommendations, conveniences when they serve a political purpose. Otherwise they can be cast aside. Because, why not? It's so liberating to be free from precedent and the constitution. I guess they're not familiar with the whole joojooflop situation where finally being free from the norms that kept you down means losing the entire civilization. It's a bit surreal to even being talking about this.

My practical experience using it for coding tasks says it's definitely not.

Definitely a promising path. Extracting heat becomes a challenge in 3D silicon.

If you want to try out GLM 5.2 for free right now, OpenCode is hosting a version of it that they call "Big Pickle." It's free to use but be warned that they are using prompts for model training. It's as good as Anthropic's Sonnet, but definitely not close to Opus.

In truth niether. China isn't that good yet but moving quickly. Anthropic is still at the top of the game for now but won't be there forever and they insist on keeping the models locked up and proprietary. Sooner it later the more open models will win. And hopefully we'll finally get accessible hardware to run them locally.

Well the current regime is working very hard to not let "them" vote in upcoming elections.

What sort of capitalism? Is there a free market at all here?

Oh wow. What a great excuse! The corruption under the current president is at a scale you've never before seen. For example, the president's son-in-law is peddling influence and making money from his official connections on a scale that make Hunter Biden look positively angelic.

Besides that, are you really excusing your champion's corruption because of smaller-scale, previous corruption? Surely you would condemn all corruption and desire to shine a light on it? Or is corruption not an issue when it's your man and your policies being enacted?

Hmm. Have you been to Europe? While New Orleans certainly has old buildings, it's nothing like European old buildings and homes many of which were build hundreds of years ago in a cooler climate. These buildings were never designed to accommodate forced air heating, let alone A/C air handlers. It's going to require some very interesting engineering to bring mass cooling to Europe to existing structures. I'm sure it can be done, of course. Where there's a bill there's a way.

Which of course brings us to a core issue of climate change. The world's poorest people, who contributed the least to CO2 emissions, will bear the most cost to adapt.

Interesting advice. Here in Canada we design houses for the winter. That means good insulation, primarily. Coincidentally, this leads to cooler homes in the summer and makes for more efficient cooling too.

It definitely is. Every dollar a person makes on such a site comes from a dollar lost by another guy. And the numbers are staggering. Like a billion dollars. And they way they are set up, those who are already rich can set things up so that they make even more money from much poorer people. The more money you have to play with, the easier it is to win on the predictions gambling sites (not to mention cheat with insider knowledge). Fantastic video on this from a young lady named Dee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Highly recommend for anyone who wants to know how this scam works. 70% of the takings go to 0.1% of the players (who also happen to be the ones with the most money to start with).

At least on the stock market, there is such thing as growth from companies making money, paying dividends, etc.

I'm not at all surprised to see Zuckerberg getting in on this. It's not enough to addict the world to social media and sell their privacy. He wants every last dollar they have. It's really quite evil.

Yes you absolutely can do it for some modules. For example, systemd-timesyncd can be removed and ntpd or chrony installed instead if you need more functionality than just simple client time syncing, such as when you need your own time source as well as syncing.

Likewise systemd-resolved is often left out and a caching local DNS server can be used instead, or left out entirely.

And I very well could remove systemd-networkd and systemd-container since I don't use containers, flatpak, or kvm.

Can I remove others? Possibly, but there's not a lot of reason to do so. These modules serve valid purposes and address actual technical shortcomings we had before, such as process cleanup which was often a problem before systemd-pam.

Shrug. It's not a boogeyman. No one's out to get you. It's not a government plot. There are many valid reasons why systemd has become a core Linux component. There are plenty of distros (and operating systems) that eschew systemd if you don't want or need features like containers and KDE or Gnome, etc.

that can run your old classic desktop environments like you always used to.