Comment Re:But they fixed it! (Score 1) 23
What does the Document Object Model have to do with anything?
Comment Re:Using a very loose (Score 1) 55
No, they couldn't because that would make them unplayable. Anything like that goes into the Borked category. But hey, feel free to prove me wrong.
Comment Wake up. (Score 1) 137
It's sickening I thought humanity had moved forward, I though we were better than this.
Have you not seen who people have voted into office?
Humanity is the same hateful hot garbage it's always been. The difference is that now you are noticing it.
Comment Re:Using a very loose (Score 3, Informative) 55
Using a very loose definition of "run".
Not really. They have fairly clear definitions which are below. (I added the estimated percentages)
Platinum (Green): Games that run perfectly, out of the box. about 60%
Gold (Light Green): Games that work almost out of the box but need some tweaking or configuration. about 7%
Silver (Yellow): Games that do not work perfectly but are still playable. about 23%
Borked (Dark Red): Games that refuse to launch at all. about 1%
Bronze (Red) : Games for which ratings fall in between Silver and Borked on average about 9%
Borked and Bronze are now about 10% of games.
Comment But they fixed it! (Score 5, Funny) 23
The see, all the real problems were in X11 but moving to Wayland fixed all there problems. How? By creating even larger problems to overshadow those problems. You're welcome Linux community members!
Comment Re:Full OS devices (Score 1) 55
How many of the devices needed a full OS on them and not just a small part of the OS to do the device's job?
Actually, for what they are doing, they do need a full OS. I honestly don't know how you couldn't figure that out on you own.
Comment Re:Sodium-cooled fast reactor* (Score 1) 73
every time it's been tried there's been show-stopper corrosion which they thought they had solved in their design already.
Understood but I think you should keep in mind that Molten-salt batteries have become a thing.
That doesn't guarantee that it will happen again, but...
If you never try then you can never succeed. Science is full of repeated failures... and then someone gets it right.
Comment Sodium-cooled fast reactor* (Score 5, Informative) 73
Natrium is an older term for sodium, a chemical element with the symbol Na
So really, this is a sodium-cooled fast reactor which means they are using molten salt for thermal energy storage. If I understand correctly, development has been held back material science problems since sodium is chemically reactive.
Why sodium? The benefit of sodium is that you reduce the risk of a meltdown since water has a relatively low boiling point. This allows the reactor to be "hot" run which is called a "fast reactor" Water-based fast reactors have to be run under high pressure so there is more risk involved.
Why makes fast reactors desirable? Per Wikipedia:
All fast reactors have several advantages over the current fleet of water based reactors in that the waste streams are significantly reduced. Crucially, when a reactor runs on fast neutrons, the plutonium isotopes are far more likely to fission upon absorbing a neutron. Thus, fast neutrons have a smaller chance of being captured by the uranium and plutonium, but when they are captured, have a much bigger chance of causing a fission. This means that the inventory of transuranic waste is non existent from fast reactors.
Comment Re:No, publicly traded corporations are. (Score 1) 55
You keep harping on "publicly traded" as if a privately-owned corporation is any different.
Yes, because they are different. Privately-owned corporations may be better or worse but it's entirely dependent on the goals of the leadership. With publicly-traded corporations, the goals are already known: profit over everything else.
The focus on profit as the primary concern is the same.
No, it's not the same because not all executives in privately-owned corporations don't have to worry about a quarterly earnings report could oust them from their position. Some privately-owned corporations mirror the behavior of publicly-traded corporations but not all.
I don't disagree with your premise, just the odd repetition of the qualifier.
The difference between them seems subtle but the impact is not because being publicly-traded guarantees they will be 100% profit driven. To my knowledge there is no exception to publicly-traded companies being entirely profit driven but I do know of examples of privately-owned corporations that are not.
Comment No, publicly traded corporations are. (Score 3, Interesting) 55
Blaming the devices is like blaming soup for being too hot. The actual culprits are the publicly traded corporations that are selling the devices. People can hand wave about how making "perfect code" is "impossible" but secure code doesn't have to be perfect.
The basic problem is that profit is seen as the priority which is why unfinished products are pushed out before they are ready and "old" products are rapidly abandoned. The only way to get something reliably from a publicly traded corporation is if it's the most profitable option for them. Security is something you will never be able to get from a publicly traded corporation.
Comment You got it wrong. (Score 4, Informative) 55
The only people willing to read through 1990's-era source code these days are the hackers
This isn't source code from the 1990s, that's the era for the class of vulnerabilities they are finding. In short, they are find the most basic errors make it into production in newly produced code.
Comment Skynet (Score 1) 125
Why did no one bring this up earlier?
Comment Re:Mommy bag / Kid Travel Bag (Score 2) 119
These new travel/analog bags also have vapes, Adderall pills, and alcoholic fizzy water targeted at the taste buds of a 12 year old.
Comment Use an Airtag so you don't loose it (Score 1) 119
Irony 101
Comment Re:bUt NuClEaR bAd (Score 5, Informative) 178
Yes, you antinuclear scumbags are at fault for this. Just compare nuclear France at 19 g CO2 per kWh vs coal loving Germany at 283 g CO2 per kWh.
You aren't entirely wrong but you seem to be ignoring the progress that is being made: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
However, you can see France has had a bit of a head start in the energy transition because it hasn't used fossil fuels for energy generation for the last 30+ years: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
You also seem to be ignoring that some countries are actively expanding their use of coal:
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* https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
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I suppose the lesson to be learned here is that the low tech simplicity of coal makes it very appealing for developing countries.
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