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Comment Needs Policies to Promote Child Births (Score 1, Interesting) 255

As with all "westernized" countries that are looking at population cliffs. Hopefully policies can be enacted that promote people having more or even at least one child.

Right now things are far too overpriced, with a lot of uncertainly. With the proper policies and support that could be changed.

But this isn't just a US problem. Most of Europe, and the "westernized" Asian countries like Japan and Korea are also experiencing this exact same problem.

But when you have young people coming out of college with hundreds of thousands in debt who aren't finding jobs or housing. They generally hold off on starting families. And those that do will limit their size to be smaller than they'd like without economic constraints.

Comment Re:Memory (Score 1) 40

The big issues with the GPU is many don't have active cooling, instead expecting a front to back airflow to exhaust fresh air across it.

So you need some fairly forceful directed air movement. You can rig up things, but it won't be just plug this desktop GPU into the motherboard and connect PCIe power and you're all set.

Comment Re:upgrades delayed (Score 1) 40

The problem is that even when the bubble pops there won't be a flood of hardware for people to buy for pennies on the dollar. The memory isn't in the correct form factor for desktop use.

So manufacturing needs to switch what they are supply, so there was be a multi month lag before the supply hits the market as new products.

Comment Re: It's a shame it's so undeveloped (Score 1) 27

Exactly, running in a VM to support specialized hardware that can't be ran under a supported version of Windows. React is at least supported versus needing to segment XP and manually transport files over physical media.

General desktop usage, or trying to run an application have so many other options. It doesn't make sense sticking with React for those use cases.

Comment Re:It's a shame it's so undeveloped (Score 5, Informative) 27

The latest releases of WINE and Proton are doing amazing things. Then looking at FEX-Emu running native 32 & 64-bit Windows software on an ARM Linux PC and having the performance to play modern games.

That said. React could serve some purpose in terms of compatibility. There are still XP installs in many manufacturing and medical research faculties due to multi million dollar devices that don't have drivers for anything new.

If React could run on modern hardware, while still supporting these older devices, it could be fill a niche. Though VMs can handle that, but the issue is you're still running XP. Maybe just React in a VM ends up being the go to.

Comment Re:I'm totally okay with it. (Score 1) 98

Will you still feel good when it fails in the middle of a snow storm and you're unable to drive your own car?

It's was a bad law when it was passed, and it's still bad today. It wasn't "use this proved technology", it's figure out something to do this, oh you have X years to get it in every vehicle.

There's still no reliable way for this to function correctly.

Comment Re:tv shows are not culture (Score 1) 66

How is the story a TV show provides any different from a movie or book? There have been tons of trash movie over the past 100 years, and many, many more trash books over the last several hundred years. Go back even further with trash plays, songs, and dances, etc.

But no, things that shape language and that extend through out society aren't cultural.

Comment Re:At This Point (Score 1) 127

I ran into this same issue, only when using eARC my sound bar had some of buffer overflow issue that would cause an audio dropout every five minutes or so.

It took about 10 months, but HDMI audio extractors finally came out. That have the single cable from the console and outputs the full signal to the TV, and just the audio to the second output.

The audio EDID flags are pulled from the audio side.

The extractor wants you to connect to the eARC port which I'm not doing. So I lose CEC signals so my TV remote can't control the sound bar's volume.

Comment Re:Future of Xbox (Score 3, Informative) 42

The Xbox Series X has the same Zen 2 CPU, RDNA2 GPU as the PS5. There are slight differences in other custom modules specific to each console. But they were modern at the time of release.

You can't claim the Xbox Series is a hardware refresh from Xbox One. Without the PlayStation 5 also being just a refresh of the PlayStation 4.

Comment Re:Nuclear Power Industry won't be happy (Score 1) 120

For a single home? No, it's not that complex, but can be expensive depending on total needs. Average cost is $15-16,000 USD to start and goes up for more capacity.

Grid level storage? Much more complex.

The goal isn't to have 99.99999999% grid uptime. It would be supporting known common events. It's night? You don't have solar? Strong storm? Wind is parked. A foot of snow, and then overcast for the next week with the 8.5 hours of sunlight per day? Much more difficult.

Comment Re:Nuclear Power Industry won't be happy (Score 1) 120

Renewables still all come down to not being always available. Which means complex storage solutions, or generation by alternative means. Right now that's mainly natural gas and coal.

Will people in 20-30 years want power at night in the middle of a large wind storm that requires the wind turbines to be parked? I'd wager so.

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