Nuclear reactors use most surface water, not ground water.

Datacentres are no pickier. You can even cool a datacentre with saltwater, you just need a heat exchanger.

Also, closed loop does not evaporate. The loop is not closed if stuff escapes from it.

You're arguing with the actual terminology used in the nuclear industry. "Closed loop" or "closed cycle" designs have the water pumped in a cycle through cooling towers. The towers lose water to evaporation, taking heat with them, but the rest of the water is returned to be reheated again. "Open loop" or "open cycle" designs have no cooling towers. The water is heated and just discharged hot. They consume much more water (over an order of magnitude more), but most of that is returned. Closed loop are more common, but you see open loop in some older designs, and in seawater-cooled reactors.

"How often do you think I print?"

Seemingly not very.

I've printed many hundreds of kg on my P1S, thanks.

I do not consider having to write data out to a card and transport it back and forth between the printer and the computer to be the pinnacle of convenience. That's something that would be considered embarrassingly inconvenient for a 1980s printer, let alone a modern net-connected device. And it's designed to be inconvenient for non-cloud prints for a reason.

Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

That is something that TSMC has been doing at its own initiative, like w/ its plant at Chandler. However, while TSMC finds it easy to populate its fabs in Taiwan, it's a completely different story in other countries, especially the US

That was a threat a few years ago, but China's military has been somewhat degraded by the infighting b/w President Xi and the Generals of the PLA who are not in his faction of the CPC

Taiwan should still be wary and arm itself to the teeth, but the threat of a Chicom takeover has somewhat receded

Wouldn't v2 be backwards compatible w/ v1, the way CPUs are designed? What exactly would have been introduced into v2 that would have broken v1 compatibility to the point that one would need separate codebases for each? I can understand the 32-bit vs 64-bit argument, but not this

I can certainly understand ending support for 32-bit CPUs if 64-bit is now the norm

However, I don't get why beyond that, older CPUs have to be abandoned. I know that's not what was mentioned in this article, but if AMD introduced the Athlon-64 and the Opteron-64, I don't see why support for them needs to drop, since they use the same instruction set as today's Ryzens, sans whatever AMD may have introduced since. Since it's a subset, it can be a common base, and anything specific to newer CPUs can be added. If a CPU doesn't have the newer extensions, then supporting it w/ the subset of today's feature set shouldn't be an issue

Aside from being low performance and late to market, there were other challengers as well, such as Cyrix and later Centaur. So there were alternatives for PC buyers to shop, if they were into this level of detail

"I just put my models on a usb drive then plug said drive into the printer."

You must have a lot of spare time on your hands.

"It works great locally" - Um, no it doesn't?

They've made a nice easy-to-use ecosystem. For $400 you can get a P1S that supports adding an AMS, auto bed leveling, enclosed-chamber printing, high precision, high print speeds, and 300/100C nozzle/plate temps, and has an easy cloud print service and a robust ecosystem of models you can just download and print with no extra config straight from the app.

But yeah, their behavior is increasingly entering bad-actor territory. I wonder how long it'll be before they lock entry-level printers into their branded filament?

I really think Roblox is missing the point.

Sure, age-verification might impede underage use of their product, but there are a lot of adults that understand the age-verification movement to be an invasion of their privacy. Whether or not this is true, "perception is reality".

Looks like those customers will need to get a physical copy of the game then.

So not entirely a trainwreck. There is an obvious workaround. Though it will affect people that move into an area with no internet access, and they bring their game console loaded with digital copies.