Some amazing walls of text for something so conceptually simple: use CO2 to spin turbines instead of water. It is claimed CO2 does this with substantially higher efficiency. For certain, the turbines are much smaller for the same power, and CO2 doesn't corrode everything it comes in contact with.

It deserved a couple mentions, but yeah, this "new" story is just recycled montage. Same thing happened on YouTube this week: the now two months old story suddenly appeared in my feed as if new, except it was literally the same news clips from November and December.

I'd love to know who is pulling the strings on this puppet, because they appear to be running both YouTube and Slashdot, at least.

There do appear to be a suspicious number of "influencers" dropping the CashyOS name.

However, if it's a choice between the perpetual dominance of Windows, and CashyOS and whatever marketing spend they have finally causing Linux to break out and capture significant normy desktops, I go with the latter.

One very good reason to care is interest. The widely cited figure for 2024 was $880 billion of interest, so 103% of the entire DOD. Abject clown world interest figures.

Apparently, that's not enough, so we need experts to develop helpful new rationalizations for why we can go on racking up more, and fund all our fabulous schemes, like helping refugees invest in real-estate in the country they supposedly escaped from, because that's what our virtue requires of us.

Intel has suffered from having fuck-you money since the 1980s. Such companies can suffer from accumulating faddish management and misallocating resources. Intel is a poster child example of this.

That's ended very recently. Intel's net income graphs since 2022 are astonishing: the wheels fell off entirely. We'll see if they get their poop back in a group with Panther Lake next week. It's looking pretty solid.

IRIX was the origin of XFS in Linux. The design and command line syntax of the LVM subsystem in Linux was modeled after the HP-UX LVM implementation: HP's LVM was a leading implementation at the time and it worked well: I used it on HP-UX servers for backing up Oracle volumes, among other things.

Itanium was the longest lived (25 years) of Intel's various failed attempts to kill x86. It obviously failed in this regard, but it was successful at killing other RISC CPU architectures, including PA-RISC and Alpha.

Previous attempts include iAPX 432, i960 and i860, all now consigned to the dustbin of history, along with IA-64 (Itanium,) although the i960 had some success in embedded IO controllers.

With the end of 2025, the last commercial support obligations for Itanium hardware have ended as well. Essentially, Itanium finally, officially died 4 days ago.

No, it is not. Andy Grove explained this to you and the rest of the Western world 15 years ago, with reasons and examples. Every word of what he wrote then was self-evident to any thinking person at the time, and has only become more so since.

Europe should indeed correct its mistakes. Mistake #1 being evolving into the planet's "bedroom community" where nearly everything of value is made elsewhere, by others.

Why would anyone bring a Raspberry Pi to a mayoral inauguration? Maybe that could happen unwittingly, being embedded in some media equipment or whatnot, but someone knowingly walking around with a RPi?

Doesn't make sense that anyone would imagine this is an actual "security" problem.

Good to know. I suppose when your surrounded by the biggest heatsink on the planet, dumping excess energy is solved pretty easily.

The take I had was that this would be used for data centers, as opposed to the public grid. 200MW is actually in the ballpark for these.

Exactly. When the establishment puppet is writing EOs they'll reverse it all while chanting "racism" and "xenophobia" and big tech will fill their "campaign" coffers.

It will not be interesting. It will be tedious and repetitive. Allow me to illustrate:

Check back and you'll see.

A sharpie certified for use in nuclear power plants, at the very least.