You didn't understand that article. They've been doing that. It was computationally expensive. Now they've found ways to do it faster, so they are doing more of it.

That's only realistic if you expect this expansion to continue indefinitely. But it is almost certainly a bubble because it's unlikely that an advance in AI will come soon enough to justify all of the expenditure. (It's not impossible...)

Having to find and purchase property, get permits (even with substantial grease) and actually get everything lined up and in hand and made into a fab is a lot. If you can get it done in 24 months you're doing very well. And that's just the fab part of the business...

There's dime-a-dozen AMD UMA systems with AI acceleration, and their performance is pretty good, plus they all support much larger memory than most Apple systems. If all you want is AI acceleration, you can get that just fine. Apple's claim to fame continues to be their hardware design, which isn't incredibly better than literally everyone else, but really is generally pretty nice and almost always has been.

Please fucking do then, California is full.

Even more seriously though, California natives both more and less native than me (my father and I were both born here, before that the history gets Mexican, but that covered a lot of ground once) would be perfectly happy if the Hollywood and the tourism went away, and California's economy was based on real things — or at least virtually real things. People would still want to live here, because it would still have the best weather in the continental US. Parts of it are not great in that regard of course, but then that's because California has just about every kind of terrain but tundra. It's big.

As for residency, you don't not get taxed on anything simply because you're not a resident. California makes money on property taxes, it only ostensibly doesn't raise your property taxes dramatically unless you make significant improvements. If you want to own a lot of California, you're going to pay.

But once again, the billionaires can feel free to leave. California will make new ones, because it's rich land, and all wealth is derived from the land. But the reality is, they're not making more California. The last pieces of it which are pleasant to live in which haven't already been made stupendously expensive (on the North Coast) are being sold out now. Amazon is trying to come in at this moment. You're underestimating the value of a climate that's livable without air conditioning all year round. That's only getting scarcer.

Speaking only for myself, a 4xxx series card. Their Linux drivers used to be pretty good, now they are real bad. When I do a driver update it's about 50/50 whether they will break sleep. For once I wish I had AMD graphics.

Would they if they could? Are they envious?

What do they mean by 'in Brazil' ? People with a business registered in Brazil? Something else?

The funny thing was that I knew him for like six months online before I realized he was fully paralyzed. He's been covered in the Finnish press a number of times. Amazing guy. Up until recently he was living in a house he built himself before ALS struck, but the medical service decided he was too far away and he had to move closer. You lose a lot of control over your life with ALS.

He wrote a book about nuclear safety engineering recently, which is a fascinating read, and which I strongly recommend.

I suppose one could argue that you want the more dselicate computers behind the pilot, since then it has the greatest achievable shielding on all sides without having excessive distance from the flight controls and without becoming inaccessible if the pod that is loaded into the middle is not traversible. Similar reasoning is used in Formula 1 - delicate bits of the car (such as the fuel tank) are placed between the driver and the engine, to keep them as safe as possible without creating a burden. This would necessitate there being a step down to get to the pilot's chair. It's not a particularly good piece of "lore repair" but it's the best I can do.

The nuclear waste silos were, though.

The feet operated as vertical rockets, so I'd say the designer was thinking along the same lines you are.

The landing pads are also vertical thrusters (which is how they can skim), so you need space for the nozzle, engine, and fuel. The size of the landing pads would seem fine, given everything that needs to be in them.

I'm calculating mass in terms of filled volume. The entire mid-section of the Eagle was a mesh of girders, rather than a solid hull. Since the total space filled is 1/Nth that of a solid hull that has to be able to handle the same rotational forces, the total mass is reduced. The cross-hatch patterning is likely to be good there, as it's strong along those lines. We don't need to specifically know what the material is, or the specific mass, as long as we can use engineering techniques to figure out the percentage of material we need relative to having a solid hull.

That's true of all sci-fi, by nature. The challenge, though, is to make it as plausible as possible. The "traditional" rule (variously ascribed to Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov) was that good sci-fi was allowed to violate one law of physics (although this had to be justified and explained) but everything else shoud be as plausible as possible. S:1999, as a whole, certainly did not comply with that, but if we restrict ourselves to the Eagle, then I'd say that it would just about pass muster there.

BTW, AI is a godsend for ALS patients. Even with an eye tracker, your writing throughput is low / tiring compared to typing, and of course you can't do anything that requires physical activity (painting, playing an instrument, speaking, etc). AI tools help fill the gaps.

Did *she* want to die? Did *she* want to be "released"?

Did she have an eye tracker, to allow her to communicate naturally?