My failure to do the listening you prefer is due to my lying eyes and what they actually see. I see the vast swathes of farmland and forested habitat frictionlessly pencil whipped into subsidized solar doom, paved over with silicon, because I live where this has been happening, as opposed to some 500 sq ft. downtown bedroom+laptop pod. I see energy cost explosions in every state that adopts the anti-fossil fuel jihad you demand. I see California back-peddling as their anti-refinery policies create havoc and exploding costs, as all the predictions about EVs come up fake. I see how you've made vehicles fabulously costly and unserviceable out of warranty. I see your 10,000 lb electric tanks. I see the ro-ro fires and the electric storage facility fires and their clouds of hydrogen fluoride. I see the dams you blow up that have been delivering renewable hydro-power for decades. I see the damage you do, outsourcing the composite manufacturing and battery mineral recovery and panel manufacturing to foreign shit-holes, so those costs don't appear in your domestic schemes as you feather your own nest.

I see the future as well. In ten years or so, after the subsidized profits have been actualized into the pockets of corporate subsidy grifters and their bought-and-paid-for government mouthpieces, and all those fields of silicon have decayed and the giant windmills need overhaul, you'll be back for more and more money. But you won't get it, because people see now what you intend. The folly and gaslighting has finally become obvious to even the hoi polloi, and that clarity will increase when your solar fields are breaking down, and your windmills wear out and fail, and the subsidy profiteers have vanished, and the lawsuits are flying, and the media is filled with stories about the cleanup we'll need to undo all this stupidity.

So good luck with that. Maybe I'll indulge one of these fear monger threads some future year. Or maybe not: the die is cast and nothing you or I might write about it actually matters.

I normally don't see or pay attention to these climate "science" stories, much less comment on them. I think that a lot of other people are ignoring these as well. It's been up about 15 minutes now and, as I'm writing this, there are zero comments...

But do keep yelling into the void. People could not be more indifferent to this, but they need to be reminded that there are still plenty of climate nazis out there, perfectly willing to resume shitting on everyone if they get the chance.

Climate fear mongering isn't a road to power now. It was, but people have seen enough of how that looks to understand what you intend. They've had enough of your "experts" and their establishment funded and approved "science." They've had enough of backdoor communism by way of climate. They've had enough of your self-righteous, myopic plans. They might start listening again if you ever start offering solutions that don't involve being made poor and subservient, but until then, you and your obsession are fucked.

This.

They'll all be gone in a few years. The market for these had already vanished before Airbus even started developing it.

Many people, including myself, know perfectly well what would happen when Washington, with then president Clinton, sold out the US industrial base to China in the 1990s. So fuck you and your "hindsight."

Likewise on the "Sure." I don't share your view that 20% couldn't be achieved. The designs of all portable electronics today are based on the capabilities of an unlimited supply of cheap, disposable Asian hands. It is feasible to create designs suited to far greater automation.

The UN is in clear need of full US defunding. Make that building to rental lofts.

This is coming from RISC-V SOC developers, and there are a number of those. They need something to boot and run that has a complete set of packages+infrastructure. It's great that Debian is the go-to distro for much of this, as opposed to a fragmented mess of proprietary dead ends.

There is a lot of new RISC-V silicon appearing or about to arrive. Tenstorrent Ascalon is one I'm looking forward to: by this time next year, Jim Keller intends to have a RV64 chip that is competitive with server grade ARM devices.

Perhaps a reading comprehension mishap has occurred here, but there is no rational way to read this such that it should contribute to your decision. Failing to support Linux is not an option Intel has 2025, and dropping Clear Linux OS does not indicate that they're doing this.

Except for printers, IBM still does everything on your list. POWER is one of the few surviving vendor proprietary CPUs in the world today. POWER11 was introduced a week ago, and they're still made in an IBM fab. They make enterprise grade flash storage systems and scalable cluster file systems. They are among the leaders in quantum computing research. They've developed their own inference accelerator hardware to augment their conventional CPUs.

Again. This isn't apparent to people in the commodity hardware and software world, but IBM still sells a complete stack of IBM gear to those that can write the necessary checks. IBM's largest source of revenue isn't either consulting or hardware. It's software licensing. The have a portfolio of enterprise software you've never heard spoken of, and it's a $27e9/year business.

IBM serves a world you don't know or care about. And they'll be cashing those checks long after we're both dead.

IBM is fine. IBM serves institutional customers. Wealthy customers (cities, states, major corps, federal agents, etc.) pay IBM for services. And no, I'm not taking about mainframes. They have zero profile in the start-up, VC circus, so bloggers don't prattle on about IBM, so you and your ilk are ignorant of what that do and why people pay them. Rest assured, however, IBM a going concern with a very secure future.

Texas Instruments went into a nosedive in the 1980s. They bet on and failed at home computers, and Japanese competitors came after TI's bread and butter semiconductor products. TI had to restructure, do mass layoffs, close plants, etc.

A long time ago, I wrote a lot of PL/SQL. My memories of that are not unpleasant. It is one of Oracle's better capabilities, and PL/SQL does fit very well as a procedural language in an RDBMS.

Incorrect. Jet fuel is stored in a collection of tanks at an airport. One tank can be contaminated with, for instance, water, and this can be pumped into a single truck and loaded into a one aircraft. This has happened before. The fact that no other aircraft suffered bad fuel means nothing.

It could also be a case of debris in fuel, severely restricting fuel flow. The engines run at idle fine, but sometime after power is applied and the debris clogs pickups, the engines will fail. This has also happened to commercial aircraft.

Where are you getting that from? The purpose of a RAT is to sustain power. It will deploy automatically under a variety of conditions, including dual engine failure on takeoff.

All this bit of spin tells us is that the aircraft wasn't grossly misconfigured by the crew. Great.

This is going to be bad fuel. But that won't come out for a long time, because it will put the fault on a state operated airline, from a state operated airport, investigated by that state's authority. If India could plausibly pin this on a Boeing design fault they would be shouting it from the mountain tops, and they've had nearly 3 weeks to analyze the complete data set from both flight data+voice recorders. That fact that what we're getting, instead, is spin stories like this, should tell you everything you need to know.

That's the idea. Get this system fully optimized and serialized, we can develop all the farm land into thousands of cute little off-grid gated exurbs. Everything needed to protect ourselves from the hoi polloi when we outlaw their fossil fuel.