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Comment Re:If Only It Were Possible... (Score 3, Informative) 133

...to make new factories.

Like imagine if it were possible to create new semiconductor factories, making chips en masse, -- you could perhaps do it in a BIIIG state with a lot of land. You could have a factory with like 100 million square feet. Wouldn't that be something?

Maybe we should have more factories.

If only there were a price incentive to do so.

SK Hynix is spending $38 billion to build two factories: one for RAM, one for NAND. They expect to start clean room operations near the middle of 2029 at the earliest.

Building the factories isn't the issue. It's all the equipment needed to make/print the wafers, the equipment needed to keep things running, and perhaps most importantly, the people needed to run the factory. None of these can be found on Craisglist.

Comment Re:Nomad (Score 1) 38

Even with Starship that would be a titanic undertaking. The Voyagers are moving away from us at 17 km/s. When you get to the Voyagers, you have to slow them down from 17 km/s to 0, and then accelerate in the opposite direction. You'd have to arrive at Voyager with thousands of tons of fuel.

There is another way. It will take far longer, but may not have as much fuel requirements. Instead of catching up to it, stopping it, then reaccelerating back to Earth, you would meet the probe in space then push it a long, loping arc back to Earth, all the while reducing your speed. Conserve its momentum rather than cutting it.

Again, this would take far longer, and is possibly more dangerous, but it is an alternative.

Comment Re:oops (Score 0, Flamebait) 81

have you seen how little respect for life or civilization ruskies and the IRGC have?

You'd be shocked if you weren't already a ruskie troll

You forgot to include Israel, the country that shoots civilians holding a white flag, shoots babies in their parents arms, tortures doctors, deliberately attacks medical personnel> , and deliberately attacks civilians.

Comment Re:In "unrelated" news... (Score 1) 249

Maybe they should find what customers really want and not what is getting them bigger profit margins only.

Stick shift would be nice. Whatever happened to "The Ultimate Driving Machine"? Pay all that money for a supposed performance car and the best you can do is press a pedal.

Or be bombarded with ads.

Comment Re:Wind and sunshine (Score 2) 76

Texas has plenty of wind and sunshine.

They should be installing wind turbines in the Panhandle and solar panels in the Trans-Pecos region.

Someone should explain supply and demand to Governor Abbott.

Texas is also a loser. At least according to his orangeness.

Alongside this "audit" of data centers, Texas is planning to build one next to a Buddhist monastery. I'm sure if I decided to build a data center next to church it would be denied even before I got my last word out of my mouth.

Comment Bending Spoons sucks (Score 5, Interesting) 13

My dad lost access to his email account (AOL) for over two months. Every time we called all we were told was everything looked good with his account, but if we pay them, Bending Spoons, they can get us help.

Submitting a support issue through their web site got AI responses. The last email I have from them was from "Greg" telling me he'd reviewed everything and repeated the exact same thing we were told when we called. The problem was, "Greg" had previously asked me for a screenshot of what my dad was seeing, which was a blank, white screen when he was challenged to prove he was who said he was, something he never had to do in the decade he was with AOL.*

Had "Greg" truly reviewed the account, "he" would have seen his comment to approve the request was impossible because there was nothing to approve.

Bending Spoons is just an aggregator of crap companies. Anyone who put money into their stock is getting scammed.

* My dad's email was moved from his ISP to AOL which is why he has an AOL account. I recently got him another account somewhere else where all his important stuff, such as medical and financial information, won't be held hostage by an incompetent company.

Comment Using technology is hard (Score 4, Insightful) 133

I'm going to victim blame. This is what happens when you blindly accept what a computer tells you. Based solely on this story, none of them did the least bit of research into what this trail entailed OTHER than what Google Maps said. Again, based solely on this story, none checked with any of the ranger stations or even the web site of the trail itself to see if it had any information on this trail.

If you've never hiked a trail, or even driven somewhere, in this day and age there is absolutely no excuse for not doing your research (the good kind, not the vaccination kind) prior to leaving. We literally have the information at our fingertips to find out what something is like prior to going there. How about we use it.

Comment Re:It does it poorly (Score 1) 86

"After a decade behind the wheel, the brain is no longer consciously thinking everything through in great detail. "

Indeed, and for some reason, signalling fell through the brain's cracks.

Forget signalling. Basic driving such as not stopping one or more car lengths behind the white line, not braking at green lights, not braking going down small hills, or turning right on red.

People say senior citizens should be retested every few years. Make it everyone. The panic in people's eyes when they can't be on their phone while taking the test would be priceless.

Comment Did they fix the exceptions issue? (Score 1) 60

Right now, if you want to have cookies preserved for one specific site so you don't have to repeatedly log in, you have to add the site to the Exceptions list, then uncheck delete all cookies and settings when you close Firefox. Which defeats the entire purpose of having an exception. If everything is deleted, then nothing's an exception.

This is just as bad as removing the ability to never be notified of updates without having to jump through hoops, something the average user won't do. There used to be a simple checkbox which said to never notify you, but a few years back some programmer needing to justify their existence thought it would be a good idea to remove this simple option and instead endlessly harass the end user.

It's the simple things people want. Not bells and whistles. K.I.S.S is where it's at, but with every iteration we can see that is long gone.

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