Those two in Wisconsin made violent threats against life.

That one in NYC made violent threats against life.

In both cases, the killings were justified.

This is the thinking that delivers failure after failure for you.

Trump will not spend political capital when he shit cans this. He will earn political capital. He was given free political capital the moment Biden announced this and everyone, on both sides of every isle, was reminded of the blessing we all now enjoy as Trump's inauguration approaches, and this false virtue bullshit ends. At least for a time.

You might also ask yourself; if this is such a great idea, why didn't Biden do this 2 or 3 years ago? Why didn't Obama and Biden do this, or something similar, in 2009-10 when they had both houses and a senate supermajority?

Only now, when it's purely symbolic and produces nothing beyond a headline, does your Virtue Signaler In Chief act, doubtless melting your virtuous heart. So tragic.

This is a waiver granted by the EPA under law, not a Presidential directive. To "undo" it will require either a complete change of the law (not gonna happen) or a long lawsuit. There is no mechanism for "revoking" the waiver. Congress structured the law this way on purpose.

The way the law was written (y 1967 + Amendments) is the EPA *MUST* grant the waiver if it passes a three (four?) prong test. This is going to be political theater where Trump claims victory and issues a lot of tweets, but nothing actually changes.

Yes, they are. They got funded for the SPARC build. Now they're pitching ARC: a much more expensive proposition. $2 billion is seed money for something like this. It won't come close to building ARC.

Now if they'd just pay similar attention to solar power equipment.

Nearly all solar power smart electronics is not just contract manufactured in China, but is actually rebranded Chinese designs or Chinese/US co-designs, with the base firmware having been Chinese even if tweaked by the US brand.

It has long been suspected that there are "remote brick-it" back doors in it, suitable for shutting down solar power installations should some US-China dispute arise, both shutting down residential, small industrial, and solar farm power and destabilizing the grid by making much of the (currently substantial) solar power input disappear.

In November, Deye (manufacturer of the premier model of their own branded "all in one box", also that of Sol-Ark (USA/North America), Sunsynk (UK) and inverex (Pakistan)), proved it existed by activating it, bricking a number of Deye branded systems, mainly in Puetro Rico.

This appears to have been fallout of a dispute over regional exclusive marketing and non-compete agreements with their OEM rebrand customers. But it shows the world, including state actors and ransomware artists, that the backdoor is already there and exploitable in their products, and raised again the issue that the CCP may mandate such remotely-exploitable backdoors in ALL Chinese-manufactured solar equipment.

(It also exposed that, even though the cloud-"Service" remote administration "features" of Sol-Ark had been moved from a Deye server in China to a new service on a Sol-Ark server in North America, the Sol-Ark box still "phoned home" to, and could be administered by, BOTH servers. Not due to the bricking, but by a user noticing, years after the move, that the old account and service still worked, and posting about it in the discussion, and by others using traffic monitoring tools on their networks.)

Shut it down.

All of this stuff is better handled locally, or state-wide. The bureaucracy of the NHTSA is mind boggling, and the fact that folks look at their headline name but never what they actually do all year long doesn't surprise me.

"What about the children!" has never prefaced citizen safety or well being.

I read once that a grid scale D-T fusion plant would burn through the world's supply of tritium in a matter of days to weeks.That's why most fusion plants would involve a lithium lining in order to generate more tritium.

The "stripping reaction" D + D -> T + P is nuclear-scale exothermic, too. (0.9389 MeV vs. about 17 MeV for D + T -> He + N) So some approaches involve two reactors, one to make a little energy and some tritium to feed the other - or alternatively do both in one reactor in multiple steps by feeding D and not cleaning out the "ash" for a while.

(I'm about as pro-nuclear, including fusion, as they get)

They've made compact superconducting magnets that theoretically produce enough confinement to sustain a large gain in power. They will probably break every record yet for fusion power gain, short of a hydrogen bomb. I'm very much looking forward to startup.

However, there are a large number of unsolved problems before they have a commercial grade power reactor, as per the headline claims. So yes, this latest bit of hype is best treated with skepticism. They're chasing funding, and they're making some pretty fantastic claims to secure it.

My guess is that SpaceX is tired of paying for all the roads and sewers and electrical infrastructure it needs to get its [not a] city to run. Why do that when there's all these [freeloading] residents there that can be taxed instead?

There were 26 freeloading residents in Boca Chica before SpaceX moved in.

Not much of a tax base.

Well, yeah, but M2 is like a $2-3k piece of kit ;)

What I'd like to know is... assuming one gets CUDA installed on it, which is kinda of a prerequisite for everything... can I pip install e.g.:

pytorch
transformers
peft
tokenizers
bitsandbytes
accelerate
deepspeed
flash-attn
sentencepiece
wandb
xformers
numpy
scipy
scikit-learn
. ...
and so on?