The problem I have is they are being shoved stem our throats whether we want them or not. In many cases they work out to an investor jerk-off feature than real value.

The marketing item âoeuses AIâ comes off as more of a bio hazard symbol to me than anything useful. I interpret it as a lot of hand waving instead of real value. If AI is solving something useful then sell me that point, otherwise itâ(TM)s going to signal to me something that is cloud dependent and potentially near future e-waste.

I actually agree - the old "Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see" applies. But even that is morphing - can't really believe anything you see, either.

Not sure where it all ends, but really can't trust any source of information... not only is it too easy to manipulate (always has been) - but the difference is that now it's easy to find an echo chamber and amplify. Used to be that real fringe stuff would peter out naturally; now it grows unabated.

(Though I have to ask - "you fuckwits"? What did I say to earn that? Don't think I'm leaning any direction here, except maybe the path straight down to hell.)

Maybe the first major US city without a print paper, but won't be the last.

Just being honest, the newspaper print format is obsolete.

It's a day behind and requires an extensive manual infrastructure for proofing, printing, distributing, collections.

Online journalism has no requirement for quality, for proofing, for integrity or needs any of that manual infrastructure.

Basically rent space from AWS, publish whatever garbage you want to publish, collect the ad revenue. The more outlandish you write - the more eyeballs you get - the more ad revenue rolls in.

It's sad, of course, but I don't see a form of recovery for newsprint. It's just not going to happen.

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.

I considered moving there in the 90s. I worked at bell labs at the time, partially in Europe, partially in the US (Massachusets).
It looked attractive back then, but already "risky", (I had a wife and 2 very small kids, and heard of issues with health insurance from colleagues).

Then we considered Canada, which shared some of the risk, but less of the benefits (low taxes, high standard of living). I visited it looking for work and finding out how live there would be, and I found it totally dissapointing.

Instead we remained in Europe, and I am so happy about that now.
I would never set a foot in the USA as long as it remains so aggressive and hostile to anyone who does not "share the values" i.e. who does not become a fascistoid capitalist. The arrogance and loudness have become unbearable.

This guy at least matched the subway train speed by running between two stops:
https://youtu.be/PH_Z8Ghuq6E

Here's a parkour version as well:
https://youtu.be/tXMPRK2LQAE

When applying for a position at a corporation, if you are suddenly thrust into an A.I. driven job interview process. ABORT IMMEDIATELY AND COMPLAIN LOUDLY AND PROFUSELY. Nothing quite so insulting as a corporation hiring but refusing to perform basic human interaction to find an appropriate candidate.

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.

The assertion about the fuel used in US naval reactors is correct: the navy uses highly enriched uranium for fuel (HUE).

The only other use of HUE in a commercial power reactor anywhere in the world at any time (that we know of: who knows what heinous things the Soviets really did,) was Fort St. Vrain in Colorado in the 80s. That was a weird reactor with an experimental design, and a short operating life.

Such naval reactors are extremely compact, extremely power dense and deliberately primitive, relative to typical commercial fission systems. The fuel lasts for roughly 2 decades in naval service. That is, however, a naval application which is not 100% 24/7/365. I suspect in commercial power operation the fuel will not last as long, but I'm not certain.

I think this is pure bullshit. I suspect this is a clever bunch of grifters pushing a story just plausible enough to possibly shake some money out of the DOE subsidy tree. The following problems are self-evident:
1. Naval reactors are a very different animal than commercial power reactors. The NRC regulatory regime is built around commercial designs and some miraculous regulatory upheaval would be required to accept naval designs into commercial operation.
2. Reactor fuel: there is no regulatory path for supplying HEU to commercial operators. Such a thing would have to be created, despite violent, and not easiliy overcome, opposition: it's bomb fuel. The physics allow for LEU in such reactors, but then all the "reuse" saving become costs to certify and (frequently) fuel such a thing.
3. This scheme has every appearance of what NRC Directory Dale Klein had in mind in 2007 when he coined the "No Bozos" concept: the NRC doesn't tolerate nuclear stuff done on "telsa time" by nuclear newbies.

It's always been a tiny minority. It will always be a tiny minority. Some fraction of that tiny minority actively pursue "world domination," and implement the changes they think will achieve it. And they don't care what you think about them.