US wind tech is quite primitive anyway. Chinese companies are already deploying blades twice this long. When you see photos of them at the factory they look photoshopped because the scale is hard to wrap your head around.

Alex: "Dim, ya said you had an in. Do it now or it's a boot to yur bollocks!"

Dim: "It takes us a minute."

–$$$ for eyeballs thing.

The entire ad revenue thing seems so weird to me. Yet it seems to be what drives teh intertubes.

Airships and windy areas don't mix well.

Chinese companies solved this by being able to build factories really fast, close to where the blades are being used. They are great for large projects where a factory can produce about 1000 blades/year, enough for ~333 turbines. They are much bigger blades too, over 130m each, nearly double what these guys are hoping to move.

They will need to scale up though. SANY has been installing 131m blades for over a year now, and the next generation will be even bigger.

SANY has also developed a system for setting up a new blade factory very quickly and reliably, so they can simply build one near to where the blades are needed.

What are the charges? Uploading a film, a succulent copyrighted film.

There is something wrong when the authorities of a country care more about copyright infringement than the 40,000 murders that occur yearly.

And only 6 hours of gameplay.

That's the normal console expectation.

I don't own a console any more. Last one was a Wii. Thought about a Switch 2 but not with the way Nintendo have been acting.

In the Glorious PCGMR good indie games like this are commonplace and usually go for £/$20-30. I bought Captain of Industry last week and it's like electronic crack, same with Schedule 1 and both of these games are still being developed and updated with new content. Last AAA game I bought was WH40K Space Marine 2, also bought last week as it had dropped below £30 and really I'm not enjoying it that much. It really represents what's wrong with modern games, too much button mashing, quick time events, stupidly long load times. I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it but I suspect I'm not going to bother finishing it for some time.

Because someone who steals a phone will never lower themselves to selling something they know doesn't work.

Plus this little nugget:

That means they can just send the stolen phones overseas... That's where most of the UK's stolen cars go, no point in chopping them up here when someone in Bulgaria will buy them whole no questions asked. Phones are a lot easier to move. Maybe this might stretch between the US and Canada or UK and EU but as mentioned, phones are easy to move and crims have no compunction selling something that doesn't work.

So... We can start planning the invasion of this planet next week?

Pretty much this.

I suspect it's less to do with AI and more to do with the current global economy descending into chaos. So companies aren't hiring as much and the first group to suffer from this are graduates. If your hiring budget gets slashed, you're only going to hire experienced people... then make those people work 80 hour weeks for less pay. Welcome to capitalism Comrades.

Same things happening in the western world too.

As for AI... Even as terribad as it is I suspect it'll be a better script reader than most call centre flunkies. It's not going replace an engineer that knows what they're doing but it will instruct Auntie Gladys on how to reboot her router.

An aircraft like this will likely be a lot further up the logistics chain, using existing airports to transport blades from near the factories to other places where they're loaded onto local logistics (road, river, sea). I suspect a lot of the larger wind turbines are being used offshore. This is similar to most other outsized cargo aircraft (I.E. Airbus' Beluga).

Making multi-piece blades makes them heavier and more complex, meaning more prone to failure. A wind turbine blade is expected to have a service life of decades under all weather conditions. Complexity is a huge problem.

Also I suspect this plane may never see the light of day. The whole thing sounds like a pitch for VC funding.

It demonstrates the issue though. You have to get the reactor up into orbit, and make sure that if and when it comes down it doesn't pollute. There isn't enough research on non-nuclear satellites re-entering the Earth's atmosphere and burning up to really be sure what the environmental impact of that is, especially with the new mega constellations.

It's probably doable, but

1) The cost will be high.
2) The tech will take time to develop and prove safe.
3) Maybe your country can do it safely, but do you trust every country with a glorified ballistic missile to do it safely too?

I had a similar thing years ago. I noticed the RX light on my modem flashing periodically, even though I wasn't doing anything. Did a bit of analysis and saw it was ICMP packets coming from some random IP address. Back then firewalls were novel and computers responded to pings from the internet.

I tried telnet out of curiosity and got straight into some system at that IP address. Not sure what it was, but seemingly some kind of server with a lot of work related shared files on it. Financial info, employee records, that sort of thing. I didn't hang around for long and after randomly trying a few commands found that "reboot" worked, and stopped the pinging.

Could Facebook afford that?

Brexit is costing the UK at least 4% of GDP, every year. It probably won't be undone this decade, if ever before the UK breaks up.

That's £145 billion per year, every year, just in economic losses. The actual damage to people's lives, especially young people's in terms of lost opportunities, greater poverty and suffering, over their lifetimes, is difficult to calculate but must be more billions per year.

In 2023 Facebook only made about $30 billion in profit. They can't afford to put this right.

If the API is available then hopefully someone will build a better Teams app.