What does it mean to purchase 200 Megawatts? Do they get 200MW indefinitely?

Also, since the energy doesn't exist yet, does the payment either? Or is Google just committing to purchase this much when it becomes available?

Except we all know AI isn't doing exactly that. I can see Accenture having a role in bailing out companies that already laid off their staff because AI only to discover that AI isn't enough. But they don't want to rehire because that is embarrassing and because CEOs are sure that the next AI effort will truly replace their staff for real.

Ok. So Honda is learning how to land rockets vertically. That's a useful skill, albeit hardly unique. It isn't remotely to the level of launching payloads into orbit. But, gotta learn to crawl first, right? The "reusable" bit is hyperbola. No further than the rocket went and given that it is just a test vehicle, it better be reusable. I look forward to seeing further progress. It will be quite a while before they can compete with SpaceX or even Blue Origin but this is an area where having more players is good.

Actually, the ratio of disabled people in the workplace increased during the pandemic and then levelled out when RTO mandates began. It's almost as if disabled people had more trouble getting and holding jobs when they had to come to the office every day.

https://www.bls.gov/news.relea...

My experience as an unemployed person who is that officially disabled but encumbered by a heavy health management load is that companies with RTO mandates don't care about candidates health issues and likely believe that ADA doesn't require them to. And they are likely right about the latter.

RISC hasn't been new for decades.
RISC V isn't new either. There are many players already.

Neither can be the foundation for a major new player unless the founders are idiots and I doubt they are.

So, whatever wrinkle will set them apart is something not disclosed in TFA or any other source I have found.

RISC killed it when a small team could crank out a more than competitive RISC processor on a gate array.

By the late 90's cpu chips had become much much larger in terms of gate count. This created enormous opportunities for microarchitecture optimisations but exploiting this opportunities required huge expensive teams and enough demand for the finished product to pay for it all. Only the PC market was big enough and that was owned by x86. Other architectures, RISC and CISC alike, starved. ARM survived by serving a market where big, power hungry, uncustomizable processors were not suitable.

Sure, but making a custom ASIC is seriously expensive. No one is going to do it unless there is a market for a ton of them, which there isn't. What this guy did was actually make one. Working hardware beats hardware that you can "probably" make but haven't and probably never will.

Cancel the second ticket within 24 hours of booking and even the most restrictive ticket is fully refundable.

The counter is for the airlines to only allow all tickets to cancelled or to reprice the remaining ticket when the companion is cancelled. I have no idea if any airlines do this or if they can. The free 24 hour cancel is US law.

My desktop also has 64GB of RAM but it does swap occasionally.

• I run gentoo and some compiles can be really big
• My backup regime compresses using lrzip, which will use tons of memory. It is quite a bit more efficient than less memory hungry compressors.

How do you know this? Do you work in HR? Most of us don't have access to this information is spreadsheet or any other form. Most companies discourage employees from disclosing their wages to co-workers (a whole other discussion) so even informal sources are scant.

I think you mean _from the consumer perspective_, rather that "most people". Most (really hardly any) developers, would not define innovation that. Consumers, however, don't see what goes into creating innovative products. What they do see is who delivers and when. Companies that deliver new capabilities sooner are seen as more innovative than those delay introduction to get clean up the cruft underneath.

Maybe. Maybe not. Altera is a particularly good example of an acquisition that many believe should not have have happened. Little synergy with other Intel efforts and being owned by a potential competitor to your customers is not good for business. For a while good access to Intel's fab was helpful but that's not a great thing any more. I don't know if other firms Borged by Intel are as obliviously better off alone. I wonder if AMD will follow suit and spin out Xilinx.

"genetically closer to bananas" is a phrase from discussions about hypothetical life evolved on other planets. The idea is that humans are more closely related to all life on Earth, even bananas, then to any sentient or non-sentient life evolved on another world. It makes no sense to use this phrase about recently extinct Earth species like the Dire Wolf. Colossal Biosciences' creation may not be dire wolves but both real and phony wolves are canids. They are much more closely related to each other and even to us (all animals and mammals) they any are to bananas.

Requiring new construction have EV charging does little since the bulk of the stock was constructed decades ago. When I was shopping for an apartment in Mountain View, CA (about as progressive as it gets), I only encountered one choice that had EV charging. Even then, it wasn't a charge point for each unit. It was a handful of charging locations shared among of all the units. There are a few new places that might have better access but they didn't make the cut due to noise, cost, or both.

Ok. My second floor apartment actually does have a dryer inside the unit, unlike the other poster who uses a laundry room. How do you propose I charge a car in a ground level spot that is not adjacent to the building I live in?