As always, "overthinking" happens when an idiot approaches a problem and doesn't think about it enough to support their conclusion.

A baseball bat is a better analogy than you realized. As with the baseball bat, if you intentionally accelerate it at somebody's head then it's a weapon. If you use it for it's intended purpose, it isn't. Duh.

tldr; if you're trying to drop it on somebody that is when it gets the label "bomb."

When a person construes being critical of the modern onslaught of low-quality papers as being "anti-intellectual" it's pretty obvious they don't read very many papers.

I guess if you never read any academic papers they all look the same!

Indeed, the idiots have always been among us, and today one of them pretended to be great defender of some sort of academic thing they don't really understand. But people with letters next to their names must be the gatekeepers of knowledge, so it was easy to know who was right.

There are so many dingbat papers that didn't need to be papers being published these days that if you choose one narrow specialty and spent 16 hours a day reading the papers within that specialty you wouldn't be able to read 10% of them.

If I was doing work in the field and there was a "white paper" version, (eg, one without the academician fluffing and that just gives the information an engineer would want) would I read it? No? Then I'm sure as **** not going to read the "paper."

As for reading the summary, you're apparently new here. Perhaps you purchased a user id, or recently awoke from a coma.

Yeah but it's IBM, so we can already infer that they'll be submitting them upstream. They're a services company now, they make more money from being the people who wrote it (and therefore the first choice for consulting) and they make nothing extra from trying to prevent distribution. The directly involved service is about security timing, so their customers will have it long before upstream can push the fixes back down.

So many "nerds" still think of IBM as being the company from the 1980s.

A lot of people are commenting on some apparent friction between IBM and the GPL crowd, but a reasonable observer should note that IBM's preferred Open Source licenses are Apache and BSD. That's the real source of the friction, and people shouldn't let the FSF trolls convince them that IBM has a poor record with Open Source. They've been one of the biggest spenders on OSS programming hours for a few decades now, many of our toys exist because they paid for them to be written.

IBM releases a lot of stuff as open source (often Apache license) that other companies would keep proprietary.

They sell services. They do a great job supporting open source because corporate users pay a lot more for support and services than for the actual software.

You've been hating IBM your whole life, but their market footprint completely changed during that time. And you haven't noticed, because you hate them too much to pay attention.

Someone on the email list said it can give a 6-8% performance boost because the pointers are half the size so you get better cache utilization. For some uses that's going to be a noticeable win.

That said, I've never heard of any software using it rather than just requiring a faster CPU.

GDPR.

I bet the cost of that infrastructure is not included in all the cost calculations...

Facial recognition will get abused if legal. What that journalist does is highly problematic and probably illegal as well. Or it may just be legal because Klette is a "public figure". But allow this for general use and they will start doing profiles on everybody. A large part of a free society is that it is hard to find out what individual people do.

Thanx for the info!

I never heard about Germany versus Brasil.

I guess if one digs deeper, you find everywhere a WWII spot where something bad happened :(

Thanx for the info.

If you say "axis" does that imply it is unknown who placed it? Considering the war with Japan in that area, that is most likely from a Japanese boat. On the other hand considering that German U-boats where nearly everywhere (mostly single boat missions) could be German, but also Italian.

As I said: google it.

And it is not "Thorium Salts".

It is natrium salt with Thorium as a fission material. At least in general it is natrium, but lets google that :D

Oh, they are actually mixtures of sodium and flurite salts .... why do you call Natrium Sodium, makes no sense ...

Sorry, you have to google it your self "what salt is used in molten salt fission reactors".

The answer is not easy to copy/paste here.

You do not need to "re"-process it into fuel. It is already weapon grade plutonium, what would there to reprocess? It is basically as clean and pure as semiconductor silicon.

You just make fuel from it. Which in best case means: you do nothing.

Supposed you have an atmosphere like on earth, by magic, over night: on Mars.
It would take half a billion years to deplete so much that Mars would become inhabitable. Probably a billion years.

Regarding magnetosphere: you put a satellite into L1 Langrange point between Mars and Sun, that provides an artificial magnetic field.

The alloys to contain molten salts, of what ever composition, got developed in the 1950s.

As we have right now 2026, I consider that a solved problem.

The umbrella term is CRA ... google it.