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Comment It comes down to power efficency (Score 1) 61

If you have a fleet of these servers in production, they can last a long time, many years.

Eventually, they become too expensive to operate vs new servers, mainly because the new servers are more power efficient and power is one of the largest operational costs of running a data center. The new servers tend to be faster and fewer are required, but they dont typically offer any new capability, it just comes down to the cost per unit of work.

Comment Florida Man... (Score 1) 50

Of course, he is guilty! He is a Florida Man!

No further evidence required

But seriously, the theory is that he was pissed off and flicked a cigarette into some brush, and it caught fire, so he called 911. Firefighters responded and put it out. But unknown to anyone, it continued burning underground... for a week before exploding and burning a chunk of the city.

It would be an implausible plot for a movie.

The guy was so freaked out, he asked ChatGPT and ChatGPT narked on him? So it is no longer "delete your browser history". Now it is "delete your ChatGPT history."

Comment Good luck with that (Score 1) 99

Gee... There is a new technology that automates something people do and get paid for. The people currently doing it don't like it because it "puts people out of work."

There are no examples where efforts to block or ban a technology were successful. Maybe this will be the first time!

Comment Someone will just take it (Score 1) 211

Worked hard all of my life. Put two kids through school and supported a wife, all on one income.

Then my wife decided that she wanted to "focus on herself"

At best, my ex will take half of what we managed to put away through my long hours of work. I will lose my home. I have no idea where I will live.

At worst, I will be forced to continue paying her half of my "potential earning capacity" for the rest of my life, or at least as long as I am still healthy enough to keep earning for my ex wife. She doesn't have to do anything.

This is modern-day slavery. But it is ok because I am male and no one cares about males.

Comment Murder / Suicide (Score 4, Informative) 248

One of the pilots killed everyone. He even lied about it just before he died. It would be very difficult to bump this switch. It has a metal guard around it and it has to be pushed up before it can be slid over. You cant do it by accident. The take off is the most dangerous period of flight. The fuel was cut off just seconds after take off. Even after the fuel flow as restored, there was not enough time for the engines to relight and start producing power again. In this case, both engines restarted, but only one was starting to make power when the plane impacted. When the fuel was cut off, just off the ground, the plane was doomed.

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