On the one hand, coal is thousands of jobs and voters, on the other, the worst polluting, poorest energy producing and biggest dumping of radioactive waste on consumers of any power. GO BIG COAL GO BIG COAL. MAGA, MAGA. Yeah, f*** that, I skipped pep rallies in high school by hiding in the physics lab for this very reason.

What they're capturing here is that instant coffee can capture the ideal roast-to-brew timing, then dry it out. Drip coffee has so many factors - when the beans were roasted and ground, what type of grinder was used (burr is usually best), water temperature (200F/93C for brewing, give or take), how long it was sitting on a burner after being brewed, etc. Whole beans are usually best within 3 weeks of roasting, ground beans about 3 days from breaking a flavor seal (vacuum packing helps). Try drip coffee like that vs, say, Folger's Crystals a week after opening the can. There should be no natural sourness to it, and when my mom brews ground, canned coffee, it tastes like someone added a lemon.

General AI. The AI I've programmed all had a specific task it was supposed to optimize. It wasn't very good at it, but you know, 1990s tech, lol.

AI would do great following Happy Path for IT. Non-Happy Path with no workaround documentation, ouch, fail. Going by real world experience, We had an engineer figure out a workaround and the AI failed hard. Probably 3-6 months of downtime and $500 million+ dollars of fail, so yeah... There is now a documented fix and bugfixed installer, after we reported it, but it took 6 months.

I've worked with Ford, and I totally know where they want to cut IT workers to save money, but AI will totally fail them in a couple of areas. How do I know that? I worked with Ford and GM and now work with Boeing and I know where AI totally fails in the "upgrade" (really data migration) process. Yeah, teachable, still fails to understand the bad programmer lingo in the instructions (I know what "blah" means, AI would hard fail). That said, we are automating the hell out of the process, people will probably eliminate white collar jobs before AI does. On that note, LONG way to go.

I'm more on the fence - I think AMD has a far superior CPU these days, but I still vastly prefer nVidia graphics hardware, even though I try and go back to AMD every few years. There always seems to be something just hideously broken with new features on the AMD side. Keep in mind I don't use DirectX, I use Vulkan and used to use OpenGL because I need to cross-compile. Sure it gets fixed when I file a bug report, but I shouldn't be their product tester, lol. I think AMD tests exclusively on Windows, then uses mac QA for macs, then lets Linux users be guinea pigs for the Linux driver.

America actually jumped the gun and killed its new nuclear development in 1994, for all the wrong reasons (well, ok, proliferation was a valid concern, but everything else was wrong). The IFR was pretty much no chance of meltdown, almost no waste, nearly all fuel used, on-demand power.... yeah.

Developing new nuclear technology would've been a better choice than kneejerk exiting the business, but Siemens chose to exit nuclear, probably because the government wanted to exit it, so it died there. Exiting nuclear was a horrible plan, Germany restarted multiple lignite coal plants, which are the worst polluting coal there is. Guess what spews more nuclear radiation into the environment, nuclear or lignite coal... yeah, the latter. The smoke is full of heavy metals, including radioactive ones.

They made some bets on realtime ray tracing maybe a little bit too soon. RTRT is indeed CPU bound, to some extent. It depends on the entire scene to be in memory. Pseudo ray tracing does not require that, so they approximate rays and draw not really ray traced objects. Sorry RTX, you're fake ray tracing, but it still looks good. Real time Radiosity... drools.

6'1 and 350 lbs. Oh, wait, are we just counting pounds of fat? 350 lbs. Oh shit, the CIA is at my door - 6'3, 150lbs, .00025% BMI and 500% muscle, sorry master, I strayed.

They literally are the world's biggest music conglomerate and own roughly 1/3 of the global music recording copyrights. Sony and Warner own huge chunks, as well, but Universal goes after content creators trying to bully them into signing over their content rights, even though it is fair use (and they've ALWAYS lost in the courts). What's interesting to me is, they've also gone after the original artist singing the song, which is totally not their right as all. Lyrics are published via BMI or ASCAP or some similar agency and anyone can interpret them, as long as done in a place with a license to perform them.

So my point is, the creators would have to give up at least 1/3 of their global content, and it is probably closer to 50-60% of US content. Break this bitch up, Congress.

It depends on where you live. I had solar heat as a kid, and I lived in far north America (St Paul area, Minnesota). Solar heat was on 2 hours a day and had to be shoveled off continuously, including roof panels. I would rate it a 1/10 for convenience and due to the short days, 1/10 for heat. Probably cost my parents 5000x what it benefited them and that was because 2 kids constantly shoveled off the panels on the roof, then dived into a snow pile from clearing the driveway (ok, that was fun). So yeah, I'm saying despite improvements, it still has serious problems in some areas. The other major issue is China requires manufacturing in China if you use their rare earth elements. When I worked on wind turbines, 90% of manufacturing was done and required to be done in China. The US still has the largest REE mine in the world, subsidized by the US military.

Well, yeah - I've seen AI actually write decent code... without error conditions, or bounds checking, but following the happy path, it really does work. Still needs to learn how people with bad intentions get in, but, you know, the happy path code is serviceable. Can save me a few hours, but I still need to program in sad paths. Don't know if that is more time or less time, really, but it kind of negates itself, I still need to code review and fix shit.

I haven't been to a Chuck-E-Cheese since the 1980s, I'm joking with my subject. I've seen them, but terrible pizza, old video games, no reason to go in.

Well, Siemens shutting down their nuclear division (probably with Merkel at the whip) didn't help. And yeah, they restarted multiple coal plants to replace that power. Good choice, Germany! (BAD, BAD, BAD CHOICE YOU IGNORANT FUCKS). OK, as someone with German and Austrian ancestry, I 100% think I should voice my opinion here. Fast fission is a great solution, fusion isn't bad either, both have ~100 year waste issues if done right.