Comment Re:Follow the money (Score 1) 30
Which means it better not fold until after DJT leaves the White House or they'll be investigated by the DOJ for losing junior's money.
Comment lol statism ai the cause of monopolies (Score -1) 37
Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.
Comment Companies hate regulations (Score 1) 105
Regullations are evil and the government should let the market decide; except, of course, when the regulations protect them from the market.
Comment Re: I don't want billionaires to pay their fair sh (Score -1) 284
Statism creates billionaires.
Journal Journal: SQL: * expansion inside of EXISTS()
[Used gemini for formatting. It seems to have edited the text somewhere, and the table on bottom is atrocious. I ought to come back to this later. It's too late to continue with it now.]
Comment Re:Gotto work on that math (Score 1) 73
> Cook likened the memory shortages to a hundred-year flood. "I've never seen anything like it in any area in over 40 years," he said.
100 or 40, which one is it Tim?
Both. The hundred year flood is a rare event and he hasn’t seen it. Just because it is a hundred year flood doesn’t mean it happens every hundred years.
Comment /. has all the data you need (Score 1) 264
Anyone on /. already knows Americans can't read...
Comment My experience with touchscreens (Score 1) 80
People I know that have touchscreens use them for one thing - scrolling through websites. I'm sure there are other uses, but that is what I have observed with friends as well as when traveling. Small sample, for sure, but pretty much consistent across laptops and Surface devices. Frankly, what would be cool if apple could build the scroll capability off screen in the black area around the active screen.
I have used my iPad as a second screen where touch is enable, and never really found it useful as well. I suppose there are specific use cases and it will be interesting to see how well it sells. I just hope they introduce an as powerful non touch version for less cash.
Comment Re:Interesting design (Score 1) 107
Sodium is a rather nasty medium to use as coolant. It corrodes, and spontaneously catches fire on contact with air. Attempts have been made in the past, ending in expensive failures.
Yea, although given the reactor lifespan is listed as 6+ years, I wonder how much corrosion will occur. Clearly, preventing any leakage is key to avoiding unpleasant results.
Comment Re:Base nuke fees on proximity (Score 1) 107
If you are down wind and next to the generation facility you get free power. Upwind and 20 miles away you pay full price. Then figure out the in between fees.
If you are exposed to higher risk you should pay less.
Not a bad idea, do it or all - coal, gas, solar, wind...
Comment Re:Whew. (Score 1) 107
For a moment, I read that as "supercriticality" and was more than a bit concerned.
But seriously, that's great — both that it successfully reached that point and that it did so on the first try.
Yea, all it means it is producing more neutrons than is lost, so power increases as Moree fission reactions occur over time; a controlled process in nuclear reactors.
Comment Interesting design (Score 3, Informative) 107
From Antares' website, this appears to be a non-refuelable low power (100KWe -1MWe for 6+ years) reactor. The fuel design is not a new concept, pebble bead reactor designs have been for a while, and China appears to be working on one as well. The fuel design does have some advantages, such as online refueling, the ability to withstand the heat generated by the fission reaction without cooling, and in some designs the ability to disperse the fuel to shutdown the reactor. One challenge for earlier designs was the use of helium as a heat transfer medium which was hard to top from leaking past pump seals, etc. This design uses sodium/N2 loops, avoiding issues with helium. From their website, it appears they do not plan to scale it for utility use but focus on markets for small portable power that are not as cost sensitive, such as portable power for military use.
Comment Re:Mixed Feelings (Score 1) 51
Which one was your favorite?
Misserr Jimmy Carter interview
Comment Re:Mixed Feelings (Score 4, Funny) 51
On the other hand, I don't necessarily want kids under a certain age to be viewing hard-core porn and kink websites. Still, how many of us straight guys didn't "borrow" a father's Playboy magazine to look at images of the female body in junior high and later before online porn exited?
I did for the articles.
Comment Because no one lies or has fake ids or a vpn (Score 2) 51
So who is liable if an underage user circumvents the check? Do platforms make checks so intrusive to try to make it hard to circumvent at the cost of privacy? Should developers location block places with such laws to avoid violating the law because a user is underage but circumvented the check?
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