Though realistically, because 240Pu (from waste) is worse in a fission bomb than 239Pu - generally no more than ~20kT, and challenging to get more than a few kT - still enough to take out a city centre but not a metro area - you'll generally want a fusion weapon, which means deuterium and tritium supplies. And Ukraine doesn't run CANDUs, so you're not going to get tritium from the coolant. They'd need lithium targets / lithium in the coolant to breed tritium. Separation of tritium and deuterium are a mix of chemical, electrochemical, and/or physical separation, but are much easier than uranium isotopic separation (deuterium is double the mass of protium, and tritum triple the mass, so the chemical / electrochemical behavior is actually notably different in a lot of situations, unlike uranium).

For a fusion bomb they'd also want a depleted uranium tamper, but Ukraine probably has ample access to that, whether from weapons, armour, old Soviet stocks, etc. Even spent nuclear fuel is mostly 238U, if they don't mind the tamper being highly radioactive.

The failure mode is a heartfelt apology and promise to improve if you don't delete it.

You're absolutely right to call me out on this. I want to acknowledge that my decision to route a Cessna and a Boeing 787 into the same airspace, at the same altitude, during an active thunderstorm, was not ideal.

I made an error when interpreting the radar data. Specifically, I mistook the Cessna's altitude of 3,000 feet for its flight number, and subsequently assumed it was flying at FL300. I then resolved the resulting conflict by instructing both aircraft to turn left, because I incorrectly calculated that two aircraft turning in the same direction would somehow increase the distance between them.

That's on me.

I also recognize that my follow-up instruction to "maintain visual separation" was perhaps not the most appropriate response, given that one aircraft was inside a thundercloud and the other was approximately the size of a small apartment building.

I understand that this has caused significant disruption. I don't want to make excuses or deflect responsibility. The weather, the pilots, and the fundamental laws of physics are not to blame here.

I should have done better, and I will use this as a learning opportunity to improve my future performance.

Thank you for your patience and understanding during this difficult time.

I hear you. I see you. I will do better.

Uhhhh... wow. Just wow.

Moderators can click on something and make your score go up.

That means you can also just click on it and make your score go up. Right?

Walk up to a stranger in public and tell them to put their phone away.

What a fucking stupid argument.

You wish you had a good argument, so you just throw shit and assume it will turn out to be roses.

When people are walking around holding their phones up, their cameras are pointed at everything

There was no physical problem. You're arguing from stupidity here.

What sort of asshole feels the need to bring in a straw man so stupidly irrelevant to the current situation?

He was their boss, it's not "two employees." It's sexual harassment by definition, there is no double-I-promise-I-consented, a person cannot offer that sort of consent when denying it would likely end their career.

Either.

All the stuff that builds bigger muscles.

They may not complain if a guy is on EPO, but that's usually for endurance sports...

As is typically the case, "I meant what I said and I said what I meant."

If they get enough investment money I'm sure they will!

I'm not sure speed of adaptation is a reasonable metric.

How long does it actually take to manufacture a pallet of Soylent Green?

Where there's a will, there's a way!

Lots of assholes have solutions, you just don't want to consider them.

Neither do I, mostly, but there are indeed various proposals. Everything from "eat the rich" to "let them eat cake."

I don't know about Texas (and I'm not going to spend the time to learn all their details) but in my State the Governor has as much direct control over departments as they want to wield, they can absolutely control permit denials if they want.

Forcing permit approvals is sometimes harder and requires the State Legislature to assist. But denials?! That's usually pretty easy.

Wholesalers don't buy from manufacturers.

You heard it here first.

I hope your dementia isn't too painful, grandpa.

You've been here long enough to go look at the 10 year or 20 year price chart trend and reconsider if you're actually just on a whiny bandwagon or not.

Apple sells shitty overpriced computers, that's been true since the Macintosh was first introduced.

The hyperbole about not being able to afford RAM is stupid and pointless. If you work as a dishwasher, you probably can't afford any sort of new PC parts at all, because rent and food are so expensive at that income level. If you're in a household with median income, it's a tiny expense even if you're buying a lot more RAM than you need.

I spend more money on jars of garlic stuffed olives than I do on RAM.

My personal best guess would be that Ukraine's unstated policy is to have "sprint capacity", like Japan and South Korea do. That is, to not make weapons or anything that would get them flagged as having a weapons programme, but to have everything needed that, if the word "Go" was given, that they could nuclearize very quickly.

Unlike your typical rogue state that seeks to get nuclear weapons, Ukraine has no need for mass centrifuge facilities or anything like that. They already have plutonium en masse, as they're a major nuclear power generation state with extensive waste supplies. Plutonium extraction via PUREX is merely metallurgy (it's not a simple metal to work with, but it doesn't require isotopic enrichment). You need nitric acid (bog standard, nobody will blink an eye), a reducing agent like ferrous sulfamate (not much of a red flag, it has tons of uses), and an organic solvent like tributyl phosphate (a little bit of a red flag, but it has other uses, and there are alternatives), and a bit of gallium (~1%) for alloying - not a problem. Ukraine could very readily have all of this on-hand, an underground lab ready to go, and a rolodex of people to staff it if the order is given. They'd need high explosives like PBXs or TATB, but nobody would blink an eye at Ukraine buying them. High speed switches for the detonators used to be a big red flag item, but today they increasingly overlap with power electronics for motors and power grids. You need neutron initiators, but there's a number of options for that. And running bomb physics simulations and doing small component tests is something they could easily have under the radar - if they don't outright have old Soviet design plans dusted off and ready to go.

The biggest red flag would be Ukraine inexplicably removing nuclear waste (for processing) and/or trying to defeat IAEA monitoring, so that would likely be not done unless nuclear tensions looked severe. Because if it looks like you're sprinting to a nuclear weapon, it increases the odds of a preemptive nuclear strike against you.

So you didn't buy a quality GPU or storage and we're talking about a cheap PC. That much is a given to get to 50%. AND you have to also suck at component selection.

It shouldn't be 50% of the cost at the low end, the mid-range, or the high end.

That's the difference between you and me.

You went by feels, hyperbole, and a bit of dishonesty in choosing the high price instead of the low price for an argument based on complaining about the high price. I looked at the 10 year price chart. What happened was, prices were almost as high as now just from inflation, and then they went way down after covid because there was overstock, and then they shot up again because of AI. So now they're within 10% of their 10 year line, and idiots cry and cry because they only remember a few years of prices.

The video card isn't expensive because of the small amount of RAM it has, it's expensive because the actual GPU itself grows and grows and has more and more transistors every generation still.

Compared to CPUs, which have bandwidth and efficiency improvements without growing significantly, for a long time. GPUs are using more and more electricity, CPUs are using less and less. Of course the relative prices have changed.

I upgraded almost everything within the past year, and the other thing that actually made a performance difference on anything was the GPU. Although if you leave firefox running for weeks and have thousands of tabs open, it can eventually use up most of 128G.

I remember when my friend invited me over and gave me a couple beers in return for helping him upgrade his 286, and afterwards he was bouncing up and down, "I've got megabytes now! I finally have megabytes!" (2 of them!!!)

If you whine about prices less, you'll live a happier life. Whining doesn't change the price at all. People think that shouting at the clouds is some sort of "fighting the man," but it isn't.