Maybe they should have become Microsoft CoPilot evangelists instead, it probably would have saved their jobs if they used an excessive amount of AI buzzwords.

Like most nuclear projects, I expect it to be either cancelled or still stuck in approvals 10 years from now.

I'm sure that the NIMBY's will fight back even harder than usual on this one, and throw every environmental and regulatory approval roadblock they can at it.

I just wish that Slashdot would stop posting paywalled articles from sites like the New York Times or The Verge in their "news" stories.

They're so prevalent now that it makes me wonder if Slashdot is trying to run some sort of referral kickback scheme. Slashdot probably doesn't have enough readers left to make that profitable, though, so I'll just blame excessive laziness instead of malice.

I wonder if they could find a way to repurpose the CPU, RAM, and storage those thousands of unsold Meta Quest headsets they probably still have in stock. You could probably build a pretty cool cluster out of them.

Hey... if they offer better prices than AWS, I'd be willing to give it a try.

As the baby boomers who still use Facebook continue to die off, I'd imagine that they'll have plenty of extra data center capacity to sell on the cheap.

Bitcoin used to have a strong correlation with the stock market, but not over the past year. While the stock market continued to go up, Bitcoin tanked by 50%.

Bitcoin seems to have it's own weird 4 year price cycle, and we're in the middle of the "price crash" part of that cycle right now. It will be interesting to see if it recovers this time.

Hey now... not everyone on X is a racist or a bigot. They also have crypto fanboys and engagement bait trolls as well!

Wasn't SteamOS released before the Steam Deck even came out?

Sure, it wasn't every good back then, but it was certainly available even though it wasn't officially supported.

True, but it's something to think about when discussing SpaceX's plan for adding thousands of AI data centers in space.

I doubt that they were going to get launch costs down to the point where that became profitable anyway, but the idea of an errant Chinese or Russian rocket accidentally or "accidentally" destroying a few of them is probably something that SpaceX investors are thinking about right now. They're too busy buying up those shares at insanely inflated prices.

Yeah, the interface has been slowly becoming more ad encrusted throughout the years.

The Roku Channel also has a really odd selection of movies, with a surprisingly large collection of Cinemax style soft core porn if that's your thing. Seemed like an odd thing to give away on an free ad supported service, but hey... you do you, Roku!

If you're not gaming, those old Radeon HD graphics cards are perfectly functional as a basic display adapter. You really don't need more than that if you're spending all your time in Firefox doing basic web browsing, office work, and watching stuff on the Tube sites.

Somebody should remind this guy how a compiler works. His hand written "artisan" code is being turned into machine code by a computer anyway.

They also need to get space launch costs to about 5% of where they are now to make orbital data centers profitable, but don't let things like economic reality lower the hype on that new SpaceX IPO.

I'm sure that the $699 model will come with terrible hardware specs like 8 or 12 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD.

Expecting more than that during the 2026 AI Rampocolypse is foolish, because RAM and storage cost at least twice as much as they should right now.

Yeah... is he sure that the Mighty Orange One is going to be OK with that? After all of the recent corporate ass kissing, I'd imagine that he's expecting Jensen to be building his new chip plants in the US instead.