Microsoft then: Our existence, our survival depends on developers.
Microsoft today: Developers must die.
Someone needs to use AI to rework Steve Balmer's "Developers! Developers! Developers!" stage performance to instead be "AI agents! AI agents! AI agents!".
... The curves are on land.
However the basic problem is that raising the maximum speed is not going to make any difference when the previous trains couldn't reach their maximum speed either.
https://www.sealytutoring.com/... The curves on dedicated bullet-train tracks (not shared with slow-commuter trains and not shared with freight) must be curved to attain even moderately high speeds end-to-end on the line. In this regard, railroads are not that much different than banked curves on high-speed automotive roads that has been state-of-the-art for many decades now. Half-hearted attempts to achieve bullet trains in the USA need to quit living in the 19th-century past of the Promontory-Point-era concept of what a railroad is and is not. Indeed, the USA needs to decide whether it wants bullet trains as true high-speed rail or me-too also-ran participation-trophy kinda sorta a little bit fast trains for which we use the pathetic term "high-speed" rail instead to make ourselves feel good as a national-pride salve in a failed-engineering wound that Americans don't like to talk about. Aspire to even remotely be in the same league as the Japanese, or go home and hang it up and retire as a has-been.
Okay.. And how did they get the now-solid puddle back into the reactor on Monday morning?
Heaters surrounding the container below the reactor melted the salt. Pumps pumped the molten salt back into the reactor on Monday morning. Protons irradiated the molten salt to start the fission again.
Even as an energy source, nuclear power has often presented a choice between [...] versus headline-making events like 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl.
The melt-the-drainplug fail-safe molten-salt reactors (MSRs), such as liquid-fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs, pronounced lifters), do not have that melt-down capability of the backups of the backups of the backup failing, because by less-is-more engineering design all those layers of backups are unnecessary to keep it safe in the first place during normal operation. Weinberg's team at Oak Ridge National Labs during the 1960s would intentionally cause the LFTR analogue of a Chernobyl, Fukushima, or Three-Mile-Island event every Friday at 5pm to passively shut down the MSR by melting its drainplug (so that they could go home to their families for the weekend). How to melt the drain-plug? Shut off the fan that cooled the drain plug so that it is no longer cooled (just as any disaster would). The nuclear reactors popularized worldwide post-WWII were fail-disaster high-pressure, low-temperature reactors that placed the fuel in rods and utilized water that could boil as coolant; MSRs are fail-safe low-pressure, high-temperature reactors place the fuel in molten-salt liquid and utilize that same liquid for initial heat transference in the radio-active zone of the MSR. To shut down the MSR (either intentionally during normal operations/maintenance or by passive happenstance during disaster without any human act whatsoever, the extremely hot liquid reactant is drained into a storage tank below, where it both ceases the nuclear reaction as well as solidifies as it cools (until heaters that restart the MSR melt it again as overt intentional act).
LFTRs in 25 minutes, excerpt of a TED Talk
https://youtu.be/EHdRJqi__Z8
... using certain (fairly innocent) words. When those people include that word, the post is consistently removed, while other people are allowed to use it.
Which fairly-innocent word(s)?
What hath Bob wrought?