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Comment accelerated aging test not yet completed (Score 1, Insightful) 35

Although it can be written for the here and now, accelerated aging (and more importantly actual aging) has not yet been performed to see whether this marking will fade or deteriorate. We know only that the white ceramic itself will last for that many centuries, not that the black marking will last that long or remain high enough contrast for that many centuries.

Comment Remember this when smartphones are replaced. (Score 1) 56

When Musk, Apple, Google, Meta, etc all have their analogue of NeuraLink (which Apple could conceivably brand an the iThink), remember this day when you ponder whether to get the new whizbang tech implant into your brain, because for the first few years it might seem like the pros outweigh the cons, but then the company updates terms of service to force advertisements injected into your brain against your will, or at least against what you intended when you got the implant a few years earlier and now must vigilantly keep configuring and reconfiguring various levels of opt-outs to suppress most (but likely not all) of the in-brain advertising.

Comment slam over the Collaboras Online code base (Score 0) 30

An army of volunteers for LibreOffice Online should continually initiate pull requests to slam verbatim the entirety of Collaboras Online onto LibreOffice Online as a never-ending war. Collaboras Online should duplicate verbatim any code in LibreOffice Online that implements any new features or bug fixes absent in Collaboras Online, so that Collaboras Online is always the best version in charge and LibreOffice is a derivative work. Indeed, this would be an excellent job for AI to automate the verbatim-&-merge coding of this war with human being volunteers verifying the AI's work and performing the pull-requests from within LibreOffice Online community. Such AI automation of the war would permit human beings in Collaboras Online to still have time to continue improving features and bug fixes in Collaboras Online just as they have been the past few years.

Comment Re:The problem is the right of way (Score 2) 102

... It is too curvy.

... 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.

Comment Did the AI chat advise the suicider on the how? (Score 2) 112

It all comes down to: did the AI chat advise the suicider on the specifics of how to enact suicide, step by step? If so, then the LLM as trained (and possibly its trainers) are culpable in this suicide, and this case should be precedent-setting. If not, then entirely a non sequitur and the family is barking up the wrong tree due to heightened emotional state just to vent their emotions.

Comment Re: Not a simple question (Score 1) 85

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.

Comment Re:Not a simple question (Score 1) 85

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

Comment Re:It is about crypto currency. lol. (Score 2) 111

Cardano's ADA cryptocurrency software is the most-likely explanation for OP. One interesting piece of evidence is that AdaCore (the sole remaining compiler company developing an Ada compiler to the latest revisions of the ISO standard for Ada) is clearly diversifying to Rust and C++ recently.

Comment Re:no due process (Score 2) 24

For example, a bot malware could be downloading pirated copyrighted material unbeknownst to an ISP's subscriber. Due process would permit that subscriber to be found innocent. Due process would instead deflect the justice system toward the operator of the malware bot instead, perhaps as organized crime.

Comment no due process (Score 4, Interesting) 24

The main thing wrong with what Universal, Sony, Warner Bros, and major record labels sought was that it lacked due process. Only the ultimatum from the corporate gods sufficed to trigger one-sided one-size-fits-all justice. SCotUS needs to focus especially on the constitutionality or lack thereof of regarding that point.

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