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Comment Re: What's the motivation? (Score 1) 142

It is not called a steam explosion when the graphite moderator block explodes in fire. Obviously in such an explosion a lot of steam from the cooling system is created.

The graphite was not the material that provided the explosive force, the steam was. That's why it's called "a steam explosion." If you blow up a rockface with TNT, it's a "TNT explosion" and not "a rock explosion." This is not a difficult concept.

Fukushima "melted down" after power loss, due to the tsunami, and steam explosions wrecking the reactor vessels

Damn, you just love getting shit wrong. They were hydrogen explosions.

Comment Re: What's the motivation? (Score 1) 142

Chernobyl did not melt down.

It suffered a Graphite Explosion.

Completely different things.

Those are, indeed, completely different things but only one of them happened at Chernobyl. The graphite didn't explode, the explosion was caused by steam. The reactor also melted down. you can see pictures of the rather famous "elephant foot" proving such.

Comment Re:C (and here are somemore chars to satisfy the b (Score 4, Informative) 40

Why would you do that? If you're using it for non-strings, you'd never have used strncpy, you'd have used memcpy. Which is the same thing without the null termination rules of strncpy. You'd never use the str versions unless actually working on strings.

Comment Re:Sojust like every other tech growth story (Score 3, Interesting) 220

Amazon took nine years to reach profitability.

I'm not sure Amazon is a good example here. The company famously opted to reinvest its free cash flow into growing the business, rather than saving them and booking them as net income. They likely could have been profitable sooner otherwise.

Also, I am not aware of Amazon receiving billions in government support in the 1994-2001 timeframe.

Comment Re:The cost of force (Score 1) 89

My personal favorite example of this is OpenAI's stated plan to have $1T per year in infrastructure spending. If you do the math, you will have to replace approximately 1/3rd of the entire productive US workforce and charge their former employers about $30k a year per displaced employee to break even. On the infrastructure. OPEX not included.

The math doesn't math.

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