And we all know there is never any delays in constructing things that have never been constructed before...

If you seriously think they're going to just sail through their schedule and not have any delays or NIMBYist legal delays you're crazy.

So if Russia has managed to keep it running "okay for a few years" how is that not proof of reliability?

Seems they're relying on it...

It's like you say that all cars fall apart after 50,000 miles and Toyota doesn't count because they're an "outlier" - sometimes the outlier is built properly and shows you how it should be done.

And none of the populist appeal that makes people listen to Trump, and scares the pants off all the other Republicans lining up to lick those boots.

None of them are going to just fall behind Vance, because they are just as eager to claim the MAGA inheritance as Vance is, and egotistical enough to think they can, just like Vance.

We've seen some people try to out-Trump Trump already (Ramaswamy, DeSantis, etc.) and fail miserably because they seem like smarmy assholes just telling you what you want to hear. Trump's magic is that he tells you what you want to hear without it sounding like a smarmy asshole just telling you what you want to hear (unless you know that's what he does all the damn time and don't drink the flavor-aid).

For some unknown reason, people believe what Trump says, where reasonable suspicion and doubt is still applied to everyone else.

Yes, building a sea wall rated to handle a tsunami that there is historical record of occurrence probably would have prevented the meltdowns. TEPCO didn't bother.

Yes, not having the emergency generators in the basement that keep the coolant pumps pumping probably would have been a good idea in a tsunami zone too, what with the propensity of water to fill up subterranean structures and electrical equipment being nominally productive when completely immersed in seawater.

These are design flaws that could and should have been seen and corrected years before the disaster. For some reason, morons don't want to deal with those details though, they just want to shout NUCLEAR Bad and demagogue.

No, instead you had much more frequent and distributed outages across every site in existence because there wasn't an easy and well-understood paved road to scalable web infrastructure. Thus the recession and almost-extinction of the "Slashdot Effect" of websites being DDoS'd into oblivion by legitimate traffic.

Time zones are a thing, and have been since the railroads were built in the 19th century.

My favorite haiku:

It's not DNS...
There's no way it can be DNS...
It was DNS.

So increase the fine for driverless vehicles until they get the point. If the fine isn't a deterrent for a bad actor, then increase the fine for that bad actor until it is.

If they're profiting from breaking the law, then change the law to make it unprofitable, and you'll see the behavior change instantly.

I'm doing this, right now, at home. I added a cheap eBay Quadro M4000 card and installed Proxmox with that as the primary GPU for the Linux host, and then used IOMMU to share the Radeon RX6900 XT, sound hardware, and USB keyboard / mouse into the VM, which is backed with ZFS storage for snapshotting.

Fuck your shitty updates - when I see there's an update available, I snapshot the system. If the update fucks the system, I revert to the snapshot and ignore that update.

I see maybe a 1-2% performance hit for a whole lot of DR enablement, I always have a Linux desktop available on a third monitor (the Proxmox host), and two displays running at full hardware speed plugged into the Windows VM.

As it turns out, the way to fix Microsoft products is to put them in an impenetrable box that you can roll back when they break stuff.

Of course you could just create your own version of that by running Linux and creating a Windows VM, which allows you to snapshot and revert. Extra credit if you base your VM storage on a sturdy filesystem with built-in snapshotting like ZFS.

Shitty updates that fuck you over are a VM stop + restore away from not being a problem any more.

Which is why you're insane to run Windows on bare metal if you don't have to.

It's sad when dealing with IOMMU + PCI-E passthrough is more reliable than Windows USB support surviving a patch deployment.

This is the reason I spent time to virtualize Windows via Proxmox with PCI passthrough. Minor overhead increase on the CPU that is never pegged in exchange for a dead-simple way to roll back shitty updates with ZFS snapshots.

The best way to fix Microsoft products is to virtualize them in QEMU / KVM.

If wireless charging is the new standard, why would anyone still be buying USB adapters?

It's not like wireless charging is banned in the EU. You just also have to include a USB port that has the capability to charge the device *as well*. You know, like every phone sold on the market with wireless charging already does.

What a ridiculous argument.

Because laws can never be amended to include new standards, right?

And in the meantime, we don't have an explosion of proprietary garbage that doesn't enter landfills. On balance, I think we're still better off than we were before the EU enacted these laws.

When you can't find a flaw in the argument or the supporting data, attack the messenger!