I appreciate the reply. In particular, because it prompted me to look up where NYC gets its power (FWIW, I thought the largest source was from upstate nuclear). Turns out, NYC gets roughly half its electricity from in-city fossil fuel based generation. That comes from 24 power plants, the largest of which provides roughly 20% of the total electricity.

Going back to my back-of-napkin math, at least 12 of these SMR's would be needed to cover just the average load, which I thought was a lot of them. But NYC already has 24 fossil fuel run plants, and they only provide half the power.

So I stand corrected! There probably is enough room within NYC for enough of these SMR reactors to power the entire city without using up much more space than the existing infrastructure. That's a surprise to me!

Three of them would still be inadequate LOL

That would be the imaginary bullshit part that's not actually happening.

HAHHAHA Well played :-)

Joking aside, let's look at the scale here. (please note, I'm using the figures as provided in TFS and some general usage stats from the first google results)

Sweden's population is around 10 million people.
For comparison, NYC is around 8.5 million people. ... this had me wondering how many reactors NYC would need. Finding space for 3 may be feasible, but how many are needed?

NYC uses around 50,000 GWh/year. That averages to 5700 megawatts sustained (yes, I'm ignoring fluctuations and overhead).
TFS says such reactors, "typically generating between 20 and 300 megawatts of electricity."
Some other comments have guessed these may generate around 500 megawatts.

If NYC used these same reactors for baseload, they'd need at least 12 of them. ... Sweden may have room for that, but where would NYC put them? All the surrounding areas have millions more people who also need power. There'd be nuclear reactors everywhere! Surely, we'd cluster them or build a few larger reactors instead.

BUT WAIT! IT'S WORSE! Sweden consumes about 140 TWh annually. That's about three times more than NYC. They'd need about 35 just to cover their average usage!

"adequate" my ass :-P LOL

* Population of Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* Population of NYC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* Electricity use of NYC: https://www.eia.gov/states/NY/...
* Electricity use of Sweden: https://www.iea.org/countries/...

Good news - you can! Ex. get a job with the FDNY and you can easily work 4 back to back 18hr shifts and pick up overtime on your days off too!

Apologies in advance for the following off topic rant/tangent...

FYI, FDNY dispatchers work an abnormal schedule. It's so abnormal it's difficult to quickly describe it. The normal shift, without mandatory or voluntary overtime, looks something like this:

DAY: SHIFT
1: 7am - 7pm (12hr)
2: 7am - 7pm (12hr) ... 24hr between here ...
3: 7PM - 7am (12hr overnight into next day)
4. 7PM - 7am (12hr overnight into next day)
5. off, but they did just work until 7am, so does that count as a day off?
6. off
7. off
8. off ... cycle repeats ...
9: 7am - 7pm (12hr) ...

IE: 4 days on (2x 12hr day, 2x 12hr nights), 4 days off. That repeats 3 times before they get 5 days off, then it goes back to 3 of those with 4 days off between them.

And vacations? Those are pre-assigned and you don't get to pick them.
Sick time? Can't take more than a day without a doctors note.
Lunch breaks? None. Technically not even allowed to eat at their desks, but they obviously must or they'll literally starve.

And they're minimally staffed. If someone calls off, that has to be covered, often requiring mandatory overtime (in 6hr blocks). And due to their pension setup, many try to take excessive amounts of overtime whenever its available, the result of which should be no surprise - they sleep on the job, so their exhausted coworkers on "short" 12hr shifts have to cover for them.

If one has overtime on their first day (IE: 18hr shift), they have 6 hours between the end of that shift and the start of the next shift. They're also expected to come in early to relieve those on duty, and nearly everyone comes in early.

Lastly, their union keeps voting to keep this structure. My guess is some variant of stockholm syndrome runs rampant there. Labor laws have made this sort of practice illegal for ages, but there are exceptions for emergency services. Those exceptions are abused.

DRIVEN BY PROFITS?!?!? Can you say that with a straight face amid this AI bubble?

From this story yesterday: https://slashdot.org/story/26/...

"OpenAI lost around $38.5 billion in 2025 ..."
"... measured as a percentage of revenues, the company's operating losses slightly improved year to year, from 237 percent in 2024 to 160 percent in 2025."

Compared to China's EV situation - "the profit margin for China's auto industry plunged to 4.4 percent and dropped further to a historic low of 3.2 percent in early 2026." ... "Gross profit, not net profit, per vehicle, plummeted to a mere $2,000. We can expect the net figure to be loss-making."

IE: Depending on which figure you use, China is somewhere between making a small profit, breaking even, or at a small loss. Meanwhile, OpenAI's losses dwarf those figures.

You have a valid point about RAG usage, but it almost certainly was trained on that data.

FYI, I tried the question GP posted on Google with AI results on: "I have $1000 to spend on a projector, what should I get"
The answer included reference to one URL and 2 products:
https://www.rtings.com/project...
A Google product link for Epson Lifestudio Flex Plus 4K PRO-UHD Projector
A Google product link for ViewSonic PX701-4K Projector

If/when those review sites stop posting such lists, where will the RAG get its results? IE: GP's point stands. When those sites go stale, so do the LLM results.

Aren't the rockets themselves a big fuck you to the environment? Maybe if we send all the billionaires into space that'd get rid of a lot of polution?

If/when we get a space elevator, or some other pipe dream, then *maybe* something? But we're all here, not in space. And in space, getting rid of heat is hard - AI data centers as satellites is a complete fiction. And the moon? That thing is WAAAAY far away. If we need somewhere cold with lots of water, we have a whole continent to use (Antarctica)! And it's SO MUCH CLOSER and much more habitable.

It gives those with the biggest purses more control over the market.

Case in point. Who can offer higher wages? The guy with more money.

For small businesses, it's awful. Look at how many people Google snapped up back in its heyday, and all the bonuses and stock and such they threw at them. And those people may have even made the right choices with respect to their personal financial gains. That didn't hurt Google.

If one has the money and power, labor shortage or labor surplus can be used to their advantage.

"Elites want labor shortages!", "No, Elites hate labor shortages!" ...
No, it's neither of those. It's money and power.

Labor shortages are only bad if you're the one being shorted. If you've got money and power, you have the available labor.
Labor surpluses can be bad if that frees up your trapped employees to go to greener pastures. If you have the green pasture, you win.

If Bezos is trying to sell us on this leading to a labor surplus, then either:
A) he's just speaking his opinions and doesn't care cause he's so rich
B) there's a motive to it

Excellent information - thank you!

There seems to be one glaring difference:
* AUR PKGBUILDs are apparently community driven with no vetting besides community votes.
* Gentoo ebuilds are maintained by official Gentoo developers - devs taking ownership of specific packages or official working groups on core components and complex stuff. Community provided ebuilds and updates get run through an official dev.

HOWEVER, Gentoo has community overlays, like Project:GURU. These seem to be exactly like AUR PKGBUILDs.

In the same vein, one can add 3rd party repositories to Debian systems. I guess the main difference is that Debian has damn near everything packaged already, so you don't have to rely on 3rd party stuff, and those running Debian often do it because of its stability and aren't looking for the cutting edge.

I expected that to link to go to this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(Max Headroom)

Thank you! This goes even further than the above comments :-)

Thanks! I overlooked the user repo part.

I'm also a Debian fan, but I'm not sure this Arch issue validates anything for Debian. How is their supply chain different/improved/more-secure? Please note, I simply don't know. If someone could confirm this is far less likely on Debian because yada yada yada.., that'd be great.

May I suggest these TUI alternatives?
* w3m - a classic with support for tables, frames, and images. No javascript or CSS though.
* browsh - asciified interface to a Firefox backend, so it supports nearly all modern standards, but you're using Firefox.
* chawan - a modern TUI browser with support for tables, CSS, images, and even most javascript.