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Comment My grandkid scares me (Score 1) 120

I have an eight year old grandson who doesn't seem interested in reading books on his own. The adults around him are voracious readers, but he just wants to get his information from videos. The problem I see with that is that it doesn't help him learn language. You don't see how a proper sentence is structured or a logical argument is laid out in a video because you don't see the words. For now all we can do is continue to buy him books, encourage him to read and write more, and explain how doing so will give him an advantage over others in the future. 50 years on I still believe that the most important class I ever took was my high school rhetoric course. The weekly 500 word essays we had to write improved my writing immeasurably. Can you imagine how near impossible it would be for modern students to tackle a course like that?

Comment Hardware is not obsolete (Score 4, Interesting) 221

Furthermore, new hardware requirements will render millions of perfectly good PCs obsolete....

The hardware isn't obsolete, Microsoft just decided that it was the easiest way to end backwards compatibility. Isn't it strange that an emulated TPM is good enough for a cloud VM but not for a personal desktop? I wonder if we will see this again if TPM 2.0 breaks and newer hardware is once again "required"

Submission + - China builds Thorium reactor based on abandoned US design (interestingengineering.com)

xanthos writes: China has built an experimental 2 MW working thorium reactor in the Gobi desert using declassified US documents from the early 60's.

Thorium Salt reactors are safer (think lava vs explosive steam), less radioactive, and the scientists involved were able to refuel the reactor without having to shut it down. A 10 MW unit is expected to be online by 2030.

Comment Just transcribing the visit (Score 1) 18

Looks like many of the commenters couldn't be bothered to read the whole summary. This is just voice to text transcription using an AI trained specifically for the medical field. It is done only with consent. It is not generative. Personally I prefer having my practitioner give me their full attention rather then doing data entry.

Comment Re: Truth to Power? (Score 3, Insightful) 56

Calling them collectibles is a smoke screen to make you think that they are meant for the same people who buy typical commemorative dross. The new Trump coins are strictly a vehicle for legal anonymous bribery/blackmail by well healed individuals and countries. "Mr President, we hope that you can help us. We would prefer to hold on to the $5 million in meme coins we just purchased from you instead of dumping them and sinking their value."

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