Why would it be a separate bit? Most people I know just have a set of these

They make hex keys with ball ends to handle that

The one time where a red circle would actually have been useful…

Those two sentences just prove that the whole thing is made up. If he started coding in the 60s, he’d have to be over 80 now.

That probably factors into it too. The automakers have always preferred to have strong control over their suppliers, and doubly so after they played themselves with the chip makers during the pandemic. Battery plants take time to bring online, and unfortunately Trump’s bullshit kicked into high gear just as capacity was coming online, giving everyone cold feet.

Without going into too much detail and doxxing myself, this industry is my day job. The North American automakers are pretty agnostic when it comes to power train energy sources. The problem is that they are also aware of what sells. North America is still in love with trucks and SUVs, and without subsidies and incentives, the return on investment for converting those production lines simply wasn’t there. And they are not anywhere near ideological enough to persist with the conversation anyway.

The other problem is Trump himself. Actual investment by the automakers has fallen off a cliff ever since the tariffs started swinging back and forth. There’s nothing big business hates more than instability, so I’m guessing that the automakers are going to continue sitting on their hands, investing as little as possible until whatever administration comes next.

The small size isn’t specifically what is intended to make SMRs cheap; it’s the reproducibility. Not every location will be suitable for gigawatt scale reactors, but smaller reactors, made of components you can throw on a rail car, will bring cost down as production scales up. And there would likely be more reactors built, since there’s more flexibility in application.

I’d put a bit of an asterisk beside the carmarkers. In most cases, they are only pro gas due to demand and cost. For the most part, they are perfectly willing to switch if they know the sales will be there.

A government promising it’s worth something carries a hell of a lot more weight than some random tech-bro promising it.

Wrong definition there bud.

And here I was thinking they must be amphibians.

He must be getting sensitive about everyone saying Israel is in charge.

The GB version is more specific than the general term “data”. In this case, it specifically refers to 2 billion bytes (each byte being 8 bits, a “bit” being a 1 or a 0). But in the general sense, “data” can be a synonym for “information” which has many definitions, some of which are pure physics concepts.

It does technically hurt the quality, but 320 kbps mp3s are largely indistinguishable from lossless to most people.

On a side note, why mp3 instead of a lossless format?

Also, seems to be missing the rest of the toppings. No way there’s any lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, bacon, or any combination of the above, on there.

It’s not arbitrary at all. In fact it’s the entire point.

Current tech layoffs are mostly a result of over hiring during the pandemic. Blaming AI is just the sales pitch to investors try to prove that the AI spending was worth it.

I’m thinking you might have been wrong. Even without AI, I don’t foresee demand for compute going down. Even if everything went over to ARM, I think that would have just slowed the rate of new builds.

Canals were at least solving a problem that actually existed and needed solving at the time when they were started. AI data centres are being built in anticipation of future demand, for use cases that haven’t been developed yet.

I’m not even a diver and I’ve heard that cave diving is just about the most dangerous thing a diver can do. Hearing about the death of a cave diver, while tragic, is about as surprising as hearing about the death of people who fly around mountains in those wing suits.