I looked at the eVinci website and it's hilarious. It tries so hard to avoid mentioning the major downsides, and even has a mock-up of it being transported on a trailer. The actual text notes that it needs a shipping container, presumably a very special one that it able to withstand the most severe road accident imaginable without leaking nuclear fuel all over the road.

It produces 5MWe, and 15MWth. That means it's pumping out a LOT of heat. Despite them claiming that it can work in any environment without cooling water, the reality is you need one hell of a heatsink of that. They quote "as little as" 2 acres but that will be the best case scenario. Already the portability claims are starting to crumble.

The only thing they say about spent fuel is that you can return it to them, presumably at considerable cost. Still no plan to deal with that mess, and they only mention refuelling once. That's a red flag - if they even can refuel it, there will probably be a load of waste generated from the process. They sound highly disposable.

Safety wise it's got the usual flaws where damage to the cooling system is a nuclear emergency situation. They claim that the control drums are passively safe. They must be spring loaded or something to rotate into the shutdown position unless held in the on position, but rotation in a system that experiences large temperature swings tends to be less reliable than gravity assisted rod insertion. If a drum jams you are in a pretty serious situation.

I mean if these were real vulnerabilities sure but these are sudo.

Gamers Nexus reviews Chinese GPUs and CPUs sometimes, and they tend to be broadly in-line with the claims. The GPUs, for example, do perform as advertised, but have compatibility issues with many Western games as they are aimed at the Chinese market. For games that Chinese gamers like they are decent, and GN saw significant improvements in both the hardware and drivers from one generation to the next.

People always make the same mistake of doubting that Chinese anything can be any good, until it becomes undeniable like with EVs... Although there are some who are still trying to pretend that they aren't top notch. Instead we should take these as warnings that we need to step up our game and prepare for stiff competition.

Just how absolutely batshit insane Americans are.

We do not care that China has nukes. God will swat those nukes away for us like gnats. And the golden dome will protect us.

Americans can convince themselves of absolutely anything all the way up to when they die in a firestorm. We really just do not give a shit. And the rest of the world needs to come to terms with that reality real fucking fast or we are going to Fermi paradox this Popsicle stand.

I hear people say there's a lot of good things about Reagan but I would ask you to stop and really write those down.

I think you will find the only good things that came out of Reagan's term were when he lost enough seats in Congress during midterm elections that he had to compromise with the democrats. For example we got a few trillion dollars in infrastructure spending that drastically reduced the price of houses and juice to the economy. But that was entirely the Democrat's doing not Reagan.

The more you learn about the Republican party the more you learn that anything that is good that they do is against their will and a compromise they did with the Democrats.

Honestly we could have stopped it last November we just chose not to because we were busy freaking out about woke and trans

There's a lot of stupid motherfuckers in this world. I had a next door neighbor with five kids from three dads who was deeply patriotic, never went to church but considered herself deeply religious and was a hardcore Republican because they were just more patriotic she said. She was alive because a Democrat paid for her to have a heart operation and one of her kids was alive because they needed some sort of operation or surgery to live. Again paid for by the government.

I understand that level of stupidity but I don't believe for a second anyone here is that fucking stupid. If you're here I know damn well more than half of us voted for trump. I'm going to guess probably 70 to 80% because it's a bunch of bitter angry nerds and bitter angry nerds love Rich stupid men.

And for that 70% that voted Trump here because you're not stupid enough to think he was good for the economy there's only one reason why you voted for him and that's moral panics.

The trans thing is a combination of lizard brain freaking out about how unfair just looks to see that one bodybuilder chick that had recently transitioned and was allowed to compete.

The woke thing I used to wonder. I knew it was racism but I didn't quite understand it.

It's because people grow up with their granddad and Dad saying the n-word left and right and the word becomes normalized. But it's not normalized in society. So every single one of those numbskulls is slightly on edge that they're going to get a few drinks in them, drop in n bomb in public and it's going to get recorded.

We don't actually cancel the rich and powerful we just make them go quiet for a few years and give them a hundred million dollars for a Netflix special.

but if you're a regular human being and you say the n word in public you are fucked. We are going to take your job from you because we have to. You have just revealed that you have an underlining streak of racism and so nobody can trust you anymore to be in any sort of position of leadership without that streak of racism impacting your hiring or disciplinary decisions. You are a walking civil rights lawsuit waiting to happen.

The fact that racists will every chance they get exercise their racism doesn't help either.

But it does mean you have tens of millions of people who are casually racist, the kind who really do have black friends but who also have a kind of cognitive dissonance where they have an imaginary black person their dad or their granddad describe to them fixed into their brain, and those people are extremely vulnerable to political manipulation because they really do have something to fear.

The only real solution is that society at large needs to hammer that out of as many people as possible. But that takes generations and the ruling class know that racism is useful to them so they're going to prevent us from doing it. Everywhere you look we're bringing racism back and popular media is refusing to tackle the issue because they don't want to upset Trump because he will send the department of Justice and the FBI against them gestapo style

honestly I think we're all doomed. I mean you can't even discuss this kind of shit.

It's just hoping you die before the shit hits the fan. That's the new American dream. Dying before everything goes to hell and you are homeless.

I wonder how long till we start shipping the homeless to El Salvadorian prisons for slave labor. I guess we can also send a lot of them to the alligator Alcatraz they are building in Florida.

Which of course is going to create more homeless because they'll be even fewer jobs as we transition to a slave based economy.

You need data to train them and as the internet becomes filled with slop it's going to become increasingly hard to get that data. The only people who are going to be able to get it are large platform holders that can monitor what their users do and tell the difference between AI slop and real users because they can do heavy duty fingerprinting.

AI is a technology that is going to very quickly belong to a handful of super wealthy companies. The AI's dependency on training data guarantees market consolidation. Expect to see Facebook and Microsoft as the only viable companies. I would say Twitter and Reddit but I don't think Reddit is large enough and Twitter is collapsing for reasons we all know

It's yet another example of something that governments should be funding. The flu costs billions every year in lost productivity, and lost sales as people stay home. In the UK you can already get the flu shot for free, paid for out of taxation, because it's understood that the cost is less than the benefit to the economy and the tax take.

Indeed, Loonsong announced they have server CPUs that are comparable to Intel ones from a few years ago now. Chinese designed GPUs are catching up rapidly too.

It's probably already too late, the decision was made and the Chinese government isn't going to pull back from pushing for high end CPUs and chip fabrication now.

First off parents don't give vaccines to their kids and then their kids die horribly. I was unvaccinated for measles until very recently. My mother was an antivax lunatic. Colloidal silver and the whole nine yards.

But even ignoring the kids all those people become breeding grounds for new variants that go right past the vaccines you've got and kill you.

You can't have a peeing section in the pool.

That's okay King Trump will protect me from the viruses. And hurricanes. Both of which using nukes.

Silly plebeian, he's a member of the ruling class. You don't fire your ruling class except maybe out of a Canon.

Humanity is not ready to give up on having rulers. Hell we can't even recognize we have them in America

Is CEOs telling me that AI isn't going to take jobs while privately they're telling everyone and anyone that they're going to cut their workforces in half within the next 5 years.

Climate change is the same thing.

You have governments and CEOs that say everything is fine but when it comes to the actual money and the actual Financial reports you're going to find them singing a completely different tune.

I don't think there's anything that can stop the shit storm that's going to hit us all now. The time to stop it was last November and we didn't do that.

Bullshit. Rand Paul like the other three Republicans that voted against it were allowed to vote against it because they are otherwise in vulnerable districts and could face a primary Challenger or even a viable Democrat. Paul especially because Kentucky has a Democrat Governor.

The Republicans do this every time they do something really horrific to americans. The wider the margin they have in Congress the more horrific the thing we get.

They know that the bill is insanely unpopular. Every forum I go to is filled with people over 55 that are on disability talking about how they're going to die now. There's a bunch of people retired who are talking about how they're going to be homeless soon because they're social security payments are getting cut. There's a whole bunch of nastiness in that bill to take money away from vulnerable old people, many of whom voted for Trump.

So the Republicans will figure out who is the most vulnerable Congress member and tell them to vote against whatever horrible thing they're doing.

Rand Paul has been playing that fucking game for decades and you people have been falling for it. You never learn because you simply aren't capable of it. It's not really your fault it's not like you can Will yourself an extra 100 IQ points anymore than I can. If I could wake up tomorrow and be two or three times more intelligent so I could be above all this crap I would.

It's frustrating to be just smart enough to know how fucked I am and not smart enough to be able to do anything about it.