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Comment just no (Score 1) 88

Retired now, but this simplicity sticks in my craw and deserves to be called-out .  Read the "anti-solutions" paper on Navier-Stokes . They have chosen a special case of a special case namely : d<rho> = 0 ( incomprehensible ) is NEVER perfectly  true ... and  over any range of shear-gradients the viscous force  is NEVER linear. ... usually wildly so. So they say a non-existant fluid disobeys Navier Stokes.  An "exact" mathematical result that assumes an  inexact parameter choice is no proof to me.  Reminds me of anti-DeSitter space calculations / predictions  pretending to be "physics" ; instead it was a fairy-tail.

Comment Re:Risk reward and perverse incentives (Score 1) 45

by noshellswill (#66366624) Attached to: Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation Energy
All you constraints you advise are reasonable. I have no problem with "socialization of risk" ... as there IS nothing else, but social wants/needs. i would of-course strongly limit :"privatization of benefits".  Wealthy workers can  with great effort reclaim enshitified land. Citizens of my home-town of Scranton Pa got screwed-over by the mining interests, who took their profits from raping the beautiful valley ...  ditched the miners ... and left town. Scranton never recovered, and I suspect the same will be true for those providing energy/land for the LLM-farms.

Comment Re:Efficent code (Score 1) 65

Home and hobby users already have such an "efficient" system. My Debian-13 / MATE / Librewolf system running on  10 Y/O XEON-1240 / GF 3050 and 24-Gig DDR3 barely uses 15% of RAM during active surfing. Eight-cores are mostly asleep. I'd guess many of us non-gamers  have skipped the "RAMpocalypse". Granted , I'm on a slow WiFi network.

Comment Re:Risk reward and perverse incentives (Score 1) 45

by noshellswill (#66366354) Attached to: Google Enters Massive 3.6-GW Power Deal With Constellation Energy
A well-spoken argument ...  and to be balanced against the human desire for warmth in  icy winter and coolness in  roasting summer. Those are health,  productivity & agency  issues, crucial to risk/reward judgement, and  even more basic than toxic radiation. Stated crudely ... live like a savage or < threat of > die by radiation poisoning ... or coal-smoke ... of frack-contaminated water ... or three weeks of no sun & no wind ... or a huge solar-flare that takes out all common energy-producing electronics.  Indeed: the only case worth considering is the "worst case" ... because that's the one that kills you.  Thus ...  those  few who live unaccustomed to physical risk are poor judges of energy sourcing options.

Comment POS (Score -1) 162

Altman really is a sociopathic piece of shite; toxic as lead-sweetened wine.  Probably thinks HE is in good company. As a deep red social conservative,  I can see  -- thru Altmans' et. al. behavior -- the triggers  for rational "progressive" social views  & actions.  Damnable person.

Comment Re:The difference between a laboratory and a facto (Score 0) 68

"ye olde genetic bottleneck means all humans are fairly inbred"

Yes, this is standard dogma. And yet ... look around you . How many base-pair changes are required to change an average-human into a raving "mongoloid" ? Is that number 10^3  or  10^6 or ... just ... 10 ?  One unfortunate change in amino-acid sequence can destroy  an enzyme function. I know ... "...compared to other species..." , but that is not the issue.

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