I'm sure that serving you a lot of ads is the point of the excessive length of internet recipes, but there's another reason, too. A simple list of ingredients, or a list of instructions (like how to build Ikea furniture) cannot be copyrighted. I think many of these overly verbose recipe authors really do want to make it appear that their own takes on the recipes are distinct and innovative, and that helps them secure their own content from being scraped wholesale. But of course, AI just says, "fuck it, I can summarize," and it's pretty hard to prove it was your recipe it summarized..

Aye. Those sites are the very embodiment of the crap that inspired Pa to say, "SHUT UP AND TALK!"

I don't think anyone expected water exposed to the atmosphere in a waterfall like fashion to be re-added to the public water supply. I'm curious where you live that you haven't seen evaporative cooling in person. Maybe you live in Norway or Iceland. The water that doesn't evaporate is recycled, and when the resivor drops below level X, it adds more municipal water to the system. I hope this clears some things up for you about 100 year old cooling system design

That would be my question. Who is fronting for this guy when he's required to go into the office?

Water consumption doesn't matter much (or at all) near these places:
 
1. Colombia river basin
2. Mississippi River
3. The entire east coast from Virgina, south to Florida
 
There's no incentive to conserve water in these areas, access to fresh water is limitless. half to three quarters of data centers are in areas with no problems with water access; the hysterics around water use is being weaponized, rather than rationalized. If you have a data center in California or Arizona, water is more of an issue, but they often use more efficient cooling loops there.

It sounds like they're permanently destroying water or something. Many datacenters line the colombia river, which is both an excellent hydroelectric and limitless water supply, and then the other big cluster is in the SE near Virgina and into the Carolinas, which are frequently flooding,
 
764.6 billion liters of water is about the same water usage as NYC uses in 200 days
 
764.6 billion liters of water is about 8 days worth of water used by California agriculture

Cooperation would, indeed, be better. Unfortunately both sides want to ensure that only they win.

China is the enemy because Realpolitik asserts that there can be only one top country.

I don't know. Having people working there under assumed names sounds sort of like "Manhattan project" level security. I.e. it's a big secretive project with a lot of government backing". I'll grant it's a wildly overused metaphor, but that just means everyone will recognize it.

Sorry, but copying from what others are doing is very normal. Copyrights and patents were originally intended to be quite temporary in duration. And that's as it should be.

I'm all in favor of temporary copyrights and patents, say 5 years. Perhaps 10 if there are a LOT of up front development costs. Beyond that is an aberration, and one shouldn't expect others to abide by it. (And the US basically ignored UK patents and copyrights until quite recently.)

Even Sam Altman can't save openAI with his Jedi Hype Master Skills when they keep falling futher and further behind. Google and Anthropic are presenting serious challenges and while OpenAI is still in the top 10, the rest of the pack is quickly catching up, whatever secret sauce they had before, it has been discovered and they have yet to find something uniquely defining that nobody else has. Raise after raise eventually isn't going to make much of a media splash and they'll lose their influence there, too. December isn't over yet, maybe they still have a compelling product up their sleeve, but this latest media blitz is a lot more subdued than last year's Dec blitz.

This is a lab machine, and it's not clear that it's making large chips. I think your 5-10 year prediction of last year is probably right. There will be engineering challenges in converting a lab machine into a production machine.

Actually, my (uninformed) prediction last year, and this year, is that it will take about a decade for China to equal the production of TSMC assuming TSMC keeps improving. But that they'll have "good enough for 90% of the market" within a very few years (and perhaps already do).

It's not that simple. Every holder of power acts to restrain challengers. If you allow monopolies, then innovation in that area slows drastically. When you have diverse centers of development, then development tends to be faster...but more expensive.

So if you want the most profitable companies, then you allow monopolies. If you want the fastest development, then you break up monopolies, of prevent them from ever arising...but this will make the companies less profitable (on the average).

Historically democracies have been more willing to break up monopolies. Right now, though, the US doesn't seem to be willing to do so. So now rapid development depends on competition between either countries or blocks of countries.

I don't know what the History Channel said, but Germany was many years away from making the atomic bomb when the Nazi's went on the path of expelling the intellectuals. They had most of the theory, but so did everyone else. They had the people who could have helped convert the theory to practice, but they expelled them. But this was multiple years before theory was converted into practice (i.e. "The Italian navigator has landed in the new world. The natives are friendly.") At at THAT time, the US government didn't really believe in atomic power.

I specified "single threaded", which is true for most of the code I write, even that used by multi-threaded routines. (It means that a lot of the reference parameters need to be const, but that's minor.)

FWIW, I find even C++ to be annoyingly overprotective in the wrong places. It causes me to need to write multiple copies of the same routine that differ (nearly) only in the parameter specs. E.g. when the looser version would be safe anywhere, but can only be used by routines within the class.