Had better be sure that the contracts are as bulletproof as the domes over their reactors. The silicon valley, tech-bro mindset is absolutely 180 degrees from the way that nuclear needs to be done. Google has a reputation for ruthlessly abandoning projects, pretty much “whenever they feel like it”. If the AI bubble bursts and Google doesnt need the billion-trillion-gaajjillion-gigawats of power they were expecting, they will dump the agreement as fast as it takes to slam out a code update, if they can.

Those nuclear companies had better watch their asses. The tech companies do not give a rats ass about the wreckage they leave behind. That attitude is antithetical to nuclear stuff.

Sounds like Newton. Long tradition, I guess

"Okay, nuclear power. Yeah. Yeah, they did give us that. That's true. "

"And industrial-scale superconducting magnets!"

"Don't forget GPS satellite relativistic corrections!"

"And radioisotope therapy!"

"Electron beam therapy?"

"World Wide Web, wasn't that created by particle physicists?"

"Yeah, they did do that."

"Capacitative touchscreens too, you know."

"All right, all right, FAIR ENOUGH! But APART from computers, telecommunications, nuclear power, PET scans, MRIs, satellite communications, superconductors, radioisotope therapy, electron beam therapy, heat-shrink tubing, cargo and baggage screening, smoke detectors, muon tomography, capacitative touchscreens, and the World Wide Web, WHAT HAS PARTICLE PHYSICS EVER DONE FOR US?!"

"Synchrotron light sources for drug discovery?"

"Oh, drug discovery?! GROW UP!"

I had a very important word in there: "most". You may want to think about the implication of that word for a singular case. You clearly need to improve your reading comprehension skills.

The cost for all the negative side-effects is already larger than any potential benefits can ever be.

Yeah, what has a better understanding of particle physics ever done for US, huh??? ... ...

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Probably because people are stupid and inflexible. Well. Looks like Broadcom knows the idiots they are exploiting very well.

And yet, you could have, at really small costs, made sure all your infrastructure also runs on Proxmox. May even have saved you money in the process because things would have done cleaner and that always pays off. An ounce of preparation ...

Exactly. A small bit of foresight and preparation saves you a mountain of effort and cost later.

It's no surprise that most Slashdotters have lost their sense of wonder, as they've forgotten what it was like to be children.

Despite DST existing, I clearly remember waiting for the bus in the dark for part of the year.

DST doesn't do what it's supposed to do, and it kills people. It's weird to celebrate that.

To be fair, most people working as Windows sysadmins would not have that job if they were smart and capable.

Indeed. Obviously MS does not want that question asked because the answer to it is pretty obvious: Windows adds cost and problems.

Funny how that goes, isn't it? The thing is propaganda is a lie. It targets emotions (here the feeling of being unsafe) and tries to amplify them and then bind them to something the propaganda-maker sells. Works the same for tooth-paste, cameras or Fascism: The aim is to bypass the rational assessment of things. And, sadly, it works on a _lot_ of people because generally speaking people cannot fact-check for shit in the first place and this emotional approach bypasses what small skills they may have in that area nicely. It also means that anybody using this approach is not a good person because things built on lies never work out.

Nope. What a disingenuous manipulation attempt to make this an emotional question. I have no feelings towards LLMs, but I can recognize a bad tool when I see one. There are tons of those out there, but usually they do not get pushed this hard and usually there are not so many stupid people that get on board with the hype. Hence this thing is dangerous.

Blender is not a highly experimental tool with mostly unknown characteristics. That is where the "not very smart" part comes in.