Yes and no. The news is that the real results measured right now are at the upper level of the estimates, which means that reality is worse than the science popularizations have suggested so far - and they were already called alarmist, when in fact, they were understating the problem.

This is not playing devil's advocate, this is whataboutism. Even more so, it proves the point of the security professionals. If we can't even make something designed not to have backdoors safe enough to prevent unauthorized access, how much more insecure is something which should be designed to have an obvious and an obscure access? Now we have to fight off even more attack vectors, and apparently, we aren't perfect in it.

Alcatraz was phased out because it was too expensive to operate. What would DOGE say?

And you have to keep test systems around based on the different chipsets. The list can be expanded: timing is different on different processor architectures. Memory management is different. Interrupt control is different. The number and the layout of differently privileged modes is different. That means that syscalls have to be implemented differently. And this does not in the slightest exhausts the list of 486 quirks and features (and that of every other chip architecture).

A lot. You have to run every test suite for 486. You have to keep a working 486 around for testing. You have bugs to iron out that only appear in 486. You have to run code that's only there because it in software emulates behavior other processors have in hardware. You have to make sure this does not have side effects which don't even appear in other architectures etc.pp..

Jimmy Carter left office in 1981. Who still uses him as an explanation is about 40 years late.

Main problem with nuclear power - independent of country - it is fricking expensive to build and not easy to operate. France is often cited as the example how you power a country with nuclear. But France's nuclear power plants, despite in operation since 60 years, never turned a profit. The taxpayer in France pays for the cheap electricity prices. (And compared to Austrian prices, where I live, France's electricity is not cheap either. We pay about the same, but Austria never had a single nuclear reactor running.) Hinkley Point C in Great Britain will never turn a profit either. Instead, the taxpayer will warrant the electricity price for Hinkley Point C, and it is more expensive than what I pay per kWh to my utility (Innsbrucker Kommunalbetriebe, if you want to look up energy prices. It's 12 ct/kWh).

And then there is the argument with base load - despite the very same argument being one of the reasons that energy in Germany is so expensive. Base load means, you can't switch it off when cheaper energy is available. In Germany, wind turbines are stopped, and cheap energy goes to waste, because expensive coal plants are not easily powered down. The same problem Germany had with nuclear by the way. Today, biogas provides the same amount of electric power in Germany as nuclear had when it was still running. Problem: most biogas plants in Germany are also base load, despite it being able to power easily switchable gas turbines. If Germany manages to get away from the base load idea and switches to a type of power generation that can be powered on and off within minutes, energy prices will drop.

That's good. It means that most appliance manufacturers were encouraged to get off their asses and design products that were at least somewhat more efficient.

systemd devs: "Hold my beer."

I am convinced a lot of self-proclaimed neurodivergent people are just too lazy to actually learn social skills and want an excuse not to do so.

You may not know it, but Yasuke (in the late 16th century) predates the Sakoku period (starting 1630) by a few decades.

Even as the sun slowly sets on this website, it's heartwarming to see that there's still a few grammar pedants posting their objections, just like in the good old days.

By your own definition, that makes Pluto at least #10.

What's your excuse for Ceres other than they didn't tell you that it was a planet in elementary school?

This is the 2020s.

Scientific facts are out; nostalgia is in.

We can expect an executive order regarding the status of Pluto in the upcoming weeks.

I guess that in this case, the lawyer's mistake was not doing his dragon logo with ASCII art using that same decrepit courier font.

Then you're leaving out deer and opossums.