Nah.

True long term storage must include directions to start from scratch. Including a language course, because in 5000 years it's unlikely anyone will be speaking the language you're using today.

You can assume an intelligent person who would want to access the data if they knew what it was, because without that assumption there's no point, but you have to be ready to teach that person how to read the library of books required to reconstruct the devices for processing the data you stored.

So many other things external to the durability of the media have to go right for that data to read or want to be read that far in the future. It's difficult to tell whether technological society will have collapsed or just evolved to a point where all this is meaningless. In either case it may not be very useful. With a collapse, you have to bounce back to a recovery by that point. There is a minute chance that someone could discover the media an archeological style dig AND be able to read it with whatever technology is on hand. I think we're either going to go a direction where current computing technology is unrecognizably primitive, or we'll be gone by then. Not sure there is a middle ground.

>That was that there can't be a mathematical proof that "... you're never going to get more out than you put it [sic]."

I am obviously talking about a complete controlled power generation system, not just a calculation about the point of ignition. Over-unity has been technically achieved, I'm saying it seems likely that it will never be practically achieved.

Neither the Sun, a fusion bomb, or even any 'over unity' technically achieved in the lab counts for the purpose of proving you can build a machine you can turn on and then maintain with its own power while giving you an outlet to plug your appliances into.

I'd love to be incorrect about this. I suspect I won't be.

I am cautiously (and sadly) confident that before I die, some physicist is going to create a brilliant mathematical model showing that artificial fusion can't be practical for power generation, the model showing exactly why you're never going to get more out than you put it.

And a lot of fusion researcher are going to be very, very sad when it happens.

Ask me how often I, as a professional coder, solve something I've never solved before. The answer is almost never. And when I do I ask Claude/Gemini to get me started.

I've been playing with Lovable / Bolt a lot lately. The designs they make are... nice. Nicer than what I would have made (I'm not a designer) but they always follow the same template. For a basic website there's no way I wouldn't start with AI and I expect it to just get better and better. It won't replace coders overnight but I will be surprised if humans are writing any code at all in 10 years.

Because of this advance, over-unity fusion will now be forever 5 years into the future instead of 50.

Getting into business with Microsoft isn't quite as bad as doing so with Apple, but it's not unusual for your businesses working with Microsoft to find Microsoft cloning features and then dumping the company they cloned them from. Few can afford to take on Microsoft's lawyers, fewer can afford a chance to do so and be victorious.

Cut off service, sure... if there's an ongoing subscription fee. Brick a physical device I BOUGHT, never. Cut off service that was promised when I BOUGHT the device... your company better have gone out of business.

Severance of service should come with a legal requirement to provide an offline option. You kill your server, you should have to give me the ability to run my own server and connect my device to it.

Companies literally should not have a legal option to do this kind of thing to people.

Fox isn't saying much about the legals who are being scooped up and denied due process, so I'm not surprised you're unaware. And you probably wouldn't care anyway because typically people like you use 'illegal' as a euphemism anyway.

 

Try getting your news from somewhere other than Fox or Joe Rogan.

Many businesses - including Amazon, Walmart, and pretty much any big-box retail website - have a huge hunk of their 'product line' that is just an obscured link to a Chinese supplier with a huge markup.

The biggest tell is when you try to order it, and it's online only and it has a lead time of several weeks.

Just go to Aliexpress and order it directly. With a little bit of patience you get the same product for much less. Yeah, you're paying some Chinese vendor. The difference is you're not paying an American billionaire to do nothing other than take a cut.

That one actually exceeds stupid... it's very disappointing to see, but that remains an internal American matter. Besides, Trump needs to make more room in the press pool for the right-wing shills.

Unfortunately today is the day somebody has to tell you you're being an idiot. You've missed the point entirely, had an emotional reaction, and posted a really, really dumb response.

"Tribal idea of progress" is just a meaningless retort - though I'm sure you thought it was clever, insightful, and stinging - to the idea of securing critical resources. Making sure I have fresh water doesn't mean I can't cooperate with my neighbour even if they don't look like me or speak the same language.

Similarly, the idea that I want my country to have enough food and water, etc. to sustain its citizens if things go to shit doesn't mean I'm a mouth-breathing American Christo-fascist. It means I'm worried about the American Christo-fascists destroying my country as Trump has repeatedly stated they're going to.