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Submission + - China builds Thorium reactor based on abandoned US design (interestingengineering.com)

xanthos writes: China has built an experimental 2 MW working thorium reactor in the Gobi desert using declassified US documents from the early 60's.

Thorium Salt reactors are safer (think lava vs explosive steam), less radioactive, and the scientists involved were able to refuel the reactor without having to shut it down. A 10 MW unit is expected to be online by 2030.

Comment Just transcribing the visit (Score 1) 18

Looks like many of the commenters couldn't be bothered to read the whole summary. This is just voice to text transcription using an AI trained specifically for the medical field. It is done only with consent. It is not generative. Personally I prefer having my practitioner give me their full attention rather then doing data entry.

Comment Re: Truth to Power? (Score 3, Insightful) 56

Calling them collectibles is a smoke screen to make you think that they are meant for the same people who buy typical commemorative dross. The new Trump coins are strictly a vehicle for legal anonymous bribery/blackmail by well healed individuals and countries. "Mr President, we hope that you can help us. We would prefer to hold on to the $5 million in meme coins we just purchased from you instead of dumping them and sinking their value."

Comment Be careful what you wish for (Score 3, Interesting) 30

The current push to eliminate federal control in favor of state control will force large national companies to meet 50 different sets of regulations. Currently the insurance industry works this way and that is why you see the "not available in all states" disclaimer in their ads. Expect deregulation to raise the cost of doing business in general and make some products less universally available as states step in with their own rules.

Comment Distrowatch - my goto VM repo (Score 2) 83

Stating the obvious that Distowatch is a wonderful resource when you have the itch to tryout a different OS. Dowloading a VM or iso image and firing it up in Virtualbox is pretty brain dead simple and a lot of fun. Makes it easy to look at what some of the alternatives are out there without having to abandon what you are familiar with. Especially if the alternative is kinda out there (NixOS anyone?)

Comment Temporary fad (Score 1) 117

Somebody ran the numbers and figured out they could save a bunch of money by reducing the size of the older, higher income, middle manager fiefdoms created by a predecessor. Eventually younger, lesser paid staff will be brought in to fill the void as senior management rebuilds said fiefdoms to emphasize how important their piece of the corporate pie is.

Comment CICS for the win (Score 3, Informative) 64

Comment Well, is it secure? (Score 2) 67

The more you use code written by someone/something else the more you will be dependent upon your vulnerability assessment tools to sniff out the problems. Which begs the question, if someone is deferring to AI to write their code, how likely is it that they will be bothering to extensively test the code?

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