FWIW, the US currently thinks it’s an IRBM, not an ICBM, basically for that reason. Why use an ICBM here? But Russia might have done it just because they can.

A fizzle yield would still destroy a few city blocks and spread radiation around. It turns an expensive, proper nuclear bomb into a large dirty bomb.

If it even is an ICBM. Ukraine says it’s an ICBM, and they’re 90% confident about that. The US thinks it’s an IRBM, which given the range involved, would make more sense. If it’s an ICBM, then Russia did it just out of spite.

“I’m not a snowflake, you’re the snowflake”

There’s also a little tidbit that I think gets overlooked: the Arrow Lake CPUs are on a better TSMC node than AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series. You wouldn’t know it from any of the charts.

Which puts into perspective any Intel fanbois saying this is their Zen 1 moment. They’re on a better node but still doing worse. There are no signs of life here, which was not the case for Zen 1.

Also, PC gamers are loud, but they make up a pretty small portion of the market. There was a time when Intel’s server division made more revenue than all of AMD. Even now, AMD as a whole is only a little above that. That’s not even considering the OEM market, which is far, far larger than PC gamers.

I got really annoyed with /r/buildapc. Everyone is a gamer and thinks they’re the center of the universe. They haven’t the faintest conception that someone would do a build for anything other than gaming and how that changes the choices.

Servers need very high uptime. Also, when something is documented to work a certain way, it had damn well better work as stated.

Intel had a long reputation of solid engineering. Even when they were losing at both performance and performance per watt, they could still fall back on being steady. The 13th/14th gen degradation problems have shot that argument to hell, and server customers are jumping ship.

I’d drop in an old Nvidia GPU for transcoding, anyway. There’s lots of old cards that support nvenc. Don’t neglect the Quadro cards, either. Lots of them are cheap on ebay and will transcode just fine without even needing their own cooling fan.

Dr. Oz might be the most competent pick by the new Administration yet. This tells you a lot about the competence of all the other picks.

There’s some context here. She’s blackmailing GOP members if they don’t fall in line behind Trump. That threat would be meaningless if it were untrue.

It makes a big difference to him, personally. He’s a walking ego, and the fact that the American people aren’t in a majority behind him will gnaw at him.

It means fuck all in any practical way. At best, the country isn’t quite as giving into fascism as we thought. That’s the best I got, and it ain’t much.

FDR was the 10th wealthiest President in history, and T. Roosevelt was 4th. They were the neo-liberals of their time, even if they did some things to improve the working class.

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Not if they call a voice vote. However, standard Roberts Rules says that anybody can object to the results of the voice vote and then it goes to actually recording things. Voice votes are meant to move things along when it’s obvious a vast majority are in favor, not hide who is trying to pull something.

It’s convenient now. The news media isn’t so much biased in terms of left vs right, but rather they’re biased in favor of an explosive narrative. Trump provides so many explosive narratives just by his mere existence.

So no, they’re not suddenly finding honesty. They’re starting to feast on the buffet they cooked for themselves.

MBAs were a mistake, says me, some guy on Lemmy.

When Reddit happens to pop up on Google search results for something, I sometimes check my old account inbox. There have been two separate accounts replying to a years old anti-pseudoscience post of mine saying that if I don’t believe the moon is plasma, then I won’t be right with Jesus. Yes, really. Only one of them knows how to properly capitalize sentences, so it’s definitely two separate people.

At least on Lemmy, blocking two instances cuts out most of the tankie crap and the experience becomes immediately better.

No, not the plastic sheeting in front of the Mona Lisa! It’ll take minutes for a janitor the come wipe that off.

Yes, that’s true. But their system is not our system. We have opportunities to exploit. History does not have to repeat itself.

There’s more money investors wanting invest in wind, solar, or hydroelectric projects, than there are projects to invest it. The limiting factor isn’t money.

Let’s say you have money to invest in the energy sector. You take a look at nuclear and find that while the regulatory environment is very high, it isn’t insurmountable. The Department of Energy has shown a willingness to sign off on new nuclear projects as long as you do your homework. It’s a lot, but it can be done.

Next, you look at the history of building projects. The baseline for time to build is 5 years, but everyone knows this is a lie. That thing isn’t getting done for at least 7 years, often more like 10. Its budget will expand by about the same proportion. You won’t see a dime of profit until it’s done. If it can’t raise the money from either yourself or other investors to cover the shortfall, then it’s useless and your entire investment will be wiped out.

The Westinghouse AP1000 design was hoped to get around some of the boutique engineering challenges of building nuclear in the past. It did not.

If you instead invest into solar or wind, you’ll find some regulatory hurdles. Mainly from the local NIMBYs. The hookup agreements with the utility companies take some doing, but it’s not outrageous. Looking at the construction side of things, these projects are pretty much turnkey. They don’t require any specialized engineering (not the way nuclear does). They tend to get done on time and within budget.

This, too has been studied. The average cost overrun of a solar megaproject is 1%. For wind, 13%, and it’s 20% for water. Want to know what it is for nuclear? It’s right near the top of the list at 120%. The only megaprojects on the list that do worse are Olympic Games and nuclear storage.

With numbers like that, it’s no wonder investors are dumping their money into solar and wind.

There are guard rails, but their nature is different.

They can control every single major position in the federal government. Doesn’t matter, because they’re all working at cross purposes. See, fascism gives the appearance of a united front because it rallies around a singular leader, but it’s not. Everyone below that leader is trying to stab each other in the back in order to be in the good graces of the leader.

That alone would tie them in knots of their own creation, but it’s possible to exploit it further. Publicize the consequences far and wide. Getting Trump to yell at his own staff isn’t difficult, and he’ll fire them and replace them with someone even dumber. With Congress being close to split, It’s even possible cabinet positions empty out with no replacements for the rest of the Administration.