Daily Tech News 12 May 2025

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The killer app for generative AI is coding, say people who know nothing about coding. (Fast Company)

"Our new spreadsheet performs calculations faster than ever before, and only gets half of them wrong."
Fake NPM packages claiming to support the Cursor AI coding system infected 3200 users before they were taken down. (The Hacker News)

And it's going to get much, much worse.

Tech News

Meanwhile an NPM package that previously did something useful suddenly contained a RAT instead. (Bleeping Computer)

So much worse.
Sandisk has a new SSD controller designer to support 1PB drives. (Tom's Hardware)

128TB models are planned this year, with 256TB drives coming next year and 512GB in 2027. 1PB drives presumably will follow.

Do not send to know for whom the price tolls.
The boyfriend of jailed Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has launched a new company that... Sounds exactly like Theranos. (The Daily Beast)

This will end well, I'm sure.
A team of physicists at the University of Texas has solved a major problem in making nuclear fusion a viable energy source. (UTexas)

It is now only twenty years away.
You don't own what you just bought, Nintendo edition. (Beta News)

If you violate the terms of your license agreement - which Nintendo can change after the fact - the company can brick your Switch 2.
The Overwatch 2 team just unionised. (Kotaku) (archive site)

Aaaand it's dead.

Musical Interlude

Music is When the Winged Hussars Arrived by Sabaton, the story of the relief of the 1683 Ottoman siege of Vienna by the largest cavalry charge in history, led by John III Sobieski of Poland-Lithuania and the aforementioned Winged Hussars.

Video is from Babylon 5, featuring the lifting of the blockade of Centauri Prime by the new White Star fleet. Well, I think so; it's been a long time since I watched it so I may have the details a bit muddled.

Disclaimer: I'm flying a White Star now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:37 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 04:39 AM (ypFCm)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 12, 2025 04:39 AM (lkmGL)

3 Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:37 AM

Meetings get in the way again, Pixy?

G'morning, by the way.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 12, 2025 04:43 AM (O7YUW)

4 Musical Interlude: Oh that's an absolutely beautiful pairing. I love it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 12, 2025 04:44 AM (O7YUW)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 12, 2025 04:47 AM (sAmhv)

6 Meetings get in the way again, Pixy?

G'morning, by the way.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Yep.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 12, 2025 04:47 AM (BLOW1)

7 Holmes is even advising the start-up from the Texas prison where she is serving out an 11-year prison sentence for fraud, sources told NPR.

Who are the investors?

I watched a documentary on Holmes. She came across as the kind of gal who would sell her own mother a placebo to treat cancer.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 12, 2025 04:52 AM (UGyV5)

8 Devotional on "No regrets" . Luke 12:13-21:

https://tinyurl.com/4twrs4nr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2025 04:52 AM (Qx84Y)

9 'It is now only twenty years away.'
.................................................
You forgot to add 'experts say'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 12, 2025 04:53 AM (sAmhv)

10 Who are the investors?

You're the investor. That's how Big Science works. Tax dollars are poured down never-ending holes because we're only 20 years away from unicorn farts and then, if a miracle happens and they actually produce something, everyone involved - not you - gets rich.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 12, 2025 04:58 AM (ExV1e)

11 From the Betanews article: "According to its newly updated user agreement, Nintendo has granted itself the right to make your Switch 2 “permanently unusable” if you break certain rules. Yes, the company might literally brick your device."

Informed customers are going to have a "Hard no!" reaction to the device.

Nintendo will run afoul of laws in various regions that make it illegal to destroy the utility of a purchased device after the sale. I'm pretty sure the EU will be front of the line on this one.

Some clever evil soul will disassemble the necessary code in the Switch 2 to figure out how to destroy the devices, and will then unleash an attack over the net to do a mass bricking.

How Nintendo can not see these outcomes ahead of time... Are they crazy? Is that their problem?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 12, 2025 04:59 AM (O7YUW)

12 A team of physicists at the University of Texas has solved a major problem in making nuclear fusion a viable energy source. (UTexas)

It is now only twenty years away.

The great thing about this is that fusion and AI will now be perfected at the same time, so that AIs can run our reactors without human interference.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 12, 2025 05:05 AM (UGyV5)

13 Strange week this week, day shift today, then 2 nights. That should be it until next Sunday evening

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 05:06 AM (ypFCm)

14 Evening and morning, all! Yes, it's Monday, but remember:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Up earlier than I planned, but! It's only 65 F. outdoors, astonishing for this foul climate in mid-May, so I'm gonna enjoy it while I can.

Howzabout you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2025 05:09 AM (omVj0)

15 Skynet will become reality

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 05:10 AM (ypFCm)

16 Nice today but rain rest of week it looks.

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 05:11 AM (ypFCm)

17 G'morning, all!

Third day of rain, and no morning walk.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 05:12 AM (a1415)

18 Inside out. Rabbi's daughter writes on character development and faith: From Leviticus 13

https://tinyurl.com/peyybf9e

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2025 05:16 AM (SiulD)

19 So the Trump administration wants to end the Energy Star program?

Does this mean we will get dishwashers that actually wash dishes?

If so.....I'm for it!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 05:16 AM (a1415)

20 Nice today but rain rest of week it looks.
Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025

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Hot weather is coming for me by Thurs. or Fri. Which is why I need to seize this good weather for workout time now. Yesterday I ran/walked two miles on the nearby track, and plan to take it easier today, but I really need to grab the chance for good temps.

My new keyboard ought to arrive from Bezos's little hobby site today. "Ought to," I say, since it's coming by USPS. As for the books I sent to my old friend in FL, tracking says delivery (Amazon) was attempted yesterday at noon, but no go (?), and they will try again today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2025 05:17 AM (omVj0)

21
I watched a documentary on Holmes. She came across as the kind of gal who would sell her own mother a placebo to treat cancer.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 12, 2025

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I read "Elizabeth Holmes" and I picture the girl who used to be on Dawson's Creek and went on to marry Tom Cruise.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2025 05:18 AM (omVj0)

22 Heading out, last day fairly close to home as well.
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 05:19 AM (ypFCm)

23 The package that my new weather sensor shipped in arrived from Amazon yesterday.

Flat envelope, sealed by Amazon on only two of the four sides.

And empty as well.

Replacement will take two more days.

But the driver was careful enough to place the empty envelope under another package so it wouldn't blow away.
That was kind of them.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 05:23 AM (a1415)

24 "I read "Elizabeth Holmes" and I picture the girl who used to be on Dawson's Creek and went on to marry Tom Cruise."

Perhaps Katie Holmes?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 05:24 AM (a1415)

25 "I read "Elizabeth Holmes" and I picture the girl who used to be on Dawson's Creek and went on to marry Tom Cruise."
*
Perhaps Katie Holmes?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025

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That's who I mean. She gave her daughter with Cruise one of those "original" names -- Siri? Not very original if so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2025 05:32 AM (omVj0)

26 But the driver was careful enough to place the empty envelope under another package so it wouldn't blow away.
That was kind of them.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025

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Sorry to hear that, VIA.

I'd paid for gift bags for the two books, so maybe that's why they couldn't leave the shipment at my buddy's door. I hope so, anyway. If he no longer lives there, I also hope the current resident will call me (my number is on the gift cards) and ask if he should send them back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2025 05:35 AM (omVj0)

27 Three siblings ( teens or early twenties) sing a beautiful Christian song, "Is he worthy?":

https://tinyurl.com/nkhnkmdu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2025 05:35 AM (i+MMX)

28 As for my keyboard, I know it won't fit in my mailbox, so I plan to stick around the house today so the mailman can bring it to my door. I asked for AMZ packaging so it wouldn't scream "Valuable!" in its keyboard box.

Anyway! Time to feed the furry thugs.

My local Fox outlet had a story about a little black kitten who was rescued from a 30-foot storm drain. He's been adopted and named for the firefighter who led the team to rescue him. That is one *lucky* kitten, lemme tell ya.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2025 05:38 AM (omVj0)

29 Man attempts to wrangle kittens into cage:

https://tinyurl.com/urzujf3f

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2025 05:40 AM (i+MMX)

30 Good job by the fire fighters on rescuing the black kitten.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 05:41 AM (a1415)

31 "the story of the relief of the 1683 Ottoman siege of Vienna by the largest cavalry charge in history"

And in a few years, it will be viewed as Islamaphobic butchering of peaceful Muslims.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 12, 2025 05:43 AM (+4yJ5)

32 Meanwhile, the other day our two little kittens turned 11 months old.

Margo is slowly inching up to 7.8 pounds, and her Norwegian Forest Cat fur continues to get longer and fuller.

And her brother, Frog is now 12.8 pounds and still growing.

And Norwegians can take over two years to fully mature.

So even though we are sure he is a mix, he is gonna be a large kitty.

DNA results should be back by the end of next week, so we should have a better idea of who was sleeping with who in his pedigree.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 05:45 AM (a1415)

33 and 512GB in 2027

Which at that point will be a retro callback.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 12, 2025 05:47 AM (O7YUW)

34 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 12, 2025 05:48 AM (hoCmQ)

35 @29/FenelonSpoke: A perfect example of attempting to "herd cats"!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 12, 2025 05:49 AM (O7YUW)

36 Florida mascot helps save kid; Kid returns the favor:

https://tinyurl.com/yc8unphe

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2025 05:55 AM (i+MMX)

37 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 12, 2025 05:49 AM (O7YUW)

I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2025 05:56 AM (i+MMX)

38 >>> You don't own what you just bought, Nintendo edition. (Beta News)

If you violate the terms of your license agreement - which Nintendo can change after the fact - the company can brick your Switch 2.
===

I assume -
Agreement Item No. 01 is you must allow Switch 2 dial home for new instructions (daily?) - internet connection

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 12, 2025 05:57 AM (/lPRQ)

39 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 05:45 AM (a1415)

Congratulations on your furry friends!

"Who was sleeping with whom"

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2025 05:57 AM (i+MMX)

40 So the Trump administration wants to end the Energy Star program?

Does this mean we will get dishwashers that actually wash dishes?
If so.....I'm for it!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
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As easy to implement as dusting off those old plans for solid state washers, dryers, dishwashers... But they won't.
Got to have iOT whatever.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 12, 2025 06:02 AM (/lPRQ)

41 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: My other car is a Martian war machine.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 12, 2025 06:04 AM (6YdsJ)

42 ""Who was sleeping with whom"

LOL."

Couple of dynamics going on with the litter.

Bandit, the mother is a short hair tuxedo.

There is a photo of her on the front porch right after the night of mad passionate dating took place. And with her is a beautiful male Norwegian Forest Cat, and a traditional male domestic short hair. Both holding flowers and chocolates (NOT!).

One oddity of cats is the ability of the female to be impregnated by more than one male during a dating session.

So out of the four kittens, Frog is a tuxedo, massive and bushy tailed with long body hair.

Margo is blossoming into a full Norwegian by appearance.

Her sister, Marilyn has tha exact same markings, but the hair length is much shorter.

And the other brother, Bennie is short haired, black and sleek, with no sign of a tendency for long hair.

So a short hair/short hair mating will get short haired kittens.

And short hair/long hair mating will get short hair kittens as the long hair trait is recessive.

BUT...if the short hair father or mother is the result of a prior short hair/long hair mating of that cat's parents, then the long hair trait will emerge in the kittens.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 06:09 AM (a1415)

43 What is the usefulness of a Chromebook? I gather you can read email, surf the web, and work on Google docs. Can you do anything else with them, or are they basically a phone with a better keyboard, bigger screen, and you can't make calls with it?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 12, 2025 06:11 AM (WPL6O)

44 "What is the usefulness of a Chromebook?"

Perfectly fine for reading AOSHQ...

And posting/watching cat videos.

What were the two real purposes of inventing the internet.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 06:13 AM (a1415)

45 Do not send to know for whom the price tolls.

I’m guessing $10,000 for the 128 TB SSD.
And $40,000 for the 512 TB version.

So about $80,000 for a 1 PB SSD doesn’t seem out of line.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 06:13 AM (6ydKt)

46 On the way back from Kyiv, journalists unexpectedly entered the leaders’ cabin. German advisor Merz hid a spoon used for cocaine, while French President Macron concealed a bag of it.

https://tinyurl.com/4h29d9du

Z sells the best dope.

Posted by: 13times at May 12, 2025 06:13 AM (jaEwf)

47 As someone who is using ai code generation to aid in building out an ERP, the code it produces works, it isn’t always what you exactly wanted, you have to work with the ai to get it there.

And the reason I’m building out an erp is because my company has wasted 8 years on flesh and blood dev teams and produced a half baked piece of shit.

I bet an ai team could have produced a half baked piece of shit in a fraction of that time and for far less.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 12, 2025 06:14 AM (XV/Pl)

48 What is the usefulness of a Chromebook? I gather you can read email, surf the web, and work on Google docs. Can you do anything else with them, or are they basically a phone with a better keyboard, bigger screen, and you can't make calls with it?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 12, 2025 06:11 AM (WPL6O)

They are mostly used as locked down versions issued to school kids, so I think that’s all that can be done with them.

I’m not even sure if you can run Android apps on Chrombooks.

But a lot of applications can be run through a browser these days so you can do whatever is possible that way.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 06:19 AM (6ydKt)

49 If one wishes for the finest of half baked pieces of sh*t, one really should use humans.

But if you want a half baked piece of sh*t at a lower price, AI is really the way to go.

But I would think that a human/AI collaborative could get you the best of both worlds.

Really crappy...yet affordable.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 06:19 AM (a1415)

50 @43

>> What is the usefulness of a Chromebook?

The only usefulness of a Chromebook is provide a stripped down, parental secursble laptop for children.

Or if you literally only surf the web and do nothing else.

But yes it’s essentially a tablet with a tactile keyboard.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 12, 2025 06:19 AM (XV/Pl)

51 Ready for another week of exciting commenting action.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I care at May 12, 2025 06:19 AM (AOsQT)

52 On the way back from Kyiv, journalists unexpectedly entered the leaders’ cabin. German advisor Merz hid a spoon used for cocaine, while French President Macron concealed a bag of it.
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Oooh, Uncomfortable Elevator Moment, as it were.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 12, 2025 06:27 AM (6YdsJ)

53 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 06:09 AM (a1415)

Sounds like a mating mystery, for sure.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2025 06:28 AM (42Vb+)

54 I saw Half-Baked Piece of Sh*t open for Peppermint Fudge at an undisclosed location in '67.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 12, 2025 06:30 AM (6YdsJ)

55 4:30 here in the Bitterroot of MT. Hubby needs to schedule his flights east to leave the afternoon prior to the day he needs to be somewhere. Up with him at 3:30 to make a 6:20 flight. Going to be a heavy coffee day.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 12, 2025 06:32 AM (2NHgQ)

56 Putting the "eww" back into EU.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2025 06:32 AM (yvnLa)

57 The acronym ERP makes me chuckle. Probably excessive fatigue is the reason. Better to laugh than to cry. Out for a walk and then to get some delicious maple bacon from Dunkin' Donuts. Spouse got a gift card from one of the parents of the kids on the bus.

Have a blessed day, everyone, and remember, you are a blessing to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2025 06:32 AM (Tt+PH)

58 46 On the way back from Kyiv, journalists unexpectedly entered the leaders’ cabin. German advisor Merz hid a spoon used for cocaine, while French President Macron concealed a bag of it.

https://tinyurl.com/4h29d9du

Z sells the best dope.
Posted by: 13times
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youtu.be/Q_4bp8bBNVw

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 12, 2025 06:33 AM (sAmhv)

59 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 12, 2025 06:33 AM (dg+HA)

60 Who else has noticed that the older one gets, the smarter one's parents become?

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 12, 2025 06:35 AM (hKoQL)

61 POLITICOEurope
@POLITICOEurope
Emmanuel Macron’s office took the unusual step of denouncing unsubstantiated claims that the French president had a bag of cocaine with him while visiting Ukraine over the weekend.

lol. That's why he palmed and pocketed the bindle of Z's nose candy. I

Posted by: 13times at May 12, 2025 06:35 AM (jaEwf)

62 Does booger sugar count as an emolument?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2025 06:36 AM (yvnLa)

63 I’m ready to see the details of the trade deal with China that Bessent negotiated in Switzerland over the weekend.

It can’t be too complicated if they put this thing together over a few weeks (there have been sightings of Chinese negotiators going to the Treasury a week or so ago).

If it’s anything close to what Trump got of the Chinese in the deal during his first term, then there are going to be a lot of happy farmers especially for soybeans.

And Nvidia’s stock is probably going to skyrocket because I’m thinking the deal will allow the Chinese to buy their high-end, non-gimped, AI chips again. That’s been in the rumors as well.

We also know the tariffs will still be at a 10% floor, so that might be higher for China.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 06:36 AM (6ydKt)

64 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at May 12, 2025 06:40 AM (6YdsJ)

65 I saw the video of the Three EU Amigos on the train.

Definitely looked like they were hiding something.

The explanation is they were just clearing trash off of the table, but they all had looks on their faces like teenagers whose parents just walked in the room busting them for hits off of the bong.

Macron especially looked bad as he swiped the ‘trash” off the table and put it in his jacket pocket.

Strange for sure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 06:40 AM (6ydKt)

66
“What’s most exciting is that we’re solving something that’s been an open problem for almost 70 years,” said Josh Burby, assistant professor of physics at UT and first author of the paper. “It’s a paradigm shift in how we design these reactors.”

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The team can utilize synergy, and leverage key competencies in this area.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 12, 2025 06:40 AM (ES1Rb)

67 61 POLITICOEurope
@POLITICOEurope
Emmanuel Macron’s office took the unusual step of denouncing unsubstantiated claims that the French president had a bag of cocaine with him while visiting Ukraine over the weekend.

lol. That's why he palmed and pocketed the bindle of Z's nose candy. I
Posted by: 13times
....................................................
Oh, ok. That clears that up.

It was cocaine.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 12, 2025 06:40 AM (sAmhv)

68 That little arm grab Royale with Cheese gave Fred Mertz was a bit telling, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2025 06:42 AM (yvnLa)

69 The only thing that is important from a Chinese trade deal is, does it incentivize the movement of manufacturing and production back to the US, if it doesn’t, then it’s a failure.

We don’t want better terms with the Chinese, we want them dead, economically speaking of course.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 12, 2025 06:43 AM (XV/Pl)

70 Would have been cooler if they just said "want a rip" to the reporters instead.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2025 06:44 AM (yvnLa)

71 Thanks folks. I was curious about Chromebooks, especially since Microsoft seems bound and determined to force their terrible "Recall" "feature" into Windows, and I do not want that.

I was thinking take the main computer offline when that happens, and use a Chromebook for internet tasks. I guess we'll see.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 12, 2025 06:44 AM (WPL6O)

72
It is now only twenty years away.

Then "grassroots" environmental groups will sue to prevent its implementation. Because the idea isn't that we should have clean, abundant energy, it's that we should have no energy at all.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2025 06:45 AM (QnmlO)

73 On the way back from Kyiv, journalists unexpectedly entered the leaders’ cabin. German advisor Merz hid a spoon used for cocaine, while French President Macron concealed a bag of it.

Kier Starmer was there as well. I bet cocaine is illegal in all three of their countries.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 12, 2025 06:45 AM (ExV1e)

74 “What’s most exciting is that we’re solving something that’s been an open problem for almost 70 years,” said Josh Burby, assistant professor of physics at UT and first author of the paper. “It’s a paradigm shift in how we design these reactors.”

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The team can utilize synergy, and leverage key competencies in this area.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 12, 2025 06:40 AM (ES1Rb)

Most exiting of all is I now have a shot at a full professorship if this paper sticks the landing.

Posted by: Josh Barnaby at May 12, 2025 06:47 AM (Aqu9a)

75 Because the idea isn't that we should have clean, abundant energy, it's that we should have no energy at all.

Of course, Our Moral Betters™ will be allowed clean and abundant energy because they Care So Hard for us.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 12, 2025 06:48 AM (+4yJ5)

76 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 12, 2025 06:49 AM (u82oZ)

77 I was thinking take the main computer offline when that happens, and use a Chromebook for internet tasks. I guess we'll see.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 12, 2025 06:44 AM (WPL6O)

Or... stay on Windows 10 and go back to having a virus scanner which isn't Defender. Which is my plan. I guess I'll go Linux once I absolutely have to get a new computer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 12, 2025 06:49 AM (ExV1e)

78 What were those 3 sad sacks doing in Kiev? Negotiating peace or planning where their country's troops will be sent to be pulverized by Russia.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 12, 2025 06:49 AM (2NHgQ)

79 Chromebook requires a valid gmail account and phone number to use Chromebook. "Your" Chromebook is just a rental.

Posted by: 13times at May 12, 2025 06:50 AM (jaEwf)

80
“What’s most exciting is that we’re solving something that’s been an open problem for almost 70 years,” said Josh Burby, assistant professor of physics at UT and first author of the paper. “It’s a paradigm shift in how we design these reactors.”

I was involved, very peripherally, in a lawsuit where a former employee sued the company because his name wasn't first on a patent. Claimed it was defamatory. Brilliant guy, but crazy as a loon.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2025 06:50 AM (QnmlO)

81 What were those 3 sad sacks doing in Kiev? Negotiating peace or planning where their country's troops will be sent to be pulverized by Russia.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 12, 2025 06:49 AM (2NHgQ)

At a guess, trying to get Zelensky to refuse to deal or, at least, throw more roadblocks in the path to a deal. Same as they've been doing since 2022.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 12, 2025 06:52 AM (ExV1e)

82 The cocaine on the train
comes mainly from Ukraine.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 12, 2025 06:52 AM (Aqu9a)

83
The boyfriend of jailed Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has launched a new company that... Sounds exactly like Theranos. (The Daily Beast)

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A crucial feature of Theranos 1.0 was the ability of E. Holmes to sexually entrance a gaggle of prominent and famous older males, whose association with the brand lent credibility to her phony baloney company, which attracted and calmed investors. Until, the whole thing imploded like an incompetently designed carbon fiber submarine.

How can the boyfriend recreate that?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 12, 2025 06:54 AM (ES1Rb)

84 32 So even though we are sure he is a mix, he is gonna be a large kitty.

DNA results should be back by the end of next week, so we should have a better idea of who was sleeping with who in his pedigree.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 05:45 AM (a1415)

Love is love.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2025 06:55 AM (CQE5S)

85
How can the boyfriend recreate that?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 12, 2025 06:54 AM (ES1Rb)

- Let hair grow and dye it blond
- Black turtleneck
- Vocal fry

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2025 06:55 AM (QnmlO)

86 Semi-Literate Thug

Uh, because the Left is fundamentally stupid? They can be grafted again because they can not analyze.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 12, 2025 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

87 I bet cocaine is illegal in all three of their countries.
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Illegal for the serfs. For the Ruling Class, well......it's nuanced.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 12, 2025 06:56 AM (sAmhv)

88 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Got the death certificate in the mail. Already used it to transfer money from one account to mine, and to close that account.

Next stop. OPM.

Hope you and yours are doing well. Isn't your son due for more sea duty?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 12, 2025 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

89
A crucial feature of Theranos 1.0 was the ability of E. Holmes to sexually entrance a gaggle of prominent and famous older males, whose association with the brand lent credibility to her phony baloney company

The board of directors featured people like Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn, William Perry, James Mattis and George Shultz. Proving that the difference between a courtesan and a whore is the elegance of the room where the bed is located.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 12, 2025 06:59 AM (QnmlO)

90 There was a time * when revelation of his drug use would have ended a politician's career.

(* Prob. when Eisenhower was president --)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2025 07:00 AM (omVj0)

91 Time for work preps. Have a great day, everyone.

May there be a Spring in your step.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 12, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

92
How can the boyfriend recreate that?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 12, 2025 06:54 AM (ES1Rb)

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I mean, I don't doubt he can implode a company. Even I could do that, Just, how is he going to build up the necessary financial hydraulic pressure that will cause it?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 12, 2025 07:00 AM (ES1Rb)

93 @ 43, a chromebook, properly rooted, & chrome replaced by Linux Mint, makes a nice little laptop-py thing

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 12, 2025 07:01 AM (/Ghsb)

94 The hamassholes are releasing Edan Alexander as a "good faith" gesture in the hopes that PDT will give them concessions in return.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 12, 2025 07:02 AM (NVNRw)

95 The closeup of the baggy clearly shows the contents to be stevia, a non-caine beverage sweetener.

Posted by: 13times at May 12, 2025 07:03 AM (jaEwf)

96 LOL! they SO DID hide the cokespoon and the bag! WHOA!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 12, 2025 07:03 AM (/Ghsb)

97 So even though we are sure he is a mix, he is gonna be a large kitty.

DNA results should be back by the end of next week, so we should have a better idea of who was sleeping with who in his pedigree.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025

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His Lordship Arizona, the big red tabby, had a lot of Maine Coon traits. But he was an SPCA special, said to have been found as a stray somewhere in town. The unlikelihood that a Maine Coon cat might have been prowling for females, or a girl cat looking for some fun, in 1983 -- when there was only one MC breeder here, and that way over on the north shore of the lake -- pretty much rules out him being even a part-MC.

On the other hand, we keep seeing long-furred ferals running around here . . . and my big black Wolf, before I took him in and altered him, used to roam here when his so-called people let him out. We wonder to this day how much of his DNA he spread around.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2025 07:05 AM (omVj0)

98 The only thing that is important from a Chinese trade deal is, does it incentivize the movement of manufacturing and production back to the US, if it doesn’t, then it’s a failure.

We don’t want better terms with the Chinese, we want them dead, economically speaking of course.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 12, 2025 06:43 AM (XV/Pl)

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Yes, but I’m not sure if the big corps, like Amazon or Walmart, agree.

They’ve got a lot of leverage, and I’m sure they’re telling Trump’s people about the horror stories to come if they can’t get cheap products from China, ASAP.

I think if the tariffs were 25% to 35% on most stuff coming in from China that would level things out.

The problem with a lot of these cheap manufactured goods is they can be made just as easily and cheaper in India, Vietnam, Malaysia, or Thailand. So a lot of companies will just move there.

I don’t mind the cheap plastic trinkets and gadgets being made outside the U.S., but higher end stuff; computer chips, smartphones, laptops, vehicles & EVs, appliances, tools, etc. I wish could still mostly be made here.

To get that totally done means ending “Assembled in Mexico” which is another problem we’ll have to face.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 07:05 AM (6ydKt)

99 Salty,

He should begin to look for orders in September.

So let us see what happens.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 12, 2025 07:08 AM (a1415)

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95 The closeup of the baggy clearly shows the contents to be stevia, a non-caine beverage sweetener.
Posted by: 13times at May 12, 2025 07:03 AM

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I don't see no beverage.

I do however, see three noses attached to inexplicably self-confident and unashamed spindly European leaders, though.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 12, 2025 07:09 AM (ES1Rb)

101 The closeup of the baggy clearly shows the contents to be stevia, a non-caine beverage sweetener.
Posted by: 13times at May 12, 2025 07:03 AM (jaEwf)

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I haven’t seen a closeup yet.
It makes sense, as I assume there was coffee around, but then why hide the Stevia in your jacket pocket instead of throwing it in the trashcan?

Maybe it’s a French thing to be so embarrassed by trash lying on the table?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 07:14 AM (6ydKt)

102 JJ is all nood and stuffs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2025 07:17 AM (6ydKt)

103 Like a lot of issues, the Clintons are the demarcation. Whether someone had used The Marijuana as a youth was a legitimate career ender. Naturally this was previously used as a cudgel or applied selectively. On the other hand, it became a non-issue over time.

Americans eventually became aware of the game being played. “It’s OK when we do it, though not when they do it” just causes everyone to tune out. We saw this when the usual suspects became absolutely incensed that “Evangelicals” we Voting For Trump. Not Acceptable, we were told.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 12, 2025 07:17 AM (bocsn)

104
A frog, a limey, and a kraut walk into a failed civilization with a baggie of coke...

Stop me if you've heard this one

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 12, 2025 07:19 AM (ES1Rb)

105 I posted the link to the xtwitter coke video. The xtwitter thread shows images of a coke tool kit and a closeup of the coke baggy etc.

On that same thread a commenter linked an old 80's video of Macron dancing in a disco with a bunch of euromen. Very Polk-Castro Street. I've no idea if it's legit. On second thought it's legit.

Posted by: 13times at May 12, 2025 07:27 AM (jaEwf)

106 It's just another Merlot Monday.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at May 12, 2025 07:27 AM (dg+HA)

107 "Tribalism was a premodern obstacle to civilization. It remains so in many parts of the Middle East, where it is routine to hire, promote, retain, and reward on the basis of kinship and bloodlines."

That was the first thing the Army brass told me when I arrived in Iraq to "nation build". We were to give out billions of dollars in equipment, medical supplies and weapons, We were not to inventory it or interfere with what the Iraqi Army did with it.

They called it "culturally obligated nepotism". We called it: THE BIG CON

Posted by: I M Simpleton at May 12, 2025 07:57 AM (KPAbF)

108 If your social credit score falls too low, we'll brick all your digital devices, which now include your car, home appliances, and PC/phone/tablet/TV.

Posted by: Rab at May 12, 2025 08:21 AM (adW4t)

109 Like I've commented before - I use Copilot to code Databricks Python code. Singular functions that can easily be unit tested. It's been a game changer for me and my development time. No longer do I need to sift through voluminous API/SDK documentation that is seemingly always out of date.

Posted by: Defenestratus at May 12, 2025 08:35 AM (WYStd)

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