Three Mile Island owner seeks $1.6 billion federal loan to restart nuclear plant for Microsoft AI facility
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    ozymandias117
    2w ago 100%

    Microsoft has agreed to purchase all of the power from the reactor over the next 20 year

    https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/20/microsoft-taps-three-mile-island-nuclear-plant-to-power-ai/?guccounter=1

    The original reporting sounded decent - Microsoft was spinning up a decommissioned reactor, everyone wins

    This new reporting of they can't afford it makes it seem like a bad idea in its entirety

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  • [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax?
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    ozymandias117
    4w ago 100%

    I agree it's dumb, but I'm also trying to understand how politicians think changing the tax rate for healthier or less healthy foods can possibly affect behavior in the USA when it's set up this way in stores

    There's some evidence it somehow works https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/research-highlights/do-soda-taxes-work

    But I've never known what I'll be taxed on a specific item

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  • [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax?
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    ozymandias117
    4w ago 100%

    My belief that it's intended to incentivize behavior is from talks about things like the "soda tax," where some goods are taxed at a different rate to try to reduce consumption

    I don't understand how they can be effective when you don't see the price on the sticker, though

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  • I was looking at a grocery receipt, and there are three different tax rates depending on the items. The receipt doesn't even specify which items are taxed at which rate - just the total at each percentage. I understand the goal of lower or higher taxes on groceries is to incentivize purchasing healthier options over more processed foods, but does it really affect purchasing decisions when the final price of the items is opaque to the consumer?

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    Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps
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    1mo ago 100%

    I mean, it's internally consistent with the inbetween too, for the first three:

    They went Xbox, did a 360 to face the same direction, and re-released the Xbox 1

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    ZDNET: 20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the kernel - really
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    ozymandias117
    1mo ago 100%

    If your speedometer/tachometer is a screen instead of dials, it's extremely likely it's running Linux, too

    So still somewhat useful in the auto space

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    Bricked iPhone 16 Can Restore Firmware Wirelessly by Using a Nearby iPhone
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    1mo ago 100%

    All the "portless iPhone" rumors have seemed unlikely because of DFU mode.

    If they can now enter DFU wirelessly from the initial bootloader in silicon, they might actually be close to a portless iPhone

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  • Texas SCOPE act takes effect Sunday. How does Lemmy comply?
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    2mo ago 66%

    And like the top level comment stated, it's on Brazil to block Twitter in their corner of the internet. That's why their 20,000 ISPs are scrambling to block it - not Twitter

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  • Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG?
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    2mo ago 100%

    I was all in on GOG 10-12 years ago when they said they were working on Linux support "soon"

    After so many years of promises and no action, while Valve pays developers to improve Linux gaming, I'd rather buy from Steam

    Prices tend to be similar between the platforms here, though

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    Apple Event Announced for September 9: 'It's Glowtime'
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    ozymandias117
    2mo ago 83%

    I... I know they made colorful iMacs... But... What was the marketing idea behind this ad?

    What did they mean by "No artificial colors" for a computer...?

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  • CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage
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    ozymandias117
    2mo ago 100%

    We're still using them on machines where performance doesn't matter

    On build machines, they're on a special VLAN and don't have endpoint protection, but they only download from a protected mirror

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  • CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage
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    ozymandias117
    2mo ago 100%

    Their ftrace hooks caused all disk usage to be serialized, making your multi-core processor single-core when doing anything I/O bound

    We saw between 500% - 800% increases in build times with their software installed

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  • Regarding this picture, where do you think quantum computers lie and why?
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    2mo ago 100%

    Somewhere around 0,0 or 1,1

    There are amazing possibilities in the theoretical space, but there hasn't been enough of a breakthrough on how to practically make stable qubits on a scale to create widespread hype

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  • Why is GrapheneOS against GNU?
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    2mo ago 100%

    Both GNU and GrapheneOS have staunch requirements and will accept no compromises.

    This is a situation where their requirements don't align, so they'll never reach an agreement.

    GrapheneOS, for example, is also strictly against making the Fairphone line of phones a little more secure because it doesn't meet all of their security requirements

    In this case GNU won't certify GrapheneOS as fully open because it includes binaries that aren't open

    The FSF is more along your line of improving the situation where they can

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  • I’m considering trying out an immutable distro after using Tumbleweed for the last 6 years. The two major options for me seem to be Fedora Kinoite or uBlue Aurora-dx My understanding is that universal-blue is a downstream of Fedora Atomic So, the points in favor of Kinoite is sticking closer to upstream, however it seems like I would need to layer quite a few packages. My understanding is that this is discouraged in an rpm-ostree setup, particularly due to update time and possible mismatches with RPMFusion uBlue Aurora-dx seems to include a lot of the additional support I’d need - ROCm, distrobox, virt-manager, libratbag, media codecs, etc. however I’m unclear how mature the project is and whether it will be updated in a timely manner long term I’m curious what the community thinks between the two as a viable option

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    I'm not sure if this is an iOS bug or an issue with wefwef, but any time I select a text entry, I don't get a keyboard on an iPhone 13 running iOS 16.5.1 and wefwef 0.10.4. Is this a known issue?

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-awxHBsPiMg

    I tend to lean towards melodic death metal and symphonic metal, so hopefully this fits!

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