Microsoft Goes Nuclear

[@techlinked]

hey guys its riley from the video i'm about to go NUCLEAR because the WAN Show was early today and i don't know what to do other than just say hey - get an exclusive deal on Private Internet Access VPN today at www.piavpn.com/TechLinked ! that's like my default thing i do when i'm borerd is say that

[@soundspark]

Why do you take such shady advertisers? And are you having bots upvote the pinned post?

[@THE-X-Force]

I hate these stupid insulting fake comments . "Riley".

[@mckeonjj]

The documentary, courts proved the safety regulators lied because they were owned and paid for by the corrupt nuclear plant, that was less the 24 hours from almost the entire east half of USA being gone. The entire town in the surrounding area died of cancer.

[@mckeonjj]

The documentary, courts proved the safety regulators lied because they were owned and paid for by the corrupt nuclear plant

[@mckeonjj]

The documentary, courts proved the safety regulators lied

[@QuickChange919]

"these big companies dont have that much of our data", Microsoft legit needing a whole nuclear power plant to deal with it all

[@pedrocrb]

Its probably 90% just to deal with node_modules

[@jimbernard3289]

loll

[@titheproven954]

All to power shitty "art" and generated fever dream responses to questions that used to be easily read in a handful of top search pages.

[@ronture8279]

As someone who just recently dealt with NodeJS in Visual Studip Code compilation, I know what this means. By the way, VSCode has a proprietary license. The open-source build has the MIT license. Build from scratch.

[@ccash3290]

If you think they have too much data wait until they start collecting "Microsoft Recall" data from smart glasses

[@markharding6342]

TBF, the three mile island incident wasn't actually that bad. The tiny amount of radiation that got released was effective harmless. The worst nuclear accident involving a nuclear reactor in the U.S. was the SM-1 disaster which killed the three plant operators.

[@prinzseptim33]

I didn't find any SM-1 disasters. Did you mean SL-1?

[@pranav1790]

Yeah the one where the dude go impaled to the ceiling with the control rods

[@nathanklassen698]

Somebody watched Kyle Hill. TechLinked seems unaware of their mistake.

[@MyBohemianDreams]

What do you expect when their source is wikipedia? You are correct, there was no meltdown, partial or otherwise.

[@gljames24]

​@@nathanklassen698 Or watched the Nickolas Means talk or plethora of other case studies.

[@MXCN_El1011]

AI actually increasing the funding for nuclear power would be the wildest comeback story

[@RawrxDev]

Except it's also increasing funding for fossil fuels as well..

[@brunoh.1312]

@@RawrxDev until microsoft starts a trend...

[@hououinkyouma1458]

@@RawrxDev Fossil fuels are inefficient and weak..so eventually it'll be nuclear and Renewables

[@legendaryzfps]

Nuclear is better than fossile but it still ain't good. Only renewables!

[@turtlefrog369]

you mean a skynet comeback story?

[@Operator588]

its worth noting that the safeties worked durring the three mile island iscident, and the material released is less then coal powerplants release.

[@pugz3230]

Some of them didn't work due to a series of human errors, but, even then, it was far better than any kind of coal plant and had no measurable effect on the surrounding population.

[@charmio]

Amazingly the operators switched off the safety systems that were keeping coolant water in the core and circulating. They were concerned about flooding the core which is something you only have to worry about in nuclear submarines but they didn't know that. Despite this MASSIVE error, there was no disaster, though the reactor was unable to be used again.

[@umFerno]

@@mckeonjjsource to prove it’s a lie?

[@mckeonjj]

If yt let me tell the Truth it would be posted already

[@mckeonjj]

Just watch the documentary, the safety regulators lied because they were owned and paid for by the corrupt nuclear plant, that was less the 24 hours from almost the entire East half of USA being gone. The entire town in the surrounding area died of cancer.

[@MrG0DW1N]

Well I have worked on nuclear power facility and being honest here, if someone is not doing some bullshit and following the safety protocols inside the control room, Nuclear power facility might be the safest and cleanest place on earth maybe apart from military bases.

[@notme8232]

A coal power plant literally produces more radioactive waste per kilowatt-hour than a nuclear plant does

[@Trad0r]

i don't think military bases are that clean... (source: some youtube videos i watched at 5 am)

[@Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters]

idk how safe they are, but microchip manufacturing plants are as clean as an operating room.

[@MrG0DW1N]

@@Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters that's true. I'm currently working in a semiconductor fab, on the rare occasion that I get to go inside the fab I'm always amazed how clean and pristine the place looks, also the air you breathe feels so clear and crisp like you would on a mountain. It's an amazing work place, although the safety is a bit dicey, some of the chemicals they use are so deadly that you wouldn't be alive by the time the concentration rises enough for your nose to be able to smell them. One of our safety trainers told us to just run out of the facility, no matter the cost of the equipment you are handling just drop it and run to the nearest exit, because even a seconds delay can be deadly. But tbh you can say that about nuclear power plants as well. All comes down to "follow the protocols and don't fool around"

[@niall21]

@@Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters Magnitudes cleaner, actually.

[@marenjones6665]

Three Mile Island was a PR disaster, not a nuclear disaster.

[@marenjones6665]

@@mckeonjj how do you figure?

[@ryanschmitt2]

​@@marenjones6665yeah I want to hear this one.

[@mckeonjj]

@marenjones6665 just watch the netflix documentary proving what the usa courts declared. The safety regulators lied because they were owned and paid for by the corrupt nuclear plant that was less the 24 hours from almost the entire East half of USA being gone.

[@mckeonjj]

@marenjones6665 just watch the netflix documentary proving what the usa courts declared. The safety regulators lied because they were owned and paid for by the corrupt nuclear plant that was less the 24 hours from almost the entire East half of USA being gone.

[@mckeonjj]

Just watch the netflx doc proving what the usa courts declared. The safety regulators lied because they were owned and paid for by the corrupt nuclear plant that was less the 24 hours from almost the entire East half of USA being gone.

[@skaze8653]

2 maybe 3 nuclear power disasters happen and everyone is scared of it It would be like if cavemen stopped using fire because grug burnt his hut down Uncle Oil had a hand in this

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

The worst thing the USSR has done that still affects us today. If that never happened I wonder how far ahead we would be today.

[@kuhluhOG]

I don't have something against nuclear but this power plant already had an accident (although contained) and normally the individual facilities of one are the same so, what's stopping it from happening again?

[@notme8232]

@@kuhluhOG Literally nothing happened, and the incident was entirely human error IIRC (much like Chornobyl btw, although that was made worse by an outdated, flawed design), so there's no reason not to turn on the perfectly fine plant that was still working 5 years ago.

[@Stackali]

@@kuhluhOG did you watch the video? they aren't using the one that had the partial meltdown in 1979. they are using the one that was decommissioned in 2019 due to economic reasons. pay attention.

[@CoolIcingcake3467]

@@kuhluhOG it doesn't sound as bad as it seems, nuclear power might be the most safest and cleanest energy contrast to coal, which is harmful to the environment. if only the people working on nuclear facility *Actually* followed the safety protocols, then incident like chernobyl and the ones you mentioned will never happen. i encourage you to watch Sabine Hossenfelder on matter like this, because she's a realist and are often accurate. youtube hate links, so i cannot provide links here.

[@Goni983]

As a local I can tell you Three mile island was one of the most protested shutdowns in my area. We had tons of environmentalists fighting it because it was super reliable and produced a lot of power compared to the multiple garbage spewing coal/gas plants that replaced it.

[@GSBarlev]

My local utility just got their nuclear facilities recertified through 2060 and are actively investing in deploying Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). I'm incredibly hyped, even if these new facilities don't come online in my lifetime.

[@maverickvgc4220]

Back when environmentalists actually cared about the environment

[@wyterabitt2149]

​@@maverickvgc4220They evolved and moved with new knowledge and understanding. We know nuclear is a dead end waste of resources at this point. For a measly 4% reduction in greenhouse emissions we would need to open nearly 40 full scale large reactors a year . . . every year for the next 26 years. If we used all of our resources at just that, we couldn't come close and will instead ignore the actual future which is not nuclear. All to get a minor impact on emissions that won't be enough to save the planet from irreversible damage. It's a mess of a power source on top. It's somewhat renewable, more than fossil fuel, but not remotely green. If the only choices were fossil fuels that are running out and destroying everything, or nuclear with the hope that we can safely contain ever increasing nuclear waste and build enough, then sure nuclear would be the only choice to make. That isn't the reality of the world though.

[@NATESOR]

I think "I promise I'm not having a stroke." Is the best declaration to make when talking about any naming changes microsoft does.

[@SansVarnic]

The Netflix documentary was done with a spin, the story was not fully told or correctly explained. Lastly 3mile Island never went into melt down it was misreported as such at the time by local media not understanding what was actually happening. Just FYI.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

Or like entire US government, so president had to go there himself to see wtf is going on.

[@4203105]

Source please for your assertion that there wasn't a meltdown.

[@GSBarlev]

​@@4203105Source: the East Coast of the mid-Atlantic is still habitable. Well, _arguably_ habitable.

[@SansVarnic]

@@4203105 the core never melted, it over heated damaging the core but didnt actually melt. And I already provided the source.

[@SansVarnic]

@@4203105 Did you not see the link I posted?

[@aaroncarney7733]

It would actually be even more way safer if they could build a current gen reactor plant...but the anti nuclear lobby prefers keeping nuclear merely the safest and greenest by a mild margin rather than an insanely large margin.

[@THE-X-Force]

" anti nuclear lobby " = fossil fuel industry

[@Mr.Bimgus]

The thing is it's WAY more expensive to build an entirely new plant from scratch then it is to retrofit an old one to make it work well enough. Sure, they could make a new one that is significantly better, but repairing this one will get the job done and be way cheaper.

[@THE-X-Force]

And my comment was deleted for mentioning the blank blank industry.

[@THE-X-Force]

Insert the word "fossil" wherever you like.

[@renderedpixels4300]

@@THE-X-Force Did it include a link? KZbin autodeletes links, somehow bots still make it through though lol

[@PropaneWP]

Wtf is a "safe nonflammable location", my bathtub?

[@rnts08]

Out of sight out of mind.. They'll end up getting salvaged in some 3rd world country anyway 😂

[@peterkazmir]

Middle of your back yard, away from trees.

[@Apocalymon]

Water can burn too, under the right circumstances

[@StarfywalkingTYPH]

The bag?

[@GSBarlev]

Presumably more details are in the article, but I'm guessing they mean a proper battery disposal station like the drop boxes at every supermarket around where I live.

[@redandpigradioshows]

Well this is one way to ramp up nuclear power (also while tmi was the worst accident in us history no one got hurt, so it's pretty safe)

[@KanawhaCountyWX]

3 Mile Island was actually only the worst accident at a civilian reactor. Worst reactor accident overall in the US is actually the SL1 incident from the 1950s, which killed three men.

[@Stackali]

@@KanawhaCountyWX oh no, not three whole people. what a disaster.

[@AdmiralTails]

@@Stackali It's almost like Nuclear isn't actually that dangerous and so "worst nuclear disaster" is generally something trivial when Ukraine/USSR and Japan aren't in the picture.

[@Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters]

@@KanawhaCountyWX Wonder how many have died (not counting other animal species, although we should) from accidents at Oil and/or Coal plants.

[@mckeonjj]

The documentary, courts proved the safety regulators lied because they were owned and paid for by the corrupt nuclear plant, that was less the 24 hours from almost the entire east half of USA being gone. The entire town in the surrounding area died of cancer.

[@incognitobr]

Qualcomm: "the worse that can happen is they say no".

[@eduard348]

Well the only logical explanation is, they came to conclusion that they will not significantly outmatch x86 on windows with their CPUs in any near future to earn a significant market share.

[@Machtyn]

I just watched a video about how that "tiny amount of nuclear waste" is only 10% used when retired and can be recycled. And since France made that investment back in the 1960s, they have an excellent nuclear recycling program.

[@AG3n3ricHuman]

It's a bit more complicated than that. Most of the products in nuclear waste can't be "burned" in a normal reactor. You need a special "breeder" type reactor to do that and they're generally very expensive. What's more breeder reactors also produce weapons grade material so they're even more of a political issue than normal reactors.

[@tallAldiProduction]

My biggest problem with nuclear waste is that the energy providers are not responsible for disposing is. That is handled by the state, atleast here in Germany. So the companies that run the power plants take the profits from selling the power and the public has to pay for the storage…

[@InfernosReaper]

@@tallAldiProduction If they didn't do that, then the costs would just get passed on to the consumers. No matter what, the companies are going to profit

[@preisschild4622]

​​​​@@tallAldiProductionThats wrong. The power plant providers are required per law to pay the government for storage and they have paid billions in the last decades. It was always included in the electricity price. In Finland the operators can do it themselves and they already have one and it was relatively cheap (around 1 bln Euros for 100 years worth of waste) The Reason why Germany has not a site yet is because politicians like Habeck and Söder are blocking it. Habeck because then hed have no more arguments against nuclear power and Söder because hes an uninformed NIMBY. Unfortunately anti-nuclear misinformation like this (or "nuclear power plants arent insured", even though they need to be to be licensed) is really big in Germany and here in Austria.

[@cerealport2726]

the lack of breeder reactors and fuel reprocessing in the USA goes all the way back to decisions based on perceptions around access to fissionable material and what was considered the "best" reactor technology at the time. It was yet another political decision that severely hindered advances in reactor technology, and in fuel reprocessing infrastructure. It could be changed now, but there is no political will to do so. The Small Modular Reactor that was planned for somewhere in the USA (next to a coal-fired plant) was going to be fuelled using enriched uranium from a company in Russia because they are the only commercial supplier of HALEU (High-assay low-enriched uranium, i.e. fuel with a U-235 concentration between 5 and 20%). The USA is currently starting to build a facility to make their own, but it's a long way from being ready.

[@SpiritOfTheHeretic]

The clarity given for TMI and nuclear in general is appreciated. Most people don't understand it.

[@ScrawnyClownSnatch]

Fact check, the three mile island meltdown way overblown by media of the time as though there was a "emergency" it was handled in a way that didn't cause any issues to anyone in neghboring areas.

[@-SeventeenF]

"But muh nucular pollution!" cry the people who don't even know how to say the word "nuclear."

[@InfernosReaper]

@@-SeventeenF Well, considering you mistyped "nuculear" as "nuclear" it's not *that* unfair ;)

[@Verchiel_]

Whaaat, the common person has negative views on nuclear energy because of the negative pop culture portrayal blown out of proportion by two events of poor nuclear plant management? Naaaah

[@BlitzAce-pj9jr]

​@@Verchiel_ good point

[@LtdJorge]

​@@Verchiel_yeah, the thing even if there were no fossil fuel production accidents ever, it still would have killed orders of magnitude more people than nuclear.

[@jsnotlout3312]

Do not, under any circumstances let them use Windows as the OS for the plant. That would be asking for a disaster

[@bavarianbanshee]

"What operating system does it use?" "Uhh.. Vista!" *"WE'RE GOING TO DIE"*

[@GSBarlev]

​@@bavarianbanshee::whimpers:: "Did you try turning it off and on?"

[@seansingh4421]

You would be surprised to know how much of critical infrastructure and OT runs on Microsoft’s bs.

[@davidgoodnow269]

There's no reason to have Windows or any other commercial operating system in any power plant, and it's beyond moronic to have them run by anything but a purpose-built program on a dedicated air-gapped piece of hardware.

[@kaelandin]

@@seansingh4421 eg cloudstrike

[@Sup3r87]

Honestly for the ridiculous amount of power nuclear energy generates (not to also mention the insane safety efforts and unbelievably low environmental impact), this seems like a great solution to the AI power problem that I hope more companies and governments adopt. Maybe we could power the rest of society with nuclear, too.. just sayin'.

[@eeriemyxi]

Not happening, rich people need our money, the won't make the society better

[@notme8232]

I always say they should start putting nuclear reactors on train cars, that way we don't need to build new infrastructure to electrify railroads.

[@Sup3r87]

@@eeriemyxi "rich people" benefit from more power for society. There is nothing about coal power that makes "rich people" any richer than if nuclear were built instead. The only "rich people" left who want us back on fossil fuels are oil barons and coal CEOs, both of which are dying out with no sign of stopping.

[@Sup3r87]

@@notme8232 Nuclear trains sound like a pretty rad idea lol, but I dunno if the risk of derailment/terrorist attacks is worth it for something that moves around as much as a train.

[@rynobehnke8289]

@@notme8232 The idea of nuclear trains was already considered decades ago and deemed to unsafe for a number of reasons.

[@tib-c9265]

"The worst nuclear power plant accident in U.S. history" with an astounding death total of... 0 (yes, zero).

[@kaelandin]

Better ban nuclear then!

[@peterfconley]

The only three people who died did so because of forced evacuations. Nuclear is the safest cleanest most abundant and reliable source of electricity. The only reason it’s not cheapest too is because it’s over regulated to the point of being criminalized.

[@EJD339]

The reason why it’s so safe is because it’s heavily regulated.

[@peterfconley]

@@EJD339 the reason it’s not even safer is because it’s heavily regulated.

[@maverickvgc4220]

@@EJD339 Not really, especially with how moronic the US law is about nuclear safety

[@Tathanic]

"The Windows phone is back lol JK" it was a good phone QQ.

[@CyanRooper]

I wanted a Nokia Lumia back in the day because they looked so good but people warned me about how bad Windows phones were so I never got one.

[@watLegends]

@@CyanRooper I got one when I started college back in those days, I loved it!. The whole Windows tiles thing made sense for a phone. However, something broke inside that prevented me from using the touch screen much at all. The rubber outer material easily became dirty and turned from white to a stained black. It felt good to hold and use, but unfortunately it seems they lacked a bit in the QA department. Other than that, i'd love to see them try again.

[@defeqel6537]

Windows Phone 8 was good, but would have done way better if MS had supported OpenGL ES (2.X) (edit: Windows Phone 7 didn't even support C/C++, and the apps weren't forward compatible with WP8)

[@K-o-R]

Loved my Windows phones.

[@DavixDevelop]

I had the Lumia 630 and 650 about 10 years ago by this point. Loved both to bits, especially when Windows 10 Mobile came out and I started developing UWP apps. It's true that it lacked support of official apps from the big contenders, but it had a vibrant community who developed great third-party apps, which most of the time even outperformed the official apps in terms such as features and speed. I loved the camera app on WP as well, as it had great built in manual mode support for shutter speed and ISO, the likes of which no Android camera app that I've used so far, doesn't even come close. God, I miss those two phones and those simpler times when I was 15.

[@craesh]

I can't recall how often I read news about "we broke the speed of light" because someone prematurely pushed the publish button. It always turned out to be dispersion, phase velocity, or a issue in the test setup. To be fair, the team and Gran Sasso in 2011 explicity asked everyone to provide ideas what could have gone wrong in their setup. They knew it couldn't be. It was a lose cable at the end.

[@davidgoodnow269]

Uh . . . no. Take a look at the original speed-of-light test. Run it yourself, it's easy, and you can do it at home with no really expensive equipment. Confirm all test results. Now look at those results and compare them to the original results. Pretty close, right? Now look at the instructions for exclusion. Now, start looking at instructions for _all subsequent_ speed-of-light scientific experiments. Every single test focuses on exactly one thing: narrowing the mean of the data sample collected. But if you use the newest, best, highest-quality equipment, and you _don't_ gate your testing, then you achieve the same pre-exclusion spread as in 1886! What does that logically say?

[@InvasionAnimation]

All I'm hearing with the last story is the outerwilds is even more accurate to reality than thought before.

[@ScorgeRudess]

Some one will eventually destroy the fabric of time in RL or some thing like that...

[@InvasionAnimation]

@@ScorgeRudess We will all be part of the chorus of kazoos when it happens and the credits roll.

[@AG3n3ricHuman]

It's actually not the first time something like this has happened. Some years ago there was an experiment where light reflected off a glass fiber before it entered.

[@Goblin_Hater_37]

So in other words, light can skip over moments in time when under certain circumstances

[@infini7791]

Fun fact: TMI meltdown happened from Wolverine and Deadpool fighting on top. (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)

[@Verdictus13]

Not so fun fact: This is almost as accurate as the reporting around TMI.

[@GingerNingerGames]

The biggest safety issue with Nuclear power is the companies that own the plants not wanting to spend the money to maintain them properly, looking at you Fukushima Daiichi. They were told that if a sunami half as high as the one that hit happened the plant would melt down and they said "Won't ever happen, won't spend money to fix it" and then it happened anyway.

[@Verdictus13]

The 4th strongest earthquake ever recorded and a 13m tsunami that killed 20,000 people, and they managed to keep the nuclear power plant from becoming yet another disaster. If anything, it show how robust even older model nuclear reactors are.

[@radugrigoras]

It’s a lot more complicated than that. The companies have licenses from the government to operate, these licenses have an expiry date and have to be renewed. In the USA under the democrats and their push for “green” energy most operators were told their licenses would not be renewed. So you look at it and say ok, I got 10 years left, at which point I have to spend billions dismantling and cleaning up the plant. You enter shut down prep mode…Then the situation changes and the government says ohhhh we miscalculated we need you to run for an extra 10 years….If something like a Tsunami happens in the period you are winding down a disaster can happen. They can also do the opposite and force you to keep a plant running beyond its design life by threatening to not renew other locations.

[@4203105]

​@@Verdictus13 except they did not. What are you even talking about? The wind going out to see and not towards the Tokyo metropolitan area was pure dumb luck and nothing "they managed". And it still contaminated a large area. Which caused trillions of yen in damages.

[@Verdictus13]

@@4203105 Wind patterns are in fact predictable, its almost like they thought about where they put the plant. The highest wave prediction had just been updated to 5.3 meters, the wave that hit was 13m. The safety precautions kept 2 natural disasters from becoming a nuclear catastrophe. So yeah, "They managed."

[@timothygibney159]

@@Verdictus13They all had full meltdowns and to this day the ground is frozen around the plant to keep contaminated mud and water from leaking to the environment

[@rudrOwO]

You know when I read the title I didn't imagine that they're literally going nuclear 💀

[@thealtersky]

Lol, what did you imagine then?

[@I.____.....__...__]

1:45 That joke works on several different levels. In French, thousand islands is mille îles, so Jacob referring to Thousand Islands salad-dressing in the context of Three Mile Island and Riley saying "way more miles involved" mostly works.

[@IsaacFoster..]

I love Techlinked vibes. Feels like 3+ buddies playing a game together in the same room in 2010's. I don't why that specific vibe I'm getting but that's about it.

[@GraemeLeRoux]

Will the reactor control systems at three mile island be running Windows?….

[@lilplague4857]

Oh god

[@Gaius__]

Even Microsoft is not that dumb ... their own servers run Linux, after all. They know what's good, just can't be bothered to pass on that goodness to their customers.

[@Tall_Order]

It wouldn't be the first time Microsoft gave something a confusingly stupid name. Remember Xbox One?

[@TheWolfgangGrimmer]

I also remember when th Xbox Series X was the "Xbox One X". EDIT: Never mind, those tow systems aren't even the same. What the hell?

[@bedhead1609]

the fact that companies are pushing ai as the’hot new thing’ even though most ppl either hate it or don’t care, just because its an easier way to collect data feels really dystopian

[@allesarfint]

Actually, companies want "AI" to be a thing because it would be a way to reduce head counts.

[@Sevicify]

AI and machine learning can be extremely useful tools, the problem is over reliance & use of it and companies trying to just use it to outright replace human labour and reduce their employees.

[@apricotmadness4850]

@@SevicifyLet them try. They’re just burning investors dollars right now inventing more profit less “technologies” that no one cares about or is actively supporting outside of a few niche markets. All that money is only make developers richer. Their no closer to making an AGI then a chimpanzee is too having an articulate thought provoking conversation with a theoretical physicist scientist. They can’t burn money forever, eventually they’ll move on to the next “big thing” like they did with crypto.

[@smalltime0]

@@Sevicify Well if our capitalist market does it's job, those companies will get a massive "get f*cked" to their profit margins. The Air Canada incident where a court upheld the AI bot's promise as being binding probably put a wet blanket on a lot of companies' plans.

[@jacksonlodge8057]

@@Sevicify Let them try. They’re just burning investors dollars right now inventing more profit less “technologies” that no one cares about or is actively supporting outside of a few niche markets. All that money is only make developers richer. Their no closer to making an AGI then a chimpanzee is too having an articulate thought provoking conversation with a theoretical physicist scientist. They can’t burn money forever, eventually they’ll move on to the next “big thing” like they did with crypto.

[@Conqueror25]

The light thingy is false. It appears to leave before entering, similar to how a Mexican wave travels a marching band before the marching band actually crosses the line. The particle doesn't do it, it's ripple does

[@GSBarlev]

I, for one, was glad they avoided the easy jokes about ripping the fabric of spacetime and instead made dirty jokes about _exciting_ particles.

[@ramanmono]

A nuclear plant being shut down due to economic reasons is the stupidist thing I have heard in a very long time.

[@vanadlehyde3600]

old nuclear power plants generate less energy than you might think. it's not magic fellas

[@jonathanodude6660]

safety systems to appease the public and politicians beholden to them (and the FF industry) are expensive and must be priced in. if the plant wont generate more money than the credit used to build it (eg if capacity is halved), then good luck running that thing at a profit.

[@arwo1143]

Nuclear is the cleanest, cheapest and SAFEST energy source we have And according to a recent article by the Post, politics doesn’t want it because all it does is create safe, clean and cheap energy instead of addressing social injustices

[@4203105]

None of this is true. Those all go to hydro, solar and wind.

[@GSBarlev]

​@@4203105Hydro (assuming you mean dams) is *extremely* disruptive to the environment; solar has a ridiculously short operational lifetime and sky-high maintenance costs; and wind is very limited in where it can be deployed. But the answer here is not _or_ but *_yes, and_*

[@maverickvgc4220]

​@@4203105 Yeah, hydro is absolutely safe, it's not like the biggest incident in hydro killed 50 times more people than the worst estimates for Chernobyl... Nuclear has a death rateo of 0.03 deaths for each TWh of energy generated and this is counting in the deaths from Fukushima's evacuation, a political choice with no scientific backing that killed more people than the radiations would have. For reference Hydro is at 1.3 (Because of falling dams), wind is at 0.04 (because of the toxic wastes produced refining Neodymium) and solar is at 0.02. You're also wrong on the cleanest part, the average for nuclear is at 6 tonnes each TWh. Wind is a 11, hydro at 24 (it's a lot of concrete) and solar ranges between 8 and 83 tonnes (depending on how good the position is) with an average of 53 tonnes (mostly because of how energy intensive producing solar grade silicon is). For both the source is Our World in Data. Pricewise you're right, nuclear energy has an higher cost than solar or wind but the only people that care about costs are investors, normal people care about the price of their bills. If you compare them you'll se that in a system that runs on a mix of renewable and nuclear instead of just renewables the bills will be ~33% lower because Nuclear's H24 production allows to avoid the squeeze that gives you crazy prices in the evening and makes the infrastructure cheaper.

[@Skankhunt668]

​@@4203105buddy how are you going to power a country like the us with those😂

[@kaelandin]

i think it has more to do with the coal and gas lobby not wanting any competition that is inherently better than their money makers.

[@wolf2403]

Also, the 3-mile island incident wasn't as bad as people think.

[@Cmanorange]

5:34 woaw, it's also so fast that it shows up on the phone before it's even plugged in! now that's quality

[@hussainmehdi6968]

Remote desktop does not need a wired connection, animation show connecting to display using cable for presentation

[@mojajojajo]

I’m glad you guys took the time to actually explain that nuclear is clean and safe instead of just making jokes and glancing over it leading uninformed people to more skepticism. Great job guys.

[@Ariannus]

Thanks you for reporting on the Anker recall. I own one of those powerbanks and might not have seen it otherwise.

[@homermorisson9135]

The worst part of TMI wasn't even the partial meltdown, it was how the owners back then kept lying to the local population about the danger...

[@todesziege]

Surely nobody would do that today.

[@Verdictus13]

If by danger, you mean the complete lack of danger, then sure. It was blown out of proportion by shitty reporting. While they were concerned that the hydrogen bubble might explode, further calculations show that that was never a real possibility.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@Verdictus13 *Because of the initial reactor design making this type of failure impossible to begin with.

[@Verdictus13]

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 Yeah, reactors were already incredibly well designed by the time TMI was planned.

[@homermorisson9135]

@@Verdictus13 Bullcrap, check your facts... the cancer rates shot up for decades after the TMI "incident" in local residents, they were exposed to significant radioactive contamination.

[@oddbutfair]

1:57 gotta get that Hawk-2 if you know what I mean

[@SpiritmanProductions]

There should be laws against the misappropriation of established abbreviations like A.I.

[@Jonathan-bi8hr]

How great that it takes AI in order to build nuclear power

[@libertyprime7911]

Qualcomm lay offs are part of an established business model (used by Cisco and others): it's done in the name of business school philosophy ("get rid of the bottom 10% every year"), but it's mainly a cynical way to keep costs down.

[@Billywashere89]

Amd missed an opportunity to name things the "Hawk 2 A" Laptop

[@WhitmanEntertainment]

Was looking for this comment

[@Metaljacket420]

Imagine if AI and Crypto end up saving the world because of incentivizing clean plentiful energy sources.

[@TheMastercoms]

Actually crypto farms have incentivized the use of gas guzzling generators and producing 100,0000+ metric tons of e-waste

[@paatagigolashvili9551]

i doubt it but this is step in right direction

[@renderedpixels4300]

I hope not..... But if it means more nuclear then ill tolerate it I guess.

[@o0Donuts0o]

Ai yes. Crypto, no. Don’t need to burn fuel on some Americans picture collection.

[@RawrxDev]

Their ramping up fossil fuel use as well, and have increased their carbon emission by over 600%, their destroying the planet

[@evilutionltd]

Anker missed the opportunity to blame Mossad.

[@kriswingert1662]

I live in the very town TMI, Three Mile Island, is located. I was in 6th grade when the meltdown happened and we were dismissed from school, walking home chanting "hell no, we don't glow!".

[@parzival3491]

Amd is changing it to.... Hawk two (hundred)?

[@Arian-Mondal.1988]

It is always refreshing to have Sonnet 18 in a Technical discussion! Thanks Folks!

[@darkking4748]

So refreshing to see everyone be supportive on nuclear. It was always such a great alternative to fossil fuels that was fear mongered away from us

[@jessterman21]

omg right, utterly impressed by the top comments - I've thought it was the true solution for years, but it's not a popular opinion

[@kaelandin]

Unfortunate that oil and gas lobbies will try their damnedest to keep nuclear power a niche thing, if not stamped out completely if they get their way.

[@crazyeyez1502]

Kyle Hill has several really good videos that cover TMI and other nuclear power plants.

[@iggswanna1248]

oh shit, nuclear power plants with blue screens of DEATH OH LAWD

[@blank141]

1:16 this statement alone will make anti nuclear activist go crazy and also greenpeace

[@iancr22]

I guess we can burn coal instead

[@CS_Mango]

Yeah but what else do we have? I'd say using the leftovers of TMI to power ai is the better alternative over building any new renewable energy sources. Especially considering the costs of such.

[@Tinitum]

They base everything purely on how they feel and disregard all scientific proofs. Nuclear energy is safer than wind energy if you look at the amount of deaths and accidents. Even when taking into account Tsjernobyl and Fukushima.

[@GSBarlev]

Not just them-Baltimore Gas & Electric is suing Constellation and Amazon over a similar plan, because it's kinda messed up that residential providers can't even bid on this power generation capacity.

[@TheChocolatBlanc]

I’m glad he mentioned it.

[@ashwinkumarpss8906]

It shouldn't create the spring field in future along with the Mr. Burns 😂

[@Razear]

It was only a few years ago when energy sources were being funneled towards cryptomining. And now, it's all about AI. Things move fast.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

Same cryptomining, but instead of nodes they farm AD revenue and spy on people.

[@ryanthompson3737]

The only difference is that cryptomining does absolutely nothing, while research into AI has massive potentials for improving human life.

[@seantherobonaut]

NGL, Riley's ad segments are becoming so entertaining I'm no longer skipping them haha

[@RandomShortsFamily]

8:36 freaking laser beams 🤣🤣🤣

[@emmanuelgoldstein3682]

Riley, Mr Dirtyshirt, wears a shirt with speckles to hide the lint

[@cwfeldmann]

TMI and other units of that era definitely don't need their legacy control interfaces. Many of those pieces are actively being updated in Nuclear power plants sites across the US.

[@JamesMcCloskey]

Couldn't AMD just call the Hawk Point Ryzen Series; Hawk 2-A, instead of Ryzen 200? 😊

[@mikenelson6630]

Don't hurt yourself thinking about those photons - it's a Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey thing. 😆

[@Synic42]

I work in the nuclear energy business and highly approve this measure. People need to understand that after each accident safety and security measures have increased exponentially.

[@avalanche1990]

Thank you Jacob for very odd sexy time joke in the last story of video. I got a good chuckle out of it

[@Hotshot2k4]

Near miss on that Anker recall, I bought an A1653 a few months ago, which is just 1 higher than A1652! Suffice to say, I'll be keeping an eye on this bad boy, just in case...

[@bavarianbanshee]

These comments make me feel really happy. I'm glad to see not only the amount of support for nuclear power, but also the ampunt of people who have become educated on the 3 Mile Island incident.

[@Faisalalala]

My brain rotted so much that I laughed when Riley said "Hawk Point" fml

[@dgcp354]

i thought he was joking too

[@effbar2400]

Hawk tuah

[@someoneelse5005]

@@effbar2400 hawk tuahundred series

[@DerpyNate]

3 mile island wasn’t a nuclear disaster, that’s a common misconception. What actually happened is that wolverine done did it when he was fighting weird Deadpool that one time.

[@ashuggtube]

It's true there was a documentary

[@Limentum]

The way Riley said 'Golden Pig Upgrade' (2:12) gave me hope for a better world

[@albertotr1]

Actually here before the nuclear incident.

[@statebased]

Thank you for the great humor! The Sony F-you was especially funny!

[@1haitian1]

I need Neil Degrass Tyson to explain that last one on Star Talk

[@ganondorf66]

You don't have to convince us on Nuclear, convince politicians

[@jperih]

What if they called it the Hawk-2

[@filedotnix]

hawk 2? uhhhh, no, bad idea

[@furinick]

The hawk 2 A

[@whentheyD]

​@@filedotnix hawk two uhh ...

[@matt.stevick]

Get her polished up, it’s *GAME TIME* ☢️⚡️🤖🇺🇸

[@Decs_]

You’re telling me there changing to from “Hawk” to “two”(hundred)???

[@hrushikeshghanekar]

they don't want it to be a hailey's comet . so its 200 not hawk 2(×100).

[@consumev]

i get excited when i see a new techlinked video

[@KamDaOrcuh]

Me and my friends are watching Oppenhiemer and after they showed the part when the atomic bomb went off, I get this notification. 💀💀💀 The timing is wild.

[@luckydragonaaaa]

Omg we almost got a 'Carbon Nanotubes' moment from 'Keys'!!! Bring that back Rizler!

[@DrySushi]

Fun Fact: Riley also built a nuclear powerplant to feed the elder beast on his lip pretending to be a mustache. The project lasted three years before learning blood and NFTs feed it better than sexy atoms.

[@jeffdavis9028]

Riley’s delivery and personality is fantastic. Someone needs to give him a character role in a TV series or movie 👌🏻

[@AZ-rl7pg]

Microsoft going nuclear is hilarious when Bill is one of the heavy pushers for stuff like solar and wind energy. Nuclear is by far the best green energy option we have. But most pro green energy groups avoid it because A: "it's scary" and B: the people behind them can make way more money from selling the alternatives that requires constant maintenance/replacement.

[@BigOrangeMan]

Bill who

[@derickgreenlee1471]

Bill Gates is a big supporter of nuclear energy.

[@notme8232]

@@BigOrangeMan Gates, I think.

[@AZ-rl7pg]

@@BigOrangeMan the Microsoft one... I didn't want to risk summoning him by name.

[@Matthigast]

​@@AZ-rl7pg He'll only come when you say his name 3 times in a mirror at midnight

[@filedotnix]

i wish there was a hit podcast by the creator of the Hawk Point laptop chips.

[@KillerNoob2001]

People overestimate how bad the three mile Island incident was. Nuclear really is the future.

[@costafilh0]

What do absurd profits have to do with layoffs? That is HOW you keep them profits.

[@ImNotOld_ImVintage]

*The worst nuclear accident in the US that is commonly known about, you mean...

[@Augmented_AI]

I can expect wolverine and Deadpool at the plant

[@MegaLokopo]

Nuclear is safe now, because as it turns out, the computers and printers we have today are just a little faster than they were back then, and even that little speed makes all the difference.

[@benjamincvcvcv7]

Its actually just having better safety regulations

[@MFsyrup]

@@benjamincvcvcv7safety regulations were always there it’s just now they’re actually being followed

[@THE-X-Force]

It's really about the engineering of the plants. If they want to have safety .. they have to spend money. Money that's totally worth it and would make the plants virtually fool-proof. However .. *_GREED_*

[@AG3n3ricHuman]

@@THE-X-Force Except that very expensive plants result in higher electricity cost. Nuclear was once "too cheap to meter," now it's not so cost competitive. Fuel may still be cheap, but plant equipment, and the reactor itself, age with use.

[@AG3n3ricHuman]

Computer speed is not the problem, it was always bad design. 3MI wouldn't have suffered a meltdown nor would Chernobyl have exploded if the engineers hadn't overridden the systems.

[@williamwilliam7699]

Remember iJustine waited 48 hrs outside of Apple Store for iPhone 6. Love your blogs!!!

[@JohnneyleeRollins]

its never how you want it to be

[@WeirdDuck781]

Three mile island wasnt the worst nuclear accident in US soil by a long margin. It is however the worst nuclear PR campaign.

[@Blueyzachary]

Me when rocketdyne

[@mateoconk]

Has Israel claimed any involvement in these spontaneously combusting power banks

[@korn7809]

7 mile isle was blown way out of proportion.

[@mukiex4413]

Note: the worst accident in commercial nuclear power history has a health impact on the populace of ZERO. That’s what we’ve learned in 40 years of clinical data on radiation since.

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

Nah, we're finding an elevated rate of cancers in the area. It took a long time to manifest but it's there.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@ThePlayerOfGames Meanwhile several coal plants replacing TMI: (coal contains radioactive particles and causes cancer during long exposure, and not only due to radiation)

[@maverickvgc4220]

@@ThePlayerOfGames a peer reviewed paper proving this?

[@mukiex4413]

@@ThePlayerOfGames "In the area" that was also studied in France and the UK. You know what they found? - Nothing in what would be the fallout path. - Elevated rates in the area surrounding BOTH nuclear plants and sites where nuclear plants were planned but never built. Plants get built in industrial zones. It's not the nuclear.

[@bluejezus]

thank you for making my day

[@sussybacca5148]

More Microsoft Shenanigans

[@vampiregoat69]

Microblows pushing everyone to Linux SUPER FAST now wants to start a nuclear plant? OH sure no way this can go wrong AGAIN

[@KingofArsenal]

Someone ask Microsoft, what they plan to do with the nuclear waste?

[@BillBodrero]

If you're worried about nuclear waste, your worries are misplaced.

[@benjamincvcvcv7]

Give it to a nuclear waste processing facility

[@Joshpods]

Safer than coal

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

Bro gets his information on nuclear reactors from the Simpsons

[@keithbrown7685]

​@@BillBodrero #bars, dude! Good one! Edit: Ok this is your rhyme that I heard: If you're worried about nuclear waste, your worries are misplaced.

[@DakodaOK]

Three Mile Island's biggest flub wasn't the actual meltdown; it was a PR issue more than anything. Kyle Hill did a phenomenal breakdown of what happened and the expected dangers, and the place is fundamentally safe as any energy generating location in the U.S. could be (and safer than most).