Gotta post the old road wear comparison table whenever weight of (e)bicycles gets brought up. Publications just willfully ignoring the steel elephants in the room.

DEC truly managed to stand head and shoulders above other tech giants in terms of the people they hired and the culture they fostered. DEC alumni are some of the kindest people I've had the chance of speaking to in retro computing circles.

What an odd comparison. Fundamentally DEC died a slow death because their core products like minis and terminals were outmoded by IBM micro clones that had such brutally low margins that even IBM had to back out of the micro sector. I don't really see how Nvidia compares on any front.

If anything you'd assume if we were doing this on the basis of domestic industrial capacity we would be funding MONARK units for Bruce or Darlington. OPG is/was apparently looking at something like that recently (or even a new NPP) but I have no clue if those discussions are still ongoing.

There are edge cases where I can see SMRs making sense as "faster" capacity for a renewables heavy grid or the really miniscule proposals to get isolated communities off of diesel but focusing the first deployments in Ontario is odd. Guess they're building where they already have experienced staff.

Has some poor bastard at Pixar had to try and figure out how to modify their old toolchain to re-export/render Toy Story for HDR come to think about it? I assume that is going to be a messy process.

"When NASA tested the DJ-5E on behalf of the U.S. government for a study of electric vehicles in 1977, it measured a 0-to-30 mph time of 23.4 seconds—30 mph being the maximum cruising speed."
Absolute cinema.

The only time I've found the ideological tagging feature(s) useful was for media markets I wasn't familiar with but unless they're a super niche or new publication, a Wiki page will usually be a lot better for understanding the editorial stance of a publication.

Yeah I've avoided them like the plague just on the basis of being a YTer sponsor. Having worked as a media monitor I get the use for tools like these but they seem to either pick up the weirdest garbage sources or be little more than glorified RSS/newswire feeds.

Hell I think Ground News pushing their 'service' so aggressively is a good example of how bad people are at gauging sources. I know they offer features beyond the ideological tagging but the fact they keep pushing that as their core feature doesn't give me a great impression of the median reader.

One of my favorite pictures of my friend’s cats. 😹

Oh fascinating! I did not realize they still had that kind of fabrication capability. Honestly seems like a good example of the TTC having sector leading capacity in some regards alongside absurd levels of technical debt in others.

I still can't believe they're installing single blade switches on the network. Where are they even finding a vendor for those at this point? I tried to find another system that was still sticking to them but I think the TTC might literally be the last major holdout.

Guess we should count ourselves lucky no one has developed (or at least published) a cryptolocker virus that runs on whatever crusty RTOS Siemens and co are using for their PLCs.

To be fair there is also the secret third thing: bored skiddies. Given an alarming amount of industrial control systems are sitting on flat unprotected networks and haven't gotten firmware updates since the mid aughts it doesn't seem that far fetched.

I love that this implies they're using the Macintosh instead of something like the UNIVAC, IBM 701 or even IBM 5150 as the start of "business computing".

To be fair, POTS having independent power is more a quirk of it predating the concept of the grid. And FTTH strands do stay live in outages so the concept isn't completely dead. I wonder if early fiber/lightwave committees debated if ONTs should have battery backups to power handsets.

Brutal. 😬
I'm confused how OC is still managing to have so many dropped trips even with slashed service. Are they still struggling with finding drivers or have the paddles gotten even more insane with the new routes so trips get dropped as buses get stuck shuttling between routes?

Oh god that's rough. Did you get burned by a dropped trip or traffic throwing off the timetable that badly?