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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors
  • Raw material is usually a small fraction of the cost of refueling. I would also argue that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is a small blip in the lifetime of a reactor, ~80 years. Transient pricing will have a negligible effect on the LCOE.

  • South Korea’s Directors Guild Pushes for Bargaining Rights and Backend Pay from Streamers, Studios
  • I’m going to go out on a limb and say Netflix and other platforms probably picked up these shows/movies because they were cheap and wouldn’t need to pay out residuals if they became hits.

    Kinda sucks they don’t get paid but honestly no one makes it out big on their first run. You use your new leverage to negotiate better the second time around, after you’re proven your worth.

    A few exceptions to this, but more than likely the streaming platforms would have never picked up these shows were it not for the very beneficial terms.

  • A fight erupts in U.S. housing market as deteriorated affordability clashes with the 'lock-in effect'
  • This is going to have an interesting effect on the labor market. With people being ‘locked-in’ it will ultimately reduce worker mobility. Combine with the emphasis on ‘back to the office’, this will reduce the labor pool available to employers.

    The good news is that new build costs are coming down and builders are starting to ramp up again.

  • BattleBit Remastered - Update 1.7.2: Optimizations, Bug Fixes, UI updates
  • I would say not too far off BF3. There is a drone and I would say the sniping is a little too strong to the point where a few people play it like CSGO. But it’s nothing like CoD or the newer battlefields.

    Edit: By new CoDs I mean no wall running or jet packs. No dumb kill streaks. There is an element of run and gun but it’s limited if effectiveness.

  • Engineers, what cool things are you working on?
  • New ways of cooling data servers and batteries for EVs. Rather than typical air or water/glycol cooling we’re immersing the components in a dielectric fluid. It’s an interesting space as both the hardware and fluids are being developed simultaneously. The company I work for is developing the fluid.

    About 90% of the fluids out there are just oils taken directly from a refinery and repackaged under different names with a ton of marketing. Yet, end consumers don’t really understand the technical details of the the fluids so they tend to fall for whoever has nice marketing. We’re out to change that and show that the chemistry we add improves the performance and durability of the fluid. So half the job is engineering and the other half is educating customers.

  • Wholesale Used-Vehicle Prices See Large Decline in June
    www.coxautoinc.com Wholesale Used-Vehicle Prices See Large Decline in June - Cox Automotive Inc.

    Manheim reports wholesale used-vehicle prices (on a mix, mileage, and seasonally adjusted basis) in the Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index.

    Wholesale Used-Vehicle Prices See Large Decline in June - Cox Automotive Inc.

    Wholesale prices are down almost 10% YoY. New car production is up and new car inventory is returning to normal. Prices have started to drop with the reintroduction of incentives.

    All this points to supply returning and demand falling away with increased interest rates, high inflation, and the imminent return of student loan payments. Accordingly, prices should continue to fall. Hopefully we see a significant reduction in pricing and a return to reasonable affordability of vehicles.

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    U.S. military base in Tokyo admits leaks containing PFAS
  • 3M announced they were exiting this space, rightfully so and probably a decade late. But I’ve heard rumblings in the industry that the US Govt might require them to continue to produce these awful materials as they are used in defense-related applications. Hope that’s not the case and we can shutdown all other producers (Chemours/DuPont etc) as well.

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    Investors continue to retreat from crypto for fifth straight quarter
  • The only thing I’m critical of here is how does this pull back in VC funding/company valuations compare to other industries? VCs have pulled back in general as money is now very expensive as a result of high interest rates.

  • Tech Layoffs: US Companies With Job Cuts In 2022 and 2023.
  • Completely agree but not sure being in a union would stop these layoffs. Tech companies massively overhired during COVID, and many really dropped their standards. So now their revenue is dropping due to consumer demand falling AND they’re stuck with too many employees.

    It doesn’t look great obviously but these tech companies expanded way too fast and are paying the price now. Unfortunately so are innocent workers.

  • Can we NOT make this community simply a highlight reel

    r/rocketleague made a decision very early on that highlights would be allowed every day as regular posts. Subsequently, the sub turned into a giant highlight reel. Sure there were a couple of posts here and there on patches, RLCS, rare items, etc. But seeing highlight after highlight really killed the community discussions.

    Making a request to the mods that highlights become a sticky-only or one-day-a-week thing as opposed to the core focus of the community.

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