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Americans failed to pay record $688 billion in taxes in 2021, IRS says. Look for more audits.
  • Insert required Fuck Intuit/TurboTax/CreditKarma here, who spends billions to make the tax system stays as complicated as it is.

    The IRS already knows how much everyone should be paying, so just give us a single bill already.

  • Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors
  • There's tradeoffs. If training LLMs (and similar systems that feed on pure physics data) can improve nuclear processes, then overall it could be a net benefit. Fusion energy research takes a huge amount of power to trigger every test ignition and we do them all the time, learning little by little.

    The real question is if the LLMs are even capable of revealing those kinds of insights to us. If they are, nuclear is hardly the worst path to go down.

  • Steam Deck 2 delay was right choice for Valve as mid-generation refresh would fare better
  • Given how repairable the steam deck already is, it'd be nice if it could be pushed one step further and make some sort of mini-socket for the SoC.

    Obviously that's not a Valve thing to do but an AMD, and trying to downscale a desktop CPU socket style is primed for failure (a lot of companies are soldering on for a reason), but if AMD could make a standardized "whole system chip" that can just be swapped every generation, you wouldn't have to purchase the chassis over and over again.

  • When all your possessions are in your backpack
  • I certainly dont know the full story behind the strip, but could be justified as the arm WAS ripped off by an Ogre and regenerate (or insert other healing spell here if not RAW D&D) was used later.

  • UK: Road to be shut as power cable for 50MW solar farm installed
  • Depends on how they're inverting the power. If they're sticking with the DC voltage straight from the panel, that's probably one thick cable. If each panel or group of panels has an inverter to go to high voltage (AC or DC) to a central location, you can proportionally scale the thickness as voltage increases.

  • [Game] Leaked Patch Notes Confirm Starfield Compatibility with Steam Deck
  • "Tricks" like FSR should certainly make a single platform be able to last longer. Say what you will about the techs usefulness on top of the line hardware, low/mid level hardware like the deck/ally/switch is where it's greatest benefits lie.

  • LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery
  • Not even a conductor at all, apparently.

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06256 this group (mentioned jn the article above) synthesized a fully pure crystal, and found that has a resistance in the several megaohms at room temperature. Just a purple piece of glass, functionally speaking. The thoughts of superconductivity was due to random copper sulfate impurities which DO conduct electricity.

  • I just wanted to take a minute to appreciate interchangable batteries
  • Every battery has a voltage curve though; even alkaline batteries will drop off the 1.5v region after some time. Comparatively, ni-mh rechargeables will hold 1.2v more consistently and for longer than an alkaline, where it's voltage drops pretty quickly as the battery dies.

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