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I'm still waiting for hexagon monitors as they are clearly the bestagon.

Multiple experiments to detect dark matter directly here on earth have been constructed. They expected a handful of detections a year given the estimates of local dark matter densities. Those experiments have not yielded any detections. This sets very restrictive limits on candidates for particle like dark matter.

I'm fully aware of astronomical observations that suggest the need for dark matter. That's not what I was referring to.

So far, astronomical observations are all we have, the lack of terrestrial observations have only been able to elliminate candidate particles, not measure them.

Wendel from level 1 techs really likes the multi actuator spinning rust drives. You still wouldn't use them for a boot drive, but they're fast enough to saturate a sata connection, while still being much more dense than ssds. They can achieve 500MB/s sequential speeds, so they're plenty fast for large file access. Most consumers should be using SSD's but if you're dealing with more than a couple terabytes, the best solution isn't as straightforward.

The attempts to measure dark matter directly have gotten incredibly sensitive and still haven't found anything.

And to blowing up children for being born to the wrong group of people.

Mcmaster-Carr or Grainger have just about any tool you can think of and you don't have to worry about chinesium junk either.

https://www.mcmaster.com/products/measuring-tape/system-of-measurement~metric/

I want to see large gravel chunks at 80mph not a baseball at 25.

The biggest delays for ITER were all political in deciding where it would be built and who would contribute what. Yes, there's been some technical delays since then, but compared to other projects of this scale it has actually gone fairly well.

The DEMO units to follow ITER should be able to be built by individual nations. Those should go a lot faster and hence cheaper. The whole point of structuring ITER the way they did was to give all the contributing countries experience in every critical system. That's very inefficient for this particular project, but should make follow up projects a lot more feasible.

How do statements like that not spook investors? You're telling me that leadership in the world's largest internet hosting service are making decisions without collecting relevant data first, or worse, wilfully ignoring the data available that doesn't support their preference? That is not a good sign for the future growth of AWS.