The World Has a New Most Powerful Supercomputer. It's Going to Build Nukes

[pseudolus]

https://gizmodo.com/the-world-has-a-new-most-powerful-supercomputer-its-going-to-build-nukes-2000526043

[mock-possum]

Wow Gizmodo is even more ass on mobile than it is on desktop. Three different popovers, one a video that crashed the page when I closed out of it, and another that also crashed the page when I accidentally scrolled inside of the ad container instead of the content container.

Do they actually just not want people to use their website or what?

[moktonar]

More weapons of mass peacification incoming! Great news!

[taylodl]

How do they test the accuracy of the models?

[foxyv → taylodl]

They already did, back in the 1980s. Also, there is a reason that research into Fusion has been ongoing since the end of weapon testing.

[more_corn]

Fucking great. Just what our civilization needs. The greatest advancement in information processing turned towards the express purpose of eliminating all human life.

[credit_guy → more_corn]

They are lying. They claim they are using this supercomputer for nuke modeling, but in reality they use it to model inertial confinement fusion.

[JumpCrisscross → more_corn]

> the express purpose of eliminating all human life

That’s a funny way to spell the longest period of interstate peace on a per-capita (globally) basis since the interwar period prior to WWI.

[dTal → JumpCrisscross]

That comparison is rather less comforting than perhaps you might have intended...