People don’t understand just how difficult it is to cool stuff in space. Half of the shit sticking out of the ISS that people think are solar panels are actually radiant cooling systems, and the ISS will generate WAY less heat per volume than a data center.
Honestly, Lemmy has been good for me in some ways because it isn’t as popular and doesn’t have the deep niche communities reddit has that I was super active in.
I get more accomplished now because I essentially “finish” my Lemmy browsing and move on, whereas reddit always had something else for me to dive into.
Why spend all that money and resources cultivating actual intelligence?
Maybe there’s more than one problem, and none of the governments involved in this are the good guys.
Yes, America and Israel are responsible for the current clusterfuck, but Iran’s government is still pretty fucking evil.
The fact that they’re making companies sign 5-year contracts for the current prices before selling anything at all says that they’re expecting the demand to collapse soon, and they want to lock in the high prices before that happens.
When industries pull this bullshit, they should be nationalized.
You should watch his videos on solar panels if you like a rant, though it gets increasingly political as it goes.
The video may be primarily about solar, but he goes nuclear by the end.
Sony sold the PS3 at a pretty significant loss and had an “OtherOS” feature that allowed people to install Linux on it.
Between that and ots cell architecture, it turned out to be a super affordable way to build supercomputers. Sony eventually disabled the OtherOS feature to combat people buying them en masse and costing Sony their lunch, and they got a LOT of flack for it.
Valve is doing the opposite. They’re keeping the openness, but charging enough money it’s not financially viable to buy a bunch of Steam Machines to build cheap AI clusters.
It was basing standards on vehicle footprints. Starting in 2012, a Toyota Corolla had less-strict emissions and fuel economy standards than a compact truck, so they stopped making the compact trucks after 2011.
They brought back the Ranger, but it’s larger than some of the older F150s.
And as standards got tighter, it impacted more an more vehicles. All the compact cargo vans (Transit Connect, ProMaster City, and NV200) were discontinued in 2022 because they no longer meet standards at that size.
The th8ng about this administration is that they’re drumming constantly about everyone. Yeah - they attacked Iran, but the also threatened to attack Canada and Mexico and Greenland and China and everyone else. They’ve overwhelmed us with so much bullshit we’re too busy being shocked by the new attrocity to give a proper response to the last one.
Maybe we understand that the US is the greater of 2 evils in this specific war, while also feeling like the Iranian government is evil.
I dropped a word there. “It doesn’t have to cost…”
I’d prefer he commit suicide rather than have his clients murder him.
A major state university with 45,000 students.
Choosing not to sit in a crowded room while people read names for 2 more hours so someone can hand you a fake placeholder diploma (the real one is mailed later) isn’t some grand sacrifice.
I like that it happened because it’s embarrassing for Pichai. Bit there is no price to be paid by the students as far as I can tell.
When Karl Rove spoke at my college when I was a student, I was part of the angry audience that lead to him ending his address 20 minutes early and leaving with his security detail forming a crowd around him. It was a cool moment, but it didn’t cost me anything.
And I think that’s the bigger takeaway. It doesn’t have to cost you anything to stand up to these assholes.
I teach at a college. The ceremony is so Mom can come get a picture. There’s a reason so many grad students don’t go to theirs.
They walked out of an extremely boring ceremony. That’s nothing.
We can talk about more than one thing.
Ads aren’t always there to get you to buy something specific. In fact, an ad you don’t interact with is a better ad because they don’t have to pay for click-through.
You don’t want to buy brand A because they have ads, so you buy brand B instead, but both widgets are owned by the same holding company. Or they’re made in the same factory. Or they use the same components. Or they have the same shareholders. Any way you slice it, the same rich assholes are getting your money.
The goal of the Ads is to put a bug in your head and get you to buy something.
And that’s just the Ads. The tracking is also (increasingly primarily) about political manipulation and surveillance.
The point is control, not safety.
If they can use a system to prosecute anyone, they can target anyone they don’t like.
Work Product and Attorney Client privilege are broken by AI use, making anything shared with an AI discoverable.
Defaulting AI on is how you get the corporate lawyers to make us drop Microsoft.