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by fooker 9mo ago
You're right. I meant it specifically for figuring out cooling computers in space. I am pretty sure this is going to be a solvable problem if this is the bottleneck to achieve data centers in space, given that newer chips are much more
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by fooker 9mo ago
You'd think so, but if you bet on this guy not being able to get investors you'll end up being wrong. It doesn't make sense (neither does Tesla's valuation, for example), but it is what it is. Both Spacex and Xai have in
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by fooker 9mo ago
You missed the point. We can make ten or hundred times the number of solar cells we make right now, we just don't have a reason to. The technology is fairly ancient unless you want to compete on efficiency, and the raw materials abunda
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by fooker 9mo ago
> We currently make around 1 TW of photovoltaic cells per year, globally. China made 1.8 TW of solar cells in 2025. The raw materials required to make these are incredibly abundant, we make as much as we need.
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by fooker 9mo ago
One reliable method of pushing envelopes, attracting investment and hiring smart people is to get excited about unrealistic timelines. The best case is you meed the unrealistic timeline, the average case outcome is you solve the problem but
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by fooker 9mo ago
> Let’s say the costs in 5 years do get as low as $15 per kilogram or about 2 orders of magnitude improvement in launch prices. That means a 200-ton payload Starship would cost $3,000 to launch. Do you honestly believe that? The world’s
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by fooker 9mo ago
Are you trying to say it'll be delayed or that it'll never work? One is obviously true, and the other is very likely false.
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by fooker 9mo ago
> in what fantasy world It is already more expensive to performance maintenance on SOCs than it is to replace them. Remember, these machines are not for serving a database, there are practically no storage needs (and storage is the compo
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by fooker 9mo ago
> I think it's worth taking the results seriously but not the proposed mechanism literally Yes, agreed. There has been plenty of einstein-smart humans making observations for the ~30000 years of human prehistory, with and without th
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by fooker 9mo ago
Neat, didn't know about this.
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by fooker 9mo ago
Seems the radiation goes away in a decade or so, not a huge amount of time in the grand scheme of things. And I guess irradiated gold or a weird gold isotope would be just fine for putting in electronics that is meant to go beyond low earth
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by fooker 9mo ago
How would you go about using 1lb of gold to procure food, water and fuel in a crisis bad enough to disable government/banking? History has shown than people usually lose all their gold in situations like this, pretty much all the time.
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by fooker 9mo ago
Step 1: yeet mercury into a mini sun. If this actually works, I'm going to be convinced that some alchemist overheard an alien dude talking about this but misinterpreted it in line with contemporary knowledge.
554.
by fooker 9mo ago
Words have meaning, don't write random things about a topic you don't understand because of cultural pride. What you have written is nonsense and demeans hatha yoga, among other things. > predictive method No > corresponding
555.
by fooker 9mo ago
> Alchemy and they realize the incredible power of mercury They were just a few centuries too early! https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/nuclear-fusion...
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by fooker 9mo ago
Soybeans are an interesting example, because the almost all the soybeans we grow right now are sort of dual purpose. But in a way that may be different from what you'd expect. The same crop yields both soy milk/oil/tofu/
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by fooker 9mo ago
Swift's happy path is pretty good, i.e. when you want to use a recent-ish toolchain to develop IOS applications using APIs that are not too new. The more you deviate from this, the more cracks there are.
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by fooker 9mo ago
You can easily trade gold until someone can force it from you. The amount of gold you can realistically conceal is less than a year of your salary.
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by fooker 9mo ago
What do you all think of the chances that we have decentralized AI infrastructure like this at some point?
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by fooker 9mo ago
> Most land taken up to grow plants is used to inefficiently feed livestock. Because it is just not suitable for growing crops that humans can realistically consume. If you can figure out a way to change this at scale, it'll be a d
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by fooker 9mo ago
If these numbers seem extraordinarily high to you, try and estimate the scale of deforestation it would take to replace all this food with grains and vegetables. (Hint: about 5-10x the available fertile land on earth)
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by fooker 9mo ago
Rust gets around the shortcomings of its generics by providing an absurdly powerful macro engine. It's a great idea when not abused too much for creating weird little DSLs that no one is able to read.
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by fooker 9mo ago
> We still are not going to want that of course for classic ML domains like vision It could make sense to decompose one large opaque model into code with decision trees calling out to smaller models having very specific purposes. This is
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by fooker 9mo ago
> Perhaps the key to transparent/interpretable ML is to just replace the ML model with AI-coded traditional software and decision trees I like this train of thought. Research shows that decision trees are equivalent to 1-bit model w
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by fooker 9mo ago
Exactly, that's no better than #including transitive dependencies to compile large translation units.
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by fooker 9mo ago
It works perfectly when it comes to `import std` and making things a bit easier. It does not work very well at all if your goal is to port your current large codebase to incrementally use modules to save on compile time and intermediate cod
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by fooker 9mo ago
It's all part of the plan. Make the government look so incompetent that it is a no brainer to let a private company (headed by your friends and family of course) to do the important jobs and siphon resources much more effectively.
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by fooker 9mo ago
C++ templates and metaprogramming is fundamentally incompatible with the idea of your code being treated in modules. The current solution chosen by compilers is to basically have a copy of your code for every dependency that wants to specia
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by fooker 9mo ago
Mozilla can seemingly focus on anything except Firefox. This is almost like GRRM trying hard not to focus on Winds of Winter.
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by fooker 9mo ago
Yeah you could be right. Not my area of expertise, so I’d rather not try to predict what will work and what won’t.

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