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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
Not uh I have one on my desk...
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
Good point, as a further example see all the "luck" countries like Ukraine have been having with even slightly modified "consumer" drone stuff applied to this kind of application
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
Yeah but what about CNC milling machines? Way more guns are made on those every day than 3d printers. There is even one you can buy that is specifically for making "ghost guns"
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
Space is cold because there isn't anything there. There is also no matter to wick the heat away.
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
There is no matter. It's cold there because there isn't anything there. So there is nothing to conduct or convect the heat away. It's like a giant vacuum insulated thermos. Is putting data centers in thermos' a good ide
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
Facts. Just do the basic thermal heat transfer math.
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
Yeah but they don't design the stuff
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
Many of us see them and are fighting the fight if our lives against it
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
I have one of these Citizens, it was my first "nice" watch. They're really cool
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
Yeah but these hyperscalers are building data centers that are 100 or even 1000 mW
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
That's a lot of weight to launch into orbit
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
All as a side effect...
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
These are no longer tech companies, to they are financial, and power, instruments of the billionaire class
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by iancmceachern 8mo ago
Yes. It is very cold up there but there is also no matter, or very little matter. So head conduction and convection don't work, it's all radiation. When we are learning to solve heat transfer problems in engineering school we a
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
As someone who didn't read the article, or any of the other comments, I just want to say reading the comments first is the only way to HN.
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
You are right It's paid for by taxes on the fuel. No need to double charge.
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
Agreed
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
We do this all day, would be very happy to help. www.iancollmceachern.com
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
You are assuming something again. They both refresh their equipment at the same rate.
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
But Company A also took on debt for theirs, so that's a wash. You assume only one of them has debt to service?
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
You highlight the exact dilemma. Company A has taxis that are 5 percent less efficient and for the reasons you stated doesn't want to upgrade. Company B just bought new taxis, and they are undercutting company A by 5 percent while payi
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
Tell that to the airline industry
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
The real question is what else will this cause to fall when it does happen.
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
They're no longer energy competitive. I.e. the amount of power per compute exceeds what is available now. It's like if your taxi company bought taxis that were more fuel efficient every year.
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
Why the all caps? Some of the smaller ones were. Most of the larger ones were definitely not. "These loans are not forgivable and must be repaid" https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief
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A pandemic rescue became a 30-year debt trap(thehill.com)
21 points by iancmceachern 9mo ago|10 comments
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
This is the perfect thing to learn on. It's actually a very simple thing as these things go. I expect there would be just a few changes needed, typically the components used in these things are friendly to this need and you just need
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
It's open source, you should make these updates!
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Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy to step down(latimes.com)
5 points by iancmceachern 9mo ago|2 comments
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by iancmceachern 9mo ago
I've noticed the same thing for LinkedIn, etc corporate communications. All of a sudden every CEO and marketing leader is packing them in.

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