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by otterley 4mo ago
Thanks, Captain Obvious. ;) the underlying question was why (although I used the word how and that’s on me).
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by otterley 4mo ago
I've often wondered how this is lawful under the EPA. Obviously it must be, but it seems like a gross oversight to allow people to just burn natural gas and allow its byproducts to escape into the atmosphere yet not get any useful work
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by otterley 4mo ago
So what?
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by otterley 4mo ago
Sorry, I don’t follow. The opportunity cost of what is zero?
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by otterley 4mo ago
Electrical tape sometimes leaves adhesive behind when you peel it off, so you might not be able to avoid using a chemical during the reversal process.
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by otterley 4mo ago
Well done, sir. clap
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by otterley 4mo ago
Meanwhile, people are in fact making actual money solving problems for others by building use-case-specific solutions. Perhaps you’re unaware of them, but they do exist. They prefer to operate off the radar.
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by otterley 4mo ago
If you’re counting administrative mistakes (human error), anything can fail. Let’s not shift the goalposts.
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by otterley 4mo ago
Active/active without sharding is not a horizontal scaling model, and the blast radius of a fault is wide. One can have GLBs that do routing. So long as the tenant-to-cell routing tables are consistent, it works fine. And those mapping
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by otterley 4mo ago
GLBs aren’t SPOFs. They are typically deployed around the world redundantly, often using Anycast IPs or using DNS geographic and failover records, and are stateless. Think AWS Global Accelerator and Route 53 as an example. The architecture
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by otterley 4mo ago
That may be true for the USA, but there's the rest of the world to consider. China and India were both increasing their coal generation year after year until, well, just this past year: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analy
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by otterley 4mo ago
These are not opposites. Both can be true.
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by otterley 4mo ago
You're right to call me out on the facts about CW as the story's a bit different from what I remembered from reading an article about them a few months back ( https://www.wired.com/story/coreweave-scrappy-crypt
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by otterley 4mo ago
It depends on how you think about spare capacity on your hardware. They're an opportunity cost. Every idle cycle and bit of unallocated memory could be spent doing something else valuable. Consider the most extreme example of GPUs: Cor
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by otterley 4mo ago
> case in point, it took me saying the same thing twice, for you to catch on Quit being a dick, Jon. It doesn't suit your stature. At any rate, warm pools aren't cost free. If you overestimate demand, you'll waste too much
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by otterley 4mo ago
Following up like this--twice--is douchebaggy behavior. If someone misunderstands what you're saying, try elaborating or rephrasing instead. Help make the conversation more productive and less combative.
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by otterley 4mo ago
Brand equity lasts long after advertising has ceased. Coca-Cola could stop advertising for a year tomorrow and people would still be aware of it and buy it.
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by otterley 4mo ago
That ship sailed long ago, before there were viable alternatives to BTC. There are plenty of ways to launder BTC (i.e. hiding in plain sight) and the existence of hoarded wealth in BTC isn't necessarily exclusive of other cryptocurrenc
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Microsoft turns to Amazon for help with GitHub's AI-driven capacity issues(businessinsider.com)
2 points by otterley 4mo ago|1 comments
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by otterley 4mo ago
On what grounds do you believe the value of BTC is meme-driven? Another (and arguably more plausible) explanation is that the price reflects the vast amount of criminally-obtained wealth stored in it. It’s a far better store than burying ca
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by otterley 5mo ago
Perhaps so, but you still have to show that it is happening, not merely that it is possible. Moreover, you have to show that whatever cures you propose are both 1/proportional to the harm and 2/minimize undesirable side effects. (
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by otterley 5mo ago
How does it compare to the Strands Agents SDK? https://strandsagents.com
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by otterley 5mo ago
That doesn't mean the company is losing money in aggregate on these subscriptions. Buffets are still in business even though some people gorge themselves silly at them. The incremental cost may exceed the incremental revenue for a p
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by otterley 5mo ago
That's a very big "if," which this what thread has been about.
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by otterley 5mo ago
It's not a datacenter REIT. Datacenter REITs don't sell compute. They sell space, power, and cooling in which compute lives. I get the point the author is trying to make (in that SpaceX's most valuable asset is its compute ca
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by otterley 5mo ago
The fact that you can sell or lease out something for more than you bought it for is justification in and of itself.
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by otterley 5mo ago
Practical Engineering made an outstanding video on this: "What Really Happened During the Texas Power Grid Outage?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08mwXICY4JM
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by otterley 5mo ago
Where did you get your costs and margins from? I have direct experience in this business and I can tell you they’re usually not that high. These machines are also not cheap to power, cool, and house. As a comparison point, CoreWeave’s most
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by otterley 5mo ago
It’s not “black magic” to sell excess GPU capacity to third parties to make a profit. This is a legitimate business venture. It’s just not the business that people naturally expect a business with a name of Space Exploration Technologies t
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by otterley 5mo ago
> This deal increases SpaceX's revenue by 30%, and pushes SpaceX into profitability. With this deal, SpaceX is eligible for S&P inclusion. You keep saying this even though you don’t present any evidence that it will make SpaceX

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