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by vel0city 2mo ago
Tons of motherboards for other computers have dual BIOS update processes so it can roll back to the old version if the upgrade is unsuccessful. They could have also had the BIOS chip be socketable and sold it individually pre-programmed. I
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I'd believe that if this article wasn't an obvious counter example to this. People go where the mindshare is. It doesn't matter if its ad-ridden drivel and slop, it just needs to be popular. The number of people who use OpenA
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Should Dr Pepper have to spend a dollar per purchase to be the top result when you search for "Dr Pepper"? Is it good for the customer that when they search Dr Pepper and they stopped paying for the placement ads the first page is
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by vel0city 2mo ago
> they split the accounts to keep up with the limit You're right about that, they (and other fintechs) have tons of accounts split across a ton of tiny little banks. All of those accounts and banks are FDIC insured. But, those aren&
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Having just a battery still makes you dependent on externalities, just offset by a few hours.
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I'd imagine most electric car batteries aren't fully charging and discharging every day . That makes quite a bit of difference in wear! Tons of EVs these days are being made with what, 200-300mi range of battery pack with some
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by vel0city 2mo ago
So I could buy a battery for ~$1,850 today that won't even break even in a decade (and hope everything goes well with this plan, not guaranteed in the slightest), or I can buy a 10 year US treasury note that'll give me another $1,
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I 100% agree with your last comment. The moment we get some $10 chip that can actually sample and usefully analyze some 13GHz signal the bleeding edge will probably be somewhere far out there.
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I'm a ham and took a number of EE/electromagnetism classes in college, so I totally understand what you're talking about with wire characteristics. I agree there's a ton of hidden complexity on these high bandwidth cab
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I'm just meaning people here are looking for a "does it work", a binary yes/no. Not a precise measurement of exactly how perfectly the digital signal is making it through the wire. They don't care exactly what the S
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by vel0city 2mo ago
> Starlink satellites are already compute plus solar panels. Just scale it up! Starlink satellites use probably less than 1/100th the power budget of even these earlier supposed plans. They don't use much power at all in compar
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I've got little doubt they can put some kind of compute in orbit. Shit, load a tiny model on the next batch of Starlink birds, boom, space AI datacenter done. Will it be anywhere close to the numbers they're claiming? Will it ac
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by vel0city 2mo ago
> Current SpaceX design is 75 kW of computer per ton, including solar panels, radiators, everything Anyone can make a website. Let's see them actually make it and put it in orbit. According to another Musk website we'd be ridin
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Or potentially: C) SpaceX engineers enjoy their cushy salary funded by a guy who won't take "that doesn't make sense" for an answer to work on rockets and neat technology, even if it may never really work out.
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by vel0city 2mo ago
For some perspective, the entire heat rejection system on the ISS at peak can do a little less than one rack of dense AI compute power. All of that plumbing, all of that area, all that stuff to put in orbit just to cool one rack of co
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by vel0city 2mo ago
> If you are just wanting "to use it", sure. Isn't that what most people here are really wanting? I don't imagine most people here are seriously wanting to know the exact extreme measurements, just "can this ca
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by vel0city 2mo ago
>But nvidia-smi only showed Xorg using 200M out of the 24G, so why would a 911M alloc fail? That was just the last buffer allocation request that failed, it didn't tell you by how much it failed by. It could have failed it by a few
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by vel0city 2mo ago
While I totally agree if you want to truly know the quality of the signal you need a very expensive box to actually measure the tiny deviations, if the question is "can this thing handle 80Gbit of data", can't you just get
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Would the famous ditch in the Hudson have broken the casings of the batteries?
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by vel0city 2mo ago
So imagine I decide to make some tool to let my customers store their files. I just decide to toss them all in a big fat S3 bucket behind the scenes with what look like random UUIDs for the keys in the bucket. All the relationships between
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Note, this wouldn't be PBS the national organization, this would be the local PBS affiliate who would have made this decision. The affiliates are extremely independent.
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Yeah, reading a bit more it does seem like this experimental version is to really test the battery electric components but the actual plane they're looking to put on sale seems to be sold as like a plug-in hybrid.
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by vel0city 2mo ago
I agree these numbers are likely to improve. I'm purely thinking about this particular model at this particular time . I'm mostly just wondering why they're making such a big point talking about this being a battery electric
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by vel0city 2mo ago
> Millions of people in the US live in places a 2+hr drive to the nearest major airport If its >2 hour drive to the airport this plane probably isn't going to take you there on pure-electric power, that's my point. If you dr
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by vel0city 2mo ago
At 120 miles of useful pure electric range, I can't imagine there are many US corridors where that pure electric range makes sense. That's still a range where the door to door time of a car can still win. I wonder why they don&#x2
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by vel0city 2mo ago
If they've taken down large portions of the grid for a prolonged period of time you're also not going to have much gasoline left. > bad weather has been shown to take down power grids for entire regions for days, sometimes week
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by vel0city 2mo ago
As someone who has actually lived through multiple major catastrophes where fuel couldn't get delivered for days and electricity was out for days, when the pumps stop working there is no gas. Don't assume the gasoline the police a
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by vel0city 2mo ago
So once you've decided on a particular brand and variety of chips you only ever buy that single brand and variety of chips, never branching out to try different things? Never get an urge for wavy chips instead of traditional, or maybe
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by vel0city 2mo ago
> live in a wealthy area Its an "easier" thing to do (not claiming its an easy thing) when you're not living in a very wealthy area. Far easier to own a home when home prices are $200k not $2M. Groceries are often cheape
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by vel0city 2mo ago
Are there cultures out there which wish for important parts of their own country get turned into nuclear wastelands? If Iran wants to make their country a nuclear wasteland, they don't need to blow up ships to do it. I'd imagine t

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