Well ... first, that needs a "gadget" suitable for creating an EMP - which is still higher-rate tech than a missile being able to just reach a few hundred miles altitude and then "conventionally blow up into tiny…
Indeed ... yet the servers for that already exist and are largely ground-based - "edge" compute of the large CDNs through which much of the internet's traffic flows anyway. Will starlink build its own edge ? Maybe.…
If you solve your cooling problem in space by distributing 10000 servers across 100 orbits then you replace one engineering challenge with the next; good luck with the satellite-satellite optical crossbars, and even…
To merely destroy "space data centers", you need not have very advanced targeting technology nor space lasers or whatnot. Just launch a few things releasing little ball bearings or steel needles or something like that -…
While it's correct that fusion stops producing energy once the fusion product is iron, it is not true that all elements beyond iron are only produced in cataclysmic events (supernovae / neutron star collisions). Stars…
What a weird argument. If one doesn't trust private enterprise to "do right" then the state is nannying and oppressing companies, and if one does and therefore only inspects once a year or so then the state is…
"Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" probably rings a bell for you. With respect to drug addiction, in Europe/Germany at least, I'm more inclined to say "little has changed in 40 years" than to say "things are worse now". It's…
I do wonder; my naive expectation is that while it will solve "petty criminality out of need" it would do little to "pretty criminality out of boredom / for-fun". And BI would be attacked for the latter - some…
And noone has yet mentioned SpaceXman ? It's pocket money to him, would be a great demonstration of philanthropy as well as "private research ability". Do it !
well, if money were to be spent, in that case better build electrical charging infrastructure than upgrading the gas pumps ...
Well they sell that liquid explosive terrorists use to make molotov cocktail firebombs, at every fuel station without particular volume limits at all. It's also sufficiently toxic that care is taken at salespoint to…
The paper linked at the "see also" section ? (thx)
Mapping the abilities of (fixed-function) "stream transformers" to compute is old, much older than "GPU libraries" or render pipelines and all that. I remember the Commodore Amiga used the blitter's combine to…
unfortunately they never are. Brightness-adjusted, that is. Everyone installing lighting fixtures these days believes they must be daylight-level bright. The only ghosts you see are afterimages if you happen to look…
the sad thing, in a way, is that the law entitles the pedestrian here but doesn't protect them. One could make an argument that cars which take the "visual" away from the driver should simply be illegal. Why can they…
There probably is an EU derangement syndrome. If it can afflict the English, it can afflict everyone. Maybe the original poster should consider a sightseeing trip to Europe.
Ranking software engineers is famously hard. What does "top 40%" even mean ? Skills/Experiences/Productivity in that sector are not some Gaussian Distribution of trivially-measurable output. But even if measurable,…
These relative figures mean nothing. Your usage of one specific ultra-new model went from one hour a month to seven? congrats to the 600% increase. Your use of a widespread common model went from 1M tokens to 7M tokens…
"velocity" is not "frequency"; someone throwing semi-finished products at the wall to see what sticks surely has frequent product launches. But even if these ship fast from inception to launch, this scattergun approach…
German 50 Trillion (Marks) _stamps_ from 1923 are (literally) a-dime-a-dozen because postal services had a giant amount of them printed for issue in fall-1923 - just to have the whole lot rendered obsolete by the…
can't help but wonder if the aggregate of the solar PV subsidies made in the last 25 years are higher or lower than the aggregate of energy price subsidies made when the Ukraine and/or Iran wars made fossil fuel prices…
xor'ing the elements of lists together also allows a test of "unordered equality" because 1^2^3^4^5 == (xor of any permutation of [1,2,3,4,5]). Yes there are false positives, and the false negative of…
I always thought I had learned to successfully mask as one of my compatriots, but the test ruthlessly exposes me as 80% Autistic / 20% German. The test is broken, if you ask me.
https://docs.rs/tokio-console/latest/tokio_console/ comes to mind. I'm not aware of eBPF-based dynamic instrumentation for either tokio or other async runtimes, but I'm also not (in need to be) debugging this on a daily…
> "... handwavy crap ..." handwavy argument. Yes, in the (sub)tropics the argument is even stronger pro-PV, not the least because it'll give you the opposite of heating - aircon - for free right when you need it. And…
Well ... first, that needs a "gadget" suitable for creating an EMP - which is still higher-rate tech than a missile being able to just reach a few hundred miles altitude and then "conventionally blow up into tiny…
Indeed ... yet the servers for that already exist and are largely ground-based - "edge" compute of the large CDNs through which much of the internet's traffic flows anyway. Will starlink build its own edge ? Maybe.…
If you solve your cooling problem in space by distributing 10000 servers across 100 orbits then you replace one engineering challenge with the next; good luck with the satellite-satellite optical crossbars, and even…
To merely destroy "space data centers", you need not have very advanced targeting technology nor space lasers or whatnot. Just launch a few things releasing little ball bearings or steel needles or something like that -…
While it's correct that fusion stops producing energy once the fusion product is iron, it is not true that all elements beyond iron are only produced in cataclysmic events (supernovae / neutron star collisions). Stars…
What a weird argument. If one doesn't trust private enterprise to "do right" then the state is nannying and oppressing companies, and if one does and therefore only inspects once a year or so then the state is…
"Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" probably rings a bell for you. With respect to drug addiction, in Europe/Germany at least, I'm more inclined to say "little has changed in 40 years" than to say "things are worse now". It's…
I do wonder; my naive expectation is that while it will solve "petty criminality out of need" it would do little to "pretty criminality out of boredom / for-fun". And BI would be attacked for the latter - some…
And noone has yet mentioned SpaceXman ? It's pocket money to him, would be a great demonstration of philanthropy as well as "private research ability". Do it !
well, if money were to be spent, in that case better build electrical charging infrastructure than upgrading the gas pumps ...
Well they sell that liquid explosive terrorists use to make molotov cocktail firebombs, at every fuel station without particular volume limits at all. It's also sufficiently toxic that care is taken at salespoint to…
The paper linked at the "see also" section ? (thx)
Mapping the abilities of (fixed-function) "stream transformers" to compute is old, much older than "GPU libraries" or render pipelines and all that. I remember the Commodore Amiga used the blitter's combine to…
unfortunately they never are. Brightness-adjusted, that is. Everyone installing lighting fixtures these days believes they must be daylight-level bright. The only ghosts you see are afterimages if you happen to look…
the sad thing, in a way, is that the law entitles the pedestrian here but doesn't protect them. One could make an argument that cars which take the "visual" away from the driver should simply be illegal. Why can they…
There probably is an EU derangement syndrome. If it can afflict the English, it can afflict everyone. Maybe the original poster should consider a sightseeing trip to Europe.
Ranking software engineers is famously hard. What does "top 40%" even mean ? Skills/Experiences/Productivity in that sector are not some Gaussian Distribution of trivially-measurable output. But even if measurable,…
These relative figures mean nothing. Your usage of one specific ultra-new model went from one hour a month to seven? congrats to the 600% increase. Your use of a widespread common model went from 1M tokens to 7M tokens…
"velocity" is not "frequency"; someone throwing semi-finished products at the wall to see what sticks surely has frequent product launches. But even if these ship fast from inception to launch, this scattergun approach…
German 50 Trillion (Marks) _stamps_ from 1923 are (literally) a-dime-a-dozen because postal services had a giant amount of them printed for issue in fall-1923 - just to have the whole lot rendered obsolete by the…
can't help but wonder if the aggregate of the solar PV subsidies made in the last 25 years are higher or lower than the aggregate of energy price subsidies made when the Ukraine and/or Iran wars made fossil fuel prices…
xor'ing the elements of lists together also allows a test of "unordered equality" because 1^2^3^4^5 == (xor of any permutation of [1,2,3,4,5]). Yes there are false positives, and the false negative of…
I always thought I had learned to successfully mask as one of my compatriots, but the test ruthlessly exposes me as 80% Autistic / 20% German. The test is broken, if you ask me.
https://docs.rs/tokio-console/latest/tokio_console/ comes to mind. I'm not aware of eBPF-based dynamic instrumentation for either tokio or other async runtimes, but I'm also not (in need to be) debugging this on a daily…
> "... handwavy crap ..." handwavy argument. Yes, in the (sub)tropics the argument is even stronger pro-PV, not the least because it'll give you the opposite of heating - aircon - for free right when you need it. And…