So, if it was like Signal and didn’t let you self host at all it would have ranked on this list?

So, the data centers on the ground are thousands of feet across, cost billions of dollars to build, consume so much electricity that they’re struggling to power them (making them resort to things like on-site gas turbines), and produce so much heat that they consume entire towns water supplies to feed their evaporative coolers.

Clearly the solution to these problems is to put the computers into a space constrained container, pay thousands of extra dollars per lb of equipment to launch it into space, where the only way to generate power is with solar panels (that are also space constrained and you also have to pay to launch), and where there is no atmosphere to act as a heat sink let alone water. Oh, and also the chips can be exposed to particle and EM radiation much more easily up there too.

EDIT: I realize that my comment is mostly just restating parts of the article, but its just hilarious to me how perfectly every space-related complication corresponds to things they’re already struggling with on earth. And then there’s radiation on top of that. Its like some guy complaining about how its too hot and wet in Florida, so he moves to the middle of the Amazon rainforest. And his new house has an active beehive inside it.

15 years I think

This number gets lower every time I see it.

First, manufacturers typically guarantee their panels for 25 to 30 years.

Second, while we can extrapolate from existing data and perform accelerated aging tests, we’re actually not completely sure how long PV panels last in the real world because the oldest ones from 1987 are still going.

I’m not the person you’re replying to but here’s one:

You can just do an image search for “Netherlands separated cycle lane” to see a bunch more.

Here are some videos about road design in the Netherlands you might find interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aNtsWvNYKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlApbxLz6pA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1l75QqRR48

Building the machines and running them are two different skillsets. Like building a race car vs driving one.

Its at least somewhat based on the transistor density increase they get from other techniques right? Like “3 nm” is the equivalent transistor size they’d need to get the same transistor density using 2005 chip design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection

Some small piston engine aircraft serve remote communities in places like Alaska, as well as things like research stations and some remote infrastructure.

Although its mostly personal aircraft, yeah.

Ferrocene might be a better drop-in replacement, since it wouldn’t affect the fuel’s vapor pressure.

Still though, I agree this should have been handled decades ago.

Modern CPUs are pipelined, meaning that the clock signal doesn’t have to propagate across the entire chip each tick. Instead the subsections act like a bucket brigade, with each one handing the results of the partially completed work to the next stage.

There is a limit to how small these subsections can be practically made due to pipeline length and the formation of “bubbles” on instruction branching that take time to clear. Eventually the cost of these bubbles outweighs the gains made from more pipeline stages.

So, if a 6502 or a Z80 were smaller than a single pipeline stage in a modern processor it could potentially have an even higher clockrate, albeit while doing massively less work per clock cycle. Though thermals might be a bottleneck before clock propagation is. Very small but extremely hot spots can be a problem in modern CPU design, with parts of e.g. the ALUs rising to unacceptable temperatures even as all the silicon around them is relatively cool. IIRC some Intel CPUs actually have instructions that are only able to be executed a limited number of times per second for this reason.

So an extremely small, extremely fast/hot 6502 might not have a much faster clockrate than a modern chip.

I had a very similar childhood in the US.

I sat at a booth and played with coloring books while my mom worked in a restaurant’s kitchen, dad’s work was seasonal and very irregular. We didn’t drink the tapwater in our little town because it didn’t smell right and even came out discolored a few times; instead we’d drive to springs where a bunch of other people got their water too.

It may not have been in the spotlight, but I don’t think that’s automatically a bad thing.

Absolutely wild fucking take.

Yes, that is automatically a bad thing.

India, despite having over 4 times the population of US, actually produced slightly more than half as much CO2

Sounds like people in the US shouldn’t have kids then.

I mean, open world games are commonplace.

Nobody calls Minecraft or The Outer Wilds a GTA-like. Even if you want to stick “3D RPG” on there, nobody considers Morrowind or New Vegas to be a GTA-like.

On the other hand I would consider games like Cyberpunk: 2077 and Red Faction: Guerilla to be GTA-likes, as they both fall squarely in the GTA/Far Cry/Assassin’s Creed triangle. This has to do not just with the shape of the map, but the systems within it, the design ethos / expected player actions, and the way the narrative is structured and presented.

It’s like saying “doomclones” stopped. Yeah, they became fpses.

In my opinion mentioning “doom clones” is a thought terminating cliche. I have never seen it improve the quality of a discussion because it shuts down conversations about the similarities and differences between games and how much the various qualities contribute to creating a distinctive experience.

If the only thing a game had in common with DOOM was the structure of its levels then I wouldn’t even consider it comparable (at least for general description). If it had the same core gameplay mechanics and feel as doom but added some of its own ideas I might call it a doom-like. If a game just poorly imitated all of DOOM’s mechanics without bringing anything new to the table, then yeah, I would probably consider that to be a shitty knockoff.

How geologists reproduce

preferential (ranked choice) voting system

A proportional one like STV, ideally

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Since it sounds like you know what you’re talking about, out of curiosity, how do you feel about SPARC?

Imagine going back in time to 2015 and showing this article to someone.

I don’t know much about photography, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but would something like focus stacking help with this?

That is to say, make the lens less of a bottleneck so you could benefit from a higher resolution sensor.