Comment Re:Alternate use (Score 1) 75
It doesn't take more energy than the fossil fuel produced to capture all of its CO2 output and more, so it's not a violation of thermodynamics any more than a catalytic converter on a car is.
It doesn't take more energy than the fossil fuel produced to capture all of its CO2 output and more, so it's not a violation of thermodynamics any more than a catalytic converter on a car is.
This is much better for the environment than just flaring the gas but it's about the least useful thing that could be done with that energy. Training/running AIs would be somewhat better. Some even better uses I could think of:
- Putting the energy into grid storage (maybe even just local grid for the oil rig equipment)
- Running an atmospheric CCS plant, or even CCS on the exhaust of some of the nearby oil rig equipment
- Running a traditional data center (even better usefulness per watt/hour than AIs)
- Running some beneficial distributed computation work like WCG or F@H
I wonder why they're saying he was in "custody" if the only thing he needed to escape was another passport. Seems he didn't need to break out of jail first, and was likely in Executive Time Out with some limitations on where he was allowed to go, like Carlos Ghosn. And it seems like he may have been allowed to go to the airport.
It would also help to switch from regular git to radicle:
Well sure, you can run any OS on a VM in a container on any OS...
Containers aren't a newer replacement for VMs, they're different technologies that could be used to do similar things in some situations. You can't run Windows in a container on a Linux host for example. I'm actually more bothered by the resource waste of using containers instead of just installing a couple of software packages than people using a VM where a container could do the job...
That was my first thought as well. My second was that this theory sounds similar to this incident:
https://www.theregister.com/20...
It seems odd that airrcraft don't have as many safety lockouts on their power seat controls as modern cars do. Most cars won't let the driver's seat be adjusted unless it detects a parked condition. Maybe the aircraft controls should use a seat occupancy sensor with an override button that's hard to reach.
I always thought that the simplest and most likely explanation was that the plane's lithium battery pack caught fire (an issue the model was later grounded for IIRC?), they tried to turn back but immediately suffered a massive electrical failure that shut down the plane and eventually caused it to crash.
Nope, still using spinning rust for that due to lower cost and more gradual and forgiving failure modes. But I've been using flash storage since the days when a 16MB USB1 drive was a significant investment, and I haven't seen one lose data from a lack of power yet...
Something like an SSD is only going to last a couple of years without power, and we're well beyond that.
LOLWUT? SSDs do not need any power to retain data, only RAM does. Find your oldest, dustiest USB flash drive or SD card and give it a try.
This will make Texas safer...from the potential embarrassment of Ted Cruz accidentally sharing another porn video on TwitX on the anniversary of 9/11. One less site he can view it on!
BTW I checked into it and humans are only 17~60% banana depending on the criteria used:
Turns out that their customers are all rapidly transitioning to KVM (on Proxmox):
Every brand will have at least one model with this capability soon enough so you should make a list of models instead. If you want to be totally safe from it, you need a car that doesn't have a cell modem (or the ability to connect to a wifi hotspot).
I can tell when Fox has recently covered a topic because it's as if all the right-wing NPCs out there have been updated with a new set of dialogue scripts for discussing it, it's uncanny how little variance there is between any two of them. Fox viewers see the whole world outside of Fox as being a bunch of identical talking points because any mainstream or respectable media operates in an objective reality that concerns itself with facts, which Fox viewers see as a restrictive box fenced in by elite-guided narratives. At the same time what they don't realize is that while the mainstream tends to stick to the same objective-reality-driven facts, it at least offers some variety of angles and opinions; while the views within the world of Fox, a single station consisting largely of views that don't exist anywhere in the mainstream including its own single set of (often "alternative") facts, a single angle and a single station's worth of highly similar opinions, are so specific and narrow that Fox viewers appear to the relatively diverse world of non-Fox viewers as a homogeneous race of hive-mind automatons who get synchronized thought updates from a central repository.
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