You do realize there is a lot more exposure to electromagnetic radiation at 40,000 feet then there is at 1000 feet, yeah?

And you know that we've observed solar bursts causing bit-flips in RAM and SSD? Like, a lot?

So a solar flare causing additional EM and ionizing radiation, and increased exposure to it due to higher altitude might increase the probability of getting a few bit-flips in the systems, yeah?

No, they don't know for sure. But they have operational records that show higher exposure does cause these issues from time to time, and they correlate a higher blast of radiation at the time of the failure.

The network hardware usually lasts longer than the servers unless you get unlucky. For example if you bought a Cisco Catalyst 5000 then you only had max 5 years before you probably got rid of it due to y2k issues. (The switches WOULD keep working after y2k, but logging of dates wouldn't work correctly.)

Producting plutonium isn't as much of a concerns as what particular isotope of plutonium they produce.

Produce Plutonium 240 or 241? No problem, 241 contaminates weapons because it spontaneously fissions and will cause a weapon with more than a single-digit percent of 241 to "fissile" and just make a localized mess.

Produce Plutonium 239 and no other Pu isotope? Weapons proliferation concerns, won't ever get built in the US.

For what it's worth, all commercial power reactors produce plutonium as part of their operation. That plutonium continues to capture neutrons the longer it's in the reactor and turns from what you want for weapons into something you really do not. The longer it's in there, the less suitable it is for weapons.

And there is no known way to perform isotope separation on Plutonium. Whatever you get, you get. And if the non-239 percentage is too high, you have just made more mixed-oxide reactor fuel.

Yeah, that's how it works.

Sure. But is it wrong to refuse to do business with a regressive country? Should a nation be forced to do business with a nation whose goals run counter to their ideals?

1) the US promised to protect Ukraine if they gave up nukes
2) Russia still has nukes

Well I'm not an expert on this, but search results say "Monero, Ravencoin, Vertcoin, and Grin" are all still good to mine with CPU or GPU. Also there's no reason they couldn't introduce another coin or ten.

Perhaps the board thinks the linear cable assets are worth more than the valuation that Paramount Skydance have given it, and the Netflix deal was accepted because they think they can get more for it as a separate entity?

I've asked, they've told me no every time.

$100/MWh isn't remotely competitive any more, mostly, but because of the "base-load" need, you might get that much. If it can't produce power cheaper than that, though, it won't fly.

Nuclear dreams are now in a race with batteries, basically - if batteries get down to $20/kWh as the CAPEX, keeping around enough batteries for a dunkelflaute every few years, starts to compete with $100/MWh of baseload.

And then there's geothermal, just a big question mark right now, but the chancers doing pilot plants are definitely aiming for less than $100/MWh - and for power that may not just be base-load, but have some storage capability so it can flex up more power at night, hold it back during the day. If they make that happen, nuclear has to beat them or die.

Oh good I found a bot. Good luck training your llm here whoever you are.

My concern is that the companies that bought them to run LLMs will become miners themselves to try to recoup some of the costs.

RWNJ is Slashdot's Tucker Carlson. Educated, erudite, pretending not to know things in order to justify the worst possible conclusions. I wonder if he wears a stupid bow tie.

Yeah, you've nailed this. This part of TFS made me laugh:

"This is so cool to me to have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this," one 18-year-old told the New York Times.

LLMs aren't new any more, given how fast the computing industry moves in general, though they are still the hot thing. This kid is nowhere near the forefront in any way. This is just the latest development in a field that's as old as computing.

It's still relevant. In particular it's how you get around restrictions.

Released earlier this year but if anyone has yet to see it this video is really fantastic at breaking down how this came about and why it feels so weird and unfunny, even to the audience they're trying to reach.

How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult

It's still the exact same silicon and it's got the same problems. Not all of them burn out but some of them do.

The real question is how long until it's replaced by newer or better hardware. Basically will we see custom hardware replace video cards soon for llm acceleration. Similar to what we saw with Bitcoin.

That Won't help consumers because the Fab capacity is just going to go to different silicone, but it does mean that a whole shitload of these gpus will become worthless. I guess some of them will show up on eBay. I got a lot of use out of an old rx580 that was a mining card. I think it did eventually die on me but I got about six good years out of it.

That's a one-time Bonanza though. And it's assuming we get it. The real loser there would be Nvidia since if they get replaced on the AI market with custom hardware then their market value is going to crash harder than I think any market value has ever crashed

If they did that it would increase emissions a lot. They also have already tried to do that but courts ruled that a) California could still have its own emissions standards because California invented emissions standards as far as the US is concerned and b) other states which previously chose to follow California's emissions standards before the US had them can continue to follow California's.

Of course there's no guarantee that the conservative-owned SCOTUS won't change that again.

The standards for operation of commercial trucks, busses etc. are already set by the federal government. States implement them but are not in charge of them, except for filling in the blanks left by incompetent and inadequate federal law as usual. Maybe you should educate yourself about the status quo before agitating for changes to it.