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Comment Re:Meaningless statements? (Score 1) 40

More importantly, cameras can be better because they can have real binocular vision, no blind spots, and plenty of redundancy. No, current systems don't have that, and I am happy my Tesla still has/uses ultrasonic sensors for better distance estimation close-in. Ultimately by the point cameras are completely useless, so are humans. Get off the road and wait for better conditions!

Comment Re:The "data center" hot topic... (Score 1) 32

SpaceX has 1.4GW of (nameplate) compute infrastructure, and they are not the biggest player. >1GW load, with plans to double it within 6 months, is a real concern for infrastructure.

California has a peak electrical demand around 35-40GW as a frame of reference. Load growth on the peak of more than ~300MW is a very big deal. When you have 5-10 players collectively looking at adding >20MW over the next two years there are no cheap and easy solutions for additional capacity.

Comment Re:The "data center" hot topic... (Score 1) 32

The need for more data centers is questionable. If all this AI growth turns the corner and companies decide much of it was just overblown hype? Then those data centers will quickly wind back down again.

In the worst case, they'll add interior walls (and maybe add some windows to the exterior walls), and resell it as office space, residential space, factory space, retail distribution space, or even a community library. After all, floors built to support racks of equipment should handle the weight and distribution of stacks of books without breaking a sweat.

So the construction might be overkill for what they eventually get used for, but it's not like a newly built, solid building isn't going to find a use. Maybe a quarter of the effort is wasted? Just guessing.

Comment Re:Elon said (Score 1) 65

We don't even have a permanent colony on Antarctica, just scientific expeditions manned part-time.

To be a multi-planet species, we would need at least one permanent colony on a second planet (Mars, presumably).

Mars is a LOT harder than Antarctica.

Comment Re: Win 10 support extended... (Score 1) 88

Not that I think you'll read this today, but why I quit WinDoze? I got tired of reinstalling Win95.(98 was worse). Win95 was released, according the PC Mag, with over 65k known "issues".

I like Linux - I don't have to screw around with M$ changing menus, changing compatability, and on and on. Oh, and keep paying.

And my wife's issues were with whatever the current version of Civ is, hung her machine.

Comment Re:How will that work... (Score 1) 69

...when your brand new phone refuses to be activated on their network, even though you bought it from them> No activation = no connection = app is useless. Can't call them either because, you know, at that point the phone doesn't work.
And yes, it has happened to me.

For T-Mobile, that works great. You have a customer who's paying you and you don't have to provide service for.

Of course, I guess the other assumption is you have access to another phone or something - either your spouse or your kid, or a work phone. Or maybe a landline.

Comment Re: Ok, so since market has started ignoring him (Score 2) 201

Republican "god" can do no wrong, though. The man could walk into the middle of 5th Avenue, shoot a woman in the head, and then fuck her shattered skull, and they'd still sing his praises. Indoctrination. Cultism. Brainwashing. So many different names for how they idolise this man.

It's worse than that. They will find a way to justify why that woman needed to be killed and skullfucked, trying to turn it into a necessary event that their heroic manbaby had to do. There are none so blind as those who cannot see.

The irony is, a few years ago you couldn't get them to shut up about dementia, government corruption or "crime" families... now their silence is deafening. Seems they were just trying to prepare us for Trump rather than warning us about Biden.

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