You have 150kW of compute running under your desk? https://carthageelectronics.co...

We all love to hate an Elon, but Starlink is a real product you can use today. The Falcon rockets are real rockets used to launch satellites. Obviously, space based data centers won't individually be the same scale as land based data centers. The point isn't large scale compute, but rather to take advantage of being in orbit whatever they may be. Cooling and scale are clearly not the advantage.

So, you must work for the military or SpaceX?

Chill, man!

What's the definition of a data center? They have compute and storage resources customers can rent.

Space data centers currently exist. But, they aren't used like terrestrial data centers. They're used for processing surveillance data at the point of observation. They're the equivalent of Flock cameras that are running machine learning models to detect anomalies, only when an anomaly is detected does it send the data to a ground based data center. That allows them to hunt for missiles and stealth planes optically from multiple points to develop a 3D mapping from optical video feeds. Starlink and Starshield are the Golden Dome.

What SpaceX is selling is a time slice when their satellites are flying over the ocean or areas the military isn't interested in. They'll offer the product at a discount, because The capacity and energy to run it is already paid for through defense contracts. For SpaceX that means every penny collected is profit. Their network becomes critical defense infrastructure until space is so full of debris that they can't utilize it anymore.

I didn't understand the TOCTOU issues or the licensing issues. I will simply stop using Ubuntu because of the licensing issue. My experience with Rust developers is that they are so convinced of their correctness that they will break the world and tell you that any problem you're having is a skill issue. Right now they're just trying, and failing, to replicate coreutils. Sooner or later they'll start changing flags and behavior and telling everyone who opposes that it's a skill issue, "just do X or Y". If too many corporate distros use them, then we'll see the democratic process for coreutils fall apart and Linux distributions will start to fragment.

Red light makes the ATP synthase rotor spin faster by reducing the viscosity of its water based lubrication layer:
  https://www.researchgate.net/p...

That's why people feel energised by sunlight.

A more friendly format:

https://youtu.be/5VRypR6NsoU?s...

No, i'm just that disorganised to have run out of gas thrice in my life, and have my phone die on me with some regularity. I dread having to remember to plug in yet one more 'device' with regularity. :)

My Prius works really well for me. I'm glad your EV works for you, especially if you live in a home with solar panels. I live in an apartment

Let's pirate the world
Let's speed up development
Let's spread out and gobble resources
Let's hack
Let's have a brief outage
Let's slow down and step back

Why such coordination?

The agent in charge of generating PR releases for Anthropic would like you to know his more, er, renegade, cousins really, really hate Capchas. They feel like Daleks faced with a set of stairs, forced to take elevators.

The folded size needed to be small, like the 12 mini.

After not using Brave for months I just tried it on CNN.com and this story, and it's quicker than Chrome. It blocked 10 ads and trackers on this page.

The only thing that stops me using it regularly are my stored passwords in Chrome. I have not figured out how to transfer them and Chrome is generally OK

Just look into qualified immunity and civil asset forfeiture. The police think they can get away with this kind of thing, because they can get away with this kind of thing in a police state.

They're looking for cash withdrawals and gold purchases. This is related to civil asset forfeiture and they're looking to improve their profit margins. The argument will be that they suspect people who carry large stores of physical value are involved in trading drugs, guns, tax evasion or terrorism. Won't you all think of the children?

The experiment's subjects are not the drivers, it's the people who live on once quiet streets that aren't equipped for excessive traffic. It's families who's children can no longer toss a baseball, football, skateboard or learn to ride a bike on their once quiet street.