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Comment Re: This is concerning (Score 1) 147

So the radiator has to be simultaneously both bigger than the space data centre and also smaller than the space data centre so it can stay in the space data centre's shade away from the sun.

Cool, cool maybe they can use Time Lord technology.

Like I said, get back to me when you hsve a cost effective design that works.

Comment I hate when people get this wrong. (Score 2) 8

BB84 doesn't create keys, it's a key *distribution* protocol

The key itself is a one time pad generated using whatever random number generator you wish.

BB84 is a protocol that distributes the key to your communication partner using a quantum physics technique plus a public open channel to guarantee that no one has eavesdropped on or tampered with the key.

For the record, in BB84, the public channel must satisfy certain very strict requirements which I've never seen any BB84 implementations get right - even when they do the quantum physics correctly (which is another part people often get horribly wrong).

Comment Re: This is concerning (Score 1) 147

Transmission, reflection, absorption. Think a little bit harder about which of those a rock in space is doing, and which of those a man made device that grabs visible light and converts it to heat is doing.

Then get back to us when you come up with a scheme to remove that waste heat that works in the vacuum of space, and isn't super expensive to implement and maintain.

Comment Re: um (Score 3, Interesting) 112

But does your Claude subscription make you significantly more productive than my 30B qwen model running for pennies on a local 16gb gpu?

I doubt it.

And when 80gb gpus inevitably become affordable in 3-5 years time, even the large model slight edge is likely to be lost.

I just don't see how these hyperscalers will recoup their massive capital investments before consumer grade hardware catches up and their business model collapses.

Comment Re:Gas guzzling V8s don't seem like a good idea (Score 4, Interesting) 384

Putting two and two together:

We've done extensive customer research in multiple cities, looking at a variety of powertrains, and the V-8 is always the number-one choice."

plus

Wall Street couldn't be happier with the new direction... Ford's fortunes are also on the rise, as it's predicting operating profits could grow by as much as 47% this year to $10 billion.

What Detroit seems to be saying is that their market research shows that people who are dumb enough to be climate change deniers are the same people who are dumb enough to prefer driving ICE over EV, and are the same people who are dumb enough to happy when they are ripped off for massive profit margins when they buy a car.

And so there seems to be a short term business opportunity there.

I'm never going back to ICE from EV, but I guess I'm old enough and grumpy enough to enjoy watching fossil fools get ripped off.

It's a pity the current govt is killing so many foreign civilians in forever wars to try and keep gas prices down though.

Comment Re: Premise of the story is flawed (Score 1) 27

A lot of bloggers are writing articles like this to purposely poison AI results these days, so I no longer am able to tell if the premise in stories like this is flawed by accident or design.

For example, try asking an AI who the best tech bloggers at eating hotdogs are.

Comment Re:One day's worth (Score 1) 168

Not sure what your rant has to do with my comment. You sure invented a lot of things I didn't say. But since you puked out so much that is provably false, I'll respond.

Red states and maga people don't have a problem with renewables.

Funny that I keep running into MAGA fossil fuel investors who have a problem with renewables cause it cuts the value of their investment, and MAGA fossil fuel workers who have a problem with renewables because they are worried about the jobs they are skilled for disappearing. Funny how the head of MAGA keeps reversing Biden-era approvals of privately-funded renewable projects.

We have a problem with 'only' renewables because we like the idea of still having power through a long outage.

There are many strategies to handle Dunkelflauten. If you don't know what they are, then that makes you way more ignorant than the average Electrical Engineer. If you think that nuclear with it's inability to regulate power generation is a cost-effective strategy to deal with Dunkelflauten, then you are drifting from ignorance into outright stupidity.

it's unlikely any of you has a larger residential solar setup than I do. I'm also on my second EV

Ah, the dick-swinging. This is slashdot - it's full of electrical engineers managing grid-scale installations. Your "large" residential setup is a rounding error. It's clear you have no idea what the grid-scale issues are for a renewable-only grid, because you keep banging on about the solved problems.

And I proudly and happily voted -for- Trump twice

If you are happy with what Trump has done, then you must hate the US and it's people quite a lot. Just one more reason you are in here recommending strategies that would give americans the most expensive electricity imaginable.

Comment Re:One day's worth (Score 2) 168

How do you figure?

The Westinghouse AP600 puts out about 600 MW, and last I checked, 24 x 0.6GW is nowhere near 57 GWh.

There's the AP1000 which puts out about 1.1GW. 24 x 1.1GW is still less than half 57 GWh.

But if you want to talk about the AP1000 you have to ignore the elephant in the room that it is so expensive that trying to build it bankrupted Westinghouse back in 2017.

So what are you actually referring to?

Comment Re: The $10 Trillion asymptote chase (Score 1) 40

Remember when VCs used to worry about concepts like escalation of commitment and protection of capital?

Those days seem to be long gone. I guess they must have some expectation that the govt will bail them out if they get too big to fail.

Just add it to the list of reasons why it sucks to be a US taxpayer right now.

Comment Re:Iridium tried this (Score 3, Interesting) 37

It's been a few years since I did a physics course, but to the best of my knowledge, the speed of light hasn't increased in the last 25 years.

LEO Iridium phone calls had too much latency to really feel natural for me. Unless these new sats are going to be even lower orbit, I doubt new fancy electronics are going to fix much.

Unless AI speech prediction is waaaay better than I think - to the point where it can finish both sides of the conversation early.

But if that's the case, what's the point of a call at all?.

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