Actually this doesnt matter. The first cars were not as fast as the first horses. Nor were the first trains. They also broke down more, cost far more, and needed more expensive "feed". Time will fix those concerns. You do not set out to create a car and come out with a McLaren P1, or a Honda Civic, or a city bus. The real problem is WHERE it is designed to operate, and that is: not on parking lots or industrial rooftops where solar should be.

Desert is beige, and fosters quite a bit of life, much of it bugs etc. Solar panels are black. They will heat up more than the sand. That was my point. Plus even if this were untrue, the shade they provide would be better served in parking lots, near the consumption of electricity. rather than transporting it a hundred miles to San Diego or Phoenix. In the video, it looks like there is quite a bit of green, vs the Dunes of the empty quarter in Arabia or the sands of the Sahara

Pretty sure he means the rails the solar panels are fixed to. That part does not seem automated. Also, this is really stupid in that we are covering farm fields with solar? Why not industrial and distribution rooftops and parking lots? Fuck I would even settle for partial cover of roads and freeways. There is no need to ruin nature like this. We are taking fields which have high productivity with photosynthesis and converting them into low albedo solar arrays, when we could be turning roads and rooftops and parking lots which already have low albedo and making them cooler and nicer with some shade. This is absolutely stupid.

The Lenovo ThinkStation PX (a high-end dual-socket Intel Xeon Scalable workstation) supports up to 9 PCIe slots. The exact speeds and lane configurations depend on whether you have one or two CPUs installed, as slots are split between the two CPUs (and some require the second CPU).

This is the full configuration with both Intel Xeon processors installed:
4 × PCIe 5.0 x16 (full height, full length, up to 75W, double-width capable in some positions)
4 × PCIe 4.0 x16 (full height, full length, up to 75W)
1 × PCIe 4.0 x8 (full height, full length, 25W, open-ended)

Total: 9 slots (all full-height).

Single PSU1850WFull output at 200–240V AC input.
At 115–127V: still 1850W.
At 100–110V: limited to 1400–1500W.Dual PSUs – Redundant mode1850W (system total)One PSU acts as backup. The system is limited to the capacity of a single PSU for full redundancy. Hot-swap supported.Dual PSUs – Team mode2350WBoth PSUs actively share the load (no redundancy).
Highest power mode, ideal for heavy GPU/CPU configurations.
At lower voltages (100–110V) output is still capped accordingly.

An actual Pro machine. Just because the 2023 Pro was not a pro machine (It was a MacBook Pro in a cheese grater case), doesnt mean Apple hasn't ever had Pro machines. A Pro machine is a machine like a Lenovo PX or P8. They have dual Xeon, can go to 4TB of ram, and have 3 PCIE-16 slots. Now, some people are going to say "Who needs 4TB of RAM?" and I will reply with: If you have to ask, you aren't the target market for those, and that is kind of the point. Apple has abandoned that target market. It would rather sell iPads to 8 and 80 year olds.

local AI Models

Yes. We should all be our own FDA, EPA, and OSHA. That worked *really well* in the past.

This. Isn't the point of an Aircraft Carrier to establish dominance? It isnt a surprise attack vessel. When a carrier strike group moves into your neighborhood, you know. They want you to know.

This is modded down and sarcastic, but it's true. Why should the government be allowed to tell Americans who they can and can not bet with and on what? If there is foul play like fixing a fight or causing damage to the thing being wagered on, then fine, you have a fraud case on your hands. But the simple act of betting (which I think is stupid most of the time) should be a freedom we keep. Our constitution didn't strip us of the right to wager. Where does the government get the power to do so?

Regardless, the information is still valuable since we all know it was martian regolith and not lunar regolith. The question really should be, can microflora and microfauna grow on martian lakes (assuming you melted the ice)? that would be more important, since the earth started natural geo-engineering by sea creatures oxygenating the atmosphere. Obviously the martian atmosphere is also thinner, and there needs to be val Allen belt style protection from intense solar radiation, but those would also just qualify as "lots of help".

I have a MacBook from 2017 with 8GB of ram I let my nephew use, and it's amazing what he can do on it. A MacBook with MacOS is absolutely not an iPad. He is learning to use Xcode with ChatGPT to make little games. I will buy him a Neo

Yeah. I wish that were true. Trump was elected by a majority. And his current support numbers are still around 38%.
https://www.economist.com/inte...

It turns out the number of idiots if really high. And the ones running the country and enforcing the 'laws' include a lot of 'em.

I would much rather go nearly anywhere in Europe.

How dare you reference one of Musk's companies positively?

Even if it did, if according to TFS "as bright as a full moon" wont work. Solar panels dont convert individual photons to micro-amps. They need a significant amount of light to start. You would need daylight levels to start production. Perhaps they mean hundreds of moon-like bright spots? Thats $5000 per hour * thousands.

From their site:
"drive up to 40 miles per day completely off the grid".

Even half that would cover all my driving needs for our 2nd car (2 person/2 car family).