a single h100 for a preliminar test is not "launching data centers".

and radiators and heatsinks are different things. heatsinks make no sense here unless you want to periodically shoot them of to outer space and replace them with new ones. unless you have a groundbreaking new solution, space is the heatsink here, and you need radiators. where are they?

all i can see there is 4km2 of "panels". they look all the same, maybe half of them are meant to be radiators? their "paper" (*1) states that at 20 degree celsius a dual-sided 1m2 black plate would dissipate 838 wats, which is true. then you would need over 5km2 of that for a 5gw datacenter, not to mention you also have to transfer that heat from the cpu racks to the plates over kms of distance. if you keep the plates at 80 deg celsius the area shrinks to about 3km2. btw the llm that did that math for me also mentions that at current manufacturing and launch costs getting all that material up there would cost $60 billion. the mentioned "paper" says "$5m (single launch of compute module, solar & radiators) which definitely sounds like pipe-dream grade stuff.

again, i'm not saying it is impossible, just that i can't see how it would make sense, and i've yet to see a solid proposal, it's all hype and handwaving. so you can't build those datacenters on earth for some reason, and you're going to build them in space? really? sounds like just another way of siphoning more investor money.

*1 https://starcloudinc.github.io...

indeed. it seems they're not even thinking about cooling yet which will probably be the final show-stopper. this is a very early experiment just testing radiation resistance and operation:

"Our initial analysis shows that the core concepts of space-based ML compute are not precluded by fundamental physics or insurmountable economic barriers. However, significant engineering challenges remain, such as thermal management, high-bandwidth ground communications, and on-orbit system reliability."

we've had no pesky considerations whatsoever thrashing our atmosphere, forests and water reservoirs so why on earth would we have any for our orbits? if we have to put cathedral-sized radiators up there for every tpu then so be it, nothing will stop us!

is that what usf-481 mission was about?

Give me clicks, cliiiiicks, look at my aaaads, I think oxygen is overrated, we shouldn't evolve into crabs, click meeee.

He's secretly been eating all the ram himself, it's the only logical conclusion. I mean otherwise he'd be a two bit con artists jumping from lie to lie in a desperate scramble, and that couldn't happen.

$1k and 100gr is getting close (you also have to carry the puck, though, but that could fit in a pocket). battery life is reportedly 3-4h, that's disappointing. also, current price is early bird "offer". but still ...

pending testing (i probably won't), from the specs and press it looks like a solid product to me. i could find uses for such a device (after a few more iterations).

fanbois gonna fanboi, and most of those were influencers fishing for views anyway.

i don't expect any of this to be revolutionary, but i can see this working and eventually become quite convenient and commonplace.

It feels unfair to those dealing with hallucinations and shit to call this psychosis. We need to acknowledge these people were always idiots, no really, people that seek out being managers are actually worse at it than just forcing a random person from the same department to do the job, and that these idiots we call managers have been seduced into delusion by their major weakness which is someone telling them they're smart instead of an idiot that isn't fit to do any other job.

Anyway...

How else can they get out of this but more debt to build more data centers to make them less money? Maybe their AI will get so good it'll tell people how crappy Google Books and Chrome Books and Pixel Phones and etc. are and they'll lose even more money!

well, that's on you. your kids may still have an excuse, but if they let themselves be manipulated and exploited that's likely on you too to great extent.

there's no denying that the vast majority of the internet is a a rabbit hole of superficiality and toxicity, nor that it can have a quite destructive effect. for those of us that saw it being born it's also a huge disappointment, specially for those who hoped for it to be the catapult of human enlightment and understanding, albeit also a healthy reality check.

that said, i spend hours a day online and barely notice any of that. it does provide enlightement and joy but nothing will be given to you without work and seeking. that's the humanity you live with. you're simply using it wrong. and if you want that part of humanity to die, that's easy: get off the internet. otherwise learn and reflect, or let yourself get manipulated and exploited and then write a pathetic whining fluff articles about it to feed precisely that part of the internet you seem to (rightfully) despise.

except most people don't get home with a flat battery, they get home with 50%+ in the battery and will happily let it drain some before then filling up on the cheap rates overnight.

long life to emacs! prost!

that sounds about right. the requirements for shops already mandate scanning and verification, they even wash their hands about possible ip infringements and the shops are also expected to fully identify developers on their own. so they're offloading the whole thing, and if any shop doesn't comply then even better, they will be more than happy to cut it off and say "we told you so".

alternative shops are a nuisance for google, they're just acquiescing because of legal pressure in certain markets, but it's not their business to see them bloom.

fdroid is in a hard place and i don't see it as a business anyway. it still has has a place a hobby niche and adb will probably be the way to go.

got it, i guess it depends on the particular numbers, so your situation and location. mine are quite different. i have a 5kwh battery which gets me through the night just fine, has about 6000 cycles to 70% and should be good for well over a decade if not more. temperate climate here so i only import about 5kwh a month and the cost difference per kwh between peak and valley is about 0.076 euro (0.311-0.235) anyway.

so i don't even need v2h right now, but if i did at some point that battery cost me less than 2k, and i could add 29 more of them in parallel if needed. the one in the car i'm getting next month is ofc much bigger but is about 40% the cost of the whole car, is what basically determines its future resale price, and is meant to run the car, not my fridge.

it isn't so much for blackout. Think of areas with time of day pricing, you can pull from your battery during peek evenbing or morning periods and load the car battery during cheap cycles.

-but I will die much richer than you" - the problem