I would agree that CA isn’t really the problem

hurt CA and you’re hurting the US

Republicans in CA

I just want to point out that in the context of multiple countries, “CA” would refer to Canada, as it’s literally the worldwide recognized 2-letter ISO-3166 country code.

And yes, while most people would understand what is meant from the context, using US defaultism in a thread about another country boycotting US American products kinda bumps.

confirming that it is too difficult

That statement bumps with the reality that is being built.

It shouldn’t take a decade to write a conformant browser.

I agree.

A simpler specification would allow more projects to deliver compliant browsers.

Also agree.

Saying it was “started in 2019” without mentioning SerenityOS and the single person that was writing it all at the time is a bit disingenuous. It was just a single component within an entire OS that was also being written from the ground up (also entirely by one person). It was in 2022 that it was spun out into its own project because of the community interest in it.

Those are: Blink, WebKit and Gecko

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Can I ask what an aboveground cave looks like? Or what an underground cave looks like during the day?

Cool photo.

It is absolutely wrong that anyone is discriminated against or turned away for their sexual preferences, etc. But like you said, if I were on that ship (even as a non-LGBTQ person) I wouldn’t want to go near those countries out of concern for everyone’s safety.

either through their own diagnosis or that of a close family member

It took me a minute to realize people weren’t diagnosing themselves and their family members weren’t diagnosing them either.

It’s a grim reality either way.

AFAIK, it’s not “confirmed”, but there’s supposed to be warehouses full of GPUs, RAM, and storage that were pre-bought for datacentre usage, but they still have nowhere to plug them in.

I bet before long someone will have a design for a little device to place over the camera with an image that looks like the interior of a car with a random person’s face visible. Doesn’t even need to be a screen, just a backlit photo.

Depending on the locals laws, the very act of transmitting such images over the internet qualifies as “distribution of CSAM”.

Is rust low level?

Yes, more or less. It’s generally considered a “systems” programming language. But you can really use it for anything you want

Quick! Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for pie!

It can! We just need to train a few more models. I’m sure we’ll find one that comes up with the solution!

/s

Just use Winhance

“Just drink arsenic with berries. The berries make it taste better. Don’t worry about the rest”

I know who Scott Manley is. I’m subbed to his channel and saw that video when it came out.

That being said, one of the top comments in that video is someone who, claims to be, a spacecraft thermal engineer. And they bring up a few good points. But the one I’m most interested in is the loss of efficiency in heat dissipation the further the heat is pushed along the array. Which means you can’t treat the entire surface area of the dissipation array at equal performance, so you need an even bigger array.

And btw, a 20kw satellite is peanuts for AI workloads. Which is the reason they’re suggesting putting up a million of these. And that right there is, IMO, the biggest issue. We’re already at 14k satellites (most of those are Star Link). And 100k satellites is the current figure we expect collisions between satellites to start becoming unavoidable, with the possibility of an out of control cascade of collision becoming a major concern from there upwards.

I think Kyle Hill did a better job at being objective on the problem:

https://www.youtube.com/live/4mx9Rp-SMNk

So like you said, I’m correct. The only issue with thermal radiation is $/kg of payload.

That’s not what you said. You implied the only limiting factor is a reasonable payload that can be resolved by the current incremental improvements to rocket tech.

What I said is that even with massive improvements to rocket tech, it will still be a near impossibility to get as many AI (or even regular datacentre) satellites into space.

The other issue is that the thermal dissipation problem is not solved for such a large amount of heat in space. It’s quite hard to dump large amounts of heat in space, and it needs to be done rapidly with computing. And the larger you make your dissipators the more you run into “how do I move that heat from the source and out towards the edge of the dissipators?” Because you need to utilize ALL of the dissipator if you want to keep your server parts cool. But moving that heat around a massive array is not trivial. If you’re using a fluid and moving it with pumps, then now your adding even more heat with the pumps.

And then there’s the issue with long term investment. These server components are going to be obsolete in a few years (and nevermind failures). And IIRC, they have plans to regularly de-orbit these things every number of years, which means even more launches at a regular basis to keep the swarm numbers constant.

And none of that matters in the face of the low earth orbit crowding issue that IS a massive problem.

Ok, I see your /s tag now. And no, it was not clear that you’re being sarcastic, because I can’t see your face or hear your voice. It’s the reason Poe’s law is a thing.

Staffed by 1 or 2 humans each. Required. By law. Armed people. Because, of course they should have guns in space.

Better pitch: just put tons of people in the space station and they can type the “AI” responses!

They’re not going to put up these satellites, because they won’t be close to usable or affordable. Either the workloads will be miniscule, or the cost to put them into orbit is prohibitive.

The whole pitch was a cool sounding “space age” solution to a problem with AI datacentres that everyone is aware of. It was just a snakeoil salesman’s promise just so he could con investors out of money for his sweet 1.7 trillion.

“give me a recipe for dinner”

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(2 hours later for signal round-trip)

“Here you go:…”

I see it as a win-win.

Except when they put up about 70x new satellites then what we currently have up there, and cause a cascade of collisions that results in nothing being able to enter orbit (including humans travelling to space).

We’re at 14k satellites.

100k is the cascade failure limit.

Space X is proposing one million satellites.

Edit: my “70x” figure is very fuzzy just-woke-up early morning math. No guarantees.

Edit 2: dang! One million divided by 14k is 71.428! I almost nailed it.

For a single satellite, we’d need a football sized array for heat dissipation. The dissipation capacity isn’t equal across the entire array. And you need some way to move the heat from the centre out towards the edges.

And aside from that, 100k satellites is the limit of objects we can put into low earth orbit before we start risking cascade collisions that break everything into small bits and make getting anything into orbit impossible. We’re currently at 14k objects. Space X is proposing ONE MILLION satellites. And they’ll each need huge heat dissipation arrays.