Less like surrogates and more like The Muppets

SpaceX launched about 429,125 kg of spacecraft upmass in Q1, followed by CASC with about 29,426 kg

Smaller satellites (<1,200 kg) represented 96% of spacecraft launched in Q1, 76% of total upmass

So the way I’m personally reading this is 2/3 of this is starlink launches

I used to work for an algorithmic advertising company.

The gist is that if you get one big spender it offsets the cost of losing a thousand or more other people because those large contracts usually last past the official sale

I still think it’s better to refer to LLMs as “stochastic lexical indexes” than AI

Isn’t fusion power not as clean as people say it is?

The Practicalities of actual fusion reactors make this seem a lot less appealing than I think I grew up hearing.

I’m happy to see china continue to pump resources into their clean energy mix, but at the same time it feels like this entire concept might end up being more of a meme than we think.

SLS is on track to be more expensive when adjusted for inflation per moon mission than the Apollo program.

You do realize that Artemis III requires 15 Starship launches just to fuel the thing enough to get to the moon? Why are you comparing it to Apollo?

NASA still has the SLS.

NASA is Already changing it’s plans because of a lack of a starship to test so I would say whether or not the Artemis mission gets delays by another ten years or if SpaceX gets shitcanned and they use the SLS depends entirely on their next flight test

Hopefully between this and the mess they’ve gotten themselves into with the FAA and EPA and Texas Environmental authority, the US government will get their head out of their ass and take the Artemis contract away from this idiot and SpaceX.

If the primary way they “save taxpayer money” per launch is skirting regulations and law around the environment and labor, we don’t need to keep supporting them.

I don’t think it would last long as a clean implementation.

The problem with having a completely open algorithm for discovery, you give spammers an instruction manual for how to consistently get to the top of the rankings.

Eventually these systems would always get abused and become completely filled with useless nonsense.

An alternative is to have the discovery completely exist on the client side, but I’m not sure how that would even work given the way activitypub works.

Personally I think any social media recommendation/discovery system is a dark pattern.

There’s a major section of mastodon users who like mastodon because it doesn’t have any recommendation algorithms. Both from the side of “I don’t want to be told what to click on” and the “I don’t want an algorithm surfacing my posts in a way I’m not in complete control of”

This might curse it to forever be the platform with the smaller number of users, but the nice thing about activitypub is that there may be other services/clients that will be willing to take up that mantle for those that want it.

The fun part is that you don’t have to do all that stuff if you have a long term visa.

Good luck! Feel free to DM me I’d you have any questions!

You can start a different TTY than the install automatically starts. Guix has a ‘guix system init‘ command you can point to a system config and mounted filesystem, much like arch’s system init.

If you use the curses-based installer it auto-generates a system config file for you.

Note that the base configuration is entirely libre kernel so some drivers may not work (like wifi)

In order to get these working out of the box you have to make a boot iso with guix with a non-libre kernel.

The system crafters channel has a guide that details using nonguix (a non-libre kernel channel) in the installation out of the box: https://systemcrafters.net/craft-your-system-with-guix/full-system-install/

They can’t form new trade unions because everyone already has to join a registered trade union.

Doing a reconfigure right after a pull and half the packages don’t have substitutes yet 😭

Active GuixSD user.

Our application catalog is much smaller than many other distros simply because we don’t have the userbase large enough to surface the volunteers necessary to support it. So you will have to learn to write your own packages eventually

That said, if you know your way around functional languages (in this case, scheme), it’s probably the easiest time I’ve ever had writing a package. Everything that goes into the script is known at the time the script is written, so weird extrinsic problems don’t really occur after you’ve written the package.

Some stuff that you and the guix maintainers may not have the time to support will also get updated more slowly.

Luckily flatpak exists, and is a godsend for the new wave of read-only (functional/ostree-based) OSs.

Biggest appeal for me was having all my configuration in one place (and documented) so if I forget I did something in 6 months, it’s always staring at me in my home or system config file. You can accomplish the same thing by being diligent with say, script files, but it’s drop-dead easy to just maintain a system and home descriptor file and keep editing that.

I’ve been using the beta. The HDMI CEC features are very nice but the operation is still spotty.

Most data centers evaporative cooling from what I understand, and according to This

Cooling towers use water evaporation to reject heat from the data center causing losses approximately equal to the latent heat of vaporization for water, along with some additional losses for drift and blowdown. In larger data centers this on site water consumption can be significant, with data centers that have 15 MW of IT capacity consuming between 80-130 million gallons annually. n this study, on-site water consumption is estimated at 1.8 liters (0.46 gallons) per kWh of total data center site energy use for all data centers except for closet and room data centers, which are assumed to use direct expansion (air-cooled chillers).

And seeing as hyperscale data centers usually use between 20-50 megawatts per data center, and there’s three of them in Colon, that’s like at least 240 million gallons of water a year.

Yikes.

Yea like moving all the food on the top shelf of your fridge to the bottom and moving everything up shelf by shelf every morning or making sure you vacuum your walls properly. Standard stuff.

I think Steam does have enough influence to be able to pull a sizable chunk of users away from windows.