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Comment Re:Perhaps of interest (Score 1) 60

The SF Democratic machine is all in on Flock [missionlocal.org]. That might have something to do with the Flock being in the SF Democratic Party.

The more I hear about this so-called "SF Democratic Party," the more I'm convinced they don't speak for the majority of SF voters. Seriously. They seem to be some strange, centrist organization that no voters belong to and nobody knows where they get their money from.

Comment Re: If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 115

The ISS is a closer example of how you can build something large with brute force. It's actually a smidge over 100m on the longest dimension, and it took 40 dedicated individual launches and cost $60bn to assemble.

For comparison, Starlink V3 satellites have a solar array wingspan of 70 meters.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cctvmanuals.com%2F20...
See also https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrokipedia.com%2Fpage%2FSt...

They are, of course, technology that is about 40 years later than the ISS design

Comment This is amazing (Score 1) 97

Just getting the stack up to render all of this shit is cool as shit. Maybe try and look for niches browser vendors are too corporate to touch and do them anyway?

Something I think could eventually have a huge impact if it ever caught on is diversifying away from PKI and the curse of the ubiquitous adhoc web login form... Support for whatever PAKEs are in OpenSSL like TLS-SRP. These let you login to websites securely without any certs via secure phishing resistant mutual password authentication bound to the TLS layer. If I remember right at least Apache and cURL support it but no browser does and needless to say no publicly available website I know of does either.

Comment Re:As a DOOM fan and a DBA (Score 1) 23

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't believe SQL includes client data rendering. At least not any SQL implementation I've ever worked with. There's always a client that has to interpret SQL data and convert it into a rendered frame as well as send user input back to SQL as a query.

Here the database outputs a fully rendered bitmap containing the frame to display. Client script driving everything is just taking that bitmap and pushing it out to the display.

Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 0) 115

While in general, I agree with your sentiment, you mentioning the Dunning-Kruger effect is not appropriate here. Dunning and Kruger (1999) does not claim incompetent people would consider themselves above the experts. It's just that incompetent people do no consider themselves as incompetent as they really are, and competent people don't understand how far above the laymen their knowledge is. But both would agree, that the expert knows more about the topic than the layman, and both would sort themselves in the right categories.

You could consider the effect of Dunning and Kruger (1999) as a "mental regression to the mean".

Comment Re:Frost Piss (Score 1) 51

You are looking at it wrong. To eliminate the woketards you would have to eliminate the actors. The personality that makes up most actors is wholly left by nature. They're sensitive and aware of other people and their feelings, unlike most on the right, who are convinced they are the current center of the universe and correct with God's backing in all things.

Submission + - Google tests AI processor in space (npr.org)

Geoffrey.landis writes: Google just put a satellite testing AI chips into space. The refrigerator-sized satellite is part of a research project, "Suncatcher," the company hopes can pave the way for orbiting AI data centers powered by the sun. The prototype satellite has four specialty chips in it called Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, that Google designed for machine learning and has already deployed in data centers on Earth. The chips will run a version of the company's Gemma AI model for 15 minutes at a time due to heat management constraints, using the open weight model to answer simple queries. In a blog post, Google said the mission will gauge how the TPUs handle "the physical stress of spaceflight and the radiation and thermal extremes of space." The satellite launched October 1 is a prototype that Travis Beals, senior director and lead of Project Suncatcher, called "a very minimal test" to make sure the chips can run in space. A SpaceX rocket carried it into orbit, and Planet will get it up and running. Beal said Google will then fire up and test the TPUs. The goal is for the mission to be operational for a year.

Comment love me some PaperWhite... (Score 1) 30

PaperWhite is a game changer. I can't stand reading the Kindle app on my phone, and my really nice PC monitor sucks too. PaperWhite is a different thing entirely. No eye strain; you can read it in the sunlight. You can read it in total dark. I honestly HATE Amazon, but I've been using KindleUnlimited as a library card for many years now. I've 3 kindles in 3 places. I picked up the Ericson Malazan Omnibus in hardback and it was so heavy, and the pages wouldn't stay turned, and I couldn't read it in the dark. That was the point at which I realized how fsck'n lazy I'd become.

Comment Re:The great memory shut-out is coming (Score 1) 64

RAM and SSD prices will become so high that replacement consumer devices will become unaffordable for people with low to middle incomes.

Already feel this way about RAM. Last time I checked a few weeks ago what I spent $2k on three years ago now costs over $24k. At least resale markets are surging which should help for awhile.

Comment Re:Why the FTC? We're talking about weapons here. (Score 0) 19

Why is the FTC being directed to do the investigation? They're supposed to focus on anti-trust and consumer protection.

Are you seriously saying you don't see any need for consumer protection laws regarding AI services, or is this some kind of confused face trolling like a virtual Tucker Carlson?

No not at all but the FCC is not the straw pumpkin to be leading the way. This should be FBI/NSA led and criminal in nature. The other folks are correct though, it's all hype and talk, our Orange President is all for AI and he couldn't care less who else gets hurt in the pursuit.

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