On a laptop? Unless you want the other drive trailing around by its USB cable that is not an option.

Keep in mind that Tightwad Tim [Cook] kept 256 GB storage the base spec for a long time. In fact the brand new M6 Mac mini Still Ships With 256 GB, as does the Neo.

One other note, multiple people reported that the actual AI storage is 25 to 30 GB.

The point you missed is that I don't want AI at all.

Burning targets are not allowed at my range. :-)

"I've yet to see a report where the AI was malicious. Injurious, perhaps, but that's different.

In everything I've seen, the AI was acting to achieve the task it had been set. It wasn't very good at counting the costs to anyone, and was pretty much ignorant of any costs to anyone else. But it was willing to sacrifice its own existence to accomplish the task it had been given. Malice is an incorrect reading."

So how to you classify a dog running out into the street and attacking you? Malicious or not? Note the pedestrian did nothing to provoke the dog.

So basically create a permanent underclass of indentured servants...

Hehe, true.

No idea what you want to say.

This satellite is just one.

Here is how the orbits look like: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

There's no reason why Python (compiled from Rust) would be any slower than Python (compiled from C). Both languages compile to native executable code, and both have good optimizers available.

Your faith in high frequency radio is touching. Cell phones a line of sight. AM radio is not so limited. It works much better in the mountains.

I guess the plan is to let it communicate with the starlink satellites.

Thanx for the info, I did not really dig into the space data center idea.

I guess as soon as you have enough up, your request will go to one that is close and not on the other side of the planet.

Most players use the keyboard. And perfect click is far less relevant than perfect strategy.

Germany comes to mind.
But probably not on a much higher level than Go.

I did play Stratego since ages.

Latency is about a 1/10th of a second if it is a geo stationary satellite, and much lower if it is in a lower orbit.
I suggest to put a half assed complicated request into what ever AI you are using and cout: 21, 22, 23 until the first result pops up.

An additional 1/10th of a second, you won't notice.

Meteor smacks are rare.

The oldest currently operating satellite that can still transmit a communication signal is AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7).
While it is an amateur radio satellite rather than a commercial television broadcasting satellite, it remains the absolute oldest active piece of communications hardware in space.

That satellite is only a small amateur radio "relay", it is operational since 52 years, on solar power.

If one spends a lot of money on something, it is kind of save to assume he has done his math.

A single star link satellite for example makes Space X 450million earnings.