dopa42365

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dopa42365··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

The 5 wage slaves on current ocean giants aren't even a rounding error on any calculation.

dopa42365··on Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise

A million Americans chose death from very effective (preventable) disease instead. That's how.

dopa42365··on Fable 5 is Back

In a year you can watch a documentary on the mythos of Mythos (that outdated model in case you forgot already).

dopa42365··on TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer

What for? You only need to match the performance that existed in the 1950s. In the Soviet Union. Everything else is a lack of knowledge rather than computing power.

Also you should read the second sentence of the CTBT Wikipedia article to find out why it's not even in force (spoiler: US hasn't ratified it).

dopa42365··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

Those are fairly cheap, hyperscalers have been building more or less their own cables for many years, they cost practically nothing compared to the data centers themselves.

https://resources.telegeography.com/telegeography-content-pr...

dopa42365··on Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center

>Add to that the long backorder list for gas turbines right now

If demand > supply then the price goes up. Doesn't mean you can't buy something though.

dopa42365··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

What you need then is a better arm (or even just hand), not a human.

Or a new take on car design with automated production in mind regarding all the wiring and what not (easier said than done, I'm sure many have tried and failed, but eventually someone will succeed).

dopa42365··on TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants

Most nuclear power plants worldwide are owned and operated by private companies rather than governments?

If anything, nuclear tends to be much more strictly regulated than the 73 GW (wtf) of off-grid mostly gas plants to power datacenters for example.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fast-tracked-power-p...

dopa42365··on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures

Well, it's a million signatures for something to be brought up, not for something to definitely become law.

A decade or so ago I (among millions) signed to abolish daylight saving time. Still waiting for that heh.

dopa42365··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

The filter updates without extension updates is possible in MV3 now too.

dopa42365··on Hetzner Price Adjustment

Meet the new memory cartel, it's just like the old memory cartel but with CXMT being priced a tiny tad below.

Safe to say they're not in it out of sheer altruism.

dopa42365··on Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

The same 3rd party datacenters from the same few companies that everything else runs on? If there's demand, hyperscalers will supply.

dopa42365··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

I want to believe it (and filter all that crap), but YT recently removing the sort by new/date option because 99% of results being useless AI slop doesn't inspire much trust.

dopa42365··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training

whenever Huawei want to buy billions of dollars worth of US licenses and stuff, they stop being a "national security threat" for a while because reasons

dopa42365··on SpaceX S-1

Hetzner is still running and selling Haswell Xeons and GTX-1080s that are 10+ years old.

Definitely not silicon waste the second something faster arrives. There's still a world beyond cutting edge LLM slop after all.

dopa42365··on SpaceX S-1

The most honest memory cartel is reporting stupid profit numbers too!

>Samsung chip profit jumps almost 50-fold; supply shortage to worsen in 2027

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-r...

>South Korean April exports rise 48.0% y/y as chip boom extends

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-april...

To the point where the big memory makers are suddenly trillion AI-dollar companies.

dopa42365··on USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought

and desalination is so efficient/cheap at scale already that it barely affects water prices in those countries (less than 10% already, further shrinking every year as methods improve)

dopa42365··on Starship V3

Before LEO internet constellations, even the leading nations had just ~20-25 launches per year each, and a good chunk of those were for ISS services.

Other than the occasional GNSS, weather, scientific, broadcast and surveillance satellite, there's not all that much worth sending into space.

dopa42365··on AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours

Humidity and corrosion, it's a trade-off (pick your poison).

dopa42365··on Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads

Years ago I made my own "dark-ish mode" for it and holy hell, so annoying having to change 50 different more or less accurately labeled and named color settings that only take affect after restarting the program.

dopa42365··on How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

More like 4 weeks than 2.

https://chromestatus.com/roadmap

dopa42365··on Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?

Thermalright etc. have definitely shown that a slab of metal and some generic fans can be rather quiet and easily compete with Noctua at a fraction of the cost.

dopa42365··on How ChatGPT serves ads

There's no evidence that it wasn't one of those Iranian generic Tomahawk™ missiles!

When Germany last cooked 150 civilians we also investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong (could happen to anyone, really), but at least some minister had the decency to retire afterwards.

dopa42365··on Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

>it doesn't offer a web-based version

>It's probably even more photographer-oriented

not even remotely serious? ridiculous

dopa42365··on The Bromine Chokepoint

$3/kg, with an estimated 100 trillion tons in seawater.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2026/mcs2026.pdf

One of the last things anyone is going to run out of.

dopa42365··on Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project

The dose makes the poison. Paracelsus knew that 500 years ago already! Meanwhile in 2026 The Guardian publishes such articles every day (microplastics detected somewhere in irrelevant amounts, also water is wet).

dopa42365··on NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]

You know what would be even bigger? Building perfectly safe and fine AP 1000s that already exist many times today and can be built whenever you want to.

0 under construction in the US

dopa42365··on Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years

There's no border wall, just a typical bike road next to a small fence. So no, unless Poland is planning to blow up their own civilians, they won't mine their own country lol.

dopa42365··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/GDPR%2...

That's a good start (might not be 100% up-to-date, but vast majority of them are still 451 blocked).

dopa42365··on A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

Given the "nature" of 4chan (only a few hundred posts and a few thousand comments at a time, the vast majority of it shitposts and spam), it just can't do that. The imageboard format and limits basically prevent any scaling and mainstream success. If you follow any of the general threads in pol or sp for a while, you'll spot the same few people all the time, it's a tiny community of active users.

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