foobarian

You know, I was just thinking a headset like Oculus would be pretty great for night driving if it was sensitive enough; my night vision is getting really bad and coupled with most new cars having annoyingly bright LED lamps with auto-high beams it's getting super uncomfortable to drive in the dark. Then that would automatically shield eyes from lasers!

One could go further, and have an integrated system where the headset shows video feed from cameras around the car. You could almost get a 3rd person view of your own car like in video games.

> You can't solve 6+DOF, dance routines, cutting food, etc. with 500ms latency.

Hopefully it's just network propagation that creates that latency, otherwise local models will never beat the fanout in a massive datacenter.

Yall could have gotten a serviceable answer about this topic out of ChatGPT. 2025 version of "let me google that for you"

> checksumming filesystem with periodic scrubing

Do you know a system that does this? Looking for this too

Pardon, but the question of "could the operational cost be smaller in space" is almost not touched at all in the article. The article mostly argues that designing thermal management systems for space applications is hard, and that the radiators required would be big, which speaks to the upfront investment cost, not ongoing opex.

Pardon but this doesn't make sense to me. A 1 m^2 radiator in space can eliminate almost a kilowatt of heat.

>vacuum is a fucking terrible heat convector

Yes we're talking about radiating not convection

I don't know about that. Look at where the power goes in a typical data center, for a 10MW DC you might spend 2MW just to blow air around. A radiating cooler in space would almost eliminate that. The problem is the initial investment is probably impractical.

I think it is an advantage, the question is just how big, and assume we look only at ongoing operation cost.

- Earth temperatures are variable, and radiation only works at night

- The required radiator area is much smaller for the space installation

- The engineering is simple: CPU -> cooler -> liquid -> pipe -> radiator. We're assuming no constraint on capex so we can omit heat pumps

I think by far the most mass in this kind of setup would go into the heat management, which could probably last a long time and could be amortized separately from the electronics.

The atmosphere is in the way even at night, and re-radiates the energy. The effective background temperature is the temperature of the air, not to mention it would only work at night. I think there would need to be like 50-ish acres of radiators for a 50MW datacenter to radiate from 60 to 30C. This would be a lot smaller in space due to bigger temp delta. Either way opex would be much much less than average Earth DC (PUE almost 1 instead of run-of-the mill 1.5 or as low as 1.1 for hyperscalers). But yeah the upfront cost would be immense.

The only advantage I can come up with is the background temperature being much colder than Earth surface. If you ignored the capex cost to get this launched and running in orbit, could the cooling cost be smaller? Maybe that's the gimmick being used to sell the idea. "Yes it costs more upfront but then the 40% cooling bill goes away... breakeven in X years"

I used to obsess about code, but over time I came to dread coming into a new codebase and finding layers upon layers of pointless mini-architecture. There would be a controller calling into a separate package where the actual implementation is, then that would call into a layer where service calls are, then all that would be abstracted just in case and built into a separate jar, and so on. And there would still be cross-dependencies. I think what happens there is a kind of purity spiral effect and developers have to go through the motions of following the best practices du jour instead of just calling the damn method.

I can't help but wonder about why countries are doing this. Launch detection? Cameras? Other secret use? Making money for commercial sats? (Starlink, maybe GPS-equivalent, other?)

Isn't this just the normal process of market clearing, if they are still selling out? It may be a bit coarse grained due to long lead times for more supply but still.

Morally, it is piracy IMO. If you applied the rule universally, the site would go out of business and then there would be no video to see.

Wow. Honestly if it weren't for the bad stuff I would be secretly proud of a kid like that.

Out of curiosity how did they manage to sign up for Instagram? Browser? Asking for a friend

> made explosives out of match sticks, bolts and nuts

I used to do similar crazy things, had this friend who liked to play a kind of a game of chicken with an M-80, see who will hold on to it the longest. He would've been 45 years old today. /s

> I prevent her from talking to others,

Honestly the voice comms have been a nice upgrade and I find I mind it a lot less than text. It's a lot easier to confirm the person on the other side is not some middle aged creep. It's also a lot more ergonomic for talking with friends (though they already tend to use facetime calls in the background)

When this gets figured out all hells will break loose the likes of which we have not seen

Also "Common People," first episode in season 7 of Black Mirror. One word: ads [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)

Consciousness is very interesting because if you postulate that you can't possibly create it by running a Turing machine, then anything that is simulatable can't be the mechanism behind it. Which would raise the followup question, what is? My money is on some quantum effect.

I wonder if decline of sites like StackOverflow will mean that model quality may crest at some point, at least for newest topics. There are cyclic dependencies in the industry though so maybe everything will evolve in a novel direction. Another possibility is that such sites may become valuable enough as training inputs to start sharing some of the money firehose with contributors.

> converting these models into businesses.

I think it's pretty clear to all the big operators that they will need to go whole hog into ads and take some of the Google/Meta pie. It's just a matter of time.

I remember it being N at least in ex-Yu. But now that I think about it I forget if it was a reverse-click i.e. the pulse was created by releasing the pressure plate briefly. In that case we'd have a fencepost thing and there would be N+1 physical presses maybe

I'm comforted that it's not only me :D. I made a tool to index/exfiltrate media from phone backups and DSLR storage and the behavior has been changing over the years without me changing anything.

Since you didn't modify the original phone, I wonder if the oldschool dialing way of digit-banging would work. For each digit N, you hit the hangup button N times, pause, then go to next digit. Used to do that on our family's Pupin that looks like this one [1]

[1] https://in.pinterest.com/pin/rare-vintage-pupin-bakelite-rot...

There was a game I remember from the 80s that had such a (to me) tasteful background of still images to go with the text adventure; Time and Magik trilogy on Atari ST. [1]

[1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/28812/time-and-magik-the-tril...

You and me both. These days I don't even try, just docker pull python and docker run -v .:/app python /app/foo.py

The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluid gameplay experience of the latest entry in the Diablo franchise in the palm of our hands was mindblowing to someone as well. "Don't you people have phones?"