I think it’s funny that all this started from an ice maker, since that’s where he got his mini compressor, and now it’s back to making ice.

I do wonder about the efficiency of this, compared to a battery and a regular AC. I don’t know enough about compressor efficiency vs temperature and how having the water freeze over the coils affects that.

I can’t read the study, do they define a cup? Or is it the ever nebulous ‘a cup of coffee’. My machine claims a cup is 5 oz, some say 6, some of us don’t even agree how big an ounce is. I thought scientists were supposed to use ml!

The way eink display prices scale is insane. You can get a 13 inch one for like 200, but any bigger than that it skyrockets. Must be that they still struggle to get good display yields across that large of an area, defect rates or something.

The money comes from all the other users that bet the other outcome when the odds were a specific thing. Polymarket pretty much can’t lose money on a bet having a specific outcome. If people werent betting the other side, the odds would be different

Ohhhh, so it’s part of the sap collection process. That makes sense that you gotta get the sap out of the vacuum side as it fills up, without pressurizing the whole system

What’s a vacuum releaser? Are you doing this to reduce the amount of boiling the sap you need to do?

I’m not sure it makes much sense to have written this article. Who is it trying to convince? Not me, not you, only the developers of a free program. What’s the point of posting this publicly. It feels like someone is trying to convince someone else to do a massive amount of extra work, for free, for them cause they want it different. The thing works, and it works great, but it isn’t built quite the way the author woulda done it.

You —(data)—> discord —(data)—> persona ----(your data) ----> openai and groq and anthropic and everyone else.

Hope that helps. If you want the other side of it about how you get money from selling your data to openai it looks like this: you don’t.

You ----(no money)---- discord ----(money)—> persona <----(money) ---- openai, anthropic, etc.

Aaaaand it’s down. Guess someone at Microsoft is monitoring hackernews

Ahhh, so “Honor killings” are now acceptable in the US.

I just keep a shortcut to the NOAA 2day hourly forecast for my location on the home screen. If I need to see the radar it’s a few clicks away.

But I’ve got an air quality and temperature sensor on my back porch, and am working on a rain detector as well, so the preference is towards local conditions

I don’t think people who read salon are at risk of not getting enough meat in their diet…

This game kinda just feels like an initial guess and then a binary search, like I’m not really doing anything with the actual color after the first guess, especially with the less significant digit

I’ll add one more perspective: git is the “right” way to do it, but I’m a lazy forgetful person who wants to work on the laptop but the changes on the desktop aren’t committed or pushed remote. What I often do is to use VScode’s remote development tools to open a remote connection the last computer with uncommitted changes, and work like that. If I’m headed out, I’ll use the remote connection to commit the code so I can access it off my home network via codeberg.org.

Occasionally if I’m already out, I’ve even used “raspberry pi connect” to remote onto my network, then ssh over to my desktop, then commit and push. Don’t do that though. That’d be irresponsible.

If your argument was one of cost, you should have said so from the start! Economically, it might or might not make sense. I can’t pretend to know the economics of running a space based datacenter, I’ve never run a ground based datacenter.

But you have been arguing about power and electricity and heat and how proud you are to have 200a service at your house (congrats on owning it, btw, tough nowadays) but those aren’t the dealbreakers. If the AI bros want to lose billions putting the datacenters in space, I don’t have a huge problem with that. Better that than diddling kids and destroying society, which is what they seem to be spending their money on now.

You don’t use 48 kW you have 48kW capacity, that’d be 33 (1500W) electric space heaters running nonstop 24/7. I have electric heat, electric oven/range, and an electric car and I averaged 3 kW across the last week. (406 kWh between the 26th and 1st)

A comparison that is reasonable is an h100 rack cluster like this which uses about 60 kW per rack. For input power, the newer iROSA solar panels generate about 20 kW at a size of 20ft x 60ft each. Throw in 4 of those radiators, and you have something that is feasible to throw into space. Again, I can’t judge the economics of launching and running a space based datacenter business, but you could absolutely launch and operate a space rack with current tech.

Oh sorry I should have been more specific. 996.84 BTU per gallon freezing water. Approximately. If your tap has a few more brits in it that’s probably OK, too.

The hint that the dog can’t spell is in the second panel

I could have seen the opposite, too, where xAI pays spaceX gobs of money for tons of datacenter launches in advance, bubble pops, xAI goes under and spaceX still has the money. But ya I think this is “the govt won’t let spaceX fail, pile all the riskiest shit into that”

That was my stumbling block, too. Don’t think of it as taking a datacenter and putting it into space whole, think of it as taking 5 or 10 racks and putting that into space, and repeating till you have as much compute as a datacenter. So it’s basically the size of a schoolbus (same size as hubble telescope) and it has solar panels+ heat rejection like those of the ISS, and then bolt a starlink on the end, and you can put as many of those in orbit as you need.

Each part of the hardware is doable(ish), and if the nerds who actually run datacenters say the terrestrial energy/cooling cost numbers vs launch cost numbers make sense, I’m inclined to believe them even if I don’t get to see that math specifically. But right now it’s just AI bros saying the costs make sense, and I don’t as much believe them.