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Probably me. I wrote that on the train...

Backing this up, these high numbers are for typical cooling towers where they vent to atmosphere. Once you get into closed loop PWRs the numbers get crazy. Actual figures for Naval…

I don't disagree but am having a hard time parsing the second half of your comment. In my experience we saw some losses when taken as a system that prevented us from hitting 2:1, b…

I had an extremely focused career, but am by nature a curious individual who craved the type of discussions the article talks about. They were closed to me because I came from pove…

This comment really speaks to the article. The commenter didn't even have the curiosity to read and comprehend the article, and made the articles point in that.

Thats the arguably legal part. Using a VPN or SSL over it violates the law, so... I don't see the point personally. I'm just aware of the arguments. The "best" use case I saw was s…

They address that they were looking at the maximum unlicensed power. In HAM circles some people do use WiFi in an arguably legal manner by making the SSID their callsign and either…

Used a cantenna and a PCI card with modified firmware to great effect when I only had WiFi for internet at the barracks in Japan in the 00's. I was absolutely outside of the legal …

Nitpick here: Nuclear discharges more like 2kWh of heat per kWh of electricity produced. Perhaps slightly more, but its in that ballpark. Seems like a small difference but you are …

Commented on another top comment but yeah, I've been running a similar setup for about $200 all in. Using the PCIe LX version takes care of much of the heat issue, and an eGPU dock…

Thats what I do. ConnectX-4 and newer are natively supported. I use a ConnectX-4 LX in a $50 Razer CoreX off of craigslist. Works fine, hit similar limits to what Jeff did. Using a…

You sound like me. Same gripe about my Keychron, same Moonlander gathering dust that I keep meaning to do something with...

Patlabor is left out of most lists. The new one (EZY) is amazing if you haven't seen it.

When I loved in Guam we had a joke bout this: How do you tell if someone is driving drunk? They are driving straight! With the unspoken part being anyone NOT drunk was weaving to d…

No? Any M5 Max with the upgraded GPU has the full bandwidth, which includes the 48GB model the original poster mentioned. Same as the M4 Max, where only the trimmed part had a lowe…

$4.8k for 48GB Max (what the parent said). Half of your quote. Even a 128GB is $6.8k today. Still only 2/3 your quote. Bandwidth is relevant (I have both a 5090 and an M4 Max 128GB…

I won't try because I did something similar. If it happens I can guarantee that the insurance companies won't be solvent. Instead we are focused on investing our money as a form of…

For poking at things "not directly in your responsibilities." I was writing a program to do some remote drive upkeep and realized I needed permissions I didn't have, but could use …

Well I guess that changes the keep vs sell calculation on my 128GB Studio. Have already been thinking about downsizing; seeing what the prices are now I may go ahead with that. Abs…

Safari for most things, Chromium if I have to for something. I didn't toss those there because those (and IDEs and SSH/Terminal clients) are very opinionated and everyone has their…

Heres my list: Transnomino ( https://www.transnomino.com/ ) StillColor ( https://github.com/aiaf/Stillcolor ) SublimeText ( https://www.sublimetext.com/ ) Homebrew ( https://brew.s…

I've posted that to HN before and it never gets traction. It's too bad; it's an excellent resource.

This is actually a topic I have deep experience with. I wrote both test bench and aircraft code to replace an F/A-18 (C/D) chip in the RPYC (Roll Pitch Yaw Computer) due to the ori…

Not a surprise. I got in a LOT of trouble for identifying and outlining a trivial privilege escalation attack that worked on both NIPR and SIPR. In the end I got to help write up t…

My favorite phone of all time was my Nokia N9. I would absolutely have another if there was an updated one.