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    Comment #46911791

    With a heatpump the PV and GPU would have the evaporators, the radiator would have the condenser. You do this for two reasons, so you can run the radiator hotter (4th power and all…

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    Comment #46898076

    Because it's not 10x. If you cool the solar panels (which aren't black body absorbers for longer wavelengths) and GPUs to 80C through a heatpump and have the blackbody radiator at …

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    Comment #46898012

    Avoid it as much as possible. They'll circle the earth around an axis approximately in line with the earth-sun vector. In practice they might see some eclipse, but only for a small…

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    Comment #46897151

    The inner side of the radiator would be metallized, an anti black body. Together with a bit of vacuum it would thermally be quite far from the PV&GPU. Thermal insulation is easy in…

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    Comment #46888123

    You don't put it in a standard orbit, you put it in a polar orbit with near 100% suntime ... obviously. Obviously you use the backside of the massive area of PV you need, for an eq…

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    Comment #43579793

    It's not meant as a workstation/tinkering system, the card without networking is not the main aim. If you're willing to pay 4k for 96GB, just get 3 with networking. That said, it m…

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    Comment #42855069

    Is Rasmussen really in favour of a GoF ban and destroying the academic value of the background of the majority of her professional friends in the field? Cause I can't really find h…

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    Comment #41183462

    There should be internet 2. Kick off all ISPs which refuse to do good ingress/egress filtering. Kick off all customers which absolutely positively need to be completely exempt from…

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    Comment #39212477

    Looking at form 4s, Jensen got about 25 Billion dollar worth of shares between 2018 and 2023.

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    Comment #36225438

    There's only so much developer time and management focus. "This will help us cement our monopoly on software distribution without being too obvious to regulators" is a good pitch. …

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    Comment #36225097

    They can weaponize it against Valve. Helping displace steam for relatively little effort bumped it up in priority.

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    Comment #36225074

    So now they are propping up an ecosystem on which open computing will always be a second rank citizen at best. I wonder if they are all happy about it in retrospect, wine got patch…