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eldenring

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About eldenring

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    Comment #48952214

    Cooling is relatively easy, you just need radiators which are passive, and essentially reduce to a launch cost penalty. You are right that they can't be serviced, but that is missi…

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    Comment #48855213

    Did you read the whole thing? he is clearly talking about having lost focus which is directly in agreement with your take on the Metaverse.

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    Comment #48261054

    my reply from the other thread fits here too: > this is just not true at all, there are massive leaps from algorithms, data, etc. every year. scale is one axis of many and you need…

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    Comment #48260417

    this is just not true at all, there are massive leaps from algorithms, data, etc. every year. scale is one axis of many and you need to get them all correct.

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    Comment #48260092

    2-3x is completely dwarfed by the remaining improvements in training which is still in its infancy relatively

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    Comment #48218235

    I'm guessing they had a significant revenue spike from gpt 5.4 and gpt 5.5 being so good at coding, and hiccups at anthropic making it easier for programmers to try the models.

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    Comment #48167900

    Its just not a thing to consider and doesn't happen often.

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    Comment #48090224

    This article makes 0 sense. Its not up to billing or computer systems or ease of use or anything else that matters. The question is will the scaling laws, which in the asymptote ar…

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    Comment #47917115

    CompactStr doesnt have any additional runtime overhead iirc right? So in theory you can drop it in everywhere even when you expect > 25 chars. Maybe an extra branch in the >25 char…

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    Comment #47828979

    > Folks are now starting to ask difficult questions about their burn rate and revenue. this view isn't updated correctly post-claude code and codex. there will clearly be sufficien…

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    Comment #47797108

    I don't think so, the whole point of writing software is it is a great sink for complexity. Encoding a process or mechanism in a program makes it work (as defined) for ever perfect…

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    Comment #47796827

    I think the coding market will be much larger. Knowledge work is kind of like the leaf nodes of the economy where software is the branches. That's to say, making software easier an…

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    Comment #47693215

    Because there's a realistic chance this is the only important software technology moving forward, and commoditizes Metas's entire business which is software.

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    Comment #47682980

    I don't see how its possible to think this. AI coding assistants are some of the most useful technologies ever created, and model quality is by far the most important thing, so I d…

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    Comment #47646196

    How many docs do you put in the context? we maintain a lot of dsl code internally, and each file has a copy of the spec + guide as a comment at the top. Its about 50 locs and the r…

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    Comment #47481539

    I'm not sure what you mean by menial coding but all my employers have supported this in the past. This was a variety of companies, big tech, startups, etc. I think its more likely …

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    Comment #46979918

    Its not subsidized, in fact, they probably have very healthy margins on Claude Code.

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    Comment #46900742

    The issue is that they have already paid off their datacenter 5x over compared to cloud. For offline, batch training, I don't ses how any amount of risk could offset the savings.

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    Comment #46881040

    The ideal shape would be a shaded, flat panel perpendicular to the sun right?

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    Comment #46879088

    This is a common way of thinking. In practice this type of thing is more like optimizing flop allocation. Surely with an infinite compute and parameter budget you could have a bett…

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    Comment #46871799

    I've never seen this argument brought up by anyone serious, not in the above post, not in the space datacenter blog by Google, etc. The main benefit is that solar panels go from a …

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    Comment #46866546

    > The panels suffer radiation damage they don't suffer on Earth. I don't think this is true, Starlink satellites have an orbital lifetime of 5-7 years, and GPUs themselves are much…

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    Comment #46866349

    What you're describing is one of two mechanisms of shedding heat which is convection, heating up the environment. What the long comment above is describing is a _completely_ differ…

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    Comment #46866310

    Whats your definition for reasonable temp? my envelope math tells me at 82 celsius (right before h100s start to throttle) you'd need about 1.5x the surface area for radiators. Not …

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    Comment #46863633

    Interesting. According to this other source https://www.satellitetoday.com/connectivity/2026/02/02/space... the filing mentions this > these satellites would operate between 500 km…