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Add to this that life in darkness sustained by microbes consuming a rock surface will be rather slow. Because any fast processes would just flash out after a boom/bust cycle or two…

Isn't the key difference that flammable solids have a limited reaction surface when they burn, whereas flammable liquids can be wildly unpredictable?

And this is exactly how things in large corporations don't happen. Things in large corporations who pay so well that nobody makes it through the recruitment filters and competition…

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Nice to see some numbers. So for the peak load situations, a Dash 8-100 would not require a battery bigger than that a short range BEV ("city", though in reality the short range BE…

"And what if you need two go-arounds?" Easy: you don't try the second landing approach before the battery is sufficiently recharged to contain enough energy for the second abort. C…

What made the cost go down? Can't be cheaper used H100, can't be cheaper RAM. A revolutionary breakthrough in hardware use per query?

Not when they are properly used as a fossil fuel source. As a fossil fuel source that just happened to also make itself useful in other ways on the voyage from mine to smokestack. …

Misleading title: they are using eminent domain to seize land for power lines to data centers. (emphasis mine) This is still quite debatable, but so much less so than the implied a…

So how many minutes of that playbook do you suppose the annual budget of Gopro would be able to pay for?

I'm not a friend of nationalism, but I believe that it's a trade-off: of you want to be open to immigration, of the kind that pulls in newcomers, inviting them to become a part of …

I read about this so often, yet it's a problem I just never encountered. If I need super high bandwidth like connecting a display, I pick one of those annoyingly unlflexible fat ca…

Yeah, I guess in these days of hardware not getting completely outdated even after half a decade, it might well make sense to spend chip area on specialist units that are shut down…

Will the workloads exist? As in not going straight to something at least as dedicated as the Strix Halo CPU/GPU combo (with air quotes around the G)? Or the Apple max? Somehow I do…

Yeah, I'd expect this approach to be almost universal, with the caveat that of the few who don't, many still don't get bitten. But it turns out even in the container, there are foo…

Is that built in protection really a filter, on code level, that sits between the LLM session and the shell or is it just some pleading in the bootstrap prompt? "Pretty please don'…

In ca 1995 fiction, the upsell was human ractors occasionally coming in, temporarily substituting AI on heiress class instances. Sounds pretty much spot on for one of those coveted…

Is it truly a 2026 car though, if it does not come with an ungodly amount of attention beep nagware that cannot be permanently disabled?

Not sure if accidentally is the correct term, given the anti-intellectual platform

One is an ad medium, the other isn't. But it really depends not only on the presentation theme but also on the data set itself and that varies by region. I'm sure that there are st…

None, in the months (sometimes years) it spends switched off (off, not standby) between print jobs. It's a quarter of a century old and I can still get replacement cartridges when …

I very much agree, the status quo is not sustainable. But I really don't believe that the solution is trying to one-up China in whatever they are doing, or the USA, for that matter…

It might be a minor contributor, but it sure isn't the reason. If you do do much admire economic success through suffering, can I assume that you have relocated to China? (mainland…

Or in other words: there's a big difference between public domain and copyleft and it looks like whoever came up with the asbestos analogy was underestimating that difference.

Needs a little more precision: not "those with an equity stake": those with a disproportionally large equity stake. Otherwise it's just an opener for the old excuse of "they might …