@StormyDragon We almost had that happen with a small snow-globe (barely 10cm in diameter); fortunately I smelled the smoke before any flames happened.
[problem-solving mode engaged, hope this is appropriate]
Would it help if you had another mod to preemptively block these f#ckers before they have a chance to get in your head?
...or, longer-term, federated auto-blocking so you could let other instances do much of the mod work...?
Frog train!
FROG TRAIN!
Last call to board the Frog Train leafing in 5 mins. Hop to it.
Another fun thing that happened today is that I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis.
My GP's advice was "exercise and cut sugar" which, you know, cool. But I am pretty good on both those fronts.
So far my hands and knees are where I've had the most trouble.
The internet says compression gloves might help my hands. Do you know of a source that makes cute ones and not just black or grey? Or have other tips on managing disease progression?
Greene: MAGA ‘was all a lie’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5718355-marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-maga-lie/
@rufustheduck You know what they say about cats... Sometime anti-social, always anti-fascist.
@sb I don't know, but count me interested! I've been wanting a programmable effects box since, like, the 80s.
@charlotte I thought it was Open-Source-Defiant Development... :blobcatthink:
Caveat 1: the idea behind these orbital farms is primarily that they would be running GPU servers, largely for AI training and other tasks where you do a small amount of communication on either end of a large amount of computation.
Caveat 2: all of this is predicated on the idea that orbital access will one day be cheap enough, and that this point is reached soon enough that the idea of "GPU farms" hasn't become obsolete in some way.
Caveat 3: I strongly dislike the implication (inherent in how things are playing out) that billionaires are free to fight amongst themselves for access to the limited orbital slots needed (without any regulation) and that they are free to profit from natural resources without sharing any of the bounty with the rest of us. (These are not, however, problems unique to orbital servers.)
From a bottom-line perspective:
[1.] Solar power is in fact the big one -- big enough to justify the whole thing on its own. The GenAI companies are already having to put more terrestrial power online, often reviving decommissioned plants we'd rather not see in operation (coal, gas, nuclear) and driving up energy costs for the rest of us (at even more insane cost to themselves, because crapitalism). In a sun-facing orbit, they'd have solar power 24/7, wattage limited only by how many panels they can put up.
[2.] Cooling is actually easier in space, using radiation (see, for example, how the JWST keeps its IR sensors below 50°K).
From out perspective (mainly environmental):
[3.] GPU-farm power usage moves off our grid, so we can have our power back and stop paying inflated rates, and would no longer be generating massive carbon emissions.
[4.] They'd also stop using water for cooling, which has also been a problem with ground-based CPU farms.
There's also a handful of lesser (and sometimes debateable) benefits; I think the above covers the serious ones.
Some reading material:
@farah At 60, I'm not yet doing what I thought I should have been doing at 35, so probably cannot meaningfully advise. >.>
If you need photos to illustrate your blog articles or use in digital art, use mine instead of tech-that-shall-not-be-named.
All of them CC-0 (creative commons zero), no need to credit me.
#photography #landscapephotography #jungle #nature #naturephotography
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A question on #Quora inspired me to commit some snark:
Why are liberals susceptible to conspiracy theories about Republicans?
@hellomiakoda I would have said "please tell me exactly what actions you'd suggest I should have taken", so the lawyer could either be caught giving bad advice in court or admit that their question was purely rhetorical and in bad faith. ...but who knows if that would have worked. Courtroom justice is spotty at best (and I speak as someone who won the only court case I've ever been involved in).
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@hellomiakoda Wow. The "up" of that whole thing is very sincerely fucked. I'm rather aghast about the whole thing.
There are a lot of really great people in the world, but unfortunately there are also a lot of people who really suck -- and it sounds like you hit the jackpot on the latter type, with that whole encounter.
