IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
Either way, they don’t have the reserves to supply their own demand.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s crazy what you can do when you don’t have to pay people, and you can instantly stomp out all dissent.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
China decided to end their dependence on fossil fuels, and I decided to retire by age 45. Me and China are about equally close to achieving our goals.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 week ago:
An entire state government could fit it your cellphone. That’s never been one of the use cases for data center level compute.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 week ago:
For some it will be. For the pure AI software companies, yes. For the hardware vendors and data centers, less so. Even if it’s not for generative AI, there will always be need for hyper scale compute.
- Comment on UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems' 1 week ago:
It sort of does. Each drive uses energy, simply by being on (spinning rust moreso than flash). As storage demands increase, data centers will just keep adding disk shelfs and more drives, which use more energy. So at home, data storage is effectively “free” since you need at least one drive running anyway. In data centers, there is a calculable energy cost per GB.
- Comment on openSUSE Leap 16.0 will need Steam gamers to install some extras due to no 32-bit 2 weeks ago:
Is this a Leap only problem, or is 32 but going to be dropped from Tumbleweed as well?
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 3 months ago:
I don’t currently use a VPN provider, but when I do, it now won’t be VPNSecure.
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 3 months ago:
You’re free to do whatever you like, but I really can’t imagine cutting myself off of seeing most of the world, simply because of a bunch of theoreticals. I fly fairly often for work and I’ve not even experienced half of those (I’m not even sure what problem you might have with airport limos). Most of those issues are easily avoided anyway, since they are a product of your own planning.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 9 months ago:
If your PC was bought in the last 5 or so years, it’s probably just the TPM being disabled in bios.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 9 months ago:
I would have upgraded to Windows 11, but they decided my processor is “too old”, so now I don’t use Windows at all.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 1 year ago:
That’s what I do with all TV/Movie adaptations. Is so much easier to just sit back and enjoy when you aren’t constantly comparing it to something it’s not.
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 1 year ago:
Too bad nothing nowadays is meant to run more than 5 years.
Where do people keep getting this from? Cars today tend to last far longer anywhere where winter is a thing.
As for air cooled vs water cooled engines, the power output (and vehicle mass) has to be part of that conversation. Yes air cooling works on on a 25 HP motor, but it doesn’t work so well on modern engines making an order of magnitude more power.