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The company has signed agreements to buy over 22 gigawatts of power from sources including solar, wind, geothermal, and advanced nuclear projects since 2010.

None of those advanced nuclear projects are yet actually delivering power, AFAIK. They’re mostly in planning stages.

The above isn’t all to run AI, of course. Nobody was thinking about datacenters just for AI training in 2010. But to be clear, there are 94 nuclear power plants in the US, and a rule of thumb is that they produce 1GW each. So Google is taking up the equivalent of roughly one quarter of the entire US nuclear power industry, but doing it with solar/wind/geothermal that could be used to drop our fossil fuel dependence elsewhere.

How much of that is used to run AI isn’t clear here, but we know it has to be a lot.

This has been happening quietly for a long time. It exploded now because it crept into new segments like Steam. That is mostly driven by a few conservative groups applying pressure to credit card processors.

You won’t find porn sites with certain content; in particular, blood or scat play. Now, neither one is to my personal liking, but I don’t think it should be blocked as long as everyone involved consents. You might find amateur videos of it, but never anything from a professional studio. That is quite simply because credit card processors forbid it.

(My source is one of the interviews that Kink.com does before a scene, which they always leave in the edit they post to their pay site. I’d have to search a lot to find the specific one. Suffice it to say that one of the models mentioned “no scat” as a hard limit, and the director said that their payment processor wouldn’t allow it, anyway.)

It’s also impossible to remake the old Taboo series as is. Faux-incest scenes go out of their way to mention they’re all a step family (seriously, how many step children does Cory Chase have? This doesn’t seem physically possible.) This is all credit card industry pressure, as well, and while I wish the genre wasn’t as prevalent as it is, the setup dialog gets really silly and contorted because of this restriction.

“Will personal headphones lead to a world of silence?” We could have wished.

Also, the OG Walkman still looks brilliant. I wish they’d bring the headphone design back.

Don’t worry about fixing the system, just play Zelda.

This is another reason why I hate bubbles. There is something potentially useful in here. It needs to be considered very carefully. However, it gets to a point where everyone’s kneejerk reaction is that it’s bad.

I can’t even say that people are wrong for feeling that way. The AI bubble has affected our economy and lives in a multitude of ways that go far beyond any reasonable use. I don’t blame anyone for saying “everything under this is bad, period”. The reasonable uses of it are so buried in shit that I don’t expect people to even bother trying to reach into that muck to clean it off.

Republicans with nationalized health care and a monarchy.

I write a lot of things on paper for notes. I found that when I write with a cheap ballpoint, I’m pressing down hard to get the ink to work right, and it cramps up my hand in short order.

With a fountain pen, you can’t press down hard. You’d ruin the nib if you did that. You need to learn to slow down a bit and glide over the paper. Your notes will tend to be more readable as a result.

The main issue becomes weight balance. I find I don’t want to put the cap on the other end, because that puts a lot of weight on that side and my hand will get tired from holding it up.

It all works very nice when it comes together. You do want to wait for the ink to dry so it doesn’t smudge. That’s the one real cost.

If you don’t want to do all the cleaning and ink maintenance of a fountain pen, then I’ve found Ohto ballpoints to be a good alternative. Still have to wait for the ink to dry, but they glide across the page with minimal pressure. When someone borrows one of mine, I warn them not to press down too hard, and they’re surprised when that works very well.

I just put together a mechanical clock from a lasercut wood kit. Not particularly accurate, and you have to wind it every once in a while. I don’t even have it working properly because the drive train seems to have too much friction with the current placement. But it looks really cool with all the gears exposed.

The point of the article is about how IDE’s can’t validate certain things as you type them in this order. The example of a string length function could be replaced by any other API.

How long back? IEEE 754 floating point was released the same year as Excel v1, and it’d be a while before there was hardware support. Floating point numbers were often dodgey back then on just about everything.

What’s the difference between interpreted and compiled?

I need a big truck in case I need to haul wood from Home Depot once or twice a year, because that’s worst case scenario. It needs to be an EV with 1000 mile range, because that’s worst case scenario. And I need to make enough to live in Silicon Valley, because that’s worst case scenario.

I disliked the second one specifically because they gave it a decent budget. The original is genius for how it does so much with so little.

The third is an oddball. Made-for-TV budget and quality. It’s interesting for fans of the series, but nothing special.

That trash literally was burned, just not for energy.

Clone of a clone of a steam deck that already wasn’t selling well.

Starlink still requires ground stations, and those ground stations can and are a limiting factor. I was up at a cabin that had Starlink, and service is still in the “better than nothing” phase.

There is concern for fucking up things like radio telescopes. Also, creating a Kessler syndrome event. “But LEO wouldn’t have an issue with that because it would burn up”. Two things:

• Everything in LEO being destroyed is still really bad. Astronauts would likely die.
• Objects in lower orbits can get ejected into higher orbits and hit things there. Kessler sydrome in LEO could potentially start a chain reaction in higher orbits.

Plus, the EU and China are understandably worried about Musk being the only game up there and want to deploy their own equivalent systems. So now there’s not just one system of satellites threatening Kessler syndrome, but possibly three.

Just roll out fiber everywhere like we have with electricity.

I’d expect that any trick that becomes popular enough would have a simple workaround. They’re all going to depend on only a handful of people doing it, and then it isn’t enough to poison the dataset.

Not with nuclear thermal propulsion, it wouldn’t. Time to Mars is estimated at 45 days with them.

Sorry, but he’s a shithead. He tends to simp for the authoritarian aspects of the Chinese government, and the books are written to show that only tough authoritarians can make the hard but necessary decisions for humanity. The third book is basically “women are too weak for the task”.

It’s a fun story to read for the imagination behind it, but its themes should go in the wood chipper.

FWIW, it doesn’t work. The preprocessing for LLM training isn’t going to be fooled by that. It’s just making things harder for everyone to read.