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- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 2 weeks ago:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 2 weeks ago:
Tear up the floors and put in micro generators that harness our footsteps that feed into the shelving and power the price tags wirelessly
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 2 weeks ago:
Should be a law that they can only set the price at the start if the business day short of perishable goods marked down before they go bad (where the fresher ones are still regular price)
- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 2 weeks ago:
I never know the number, but I know the whales!
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
I mean I don’t specifically know how much over capacity they are adding specifically so they can serve urban areas, but I do know that they are trying to reach the specifications set out by the FCC so that they can be considered broadband for rural applications. To qualify for that you need 100/20 up/down with plus latency requirements.
What I do know though is that they even with their full network, they aren’t reaching that in all rural areas yet, only some, so it’s not like the existing network is over capacity specifically for urban right now, they still have more work to do on rural.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
Ya, that would get costs down further if they were able to amortize it over a larger quantity.
We could also get them pretty far out with starship refuelling, but refuelling a starship back to full capacity to then go somewhere would raise the cost a lot. But imagine a 7x 8m hexagon one sent out into deep space. That would be super expensive though, we wouldn’t get a lot of those haha.
This is all a massive big IF though. Starship being fully reusable like they think is still very far from a given, so none of this might come true in our lifetimes.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I wasn’t thinking swarms the same way these million sats will be, I was thinking just using the whole payload diameter of around 9m for the lens/mirror (minus any housing) but they could potentially just buy the whole starship.
James Webb cost billions because of it’s complexity and launch costs, none of which is needed when there’s 9meters to work with without any complexity at all.
If you wanted, you could make a super crazy expensive satellite that worked just like James Webb and have a massive mirror as well, but that’s a bit different than my large quantity of cheaper telecopes in space.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
While this very well might fuck up land-based stuff looking at space, people are often overlooking what this would mean to stellar photography from space.
If they can truly launch these million data center sats profitably, that means starship works. That means payload to space is relatively cheap.
That means we could also send large quantities of large telescopes into space on the cheap, and avoid the crazy expensive cant fail telescopes because the cost to get them up there isnt prohibitive.
Things very well might change, but it will also open up possibilities in the same area.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
Space is very big. A million is nothing in the grand scheme of things like launching at a specific point.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
You realize to reach rural / ocean areas and have continuous service, they do typically at some point fly over urban areas.
There are lots of pockets of rural all over the place and if you want to get it all, you’ll end up with a global service where you have bandwidth to serve urban areas.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ 2 weeks ago:
How many R’s are in strawberry?
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 2 weeks ago:
every 6 hours.
- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 3 weeks ago:
like, not a crash just the battery died and they decided not to break the glass on their fancy car?
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 3 weeks ago:
I posted this when Youtube was doing it by mistake too…
If you are paying to not receive ads, and you receive an ad by mistake, they should pay you whatever they earned on the ad. Now… I doubt they’ll actually pay you, but lets say at minimum 1 day of free extended service per ad, but if they earn more than 1 days worth via the ad, then it should be whatever that is.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 3 weeks ago:
“You get used to it. I don’t even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead”
Alas, we’ll stop seeing that.
- Comment on They gonna cat 3 weeks ago:
He fits. Thats means he must sit.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 3 weeks ago:
Seriously?!?! 😲
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 3 weeks ago:
Who are we kidding that number is outdated at this point. Probably 40% now given the increase in ridiculous bugs.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 3 weeks ago:
Checks and balances?
So you mean check marks on my balance sheet for each billion dollar row?
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 4 weeks ago:
Soon your OS will get into a never ending loop with the browser and the website.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 4 weeks ago:
You could plug the bluetti into wall power and while there is wall power it runs off that like a UPS.
That setup I believe would also use solar while it was producing, but the moment solar was gone it’d switch to the house power.
If the overall load is more than house power can give via an outlet (you coupd add a beefier outlet) it’d start draining the battery.
I dont know if bluettis software says use solar / battery only until battery is 10% kinda thing so this might not be optimized to use solar properly.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 weeks ago:
They were changing their pricing model. It doesnt matter if its a flat cost or per download cost.
No matter what, unity is getting paid when usage reaches a limit, it was never entirely free at scale.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, that’s a really cool site! Echoing the other comment about no YouTube, and also I thought it was hilarious that Spotify was the first option.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot Update Hijacks Default Browser Links 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like malware to me?
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 4 weeks ago:
Bleach Boys - open.spotify.com/track/0o6zZmPn5a3FJMNjINjZIB
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 weeks ago:
That is insane lol.
We’ve sold you the rights to include the music in your game.
We have not sold you the rights to sell your game to anyone!
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 weeks ago:
I dunno about that given what another person replied with about threatening someone from singing in a store.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 weeks ago:
Unity never tried that? They wanted to charge the developer using Unity.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 weeks ago:
The only way I can see this being different is steam shows preview videos of the game which have music.
Amazon often only shows the box it sells in and pictures.
Its still stupid because the game developer has the rights.
- Comment on 'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis 4 weeks ago:
The article was saying the spool would give them 32gb, hence the multi strand thought. Were going to want hundreds of gb to run a decent model.