Cocodapuf
@Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Physics of Data Centers in Space 15 hours ago:
I mean… whenever a price is dropping, that’s beating the odds, and your scoffing at a 95% price drop? We’ve had our first forays into reusable rockets, preserving booster stages, occasionally fairings. But when we have fully reusable rockets, from competing providers in and in different payload ranges, then it’s a whole different ballgame.
But I guess to your point, we’re probably looking at another 95% price drop over 25 years. (But who knows, maybe just 10-15)
Still, I think that is extremely significant!
- Comment on The Physics of Data Centers in Space 18 hours ago:
Well, that’s not the strongest argument at the moment, the launch is a one time cost, and that cost is in the process of dropping dramatically. But don’t worry, there are a plethora of other reasons this is a bad idea.
- Comment on The Physics of Data Centers in Space 18 hours ago:
Yeah, I mean take advantage of geothermal heating/cooling. It does seem obvious. The only actual advantage to space is the 100% solar availability, but that’s actually not a huge advantage in the grand scheme of things.
- Comment on Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece 19 hours ago:
So we can do what? De solder the individual ram chips and populate them on custom dimms?
Pass.
- Comment on Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece 19 hours ago:
- Comment on Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece 19 hours ago:
Jesus fucking Christ, 288GB. And this is why I can’t have 16?
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations 1 day ago:
Such a great game!
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 3 days ago:
The idea that $5000 will pay for replacing a core component or system is just plain preposterous.
A flash memory chip is a flash memory chip, whether it’s part of a USB stick or soldered to a custom board. You don’t need to replace the custom board, you need to solder on a new memory chip that contains the instructions you want it to.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 3 days ago:
Well my custom browser says my age is verified, we’re all set here here. All set. Move along.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 4 days ago:
What would be the point of that? If the check was done locally it would be trivial to spoof.
Technically, this can’t work. It’s a bad idea.
- Comment on AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it 4 days ago:
My definition of change?
- Comment on AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it 5 days ago:
Yeah, that makes sense.
Also, the Internet is like a living thing, it changes constantly, that’s its nature. Essentially every day is the end of the Internet as we know it, it’s always something else the next day.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 6 days ago:
So you’re saying which empires/systems exactly then?
Spain perhaps? The Holy Roman empire?
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 6 days ago:
I mean, there’s Russia.
And don’t get me wrong, I don’t really want to call them competent, but their planes are modern. And for Christ sake, we should be squaring off with them in Ukraine.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 1 week ago:
Yeah… Fighter jets don’t really get bricked.
A brick is when you’ve messed something up to the point where the hardware doesn’t boot and the only possible solution would be to pull out a rom chip and replace it with one with factory settings, but that’s too hard and not worth doing.
But that’s the thing, with the F-35, it’ll never be not worth doing.
- Comment on Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 1 week ago:
I’m with you on dogs.
But i’d never trust a cat… They know why.
- Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors 1 week ago:
It appears, Texans.
- Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors 1 week ago:
300mw are indeed a much different scale from 10mw.
I wonder if your ire is misplaced… As these are sort of different things. The 10mw reactors have different use cases, they’re not really designed to be installed as part of a power plant, but more as a reserve power system for a hospital, individual on-site use.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 1 week ago:
And that’s all totally true. Though there is a way around that trap… Don’t buy the dlc!
That’s my secret, I treat the base price as the only price, and if the game doesn’t stand on its own without dlc, it’s a bad game. And I will 100% say that out loud, I’ll give it a bad review, I’ll avoid buying it in the first place. If a game needs pricey dlc to be worth playing, it isn’t worth playing at all.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 1 week ago:
This may sound crazy, but hear me out… $70 might just be relatively cheap right now, when considering historic prices and inflation.
So about 20 years ago, I used to work at a game shop and at that time all new AAA console games were all $50 and I believe the switch to $60 happened just shortly after I left.
That said, a quick web search says that there’s been 65% inflation since 2005. $50 x 1.65 = $99
So at least when compared to other products, $50 to $70 is not a huge price jump.
Now all that said, this does not account for the added cost of micro transactions and paid dlc which didn’t really exist in 2005. So the actual lifetime cost of a top pricing tier game may actually be higher than $70. Honestly, I have more of a problem with that than with the higher base cost, hidden costs are deceptive.
- Comment on Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash 1 week ago:
Got caught? They ran a Superbowl ad bragging about it…
They just thought we’d all live the idea for some reason.
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 2 weeks ago:
I asked someone else, but I hope you don’t mind me asking you as well… With the PF6, 5g works as well? Any issues with MMS or RCS messages? Visual voicemail works fine?
I am trying to find a new phone, and while there are a few different companies making repairable phones, (Fair phone, HMD, shift) most of them are aimed at EU markets, I’m looking for something that will work for me, my wife and my in laws that won’t be a hassle. (Cause, I do the tech support for all of them)
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 2 weeks ago:
Awesome! And just to clarify, 5g works as well?
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 2 weeks ago:
Haha, your username is ironic, you’re not even honest to yourself!
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 2 weeks ago:
No… You need a phone you can fix if you don’t break your phone’s all the time. That’s how you use the same phone for 6 years, like my pixel 4a. I haven’t upgraded to another pixel because the newer ones all have some deal breaker, no SD card slot, or a non removable battery, or no 3.5 mm headphone port.
But if you keep a phone for 6 years, they need maintenance. A speaker stops working, the battery life drops to nothing, the touch screen digitizer fails, etc. And then you need to be able to open it up.
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 2 weeks ago:
Do they work on US networks?
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 2 weeks ago:
That’s not what I said, before or after my edit.
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 2 weeks ago:
Did you read my comment? My entire point was essentially that I don’t care. I’m not weighing in on that.
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 2 weeks ago:
Sure, fine. At no point was I making any argument for or against this technology. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t, maybe it’s a waste of time.
The only argument I’m making here is that there’s nothing far fetched about a pigeon flying over a kilometer, that’s totally normal. I’m pretty confident in this because I have first hand evidence that birds are actually really good at flying, and sometimes they fly very long distances.
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 2 weeks ago:
Cruise missiles often use pre-programmed guidance systems, or total automation with just set of GPS waypoints to reach. That’s a pretty sensible appropriate because the nature of the device is as a long range weapon that often ventures far into enemy territory. If you needed to stay in constant communication, radio jamming would become a serious liability. I’d imagine this is very similar in its design goals, so they’d likely use a similar approach.
At any rate, I don’t expect the guidance to be the hard part, GPS navigation is not that hard to implement. (or GLONASS, in this particular case)
Also… If the US were doing this, they actually could use star link. Star link direct to cell phone connectivity is actually in beta right now and it works. If the pigeon could carry a striped down iPhone (it doesn’t need a screen, speaker, microphone, etc), then it could actually carry a communications device that could be in constant contact. I wouldn’t recommend Russia try that on starlink though.