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*No one is supposed to control the strait. Per international maritime law, ships are not supposed to be subject to sovereignty as long as they are just “passing through,” and that only extends 12 miles out from the border of Iran.

Could this ever be “self hosted” on a phone, in the future? Eg run as a web app, basically?

That would get around the issue of rate limiting for those of us with no home server.

Eh, most of the poison is the dark patterns in the UI, the relentless engagement optimization, algorithmic recommendations, the tracking, and so on.

This short circuits all of that.

A used SLR!

Just look through the viewfinder. Add a padded rubber cup, if you wish.

It activates the lens’s stabilization and autofocus, which is immensely useful and something an adapter could never do. And the plastic crop bodies are cheap, and not that big/heavy.

You can also get right-angle adapters for the eyepiece, like:

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Yes, though that’s true of other methods.

Another big factor is that its very inconvenient to buffer vs tanks on either end, for transmission breaks that take time to repair, uneven energy supply/demand and stuff like that. Or even just capacitance.

A big old tank of oil on either end is cheap.

I’m not trying to shill for hydrogen or anything (I don’t like hydrogen), but this is definitely an issue.

I am not a power engineer, but I do know the capital costs for the wire and components all along the way is massive. They’re complicated, and they require a lot of expensive (and probably carbon intensive) materials.

Basic physics dictates it. Its more complicated than small scale DC/AC current with negligible transmission time you’re likely thinking of.

Maintenance is a pain, too. HV wires (especially the crazy DC ones) are extremely, extremely dangerous and basically can’t be near anything.

I’m not sure about installation labor costs vs a pipeline though.

Power transmission is hard.

The wire, the complex components, keeping it all in phase and steady and not exploding, the maintenance…

I cannot emphasize this enough. People tend to trivialize this when talking about remote production, but moving electricity long-distance is basically the hardest part. And pipes really are dead-simple in comparison.

It’s also why local production is so appealing.

Our decision was based in part on the recommendations of the science community outlined in the 2025 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics report, Forecasting the Ocean: The 2025-2035 Decade of Ocean Science.

Forecasting the Ocean: The 2025–2035 Decade of Ocean Science

Looks paywalled, and I am on mobile today; can someone find this on Anna’s Archive or archive.org and check it?

I am interested to see what the report recommends, specifically.

I flew over there. The city is huge.

Would recommend Arusha, and the nearby nature reserves.

rare US places where Spanish is the majority speaking language.

Come to Texas.

Or Florida.

English is not as universal in the 50 states as you’d think.

Nah, I’m a hardcore Rimworld fan who’s been with it since the early forum Alphas, and that’s completely true, heh. IIRC was explicitly expired from DF, more obviously in the early days.

That being said, I’ve never played DF. I’m more into sci fi and tech than Tolkien-esque fantasy, hence I’ve passed on stuff like Necesse and… what’s that massive city builder? That, and many I’ve forgotten the names of.

Maybe I will give DF a look though. Maybe it has automation/tech mods that would make it more appealing, like Minecraft and Rimworld?

Y’all got any recs for “AI sandboxes” in the vein of Rimworld and Stellaris? Stellaris is just borked now, and I’ve modded/played the hell out of Rimworld.

Horizon 5 has one heck of a Hot Wheels expansion, if y’all don’t already have it.

To be clear, VMs absolutely have overhead but Docker/Podman is the question. It might be negligible.

And this is a particularly weird scenario (since prompt processing literally has to shuffle 112GB over the PCIe bus for each batch). Most GPGPU apps aren’t so sensitive to that.

In my case it’s performance and sheer RAM usage.

GLM 4.5 needs like 112GB RAM and absolutely every megabyte of VRAM from the GPU. It simply cannot afford the overhead. I think containers may slow down CPU<->GPU transfers slightly, but don’t quote me on that.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dismissed Buffett’s concerns and falsely claimed tariffs could replace the IRS.

Whoaaa, that is a whopper of a sidenote.

Like… WTF. They really do want any excuse for the mega rich to not pay taxes.