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  • Well, there’s “Imagine how cool that would be, bro”.

    And they are kinda right, if you imagine it a fair bit cooler than it would actually be…, bro.

    Other than that, you’d have to pretty much disregard anything learned from this. And you’d have to disregard the entire issue of getting rid of heat, powering a power hungry system that’s in earths shadow half the time, maintaining a server farm that’s constantly 500-1500km away from any technician and also in a vacuum, along with managing a solar flares, 500ms of latency and bits of sand traveling at 10km/s hitting your servers - oh and your boss being on drugs half the time.



  • Electronics are mostly solid state and are therefore virtually wear-free.

    If it’s designed well, they could actually be more reliable than pushing fluids through tubes. But pushing fluids through tubes is already pretty fucking reliable.

    I think the main point is to eliminate rusting brake discs from EVs, which rely largely on regenerative braking anyway. I know mine are constantly crusty; like I can always hear them scraping for the first few hundred meters of driving. Which is prolly not great.



  • The more I know about specific topics, the more I distrust DF on their framing. They don’t lie outright, but they tend to strike a very industry-friendly tone in their reporting.

    I know a fair bit about panel technology, but not enough to completely dismiss them outright on this. However, I don’t trust the “perceived” clearance here. Especially not quantified as “4x” (the detail, lol). Not from people who promote temporal anti-aliasing or GI and generated frames.




  • I once got myself a small projector. It ran on Android. I didn’t want to connect it to my network. Unfortunately, an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot would sometimes pop up nearby, which the damn thing would connect to in order to download ads and bother me with nonsense.

    The workaround was to give it Wi-Fi, but block the internet connection in the router. The solution was to throw it away. Malicious little fuck.



  • I’ve only used an LLM (you can guess which one) once to write code. Mostly because I didn’t feel like writing down some numbers and making a little drawing for myself to solve the problem.

    And because a friend insisted that it writes code just fine.

    But it didn’t. It confidently didn’t. Instead, it made up something weird and kept telling me that it had now “fixed” the problem, when in reality it was trying random fixes that were related to the error message but had nothing to do with the actual core problem. It just guessed and prayed.

    In the end, I solved the problem in 10 minutes with a small scribble and a pen. And most of the time was spend drawing small boxes, because my solution relied on a coordinate system, I needed to visualize.