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Yeah, 88/2 is weird as shit. Perhaps the GPUs are especially large? I know NVIDIA has that thing where you can slice up a GPU into smaller units (I can’t remember what it’s called, it’s some fuckass TLA), so maybe they’re counting on people doing that.

This is the most important piece of information. You should edit the post and/or title to make this more clear.

Thank you for sharing this fact that has filled me with joy. I am not enough of a science hippy to tell if beer, wine, or bourbon contain more phytoestrogens than soy, but they absolutely do contain it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6761902/

Gimmie dat d-limonene over any of these, please.

I’ve lived in Utah for like 30 years and I can picture this so clearly in my head.

I hadn’t even thought of that! I did some oxyacetylene welding many moons ago and I remember the heat being absolutely intolerable at times.

I do machining as a hobby now and I’d really like to filter out cutting oil smoke. My biggest fear using a PAPR is my shop is the hose—I’d need to find a way to keep it REALLY close to my body. I don’t want to get pulled into my lathe face-first.

I very much want a PAPR as well. I seem to recall that there were some units that came out of COVID that are somewhat cheaper, at least.

I feel despair every time this project comes up ): I really like the idea of rewriting coreutils in rust, but GNU-compatible coreutils in a permissive license is just asking for trouble…

Yeah, Pokemon cards were like beanie babies back in the very late nineties and early aughts. People were OBSESSED with the value of their collections.

Grr, it’s sometimes quite frustrating that strikeout is inconsistent across markdown implementations. It’s struck through for me, but not for you.

EDIT: maybe the markdown parser in Interstellar is just more permissive. Double tilde also works.

If you’d like to learn more about Bash itself, this is an amazing resource: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide

Probably the ONLY place on the internet that will teach you to write safe shell scripts. Most shit on StackOverflow (and consequently, most shell generated by LLMs) is dangerous garbage.

You’re no fun.

EDIT: Sorry, I’m having a shitty day and I’m letting that bleed over into the internet. I apologize for the rude comment.

Open source can be enshittified. FOSS with many contributors should be basically proof against being fucked with.

Yep, that’s my use-case. I am not interested in unlocking the door, only locking it.

God I fucking hate plaster. Granted, my house uses oldish-fashioned metal lath and plaster, but it’s such a ball ache. I wish it had been built with just drywall so I could use stud finders and shitty drywall anchors. Instead it’s all fuckass toggle bolts and “use this giant magnet to find the stupid screw that attaches the stupid lath to the stupid stud.” Ugh.

My espresso machine has already paid for itself, although I’ll grant that it was a pretty huge initial investment. Coffee shop coffee is just so fucking expensive…

the f stands for file. The c manpage has some details on how it works: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/flock.2.html

CAD was a big problem for me as well. I’ve been happy enough with OnShape (coming from Autodesk Inventor), but the extreme SaaS nature of it makes me worry.

Yeah, I think it’d be a pretty silly thing for us to ever try to do. My goal was to take their stupid idea, provide a slightly less stupid idea, and then say “or just don’t do space power at all and keep everything terrestrial.” Orbital solar power stations were lots of fun in science fiction, but panels are cheap, there’s plenty of land, and giant death masers that cook any birds flying into the beam are, uh, suboptimal.

We’ve had the template for this for decades. Put the solar panels in space where the thick soupy gunky spunky atmosphere doesn’t stop the little energy things from the sun. Collect the power in orbit. You just do that up there up in orbit okay? And then you fucking beam the power down to the surface you numpty fucks. Use a maser to send the power down to the surface and you can pick a frequency that isn’t affected by the gunky spunky and then the receivers on the ground can pick it up and they send the power through these things called wires to a building that uses the power and the building can use this neat little thing called CONVECTION to more efficiently remove the heat from the things using the electricity wow.

Or just, y’know, use less power and make use of ground based solar. We don’t need fucking AI data centers in space. Don’t get me wrong, I think it might be useful to, say, have some compute up in geostationary orbit that other satellites could punt some data to for computation. You could have an evenly spaced ring of the fuckers so the users up there can get some data crunching done with a RTT of like 50ms instead of 700ms. That seems like a hard sell, but it at least seems a bit tenable if you needed to reduce the data you’re sending back to the earth down to a more manageable amount with some preprocessing. That is still not fuckass gigawatt AI data centers. Fuck