xthexder

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There'd be nothing less than gold plated B300s in a space datacenter. If they're spending billions flying it up there, they're not going to be putting mid-range consumer GPUs in there. The gold plating probably doesn't even do anything for radiation shielding, the AI just told them to add it to help prop up the AI bubble.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 13 points 2 months ago (6 children)

The advantage of datacenters in space is that the peasants can't break in and sabotage your equipment. Only a very small set of nations would have the capability of blowing it up or somehow jamming its communications.

It literally only makes sense if you're a billionaire worried about the growing unpopularity of your AI datacenters, or you're using it for war and don't want it easily bombed...

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 2 months ago

As far as I know, there are no more orbital deadzones. We've got so many satellites, if not Starlink, I'm sure some other satellites could do the job of relaying to ground stations. We get live video of boosters landing in the middle of the ocean after all.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 2 months ago

This. Honestly they're amazing on airplanes, since you can still talk and hear all the announcements / flight attendants without the background noise.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I might have to rewatch The Fast and the Furious. Now it's just AI hardware instead of VCRs or whatever it was in the movie.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 2 months ago

I don't mind the angular design, it's the specific design element of having a straight line from the headlight to above the passengers with the huge windshield. It just seems like it has so many drawbacks for driver visibility and other packaging issues. There's a reason you don't normally see this outside of really low cars, or buses/trucks with a flat front.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 2 months ago

I'm waiting to see if Slate can hit their crazy $24,950 target base price. With a 65kWh battery, that's a pretty great price. That's almost cheaper than buying batteries alone. I'm wondering if it will be able to do home backup power.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, too many Cybertruck vibes for my taste. Maybe it's better from other angles

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 points 2 months ago

You're comparing high end 512gb prices with low end 2tb prices. I somehow doubt Valve is selling this with a no-DRAM-cache SSD. It's only a $50 different if you compare fairly, and I doubt you'll find anyone willing to buy the old 512gb for full price either.

Valve's pricing is incredibly normal here. Yes the price is high, but they're not straight up ripping you off like Apple's RAM and SSD upgrades.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I'm not seeing a 2TB M.2 SSD for less than $250. Depending on the speed they put in it, it could easily be market price. The current Amazon best seller is $350 and is over 2x the read speed of the cheaper one.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 2 months ago

A modern Camry is actually a whole foot longer than a Rav4, but the Rav4 is 1 inch wider and quite a bit taller. Definitely not the exact same size.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 2 months ago

THE NEW 2027 DODGE RAM 1500!!

shows picture of AI generated Toyota Tacoma with the wrong badges

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