MalReynolds

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

Woot, competition!

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 days ago (7 children)

how cheating (particularly single player) can be fun

Have you never played a game with unreasonable grind that saps all the fun out of it ? Often just to drive player hours and 'engagement'. Multiplayer cheats however can die in a fire.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

The tanks might go underground mitigating (perhaps) the pressure explosion risk as opposed to lithium fire risk, but the honking great tent is an issue. Should have a longer life than Li Ion and be repairable vs somewhat recyclable. At scaled production it could certainly be cheaper, but some of the newer immobile battery chemistries might beat it. Synthesized fuel also makes a lot of sense. We shall see. What certainly makes sense is microgrids and power self-sufficiency.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 39 points 3 days ago

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was 'Oh no, not again.'

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wonder how small you can scale these and retain efficiency, at twice the footprint (but I'm guessing a lot more volume) of a lithium grid battery, will we see these replacing home batteries down the line?

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

160km/hr as per TFA.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

The ones with metal pigment are still waiting to fail, the ones that died used a cheap organic dye, coz profit. This is Silica (i.e. quartz, a long lived rock) with variances in polarization and intensity,( hence 5D when combined with a 3D Crystal))

OK generic marketing crap and will you have their special reader in a century, but it's a solid way to project knowledge into the far future (gotta wonder if we need to re-examine some quartz crystals with this in mind ;}

 

More like doubling down. Personally, I'd be let's go nuts here, let large free, but not bad. Here's hoping the grid doesn't break and consumer run virtual power plants (VPPs) get a chance to shine. Put a smile on my face for Solstice Season.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're not law as long as you can afford the lawyers and legal costs to fight them. Which is, of course, the problem and the system working as designed.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Get the SSDs pronto...

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hmpff, when I added the image it overwrote the original URL, not exactly intuitive, probably makes sense for memes.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry, thought I had, apparently I don't understand the post creation mechanism as well as I thought. Thanks for the catch, I'll edit the text.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Eh, I hadn't bothered to read the comm rules and doing a filesystem check is a suitable pain in the ass. BTW the last word was originally shitfuckery.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by MalReynolds@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

Source

TLDR:

OpenAI made a deal to secure 40% of the global supply of wafers from both SK Hynix and Samsung (2 of the 3 large providers of RAM) ostensibly for project Stargate server farms. But it gets so much worse, they made both deals on the same day without advising the other company, and have not provisioned any way to actually use (make chips from) the wafers. It looks more like they’re just trying to keep RAM out of the hands of their competitors.

From there the laws of supply and demand and panic buying by everyone else took over, RAM prices are going to the moon, and Micron (the third big provider) dropped out of the consumer market because they’re gonna make bank in the server market as the only unencumbered company. Consumer general purpose computer customers are royally boned. This will flow through into the SSD market as well.

In short, Fsck the AI industry in general and Fsck ‘OpenAI’ and Sam Altman in particular. If you pray, pray that this deal gets a legal injunction in South Korea, coz you know the US will just applaud this fsckery.

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