[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 5 hours ago

It's against the Geneva convention to conscript POWs. Add it to the pile of war crimes, I guess.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 5 hours ago

Musk is not the only person planning these sorts of satellites.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 18 points 9 hours ago

I heard he started to lean left.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 13 hours ago

So don't pack them as densely as Earth-based data centers are packed.

In another comment in this thread I posted a link to a youtube video by Scott Manley explaining the math and engineering behind cooling computer hardware in space, it's actually pretty straightforward.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 17 hours ago

That article was incorrect, then. There are many satellites already in orbit that have computers in them - basically all of them do, nowadays - and cooling them is a well understood engineering problem.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 17 hours ago

The radiator panels on the ISS are 2,500 square meters in area. The radiator panels are 645 square meters.

Most of the proposals for space-based data centers have ended up focusing on plans to place thousands of individual satellites into orbit, not just one big space station with everything packed inside it. Scott Manley recently did an analysis of the cooling requirements, he worked through all the numbers and explained how it works, and there really doesn't seem to be a problem here.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, this is fundamental; if you use a thousand joules of energy to do work (of any kind) you will ultimately end up producing a thousand joules of waste heat. The only choice one has in the matter is where that heat goes.

This is a major reason why I get annoyed at the people pooh-poohing space-based data centers. It literally puts the waste heat outside the environment. It should be everything that data center opponents say they want.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 18 hours ago

Line went up, didn't it?

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 19 hours ago

I pick a simple goal: have a good day. Then I generalize that: try to have as many good days as possible relative to bad days. You can generalize it further and try to ensure other people have good days too, if you're the empathetic sort.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 25 points 1 day ago

Google: "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI". Prophetic words.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago

Your proof of how bad LLMs are is the fact that there are a bunch of other companies producing way better coding agents and coding models than Microsoft is? I'm not sure how that follows. Those other agents are good, that's the point of this.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 23 points 1 day ago

You're not on Reddit.

Want to go halfsies? I've got a car.

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