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They may also be pushing AI features because there are people who actually do want to use them. “Nobody wants this” is a refrain most commonly spoken inside social bubbles.

As you say, nobody has to use these features if they don’t want to. If they feel icky even knowing that there’s a configuration option there then there are plenty of Firefox forks out there that don’t even have that. It’s so tiresome seeing these complaints being endlessly inserted into unrelated discussions like this.

Firefox doing well at something? Guess it’s time for Firefox fans to imagine them eventually doing something else that they don’t like so they can gripe about that instead.

Choice is a good thing. Small communites are good. Decentralized is good because then big bullies can’t come in and take your community away. Small size and fragmentation are features, not bugs.

Would be nice if the Fediverse had more of that.

There are three or four different “Technology” communities. But there might as well just be one, it’s the same bubble in each of them.

2-10 million per launch, but each launch will carry ~60 satellites. So that’s as little as $30,000 per satellite.

Starship is going to fundamentally change what the launch industry is. It’s easy to overlook.

They’re not putting up just one satellite. It’s going to be a constellation. The constellation as a whole will be equivalent to a data center.

Also, it won’t cost them millions of dollars to launch a single satellite. That’s why this project is paired up with Starship development, the two go hand in hand. Starship makes the launches cheap, Starmind gives Starship the scale of demand a ship like that needs for its economics to work.

The actual Starmind satellites will have 175kW of compute on them, Scott made that video before the specs were released so he assumed a minimum package. But all of this scales linearly, if you double the power usage you just double the size of the solar panels and double the size of the radiators. If a 20kW satellite works then you can bolt ten of them together and get a 200kW satellite that works too.

The only people inconvenienced by “poisoning” your old comments are actual humans who come across old threads through Google or whatever in search of helpful information.

When Reddit sells data to AI trainers or whatever, they sell their internal database. It’s got the deleted content in it still. So do the public archives that third parties have collected and made available as torrents.

Some people use Windows.

I suppose one could, They’re going with 160 m² radiators (double sided of course) so they won’t need heat pumps, though, I guess they found that to be a better tradeoff of mass and complexity.

In another comment regarding these books, you said:

They can keep both for all I care, tbh.

So it really seems you’re just insisting on this because you think it will make things harder for them. You don’t care about the books or who they go to in the end.

Here’s the usual video I use for this issue, a walk-through of the equations on how things cool in space where Scott Manley runs the numbers and shows that it’s perfectly reasonable with a modest radiator panel.

What temperature are you assuming for the radiators? At 80° Celsius (353 Kelvin) they can do 880 watts per square meter. And bear in mind that radiator panels are double-sided, so that makes 1760 watts per square meter of dedicated panel. 80 degrees is what these chips are meant to run at, if you wanted to you could use a heat pump to make the radiator panels even hotter and they’d get much more efficient - according to the Stefan–Boltzmann law thermal radiation goes up proportional to the fourth power of the temperature. Shouldn’t be necessary here though.

There’s a whole lot of answers in here saying cooling is impossible or super hard, and that people whose literal job is building satellites haven’t thought of this. Or that the people whose literal job is building satellites haven’t though about all sorts of other basic stuff like “you can’t do maintenance on satellites” or “there’s radiation in space” or whatnot.

Yes, they’ve thought of all those things. Those aren’t useful answers

The main advantages continuous high-power solar energy, different regulations being in play (it’s "outside the regulatory environment), and in the case of SpaceX it provides synergy with their own rocket launch business. They’re creating their own demand, allowing everything to be cheaper in bulk.

Yes, it’s to “raise the stock value.” Isn’t that why companies do anything? Doing a thing that produces value is going to raise the value of the stock of the company doing it.

First people complained about them pirating, now people are complaining about them following copyright. It should be clear at this point that the people complaining don’t really care about either, they just don’t like AI.

But donate them to whom? The books were one step away from the pulpers when they bought them in the first place, who’s going to take them that values them more than that?

Also, these companies are not charities. What do they gain out of all that extra expense?

Oh, I’d thought he’d died already.

Ah well. Soon.

Well, who’s talking about buying?

How else do you think they got the books?

IMO the upvote/downvote system is the Fediverse’s biggest mistake, and eliminating it its biggest missed opportunity. There simply isn’t enough of a userbase for it to be meaningful, most threads end up with just a few dozen comments so sorting them by vote ratio doesn’t really accomplish much. Meanwhile it helps drive communities into ever tighter social bubbles by giving such an easy mechanism to express “go away” vibes to anyone with a view that isn’t perfectly in line with the existing consensus.

Here on social media we get to ensure that we only associate with other “normal” people. By our definition of “normal.”

And then we get shocked when we discover that large numbers of people out there are not, in fact, “normal.” Often when an election happens.

I can literally look out my window right this moment and see the yard sign I’ve got up opposing separatism. I’ve canvassed for anti-separatist movements, I phone banked for the NDP in the most recent provincial election, I went door to door in support of them. I live in one of the ridings that sent an NDP member to parliament, I voted for them too.

But yeah, clearly I’m the bigot here. It annoys me that Alberta is considered a big blob of traitors and racists and therefore I must be a racist myself.

Do you not see how this kind of attitude is harmful?

The classic “if you’re offended then you must deserve to be offended.” Kind of ironic in the context of an article about bigotry.

The article is discussing a Canada-wide problem and he jumped straight to “it’s about Alberta.” The article actually calls out Saskatchewan as having the steepest decline in acceptance of gender diversity.