Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
dusk-dawn orbit is a thing if you donāt care too hard about where exactly to put it
but itās gonna be so fucking expensive, what theyāre trading off so itās even remotely worth it? do they think itās outside of any jurisdiction?
yeah I thought about that but I took it in light of ādata centerā, i.e. presuming that youād want continuous availability of that. part of what I mean with it being worth a long essay - thereās a couple of ways to configure the hypothetical way this would operate, and each has significant impacts on the shape of the thing
yep. thatās the thing thatās so wild about this fairy picture. option 1) make your entire compute infra earthside[0], launch it all, and get ā¦ the node compute equivalent of 3 stacked raspberry and a 2017 gpu, at a costpoint in the high 4 digits or moreā¦ or option 2, where you just shove a dc full of equipment for the price of like 20 such nodes, and have the compute equivalent of a significant number of mid-range hosters
even if (and this is extreme wand waving) you could crack non-planetbound production for the entire process and fab all this shit in space (incl. the mining and refining and ā¦) as a way to reduce costs, you still have all these other problems too. and itās not like this is likely to happen any time soon
guess they better hope 'ole ray has another vision soon, to get a fixed date for the singularity. canāt see how you do your scrum planning for this fantasy without a target date provided by the singularitian prophet
wait itās all ray kurzweil?
dunno if the aforementioned jazz is (I didnāt check), but rayboi is the easiest āand then compute things just become magically solvedā touchstone for me to remember
too many of the fucking nutjobs to properly track whoās the steering committee for each insane idea