PinkiesBrain

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by PinkiesBrain 7mo ago
With a heatpump the PV and GPU would have the evaporators, the radiator would have the condenser. You do this for two reasons, so you can run the radiator hotter (4th power and all) and because the refrigerant is a good heat spreader (bette
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by PinkiesBrain 7mo ago
Sleep.
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by PinkiesBrain 7mo ago
Because it's not 10x. If you cool the solar panels (which aren't black body absorbers for longer wavelengths) and GPUs to 80C through a heatpump and have the blackbody radiator at 120C it will approximately work out, 1:1.
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by PinkiesBrain 7mo ago
Avoid it as much as possible. They'll circle the earth around an axis approximately in line with the earth-sun vector. In practice they might see some eclipse, but only for a small percentage of their orbit.
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by PinkiesBrain 7mo ago
The inner side of the radiator would be metallized, an anti black body. Together with a bit of vacuum it would thermally be quite far from the PV&GPU. Thermal insulation is easy in space.
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by PinkiesBrain 8mo ago
You don't put it in a standard orbit, you put it in a polar orbit with near 100% suntime ... obviously. Obviously you use the backside of the massive area of PV you need, for an equally massive area for HOPG radiator films with condens
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by PinkiesBrain 1y ago
It's not meant as a workstation/tinkering system, the card without networking is not the main aim. If you're willing to pay 4k for 96GB, just get 3 with networking. That said, it missed the boat on MoE. The future is two tie
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by PinkiesBrain 2y ago
Is Rasmussen really in favour of a GoF ban and destroying the academic value of the background of the majority of her professional friends in the field? Cause I can't really find her calling for a ban, quite the opposite really. This i
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by PinkiesBrain 2y ago
There should be internet 2. Kick off all ISPs which refuse to do good ingress/egress filtering. Kick off all customers which absolutely positively need to be completely exempt from the filtering because of their ultra special snowflake
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by PinkiesBrain 3y ago
Looking at form 4s, Jensen got about 25 Billion dollar worth of shares between 2018 and 2023.
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by PinkiesBrain 3y ago
There's only so much developer time and management focus. "This will help us cement our monopoly on software distribution without being too obvious to regulators" is a good pitch. PS. I'm sure the people who pitched it a
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by PinkiesBrain 3y ago
They can weaponize it against Valve. Helping displace steam for relatively little effort bumped it up in priority.
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by PinkiesBrain 3y ago
So now they are propping up an ecosystem on which open computing will always be a second rank citizen at best. I wonder if they are all happy about it in retrospect, wine got patches, DXVK gets to be a brick in the wall of Apple's gard