I think Downtown Seattle has a bunch too (including near Amazon campus). I just looked up one random one and they have about half the total reported building square footage of a 10-story building used for a datacenter: https://www.datacenters.com/equinix-se3-seattle

Yeah, "burn up safely on reentry".

100 years later: "why does everything taste like cadmium?"

The bean counters at NVidia recently upped the expected lifecycle from 5 years to 6. On paper, you are expected now to get 6 years out of a GPU for datacenter use, not 3-5.

So like sudo

I think they mean both "know about a lot of different fields" and also "be able to connect them together to draw inferences", the latter perhaps being tricky?

Maybe? They should speak more clearly regardless, so we don't have to speculate over it. The way you worded it is much more understandable.

There wasn't much room to speculate really, but requires some knowledge of understanding problem spaces, topology, and things like minima and maxima.

"inaccessible" rather than "ambiguous" -- but to the uninitiated they are hard to tell apart.

There are such implementations for React Native: https://reactnative.dev/docs/out-of-tree-platforms

Potheads have always said stuff like that. You might have been talking to a pothead.

I grew up around hippies and potheads but this new legal-weed brand of normie pothead is different. It’s depressing.

I haven't encountered that; back when it was illegal I still heard lots of claims like it cures cancer, or is completely healthy with no negative effects, or that it's not addictive. I haven't noticed an increase in those sorts of claims with legalization and I assume it's all still the same people making them.

I can’t stop hearing them after visiting Denver, CO.

Does the moon offer much heat dissipation potential vs. orbit? The lunar surface seems like an almost-as-harsh environment.

There is a whole fucking moon you can embed heatsinks into.

That's a good point, the rock you're sitting on is basically a giant heat sink.

Also 1.2 seconds is like ridiculously long, unacceptable latency.

My contention is that for large ai query, it's not that unacceptable.

* no electric bill: if you use solar panels to provide your own power, you also have no electric bill on Earth.

* no cost for land: land in sunny places where crops don't grow (for instance) is good for solar power and very cheap compared to building out a datacenter

* no charge for maintenance: sorry, I really don't get this one. Why don't the computers in space need any maintenance?

> Why don't the computers in space need any maintenance?

Because it would be too expensive to maintain them. Replacing them would be cheaper (I presume).

Ah! That makes sense. But surely there is a point at which this economics becomes true for terrestrial datacenters too (in fact I saw some glimpses of that 10+ years ago, demonstrations of shipping-container-sized self-contained units that you just plug in power, and replace the whole container when it gets degraded). If they're not doing that today for terrestrial datacenters, then it probably doesn't make economic sense yet to do it in space either.

A lot of people who are a little bit ignorant think it's really easy to cool things in space because space is notoriously very cold.

Physics, it turns out, is slightly more complicated than this and it turns out vacuum is an incredibly good insulator and more (much more) than offsets the temperature differential in terms of how easy it is to cool something.