dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

us-east-1 is Amazon's Self-Nuking Technology(tm)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

didn't we all

i sometimes wonder how i'd make money if i was unencumbered by ethics. i originally thought audiophiles, but then i discovered crypto, holy shit

ai is the same

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago

The hypothetical benefit is that prefabricated parts are a lot less dependent on the site. This will make the reactor cheaper to build.

There's also a perception sleight of hand - "modular" doesn't mean the reactor is a module you ship in on a big truck, put some uranium in and away you go. You're building a power station in a fixed location.

Also you still need a shitload of water.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago

I got a lot of them from very pro-nuclear guys too, but ones who can count

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you'd almost think they were literally the same fucking guys

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

even if you're ardently pro-nuclear, SMRs are just a failure purely on the economics and always have been. And that's before wind/solar/battery made them just obsolete. So SMRs are the perfect tech when you don't want to do anything useful.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

looks like the name server is getting hammered

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

as you will discover if you read, the use case for SMRs is to keep doing coal

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

wtf are NPUs anyway? some specialised vector maths thing?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

i mean, he's saying "met up with my fellow put-in-a-locker-nazis"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

bullshitting and resentful anger are both useful and teachable skills!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

they have the MediaWiki database dumps, which are XML so you can do anything with them!! *

* the actual page text is a single field

 

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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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