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Get those penguins doing something productive for once, put them on treadmills!


Or burn them in a furnace. Pretty much any way you can think of to accomplish something on earth, is vastly cheaper, easier, and faster than doing it in space.


Space doesn't really change it though because the effective bandwidth between nodes is reduced by the overall size of the network and how much data they need to relay between each other.


Yup. We don't use fibre optics on earth rather than lasers because of some specific limitation of the earth's surface being in orbit would avoid.

We use them because they're many orders of magnitude cheaper and simpler for anywhere near the same bandwidth for the distances required.


> We don't use fibre optics on earth rather than lasers because of some specific limitation of the earth's surface being in orbit would avoid.

That's incorrect. Lasers can suffer from atmospheric interference and fogging on earth.

Here is a post from NASA explaining why they like laser communications better than RF in space.[1]

[1] https://solc.gsfc.nasa.gov/modules/kidszone7/mainMenu_textOn...


Meme stock must be protected, apparently.


When you absolutely, positively, must find a nice thing to say about Tesla, yes, their 11% revenue decline - their second year in a row of revenue decline, was indeed slightly less bad than analysts expected...


11% revenue decline during a year where the global EV market grew 20% [0]. That's just abysmal, especially for a company which was once the only game in town if you wanted a "serious" EV.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/global...


Tesla is often compared to Apple.

I guess in this case it’s the Apple that dominated an emerging market, then fumbled it and completely lost the market to the IBM PC and ended up as a bit player for the next two decades.


Except Apple ditched their firebrand founder to fumble it all. In Tesla's case they are tied to the hip of their "founder" and are fumbling it.

Stonk still high though so...


analysts are kinda irrelevant when a stock isn't connected to fundamentals anyways


I read "beating" more like ICE tactics then coming out ahead of a prediction, seems perhaps more accurate


The experience is what you make of it. Personally I'm quite enjoying using AI as a way to generate code I can disagree with and refactor into what I want.


Sure, and I ask it to do the refactoring, too!


The marketing is irrelevant. The AIs are not aware of what they are doing, or motivated in the ways humans are.



Intel GPUs are probably not going to last much longer, considering they did a deal with nvidia for integrated GPUs.


Gaming is now less than 10% of nvidia's revenue. We're really not adding any meaningful diversity to their bottom line anymore.


I'm merely 47 and I don't really feel like I'm any older than I was in my 20s. Smarter hopefully, wiser certainly, but I never really completely put away childish things.


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