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 you’ll near-instantly regret.
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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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
yeah I thought about that but I took it in light of “data center”, i.e. presuming that you’d want continuous availability of that. part of what I mean with it being worth a long essay - there’s a couple of ways to configure the hypothetical way this would operate, and each has significant impacts on the shape of the thing
yep. that’s the thing that’s so wild about this fairy picture. option 1) make your entire compute infra earthside[0], launch it all, and get … the node compute equivalent of 3 stacked raspberry and a 2017 gpu, at a costpoint in the high 4 digits or more… 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 …) as a way to reduce costs, you still have all these other problems too. and it’s 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. can’t see how you do your scrum planning for this fantasy without a target date provided by the singularitian prophet
wait it’s all ray kurzweil?
dunno if the aforementioned jazz is (I didn’t check), but rayboi is the easiest “and then compute things just become magically solved” touchstone for me to remember
too many of the fucking nutjobs to properly track who’s the steering committee for each insane idea