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erupt7893 commented on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia   npr.org/2025/06/01/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/consumer451
cosmicgadget · 10 months ago
As long as TACO doesn't dissolve NATO or try to invade Canada, the optimist in me believes a global conventional war is highly unlikely.
erupt7893 · 10 months ago
You are naive if you think global conventional war is highly unlikely at this point. A nuclear weapon capable country is being backed in to a corner
erupt7893 commented on Crew-9 Returns to Earth   spacex.com/launches/missi... · Posted by u/saikatsg
echoangle · a year ago
Why would you do it for the health? Their stays weren’t extremely long compared to other ISS expeditions.
erupt7893 · a year ago
Standard rotations are about 6 months - Butch and Suni were supposed to be up there for 8 days... Their families, their lives, and everything normal for way longer than planned. Health routines or not, that’s a brutal toll—mentally, emotionally, not just bones and muscles. Stop downplaying it like it’s no big deal
erupt7893 commented on Exult: Recreating Ultima VII for modern operating systems   exult.sourceforge.io/inde... · Posted by u/nateb2022
canadiantim · a year ago
I miss ultima online - the good ol' days. Yes you can still play it, but alas' not the same. No game has come close.
erupt7893 · a year ago
There is the UO:1998 project https://www.uo1998.com
erupt7893 commented on SpaceX update regarding Starship FAA flight approval   spacex.com/updates/#stars... · Posted by u/redox99
diggan · 2 years ago
> Despite a small, but vocal, minority of detractors trying to game the regulatory system to obstruct and delay the development of Starship, SpaceX remains committed to the mission at hand.

Is the "small but vocal minority" the FAA here? They seem to go on the offensive instead of trying to work with the very people who can possibly decide their fate, seems a bit short-sighted.

erupt7893 · 2 years ago
The small vocal minority is the media, CNBC reported inaccurately about environmental issues, causing this FAA delay. More details here:

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1823080774012481862

erupt7893 commented on SpaceX update regarding Starship FAA flight approval   spacex.com/updates/#stars... · Posted by u/redox99
sjm-lbm · 2 years ago
I do think we need to make the US a place where builders can build, but I disagree with this justification pretty strongly. This isn't a public organization working for the public good, it's a private company doing R&D to create a spacecraft that they will own and control.

We're also, at least in the legal sense, not at war.

erupt7893 · 2 years ago
SpaceX is private, however this whole Starship program has NASA (public organization) funding parts of Starship's development for lunar exploration, as part of the Artemis program
erupt7893 commented on How Hertz’s bet on Teslas went sideways   bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
nradov · 2 years ago
Teslas need a lot of maintenance. They are among the least reliable car brands. Just having fewer moving parts isn't sufficient to overcome incompetent engineering and sloppy assembly.

https://www.truedelta.com/Tesla/brand-reliability-Tesla

erupt7893 · 2 years ago
I haven't had to take my Tesla in for any maintenance. My VW Golf however needed annual maintenance and taken in to the dealer service center. Completely different experience
erupt7893 commented on Nvidia Unveils Blackwell, Its Next GPU   spectrum.ieee.org/nvidia-... · Posted by u/rbanffy
xyzzy_plugh · 2 years ago
Nvidia has been peddling compute for decades. They've long been selling enterprise tier cards for industrial purposes that are ill-suited to games. In many ways CUDA has been their long running attempt to break out of gaming.

I'm not surprised here. They invested and invested and invested and now everyone is playing catch up while they nearly corner the market. In industry circles we've been lamenting their dominance in this area for well over a decade.

Google and Apple are the only companies I see that have a shot at disrupting their market but they tend to end up navel gazing instead of burning bridges. And Nvidia has bridges with everyone.

It's absolutely an industrial geopolitics mastercraft scenario. We'll be studying them for a century.

Everyone has long known that the secret to unlocking the next tier of performance is solving concurrency. Look at all the advances that have made it into production in the last twenty years. But threading models only get you so far on a CPU, and programming GPUs is comparatively very difficult. Nvidia has always aimed to displace the CPU's prominence, since day one.

It's horizontal scaling 101.

erupt7893 · 2 years ago
They've been peddling compute since mid-2000's, however Nvidia has been around for much longer. To the revisionist history point, I'm unfamiliar seeing any of this prior to that. Unless I'm missing something, they were very much a graphics only company competing with 3dfx, Matrox, S3, ATi, etc
erupt7893 commented on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’   cnbc.com/2024/03/18/nvidi... · Posted by u/tiahura
jairuhme · 2 years ago
I haven't listened to Jensen speak before, but am I the only one who thought the presentation wasn't very polished? Not a knock on anything he has accomplished, just an observation that sorta surprised me
erupt7893 · 2 years ago
I've been watching his keynotes for as long as I can remember, this is how it's always been
erupt7893 commented on Elon Musk's $56B Tesla compensation voided by judge   cnbc.com/amp/2024/01/30/t... · Posted by u/firloop
erupt7893 · 2 years ago
Anyone saying this package is unreasonable likely doesn't know that:

- This compensation package was approved, and he would only obtain payout if and only if Tesla reach some considerable aggressive milestones. - This was in 2018 when the company was not doing well relatively. - The shareholders at the time voted 74% in favour of the package.

erupt7893 commented on Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine   community.ui.com/question... · Posted by u/amaccuish
jonathantf2 · 2 years ago
Not if you use their "Dream Machine" line of products - you have to use the controller that's self hosted on the box. I'm currently trying to figure out how to disable the cloud connection on these and go back to good ol' open ports to manage the thing.
erupt7893 · 2 years ago
I haven't tried yet but looks like this was posted above with how to disable cloud connection https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644073

u/erupt7893

KarmaCake day103August 10, 2023View Original