Are war games even meant to be winnable for Red much of the time?
February 7, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Are war games even meant to be winnable for Red much of the time?
My family is interesting in having arrived in the US pre-revolution, fled to Canada to escape the Sons of Liberty, then come back in the 20th century.
February 3, 2026 at 3:26 AM
My family is interesting in having arrived in the US pre-revolution, fled to Canada to escape the Sons of Liberty, then come back in the 20th century.
What is your opinion on the ships?
February 2, 2026 at 11:46 PM
What is your opinion on the ships?
Who was President in 2020 challenge: impossible.
February 1, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Who was President in 2020 challenge: impossible.
Yes, it's generally illegal to sue yourself, even in weird cases where you're acting in two capacities with adverse interests.
February 1, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Yes, it's generally illegal to sue yourself, even in weird cases where you're acting in two capacities with adverse interests.
The big models you run in a datacenter are so large they don't fit in a single H100's VRAM, so it's multiple GPUs interconnected or multiple loads from RAM, and loads are *expensive*
January 31, 2026 at 9:44 PM
The big models you run in a datacenter are so large they don't fit in a single H100's VRAM, so it's multiple GPUs interconnected or multiple loads from RAM, and loads are *expensive*
My understanding is that the big models are mostly multi-server with multiple GPUs per server. It's not just number of computations; it's also VRAM.
January 31, 2026 at 9:42 PM
My understanding is that the big models are mostly multi-server with multiple GPUs per server. It's not just number of computations; it's also VRAM.
And getting stuff to orbit is expensive. The people talking about sending up datacenters are saying the cost will *come down* to $200 per kilogram. This is making very optimistic assumptions about Starship that a lot of observers don't think will be met.
January 31, 2026 at 9:26 PM
And getting stuff to orbit is expensive. The people talking about sending up datacenters are saying the cost will *come down* to $200 per kilogram. This is making very optimistic assumptions about Starship that a lot of observers don't think will be met.
In space, there's no air and your satellite isn't touching anything, so it's got to be all radiation. So you need huge radiators. So you're talking a lot more material going up than it takes to build an earthside datacenter.
January 31, 2026 at 9:23 PM
In space, there's no air and your satellite isn't touching anything, so it's got to be all radiation. So you need huge radiators. So you're talking a lot more material going up than it takes to build an earthside datacenter.
The problem basically is that cooling in space is Really Hard. Heat can be transferred by being conducted to another material it's touching, by the movement of air, or radiation. Radiation is by far the slowest.
January 31, 2026 at 9:22 PM
The problem basically is that cooling in space is Really Hard. Heat can be transferred by being conducted to another material it's touching, by the movement of air, or radiation. Radiation is by far the slowest.
What I'm not sure on is how much the GPUs have to talk to each other during the processing, or if it's split at the start and united at the end.
January 31, 2026 at 9:18 PM
What I'm not sure on is how much the GPUs have to talk to each other during the processing, or if it's split at the start and united at the end.
My understanding is that the response generation is split up across enough GPUs they'd probably have to be in multiple satellites if you're talking small enough a million is a plausible number.
January 31, 2026 at 9:17 PM
My understanding is that the response generation is split up across enough GPUs they'd probably have to be in multiple satellites if you're talking small enough a million is a plausible number.
Psst, Rome raised slaves to citizenship.
Not to say Roman slavery was not a brutal, dehumanizing institution, but they had whole guilds of ex-slave citizens.
Not to say Roman slavery was not a brutal, dehumanizing institution, but they had whole guilds of ex-slave citizens.
January 31, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Psst, Rome raised slaves to citizenship.
Not to say Roman slavery was not a brutal, dehumanizing institution, but they had whole guilds of ex-slave citizens.
Not to say Roman slavery was not a brutal, dehumanizing institution, but they had whole guilds of ex-slave citizens.
They did it at my US college, though from a dedicated heat furnace rather than something with a distinct purpose.
January 31, 2026 at 5:56 PM
They did it at my US college, though from a dedicated heat furnace rather than something with a distinct purpose.
Do they have any measures for when ICE siezes a phone and unlocks it? Like, they're using the phones to coordinate the response, they can't leave them at home, and Signal is unencrypted on endpoint devices.
January 30, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Do they have any measures for when ICE siezes a phone and unlocks it? Like, they're using the phones to coordinate the response, they can't leave them at home, and Signal is unencrypted on endpoint devices.
Does the House tell them to go fuck themselves again?
January 30, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Does the House tell them to go fuck themselves again?
Problem turned out to be maintenance; boards still failed occasionally and they had to haul the whole thing out of the ocean to replace them.
January 30, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Problem turned out to be maintenance; boards still failed occasionally and they had to haul the whole thing out of the ocean to replace them.
Microsoft actually tried undersea datacenters.
Solved the cooling problem, but every time they wanted to replace a burned-out board they had to haul the whole thing out of the ocean, so they gave up on the concept.
Solved the cooling problem, but every time they wanted to replace a burned-out board they had to haul the whole thing out of the ocean, so they gave up on the concept.
January 30, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Microsoft actually tried undersea datacenters.
Solved the cooling problem, but every time they wanted to replace a burned-out board they had to haul the whole thing out of the ocean, so they gave up on the concept.
Solved the cooling problem, but every time they wanted to replace a burned-out board they had to haul the whole thing out of the ocean, so they gave up on the concept.
The ISS has huge radiator panels, and it uses orders of magnitude less energy and thus produces less heat than a gigawatt datacenter.
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The ISS has huge radiator panels, and it uses orders of magnitude less energy and thus produces less heat than a gigawatt datacenter.
Heat cannot conduct or convect through a vacuum, only radiate, so cooling is a serious problem for space operations. The problem Apollo 13 had is that everything that produced heat had to be shut down, but it still had the radiator surface that cooled it while running.
January 30, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Heat cannot conduct or convect through a vacuum, only radiate, so cooling is a serious problem for space operations. The problem Apollo 13 had is that everything that produced heat had to be shut down, but it still had the radiator surface that cooled it while running.
Whatever you say, Ministry of Truth.
January 30, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Whatever you say, Ministry of Truth.
Knife for the peanut butter, spoon for the jelly.
The true way.
The true way.
January 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Knife for the peanut butter, spoon for the jelly.
The true way.
The true way.
I'm not sure how consistent it can be on artstyle. Skyrim has a huge varity of stuff, but they're all consistently Skyrim-style.
January 30, 2026 at 12:20 PM
I'm not sure how consistent it can be on artstyle. Skyrim has a huge varity of stuff, but they're all consistently Skyrim-style.
The people who tried using AI for concept art didn't like it; it locks your creativity onto the AI's output instead of allowing for the full iterative process starting with a quick sketch does.
January 30, 2026 at 12:18 PM
The people who tried using AI for concept art didn't like it; it locks your creativity onto the AI's output instead of allowing for the full iterative process starting with a quick sketch does.