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and each of those GPUs probably has many times more computing power than the junk in your basement.
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you don't, in fact, need a Very Large Hill, with a Very Large Lake at the top, a Very Large Hole in the Ground* works as well.
*AKA a disused mine.
https://re100.eng.anu.edu.au/2024/02/28/Researchers-found-37-mine-sites-in-Australia-that-could-be-converted-into-renewable-energy-storage/
On your logic every bomb ever made was a dud. Sadly, that isn't true.
Whatever you think of Musk, SpaceX proved this sort of tedious nonsense to be baseless the day they successfully landed a booster on a barge. why it continues is beyond me.
The word 'Electricity' was coined by a contemporary of Shakespeare. Stephen Gray built a crude electric telegraph in the early 18th Century. That's at least two centuries of electricity being a useless toy. The thing is you can never know when an idea's time will come so you have no choice but to take a long term view.
But what I'm waiting is AI based texturing. The problem of endlessly repeated textures is just about solved but we are still in a situation where 3D-worlds are unnaturally clean and uniform. An AI that could add in unexpected but common details like say a spilt milkshake on the pavement or a plant growing out of a crack in a wall or patch on a wall where something used to be attached would greatly increase overall realism.
Failures can be prevented from propagating by the simple expedient of drilling a small hole. In this case the plug was surrounded by a large hole. And if the airframe was designed to depend on the presence of the plug for its structural integrity it was designed wrong. On the other hand this is a Boeing. . .
There's a quote attributed to all the usual suspect that goes something like 'I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.' That pretty much sums up my attitude to archiving – I simply don't have time to go through all my stuff trying to determine what I might want at some undetermined point in the future. It's always easier to just buy a bigger hard drive.
you can offer the user your wonderfully innovative way of doing things as an option. Maybe you passionately believe that having the close button hovering in bottom right-hand corner of the window provides some great benefit. Then implement that but allow the user an easy way to revert to what they're comfortable with. Of course 99% of them will do just that and your wonderful idea will go nowhere but since the alternative is losing 99% of potential users you're still coming out ahead. And maybe the other one percent will start a revolution. (Don't hold your breathe.)
You're probably right but one of the interesting things about Babylon 5 was watching the graphics steadily improve over the run. Pretty ropey at the beginning but by the end as good as any physical model work.
I destroyed my first rice cooker that way. Put it on the cooktop while I cleaned the bench and accidentally bumped the knob. I still insist it wasn't my fault. What short of idiot designs a control knob with 360 degrees rotation so that the slightest nudge can set it to full power?
extracting it in the first place? While some methane may be released as a by-product of the extraction of other materials, a large amount is the result of accidental (and sometimes deliberate) leaks in processing, storage and transport. In the past such leaks have been difficult to demonstrate meaning the companies have little (as in bugger all) incentive to fix the problem. Hence the satellites.
I'd be happier if it just stayed in the ground but at least stopping the leaks changes it from terrible to just plain bad.