if you think it’s stupid, it’s not as stupid as it sounds, it’s worse. they also sold some tmobile stock and took debt backed by ownership of arm. it’s like they instinctively get rid of pieces of ai bubble that retains some money and hold to pieces that are black holes
things that bounce from ionosphere. shortwave radio, AM broadcast, some military communications. couple of radiooperators will take a break for a day or two until space weather gets calm. unlikely that satellites would get fried
if you’re lucky, you might see aurora tomorrow, even if you’re in area that usually doesn’t have them (easier for southern hemisphere)
my read of the situation is that it’s another phenomenal softbank L even if they timed this sale at the top of the nvdia valuation. if they thought it’s a bubble popping soon, they would try to get out of openai deals, but they’re doing the opposite. most immediately, they need money to dump 20B-ish into openai by end of the year, triggered by that no-profit transition, and it’s money that they apparently don’t have. that their stock dumped like 15% in a week probably didn’t help either
These people aren’t looking for scientists, they’re looking for alchemists
can you pull ethernet cable along power cables, wherever they are?
regular ethernet should work on this kind of distance, but it means digging
and only feels cool and useful when you’re learning to write
Mate do i have just the right thing for you, but it requires some soldering. It’s also probably cheapest solution working over longer range than you need
First you need two directional antennas. Use this https://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/cup.html the 13cm design specifically. Design of the dipole element is on another page https://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/sbfa.html They’re using hard to get semirigid coax but you can really just use common RG178 with braid tinned to make it stiff. This way you don’t have to leave D section they way they did, you can just solder core to the shield at the end while preserving total length (or ~1-2 mm less, because wifi is slightly higher frequency; 53-52 mm total). That dummy cable thing can be just any stiff piece of wire. Good way to get this would be getting a pack of u.fl-SMA pigtails, which you can also use for connection.
You also don’t need special aluminum housing like they do, cookie tin of the right size would be sufficient, or any other container of similar nature. If you can’t weatherproof it, putting it inside on windowsill is also fine
Then, plug TL-WN722N into it, or some other single-antenna thing, and you’re set. This one connects over USB and has removable RPSMA antenna, so you can connect it easily with correct cable (SMA plug - RPSMA plug)
to your new directional antenna. This thing works well over 200m distance, provided clear line of sight, and probably more than that
here if you need anything over certain power (6kW; depends on country i guess) you need a three phase installation, and even if you get single phase, it’s really handled as three phase split between single phase customers (a block gets three phase supply, then splits flats in three groups, each group gets connected to one phase). this gets supplied by a distribution transformer that might serve somewhere around 200 people per (in residential areas)
i understand that sometimes americans also get distribution like this, with 208/120 three phase coming from substation, without 240v available
american version would probably only have two phases at best, and possibly just one
wait, how do you route cables in there? is there just a massive bundle right through the middle?
i think you need to be a little bit more specific unless sounding a little like an unhinged cleric from memritv is what you’re going for
but yeah nah i don’t think it’s gonna last this way, people want to go back to just doing their jobs like it used to be, and i think it may be that bubble burst wipes out companies that subsidized and provided cheap genai, so that promptfondlers hammering image generators won’t be as much of a problem. propaganda use and scams will remain i guess
ye except that depending on how paranoid are you this also means that all personal/small instances will be always suspicious and most of popular instances allow lots of that by default
previous stubsack https://awful.systems/comment/9235549 i don’t think too hard about it, because to a degree all pr people are professional liars in the first place, but bluesky didn’t like it
in terms of zitron fallout, there used to be a comment section at his blog, it’s not there anymore
how do you want to get butlerian jihad without kessler syndrome?
fyi over the last couple of days firefox added perplexity as search engine, must have been as an update
and don’t even get me started on splice variants
new zitron: ed picks up calculator and goes through docs from microsoft and some others, and concludes that openai has less revenue than thought previously (probably?, ms or openai didn’t comment), spends more on inference than thought previously, openai revenue inferred from microsoft share is consistently well under inference costs https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
also on ft (alphaville) https://www.ft.com/content/fce77ba4-6231-4920-9e99-693a6c38e7d5
ed notes that there might be other revenue, but that’s only inference with azure, and then there are training costs wherever it is filed under, debts, commitments, salaries, marketing, and so on and so on
e: fast news day today eh?