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Matlab's moat is that their shit mostly* just works, and most people uaing matlab arent the same ones writing the check. Basically no dependency hell, no random broken libraries, no 30 different 3rd party options that for the same thing. If matlab has it, it almost always works, as expected, and they'll sell it to you and give you support if you have a problem. Stay inside Mathworks domain, you'll have a pretty good time. Basically I'm saying matlab follows the zen of python better than Guido does

As someone who has swapped from matlab to python, mathworks puts in real work from all the money they pull in. Shits expensive, but you get like... 50% of what you pay for. Even better if someone else pays. We did it for the money savings, but it definitely cost us extra dev time doing dependency management and version upgrade testing, and all kinds of little things.

*I got some issues with how they changed how figures are rendered, and that generally was causing issues during the changeover.

The money comes from all the other users that bet the other outcome when the odds were a specific thing. Polymarket pretty much can't lose money on a bet having a specific outcome. If people werent betting the other side, the odds would be different

It's a fucking battery? Sorry Tactical Energy Kit. Except they don't mention any of the important shit to it being a battery. Namely capacity, weight, maximum input power, maximum output power.

I guess it's at least ruggedized. But tbh, it looks like it costs 10x what a jackery does, weighs 2x, holds less energy, but is waterproof.

From the pictures that Google returns when I search for 'lival pl011' those look pretty retro. Are you sure they aren't fluorescent tubes? I think you need to post pictures of the lamp, the bulb/tube and the transformer/driver/brick (both pre and post opening) before anyone will be able to safely help you. With LED you need to know the current and the voltage to buy a replacement brick, and with fluorescent it's equally complex. Can you link where you purchased them if you bought them new?

I'm not sure it makes much sense to have written this article. Who is it trying to convince? Not me, not you, only the developers of a free program. What's the point of posting this publicly. It feels like someone is trying to convince someone else to do a massive amount of extra work, for free, for them cause they want it different. The thing works, and it works great, but it isn't built quite the way the author woulda done it.

You ---(data)---> discord ---(data)---> persona ----(your data) ----> openai and groq and anthropic and everyone else.

Hope that helps. If you want the other side of it about how you get money from selling your data to openai it looks like this: you don't.

You ----(no money)---- discord ----(money)---> persona <----(money) ---- openai, anthropic, etc.

Ahhh, so "Honor killings" are now acceptable in the US.

I just keep a shortcut to the NOAA 2day hourly forecast for my location on the home screen. If I need to see the radar it's a few clicks away.

But I've got an air quality and temperature sensor on my back porch, and am working on a rain detector as well, so the preference is towards local conditions

I don't think people who read salon are at risk of not getting enough meat in their diet...

I'll add one more perspective: git is the "right" way to do it, but I'm a lazy forgetful person who wants to work on the laptop but the changes on the desktop aren't committed or pushed remote. What I often do is to use VScode's remote development tools to open a remote connection the last computer with uncommitted changes, and work like that. If I'm headed out, I'll use the remote connection to commit the code so I can access it off my home network via codeberg.org.

Occasionally if I'm already out, I've even used "raspberry pi connect" to remote onto my network, then ssh over to my desktop, then commit and push. Don't do that though. That'd be irresponsible.

If your argument was one of cost, you should have said so from the start! Economically, it might or might not make sense. I can't pretend to know the economics of running a space based datacenter, I've never run a ground based datacenter.

But you have been arguing about power and electricity and heat and how proud you are to have 200a service at your house (congrats on owning it, btw, tough nowadays) but those aren't the dealbreakers. If the AI bros want to lose billions putting the datacenters in space, I don't have a huge problem with that. Better that than diddling kids and destroying society, which is what they seem to be spending their money on now.

You don't use 48 kW you have 48kW capacity, that'd be 33 (1500W) electric space heaters running nonstop 24/7. I have electric heat, electric oven/range, and an electric car and I averaged 3 kW across the last week. (406 kWh between the 26th and 1st)

A comparison that is reasonable is an h100 rack cluster like this which uses about 60 kW per rack. For input power, the newer iROSA solar panels generate about 20 kW at a size of 20ft x 60ft each. Throw in 4 of those radiators, and you have something that is feasible to throw into space. Again, I can't judge the economics of launching and running a space based datacenter business, but you could absolutely launch and operate a space rack with current tech.