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It's a great idea, but I feel like that way ends up with the nightmare scenario of each of us managing an AWS-style admin console for washing the dishes, etc.

That way lies madness, although I suppose there might be one or two family members I would want to lock out of the dishwasher.


> operating too close to the operational limit, tipping over it, and then requiring a power cycle.

GPUs--they're just like us!


It's wild that these are the failure rates for datacenter-grade products. If you were pushing consumer GPU servers all-out, I would expect this kind of variation.

I expect it's not just a problem with Nvidia, though.


So.... motivated reasoning makes the world go 'round?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning


> Don't let comments like this fool you, nuclear is far from being competitive with natural gas. Even in countries like south korea that can deploy nuclear the cheapest it's still $3/watt roughly.

People still insist that ecofascists(?) or NIMBYism is what killed nuclear, when the reality is that it was the coal industry.


There is sort of some truth to that but its still pretty disingenuous to phase it that way. The more honest way to say it is that the NIMBYists are (probably somewhat unintentionally) keeping FFs in use by opposing nuclear.

Also, you (and everyone else in the thread) are listing capacity costs. Nobody cares about capacity costs except the CFO of a utility. Utilization costs are what matters. And by that (honest) metric, nuclear is quite cheap if you exclude the extra costs due to scientifically illiterate eco-activists and regulators.

People like to say that "A diamond is forever" is the best marketing effort of all time. I disagree, the ability of FF extractors to get ecos to do their dirty work for them is far more "impressive" (from a POV lacking in ethics).

PS The number of outright falsehoods in just this thread about nuclear should prove my point. Just research about how nuclear pays for cleanup and compare that to some comments in this thread for an example.


Why are you calling Bennett et al "the Stanford... study" ? Not one person on that team went to Stanford.

Direct link to the poster presentation: http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf


Why are you phrasing your correction in the form of a question? I think it's pretty reasonable to infer that he mistakenly thought it was a Stanford study because the link was from Stanford.


You're making the roundabout argument that MSFT/OpenAI will one day go the way of Yahoo/Alibaba, which is wild.


I didn't make a prediction. I was pointing out factors to be aware of. Hence the use of "If, say" to denote a hypothetical.

Some people's convictions and lack of reading comprehension skills are certainly wild.


Could also be an article placed by a competitor + a squeaky wheel.


This is important. There's a difference between charitable donations that are actually for the public interest vs. shadow lobbying by oil companies.


Most states (at least in the midwest) have not kept up with their obligations when it comes to funding the historical land grand universities ("state" university, etc.).


A lot of state universities (not just in the Midwest) have become professional football teams with an educational institution attached. And I say this as a fan of one of those teams.


There might be one or two exceptions, but generally the schools you are referring to are bursting at the seams with students.

Quick web search:

University of Georgia - enrollment up 3%

Ohio State - enrollment up 2.3%, highest in history

University of Alabama - enrollment exceeds 40,000 for first time in history

University of Michigan - couldn’t find enrollment, but it reported a record number of applications


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