#photovoltaic #capacity-factor dataviz using Tableau. #energy #USA #solar-energy
#solar resource map and some #capacity-factor data for the #USA. #solar-energy #energy
#solar #PV module #pricing is up sharply from November’s record low €0.050/Wp for low-cost and €0.105/Wp for mainstream modules to €0.065 and €0.120 respectively. #energy #solar-energy
oh, #aphyr wasn’t done criticizing #AI, and this is pretty dystopian
Red Hat’s white paper “Compress the kill cycle with Red Hat Device Edge”
#Bitcoin miners are apparently losing money as the cost per coin mined is US$88k (according to Checkonchain) but the trading price is only $69k. So on Saturday the difficulty dropped 8%. #cryptocurrencies #pricing
“[Luxor’s Hashrate Index] estimates that only 8 to 10 percent of global #Bitcoin computing power is located in electricity markets linked to crude prices, mainly in Gulf countries such as the UAE and Oman. (...) with smaller contributions from Iran, Kuwait, Qatar and Libya.” #oil #pricing #energy #cryptocurrencies
release of #APL\360 source code
how #performance varies with locality of access in RAM: how much linear access is enough?
#Blow on some of his struggles with #Braid
“From Early Nirvana To Phish, A Chicago Fan’s Secret Recordings Of 10,000 Shows Are Now Online,” the #Aadam-Jacobs-collection. “the majority of the artists he recorded are pleased to have their work preserved. As for copyright concerns, he’s happy to remove recordings if requested, but added that only one or two musicians so far have asked that their material be taken down. (...) The #Internet-Archive declined to comment for this story.”
the #Aadam-Jacobs-Collection with 2443 concert recordings
#video #news about demining the Strait of Hormuz by Sal Mercogliano. “Additional [#USA] forces, including underwater #drones, will join the clearance effort in the coming days.” Map overlays showing how #Iran has shifted the shipping lanes into its own territorial waters, and animation of the last 24 hours of #oil ships using Iran’s new #shipping lanes, using AIS data from MarineTraffic. Two US destroyers have arrived at the Strait, and one turned on its AIS (automated identification system) after passing through to show that it had done so.
#Tesla’s announcement earlier this week of the "Terafab", its own chip fab (?!) in Austin, touted as “the largest ever”. Claims #SpaceX now launches 90% of global mass to orbit and has now landed rockets 500 times. #Elmu calls his orbital data centers "AIsat" and says that each is 100kW (“minisat”), with 1MW hoped for, and that’s what the Terafab is for: producing a terawatt of compute per year, 50x current global production. They want to River-Rouge it, with mask making, chip fabrication, packaging, and test under one roof, for logic or memory (but maybe not Flash?). He points out that on-orbit insolation is 5x what it is on the ground (if you’re in a sun-synchronous orbit I guess) and you don’t need glass or framing to protect the cells. A render of a mass-driver launch of something from the moon draws cheers.
#Terafab site is currently just a website version of #Elmu’s talk
#manufacturing an improved (?) cyclone separator for removing dust from air with #3D-printing. Reports that the clear PVC he used for his outer air duct is much nicer to work with (with a table saw) than other clear plastics. He has a filter bag following these separators in case they don’t catch everything. 95+% of the dust gets caught by the separators. His filter bag has a clear flexible window sewn into it so you can see it fill up! #video #mechanisms
#video of 60 Minutes reporting on #weaponry #drones, duplicate of the other one I watched profiling #Tencor, etc.
#video #toread of "crazy rocketman" with a pulsejet-driven boat
#video about "supercharged" cyclone dust separator #mechanisms #toread
#news #video about #drones #weaponry called "LUCAS", a US$35k-per-unit reverse-engineered #Shahed 136 clone developed in 18 months as part of the #USA’s "drone dominance" program.
Supreme Court decision #PDF on Bruen in 02022, eliminating may-issue licensing in the #USA.
disturbing #metal anti-#Trump #AI #video supporting #Iran, but maybe made by Indonesians. With some #humor.
3-hour #Palmer-Luckey #interview #video with Rogan #toread
#Uncle-Roger #humor #video on black #ramen vs. Chinese ramen.
#news #video: #Iran talks have failed after only one day. It all unraveled while #Trump was at a UFC match. #politics #USA
another #AI Lego #Iran propaganda #video, this time symphonic metal, by "Akhbarenfejari"
#fiction "Lena" about "MMAcevedo", though apparently there’s an updated version I haven’t read. Explores mind uploading and #human-rights in the form of a fictional Wikipedia article from the 02080s.
#PDF of Greg #Egan’s #fiction "Learning to be me", about uploading a mind to a “dual” or “jewel” or “Ndoli Device”, with very challenging twists. 19 pages.
collection of #Iran #video propaganda on a channel belonging to an English doctor who teaches English in a high school in #China. Doesn’t seem to be a China propaganda channel.
beepbox.co is a sort of modernized tracker that stores all the #music data in the URL fragment. Written in Typescript, open-source under the MIT license.
#Iran has lost like 155 ships? Or just the 10 listed here?
After two #USA destroyers passed the Strait of Hormuz, “Any attempt by military vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz will be dealt with severely, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Sunday.” #Iran says the US is lying and hasn’t passed any warships through. This is the IRGC’s official newspaper.
#video on #jugaad 1000fps high-speed camera. Actually the camera is a Sony RX100 Mark 4 which can do that normally. #toread
#news: #USA #politics: 5th Circuit throws out the 158-year-old home distilling ban, in favor of the non-profit Hobby Distillers Association, upholding a district court ruling from Fort Worth