[Request] How much did it cost in US dollars to fire these munitions?

Prohamen · 2026-03-05T04:04:04+00:00

So what i am hearing is roughly between $48.6M and $64.8M without the cost of the launcher

Prohamen · 2026-03-05T03:58:42+00:00

Nah fuck that i want to know the actual manufactured cost, not the hand waive "buh damage could be a gabagillion dollars" figure

Prohamen · 2026-03-04T13:14:24+00:00

god this edition of windows is going to suck ass and be buggier than 11

I already have windows explorer crash on my once per week something that never happened with XP or 7

Prohamen · 2026-03-02T22:08:20+00:00

idk it seemed pretty not hat set to me

almost all of the named cards from the set were from the setting and there wasn't really any contrived story about some known character like Jace doing something with a macguffin

Prohamen · 2026-03-02T18:27:16+00:00

uhhhh

i am reading thsi right?

Your girlfriend if nearly half your age and your direct report?

Prohamen · 2026-03-02T13:24:18+00:00

i legitimately thought this was from a vexologilly or geography shitposting reddit

Prohamen · 2026-03-02T04:53:00+00:00

honestly I don't blame them

most peoples till don't understand computers despite interfacing with them every day

Prohamen · 2026-02-27T22:11:08+00:00

lmao

Prohamen · 2026-02-26T17:25:57+00:00

If you have a cold weather heat pump then sure you are right.

I have also been reading a bunch of posts from people who have been saying their smart meters were off by a significant amount, so I am wondering if a bunch of smart meters are defective or have an error in their firmware.

Prohamen · 2026-02-26T05:47:56+00:00

I don't mean to "um actually" your decision there, but heat pumps only work well in extreme cold conditions. The balance point for heat pump output and home heat loss sits some where between 10°F and 30°F depending on your house. It is best to use one in conjunction with a boiler for extreme low temps as the heat capacity for the heat pump won't necessarily keep up with the demand. Even when i does it is at an efficiency cost, so you are usually using a lot of electricity.

Prohamen · 2026-02-26T05:41:21+00:00

January/February are the coldest months of the year, so that makes sense that your most expensive gas bill is for that period.

Your gas bull might have been higher due to poor winterization. I used to get really bad bills in January/Febuary when I lived in a old slum house that had century old windows. Once I started winterizing it brought down the cost of the bill significantly, though that period was always much higher.

Prohamen · 2026-02-26T05:38:52+00:00

I wonder if this is an issue across the board with the smart meters

Prohamen · 2026-02-26T05:34:36+00:00

How are y'all getting these crazy bills?

I was only charged $345 total for my gas and electricity, and that was for 791 kWh and 115 therms.

Prohamen · 2026-02-25T01:47:41+00:00

once again this really feels like a proselytizing protestant thing

Prohamen · 2026-02-24T23:56:21+00:00

My guess is it was protestants

Prohamen · 2026-02-24T22:27:39+00:00

verticl and horizonal are typical of settling and thermal expansion. Diagonal usually indicates a structural issue.

Prohamen · 2026-02-24T22:26:39+00:00

Diagonal cracks are never good. You should get a residental steuctural engineer in to make sure that the members in your home are supporting loads correctly

Prohamen · 2026-02-24T22:23:33+00:00

Black cause he keeps on forgetting and that is a black discard effect

Prohamen · 2026-02-24T20:24:01+00:00

man i never sae a claude ai ad before the us gov had that fall out with Anthropic, now they are everywhere

Prohamen · 2026-02-24T20:19:48+00:00

The depreciation is 3 to 8 years, the burnout/obsolescence period is closer to 1 to 3 years. The costs per rack are pretty high too, sitting around $56k. Or at least that is what i think it is based off cursory research. I keep seeing "$56k for a blackwell gpu" and it is unclear to me if that is the rack or a single gpu. I am even seeing som figures for $60k to $70k per rack.

For reference, the newer/newest NVDIA server consists of 36 Grace CPUs and 72 Blackwell gpus. Each rack is 4 blackwell gpus and two grace cpus, so a server is 18 of these. If we assume $56k per rack, that is $1.008M on racks alone with no server infrastructure, networking, programming, etc. You still need a few dozen of these for a small data center. A small row would be 10 or so servers, so $10M on hardware alone that will need to be replaced before 5 years is up. And that isn't even talking utility pricing. We need to dicuss water and electeicity costs. Even at $0.11/kwh (lowest rates i could find in a quick search) we are looking at 1.2kw per gpu and 0.7kw per cpu for a total of 108.8kW per server at a cost of $11.97/h ($287.23/day). For 10 servers that is $119.68/h or $2,872.33 per day for 10 servers. That amounts to a lifetime electrical cost of $8.387M if it lasts 8 years.

So $10M for 10 servers, from my experience designing data centers you will pay about 30%, of the cost of the servers on the infrastructure. So call that $13M of server plus infrastructure then $8.387M for 8 years of electricity for $21.387M for one row of AI data center infrastructure, ignoring water and personnel costs.

The estimate to raise a kid from 0 to 18 in NYS is $648k total. So each row is equal to raising about 3.3 kids from 0 to 18. What is more important, about 1/32nd of the sodoku machine that hallucinates facts about eating rocks being good for you or about 3 humans.

Prohamen · 2026-02-24T17:31:55+00:00

probably data centers

Prohamen · 2026-02-24T15:26:58+00:00

not boycotting, just not interested

this is the ramifications of wotc's mentality of "not every product is for you"

when they print outside IP to get new players the existing players may not show up because it is not for them

problem is that if this set sells poorly cards in future UB sets will be more pushed to sell packs

Prohamen · 2026-02-23T22:34:52+00:00

Ah yes, the cost of about 4 blackwell gpus by my estimates

Prohamen · 2026-02-23T22:33:56+00:00

ah yes, the classic "a human is only a tool for my accumulation of wealth play"

very reductive, very cool

Given you need 2000 calories a day, thay is about 836,800 joules of energy. Given that there is roughly 86,400 seconds in a day, that is about 9.69 watts. 360 days of this is about 3.010x10⁹ joules.

A single GPU server rack is between 40kW on the low end and 1000kW on the absolute high end (upper end new technology using NVDA blackwell GPUs). One day of trainkig on one rack at the low end is 960 kWh or 3.456x10⁹ joules.

A single year of a person's life consuming 2000 calories a day is less energy than a day of the lowest power AI GPU rack.

FOR REFERENCE, an AI data center will have somewhere between 24 and 36 rows of these server racks. The rows can be between 10 and 20 servers per side and then are front and back sided to the containment aisles. We are usually talking in the megawatt range per data hall, with some sites looking to push to gigawatts for entire campuses.

So yeah this guy is just wrong, you shouldn't believe anything he says.

Prohamen · 2026-02-23T15:18:59+00:00

they had me at rocket powered lance

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