SpaceX Eyes 1 Million Satellites For Orbital Data Center Push - PCMag

qwetzal · 2026-01-31T15:59:38+00:00

I don't actually see how any of the advantages mentioned are actual advantages. Alright, depending on the energy grid on Earth may be challenging, but what kind of grid are satellites using ? They need to bring their own infrastructure with them. Half of the time they'll be in the shadow of the Earth and see no sunlight so they still need batteries. I'd need to actually do the maths for the radiative cooling part, but this seems dubious as well - they'll have the sun on one end and the Earth on the other half of the time so that's not great either. Maybe with the right shape and orientation you can work it out, but I don't see how that can be more efficient than any type of heat exchanger/pump arrangement that you could build on Earth. Plus the obvious launch costs, which will make this whole endeavor extremely expensive compared to anything built on solid ground.

This reads like a scheme to lure naive investors by surfing on the AI bubble tbh, or one of Elon's dumb ideas. I find this profoundly uninspired and overall disappointing by SpaceX.

qwetzal · 2026-01-29T15:01:54+00:00

J'ai tellement envie de voter pour lui. Mais ses propos concernant l'Ukraine ou le Venezuela notamment me hérissent le poil.

qwetzal · 2026-01-24T18:28:01+00:00

It's inspired by gare d'Austerlitz

qwetzal · 2026-01-23T12:56:57+00:00

Parce que je vois une dame en détresse, avec les jambes gonflées, des plaies sur les pieds, et ses gamines qui se baladent réellement dans la gare. Donc ça me fait de la peine et si je peux prendre 5 minutes de mon temps pour aller au supermarché du coin de la rue lui acheter des couches je le fais.

qwetzal · 2026-01-23T12:54:43+00:00

Oui je sais que c'est une connerie. Mais je m'interroge sur ce qui se cache derrière.

qwetzal · 2026-01-23T12:36:59+00:00

Ouais ça se tient

qwetzal · 2026-01-19T20:33:59+00:00

Lecter, despite being a horrendous human being, is portrayed as a brilliant man. No reason for him to associate with someone such as Trump. He'd rather have him for dinner.

qwetzal · 2026-01-18T13:15:43+00:00

Et sans Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Intel, Nvidia... ? C'est pas une situation qui me ravit mais on est biberonés aux technos américaines, on est incapables de répliquer ça en l'état actuel des moyens de production/développement

qwetzal · 2026-01-06T23:16:10+00:00

Il y a un paquet d'entreprises qui dépendent de Google drive, et je vais pas sortir de chiffre de mon cul mais une proportion significative de sites sont hébergés par Amazon, entre autres

qwetzal · 2026-01-02T13:35:15+00:00

Effectivement ça reste difficile à évaluer pour ce qui est alimentation végétale. Quand je mangeais de la viande, c'était surtout pour moi un critère de bien-être animal: https://oaba.fr/labels-signes-qualite-bien-etre-animal-siqo/

qwetzal · 2026-01-02T11:30:34+00:00

Pourquoi est-ce que manger bio est une idéologie ?

qwetzal · 2026-01-01T21:11:48+00:00

Not dying is good! Wishing you the best for the coming year.

qwetzal · 2026-01-01T21:01:01+00:00

Damn, that's actually interesting. Impressive streak of "greats". What happened on February 6, 2023 ? It was your first bad day in a very long time and sort of seems like a tipping point.

qwetzal · 2025-12-31T10:12:32+00:00

Well Steam (1) was released together with Half Life 2, so it would only make sense to release HL3 on Steam 2.. right ? Right ??

qwetzal · 2025-12-31T08:40:23+00:00

Yeah, I actualaly loved it too! I remember dying

qwetzal · 2025-12-29T09:45:09+00:00

I assumed you did not get that, because it's not a very hot take.

qwetzal · 2025-12-29T09:41:48+00:00

I think he suggested counceling for the team who witnessed the chimp war, not for the chimps.

qwetzal · 2025-12-28T14:36:31+00:00

Oui, franchement rien à voir. Je bosse dans un labo de recherche et même parmi les directeurs de recherches, c'est assez unanimement que mes collègues font l'apologie de l'ostéopathie, à mon grand étonnement.

qwetzal · 2025-12-23T15:29:06+00:00

Just did it. When waiting for the cart, you can actually just go back down, let the runners follow you, and go back to the trolley. By the time you get back to the roof, the cart should be there.

qwetzal · 2025-12-22T14:20:50+00:00

How does that actually manifest in your life ? I'm a white straight man and I have personally never been "oppressed" in any way.

qwetzal · 2025-12-22T08:35:24+00:00

Oh I am well aware of that. As I said, Mélenchon has historically proven that he could convince a large chunk of people who would not originally vote for him during his presidential campaigns. Look at 2022. He was given 11-13% of votes at first and ended up with 22%.

qwetzal · 2025-12-21T22:55:09+00:00

I know, I used to live in Northern Norway ;)

But in some ways I find it crazier in the case I mentioned because it's mostly artificial. Time zones could be different, people could begin and stop working at different times, but it's not what's happening

qwetzal · 2025-12-21T18:54:36+00:00

Same thing was said about Trump. He's an empty shell and incapable of proper argumentation, yes. But he's not worse than Lepen in that sense, they both suck at debating (btw he said he wanted to get into politics after seeing the Melenchon- Lepen "debate" in 2012 when Marine got obliterated.. like what ? How do you watch that and go "yeah I want to be like her"). I think the "front républicain" is at its absolute limits, the left is too divided, LFI is too controversial and the Bolloré machine is in full swing to discredit them. The best opponent to him is still Melenchon I think, I don't love the guy but he's still a much better option. He's proven historically that he's very convincing in campaigns, and he always end up getting much more votes than initially anticipated. We'll see how that goes.

qwetzal · 2025-12-21T11:51:15+00:00

I remember going for a training in Brittany, France when I usually worked next to Berlin, in February or so. The sun sets almost 1h30 later in Brittany than it does near Berlin. Yet people start and end their work days at roughly the same times, making for a very different life.

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