It's preparation for the inevitable nano-texture cloth you need to buy from Apple to wipe the screen with.

That's exactly what the £9 Apple Polishing Cloth is!

> Made with soft, non-abrasive material, the Polishing Cloth cleans any Apple display, including nano-texture, safely and effectively.

That is surprisingly cheap from Apple

They recently reduced the price (also rare from Apple), but the macbooks with nano upgrade do ship with one.

I will say that it's the best cloth ever, and the nano upgrade is worth it

The most efficient aircraft are gliders.

> most efficient aircraft are gliders

L/D, yes. Complete aircraft configuration, not always (actually, rarely).

so use your phone?

Ook.

He is a bit of a Cnut, to be sure.

Your pipeline is then effectively nothing but an expensive flowchart.

This is what an operations engineer or first line support does.

An SRE goes and fixes the cause of the recurring alerts.

Cooperative online shared worlds, even adversarial ones, are a wildly different use of time compared to spending hours staring at short-format video after short-format video.

And even gaming has been largely "gamified" into microtransaction casinos rather than a place to hang with friends.

Even single player games have adopted these practices. It’s in retrospect not surprising that roguelikes became so popular, but I think it’s very unhealthy that a game like Balatro is considered one of the exemplars of the video game medium. It activates almost exactly the same emotions as gambling and its no surprise that people spend hundreds of hours on them, but its almost certainly bad for the consumer even if they’re not losing money

Glorious.

Make the physics of this make sense to me, please.

The physics aren't the problem, though. You CAN cool the processors provided you have large enough radiators, a really good system for the coolant flow, and hardware that's fine operating continuously at around 100C or above.

That's basically an engineering challenge more than anything else. Also keep in mind that one of the reasons the ISS for example requires rather large radiators, is that humans typically don't enjoy temperatures above 40C for prolonged periods of time.

Silicon chips on the other can tolerate much higher operating temperatures just fine and even short spikes around 100C can be acceptable for some hardware.

The real challenge is getting launch cost down and securing the rights to pollute polar orbits and frequency bands. Sure, there's plenty of room up there in orbit, but much of that room is not fit for purpose in the context of orbital data centres. Frequency bands for up- and downlinks are also often ignored in the discussion.

Basically I don't see the current issues with the concept in the required engineering or physics - that's solvable in the near term.

I find it much more difficult to believe that there's a way hundreds of thousands of satellites can share the same orbit (i.e. polar orbit in a quite "narrow" band of distances from the surface) without causing major issues.

Same goes for frequency bands, as it wouldn't be just one US company doing this, but dozens from around the world, each with hundreds or thousands of sats and everyone needs a share of the available communication frequencies.

Then there's the logistics of getting the satellites into orbit in the first place. Not just the launch cost, the logistics! Fuel, NOTAMS, maritime exclusion zones, launch licences, etc. The concept would necessitate increasing current launch rates by at least an order of magnitude and cost aside, the logistics and regulatory frameworks aren't ready for this.

It's a marketing exercise; the physics are not required to make sense for those. It's the size of a fridge, draws a kilowatt, has four TPUs and can only run for 15 minutes at a time. The physics work for _that_; they just don't give you anything useful.

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