Ah but this will be an AI supercomputer, probably made using Nvidia GPUs, unlike the cancelled HPC supercomputer made from Nvidia GPUs. So it's completely different you see. Not that one UK supercomp… (View Post)

Yeah you aren't stopping a fire spreading when conditions are like that. Which is why it is so important to properly evaluate risk when permitting building. i.e. Maybe don't live half-way up a mounta… (View Post)

And I've figured out what I'm thinking of. It was John McPhee's book The Control of Nature, which contains an essay from the New Yorker magazine called Los Angeles Against the Mountains, that was pub… (View Post)

I don't know about January, but LA has a lot of trouble with fires, and drainage and so flash floods. I remember reading about this years ago, and the book I read might have been written decades befo… (View Post)

Exactly, you have to be an actual idiot, or oil baron, to be anti-renewables now. (View Post)