Such a weird numbering scheme... 8 million kilowatts is 8 gigawatts.

Anyone well versed in the metric system can easily scale up and down the orders of magnitude, and units like "millions of kilowatts" is just tautology in the end of the day.

Also, like others have pointed out, kilowatts and kilowatt-hours are most certainly not used on grid scale projects. Mega- and giga- are the standard throughout.

Anyone sending and receiving power through this project doesn't deal in kW.

At scale that isn't true, it is either MW or GW for instantaneous power and MWh or GWh for energy.

Do you have 8 million kilobytes, or 8 gigabytes of RAM?

At grid scales, kW is a rounding error. Even MW is somewhat the decimal place, especially for a country as large as China.

are people charged for kW only? it's not like internet connections

Should have been 8 billion kWh per 1000 hours...

I could swear this article has been on here like a dozen times recently

Didn't oracle say the same thing?

Do you go around bragging that you don't watch TV, too?

What exactly makes them solid state? If they mean no water, wouldn't that make all li-ion batteries solid state when compared to lead acid batteries?

Normal lithium-ion batteries have a liquid electrolyte. It's not water, but some carbohydrate. During draining and charging, ions travel between the electrodes through the electrolyte.

Don't A2 cards have better write endurance?

It sounded too fishy, but a lot of what was written does sound like something uber eats would do.

I took a course on critical thinking once which taught me to at least pause and ask questions when I read something sensationalist.

I’ve learned that when my impulse is to say “It sounds like something X would do,” it often leads me down very wrong paths.

Just because the vibes point in that direction often doesn’t mean it’s the truth.

This is exactly how misinformation starts and real people pay the price for generations. Just look at the MSG (monosodium glutamate) untruth that has hurt many Chinese restaurants and Chinese Americans over the years. Misinformation is not victimless.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46487365

Nobody ever made an emulator for itanium, you'd have to run the pa-risc version.

PA-RISC was a beautiful architecture.

(Not that you could tell, from the OS command line.)

I wouldn't mind it that much.

As for the emulated Itanic, should we wait a bit until CPUs get faster or do we think they are good enough at this point?

Couldn't say, I know people have tried, but I don't recall them being good enough to be able to run hpux or the itanium version of xp.

Is it good enough to run a version of Linux relying on virtio for mostly everything?

$DAYJOB is still running theirs... I wonder how long it will take them to notice...