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One thing that surpised me about gentoo is just how low budget it is as an operation. They are doing everything with a $12k budget. [1] [1] https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/01/05/n…

> Why is a municipal water system allowing a data center connection that will strain their distribution network? They’re well within their rights to say no, Mark Zuckerberg isn’t h…

It is a sort of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. The reason these DC use so much water is because it uses less electricity to evaporatively cool than it takes to …

Likely it was UV exposure to raise the kids vitamin D. I'm guessing this was something for northern parts of russia. (Yes, they were tanning the kids :D) Skin cancer from sun expos…

I think it's a show of these agents happily bypassing security to get stuff done. I've actually observed similar behavior at home. I have a k3s cluster running at home. I asked an …

Even if I assumed maximum malice, how are these inverters going to perform a coordinated attack on the grid?

Depends on the cooling system, but around 1 to 9L per kwh. [1] A lot, but not all, of these datacenters are using evaporative cooling, which is what kicks their water usage so high…

The very VERY unfortunate thing about ATSC 3.0 is it has an internet optional requirement which broadcasters have decided to use as a gate for watching ATSC content. They've turned…

2 to 3 months optimistically assuming everything goes smoothly and is fully automated. 6 months or even a year if something goes wrong in the fabrication process and you need to up…

I believe it was ~10k per passenger. You'd end up sharing the plane with other people going to the same location. Looking it up again, it looks like the way they generally charge i…

So I can taste differences, but they simply don't matter enough for me. My areopressed coffee with nice fresh locally roasted beans does taste different from a mcdonalds pot. Less …

Perhaps I'm crazy, but I truly can't taste much of a difference between "good" coffee and "bad" coffee. I can certainly tell the difference between a good steak and a bad one.

IMO, this is largely because google made their search next to worthless. They very apparently prioritized making money over returning good relevant results. The decline in quality …

I think ultimately what it looks like it containing the blast radius if an agent does something bonkers. The best case would be putting an agent in a VM and mounting the working di…

I believe the bounds check, in particular, is devastating for autovectorization. There are ways around it, but it requires additional code in safe rust. Edit: actually looks like a…

> Google needed a leverage to tie them to stay compatible to the ecosystem, Google Mobile Services (GMS) was the tool to do so. "Pass the compatibility test suite and you qualify t…

When I last looked into this, flying private started somewhere around 10k a seat. Not cheap, but also something non-centimillionaires can afford.

Alright, thanks. I was unaware of this exception.

It depends on the federal district you are in. It also can depend on the state you are currently in. For example, in the 3rd district in New Jersey the odor is not enough because M…

> They don't need probable cause to search his vehicle if he had a warrant. Incorrect. Warrants have to be specific. An arrest warrant is not a general search warrant (in fact, gen…

I generally agree, but I don't think it's wrong to mourn what is lost or to try and advocate politicians regulate and restore what was lost. Especially since the policy of "the cus…

Well that's the thing, to build the utilities required extra flags which were pretty rarely enabled. You can, in most distros, ultimately install minizip as a separate package but …

This is what I truly don't like about the CVE system. One such example is CVE-2023-45853 [1]. Zlib included in it's source an extra set of utilities and add-ons. One such utility, …

They are held accountable, but are they held accountable to the staff? If so, how-so? In my experience, management rarely has any sort of reverse checks in place. The closest is em…

Here's the union's demands. [1] Which of them do you find particularly unreasonable? [1] https://wikiworkersunited.org/focus-areas/