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I mean, if you care about this and it annoys you the fix is very simple and relatively cheap. Just set a minimum baseline/standardization for the type of cable/capabilities you nee…

Slop is slop. I don't care if it's human generated or AI generated slop. It's all the same to me. All AI did was accelerate the generation of slop so that bit is interesting to dis…

This doesn’t work for older folks. They have medical providers constantly randomly reaching out. Typically medication changes or reminding them it’s time to come do labs or whateve…

There was no actual plan that could have been made short of one that spanned multiple administrations over at least a decade to spin up enough missile or interceptor manufacturing …

> I guess this is Bessent's scheme to try and kick that can down the road. This can be summed up policy for pretty much every single administration since I've been alive. For almos…

I’m for LVT precisely for the express purpose of not carving out exceptions for any landowner. 80 year old ladies included. Basically I see it as a way to get closer to the ideal o…

Call it 200W, and it would offset say 5 hours a day of that for where I'm at. Call it 1.5kwh for the entire day being optimistic. This would save me (inclusive of taxes, etc.) roug…

Why is it in the middle of nowhere? Ignoring that's somewhat the exception, not the rule. It just might have to do with where electrical grid interconnect happens to currently be w…

The datacenter buildout is just a buildout of the electric grid in a roundabout fashion. If you are for green energy and the electrification of primary energy this giant wave of un…

> While we're at it, how much should small bathroom, 2 week renovation cost? $100,000 in labour? Obviously much more than 2 weeks worth of work at a commercial job, since that's th…

Certainly has changed my writing style. Now I just vastly overuse commas in inappropriate ways!

Even a house you know you're not going to buy is worth taking a walk-through if you're already there and the agent has prepped it for showing. You can learn a lot from such experie…

I have friends who teach public high school classes. This is entirely believable to me based on the stories and trends they talk about.

I guess it depends on how you look at the numbers. My current place would sell for say $1.4M or so. The lot itself is worth around $600-700k if it was empty. A similarly sized home…

> It just seems a bad idea to expose such a server to the Internet and maintain it Why? Nerds have been hosting services for their friends and family for decades now. It was one of…

Well you shifted the goal posts. Storing everything in EST vs UTC isn’t great, but isn’t some business ending level problem. It annoys engineers and causes inefficiency. Unlikely t…

Because I have been monitoring this as a weird interest of mine now for 20 years or more. To the point of absurdity. I would be very surprised to hear of a location in the US that …

The only reason Loudon county became datacenter alley is due to where the transatlantic cables landed. And Washington DC being next door. It’s basically the OG networking effect. Y…

These sorts of things done remotely close to residential areas are very rare in the grand scheme. And I agree these specific projects are a major problem. It’s just not representat…

The fact there is not the social media and political outrage there is on stuff that is literally 10-1000x the water usage is what outs folks as being unserious on the topic. Collec…

> I would say that speaks more to apathy than activism And I would say that speaks more to your disconnect with most of US society. Very few folks actually trust activists for good…

What instability has been attributed towards datacenter - or even any - large 24x7 predictable load industrial consumers of electricity in your area? The exact opposite is typicall…

Literally have lived within 1500 feet of a datacenter. Zero of my my non techie friends ever knew. It’s a non-issue. It’s like complaining about a vacant but well maintained wareho…

Why? If you want this policy make it for the entire grid, not some random consumer. Electricity should function as a common carrier like any other utility. If you want to pay for t…

What about fan noise is low pitched? I generally agree that I would not like to live across the street from a datacenter. Having worked inside of dozens of them, I could not care l…