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by elil17 1mo ago
How is the inside of your home getting to 40 in Belgium? Our hottest recorded air temperature was 36 this year. There were many excess deaths, but there was also a shortage of fans here. Good fans could have also saved their lives.
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by elil17 1mo ago
I'm from the US, although I live in Europe. Most Germans don't own ceiling fans, which is the problem.
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by elil17 1mo ago
I think you underestimate how powerful ceiling fans can be. The highest temperature in Sweden this year was only 36, you would be absolutely fine with a ceiling fan unless you wanted to exercise. That said, if you are able to get a ground s
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by elil17 1mo ago
Cooling technologies are a necessity and air conditioning is one of many possible options. Europe north of France is substantially cooler than much of the US, even on the hottest days. Many homes could get by on ceiling fans, but they are v
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by elil17 1mo ago
It's possible, just not economical
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by elil17 1mo ago
Right, but it doesn't make sense to say they are evaporating a smaller percentage of the water.
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by elil17 2mo ago
Okay I feel like maybe I'm missing something. In a closed loop system, nothing evaporates. If you use an air cooled design, nothing evaporates. If you use a hybrid design, you still evaporate ~80% of your cooling water - you just use l
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by elil17 2mo ago
A little evaps? It's like 80%
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by elil17 2mo ago
Waste heat from data centers is significantly below the temperature that desalination systems typically use. While a desalination system could theoretically use data center waste heat, it would require far higher capital costs than other de
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by elil17 2mo ago
Using water for cooling significantly reduces cooling energy use. The decision of whether to use dry, evaporative, or hybrid cooling approaches should be driven by the specific water availability in the area where the cooling process is to
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by elil17 2mo ago
Would support still jump if voters were told that cooling towers which don't use water need to use significantly more electricity instead?
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by elil17 2mo ago
People have always used a closed loop to move heat in and out of the data hall - but something has to keep that closed loop cool. That's often a cooling tower which uses evaporating water to reject heat into the air in a way that'
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by elil17 2mo ago
Well it is primarily evaporated into the air. It rains down somewhere, often over the ocean.
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by elil17 2mo ago
This refers to water that is evaporated for cooling of both the datacenters themselves and the power plants that give them electricity. The remaining water after evaporation is so full of minerals that it has to be discharged as sewage. Thi
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by elil17 2mo ago
I have no idea how to navigate to the homepage of this website
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by elil17 2mo ago
Which is what exactly?
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by elil17 2mo ago
Is that this person though? If you actually look at his website there doesn't seem to be anything about transhumanism. Seems like he's just a metascience/science policy guy
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by elil17 2mo ago
This seems like a very un-culty varietal of effective altruism. Nothing to do with AI doom on his website
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by elil17 2mo ago
> moralizing vilification and resentment Or genuine concern over their environmental impacts...
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by elil17 2mo ago
Many people in low income countries still lack every item on this list except for smallpox eradication and the sewing machine (indirectly, through imported second hand clothing). One thing that I have found very interesting is reading what
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by elil17 2mo ago
It's not like Esperanto at all actually. To quote Wikipedia: "There is no consensus on what International Sign is exactly. It may either refer to the way strangers sign with each other when they lack a common sign language, or it
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by elil17 2mo ago
>The dual screens on Pixel 11 Pro Fold are ideal for real-time translation, especially with our new sign-to-text feature. Developed in partnership with the Deaf community, it lets signers express themselves in Live Transcribe and Gboard
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by elil17 2mo ago
That is big news if it's actually good enough to use. People have been trying to build sign-to-text and sign-to-speech systems for decades and they've never been usable. The videos show it translating ASL as it's naturally us
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Putting Sign Language AI into Users Hands(deepmind.google)
5 points by elil17 2mo ago|5 comments
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by elil17 2mo ago
It seems like they probably just ran recruitment ads targeted to people with an interest in gaming, right? The article actually doesn't say anything about how they went about recruiting gamers.
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by elil17 2mo ago
It uses location data to see if you're near an existing crash, but it uses AI to see if it's a motor vehicle accident call.
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by elil17 2mo ago
Additionally, using more water allows datacenters to be more energy efficient because evaporative cooling uses less energy than dry cooling. Datacenters outside of water stressed areas should absolutely being using water because doing so is
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by elil17 2mo ago
Prefer is a strong word. People are more likely to be fooled by shrinkflation than inflation. If they noticed they'd be just as unhappy.
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by elil17 2mo ago
He didn't win just because he said he'd fix the economy. Antisemitism and nationalism were part of his political platform from the beginning. I think it's very important that people continue to recon with the fact that millio
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by elil17 2mo ago
Software patents are probably unenforceable in most cases, at least in the US and Europe, are essentially unenforceable. The European Patent Office, very sensibly, denies software patents. The USPTO has a strange insistence on granting them

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