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by jeffbee 5mo ago
That's a fair assumption that doesn't prove itself in practice. In practice, a Prius engine lasts forever. Someone will jump in to complain about some anecdotal failure but the fleet statistics are strong. They even outlast other
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
The headline relies entirely on the definition of "substantial". Anyway, the statistics and logic of the paper appear sound at first reading, but I'm interested in why they censored participants with cycling VO2(max) over 55
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
There's a lot of memes about how dumb it is to have all of the ICE moving parts, but they're just memes. We know how to make engines and they are cheap to mass produce. The complexity argument is aesthetic.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
First thing I thought of, except in this story the outfall seems to have been discovered through the ordinary diligence of government, rather than by a plucky eco-buccaneer.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Aren't the LLM-based features of this announcement catch-up features? Describing the contents of the screen is something Gemini has been doing on Pixel phones for a while. It's a fairly obvious use case for a multimodal AI. My one
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Yeah I think you are misreading it. The manner in which a data center (or a thermal power station, or any highly energetic industry) "uses water" is literally the water disappears into thin air, and doesn't come down again un
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
I don't know, I think it will mostly come down to which side has better recruiting. In other words, all things being equal, I think it's a wash. It was the second part of your claim that I don't think can be proven.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
I doubt you can prove that.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
I'm not talking about the recycling rate. Even if that goes to zero it doesn't change the story here. The point is they aren't boiling the water, for the most part. They discharge it in a pipe.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
The figures in that report are consistent with what I said. This is because the usage we're talking about is evaporation. This should not be confused with withdrawals. Semiconductor industry mainly withdraws water and then discharges i
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
The entire global semiconductor industry, source of vast benefits, only uses about 50000 acre-feet of water per year, which is essentially nothing. As a point of comparison this is half a percent of what the paper industry consumes.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Water resources are isolated, so moving purified water from one basin to another via evaporation does matter. But the OP is right that the specific cases of data centers usually don't matter.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
The first chapter of this waves away the fact that hierarchical filesystems are now useless, but it is still a fact. There is no more reason to organize your files than there is to drive around in a chariot. It is hard to map one domain to
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
KASLR isn't an effective mitigation against anything, and to me this is part of GrapheneOS's catalog of superficial but meaningless claims.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Project Zero has to report bugs to Android through the front door, and deal with Android VRP severity classification? I always assumed they could just walk over to the Android office and advocate for their bugs, face to face.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
By following this rule you could easily end up with a tool that lasts forever but strips out all your screw heads.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Water is a locally isolated resource, but again these guys aren't dumb. Nearly all of the water impacts from data centers that I have seen in the news are imaginary. Most actual large-scale facilities have been built in places where wa
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Absolutely. It's tiring to squeeze all the facts into every post, though.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Largely not. Data center people aren't idiots. They site their projects in places with water and power, or if not power then at least gas. I don't think you'd be able to point out a project that actually exists and is competi
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Wheat, being basically worthless, is predominantly not irrigated. A data center that draws water from a river or aquifer is not a rival to wheat, which relies on rain. When farmers have invested in irrigation they largely grow something els
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Was there never a detour via Eclipse Theia? I thought it might have had some traction internally, since Cloud Shell is based on it.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
SVP delivers over 90% of their energy to commercial customers, making it a bit of a special case. However it does prove the hypothesis that large-scale consumers tend to lower, not raise, the local retail price for energy. As for SF, there
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Entrepreneurs know exactly how to solve this issue: panels, batteries, and wires. But it isn't so simple when you face 20 years of permitting between BLM, USFS, tribes, states, counties, cities, and individual litigation. If you want a
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Same content: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nearly-50-000-lake-tahoe-1709... TL;DR Libertarian separatists, who went so far as to name their utility "Liberty Utilities", organized their utility in 2009 under
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
A somewhat more prominent example of this model would be Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
> I'm going to need a citation on that, especially performance Multiple reasons. ChromeOS ships an optimized, platform-specific kernel, built using LLVM with LTO and AutoFDO. No other distro even attempts this. The only one that has
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
This is actually the perfect detail to discuss. ChromeOS printing is literally just CUPS, so it has the same functionality as any other Linux distro. If you have a modern IPP printer on a normal home Wi-Fi, you can expect it to just work. T
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
You'll get a more informative answer from them. I couldn't speak to their motivations. But I certainly wouldn't advise doing it. ChromeOS has better security and performance than Ubuntu, and it automatically updates things li
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
The number of people who have "installed linux" other than ChromeOS on a Chromebook is probably in the low single digits, while the ChromeOS installed user base is in the hundreds of millions. For any given thing someone is going
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by jeffbee 5mo ago
Why would an organization want to move from a centrally managed fleet to an unmanaged fleet?

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