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Tuco

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  1. Being poor is expensive. It means you can’t buy the best value in many situation. 10k in hospital bills won’t bankrupt you or me. For many Americans, 10k or 200k has the same impact on their financial security. That’s the point of insurance.
  2. FWIW, this generation of data centers are mostly closed loop cooling with little water usage. Up to about 2 or 3 years ago, most were evaporative cooling, which are the water hogs. The big techs switched to closed loop due to community pushback. One big example was in Uruguay, which was developing a Google dc while citizens were drinking brackish water due to a drought. But closed loop is much less efficient, resulting in more power usage.
  3. I'm curious if she has a new person in her orbit that might be influencing her. If she was exploring going for office higher than Rep, she may have brought in new/more consultants. Maybe there is one that she trusts and is amplifying. Pushing back on Trump is one thing, but she also seems to be doing it competently. That competence is surprising.
  4. I think the problem(s) that AI would have in engineering problem solving include: - AI is all about replicating patterns and interpolating within data. I think most of the creative solutions in engineering are either novel or pulled from a different application - breaking the pattern. AI is not going to do that. (It's the same reason why AI is shitty at writing jokes - many jokes rely on "subversion of expectations" while AI is good at matching the expectation from the pattern.) - Most technology owners aren't going to make their stuff public. The tech companies building the data centers sure as shit aren't sharing the designs publicly. Without data to train on, there is no AI. - AI is currently making obvious mistakes. That is much less problematic than when it makes fundamental mistakes that "look" right. It's going to get harder and harder to tell what was engineered vs. what was pattern-matched. So, I think there is an opportunity for AI to do extremely common types of designs that are publicly available through permitting. I'm thinking residential building designs maybe. For 95% of housing, you aren't looking to innovate. Maybe road design, although it's likely I am underestimating the complexity there. I think AI is currently a good tool for certain aspects of engineering, but it's one of many, many tools.
  5. "reportedly through the anger he caused others..." Is he saying one of his supporters killed Meathead, and then calls him paranoid? Jesus fucking Christ. If one of your boys murders someone, maybe consider shutting the fuck up for a while.
  6. So I tried the heat transfer calc. Assuming 1 GW of server capacity, 40% inefficiency (so 1.4 GW of total energy to cool, I think it’s 723 acres of heat sinks. That’s assuming a perfect emissitivity of the heat sync material. I’m rusty on these calcs, but it’s a simple equation. I think I’m in the right ballpark. Just simple physics demonstrate this is nonsense. So why are they mentioning it? Maybe grasping at straws? I think it’s more likely trying to get more funding for space launch development, and throwing an AI sticker on it.
  7. So, I was searching for some lewd joke out of this possibility, but it lead me to this question: I wonder how many Oscars have been inserted into a human orifice. I'm going to guess a good 20%. It's something to consider for next time I watch the Academy Awards.
  8. It's the Trump administration; Lisa Ann is retired from making movies and twice as qualified as Palin.
  9. I am curious how much, if any, of the resistance is because Trump's minions wanted to hang Pence.
  10. Maybe she meant "the President's constantly shaking hands."
  11. That is fucking hysterical. Let me do a quick list of issues with that approach (without having access to the article): - Cooling. Yeah, space is cold, but it is also vacuum insulated. The only way you lose heat is through radiation, so you would need massive heat sink panels and a cooling system that routed the heat from the servers to those heat syncs. I'd love to see the calculation on a 1 GW data center, but I am guessing acres and acres of heat sinks. - Maintenance. You'd need to have permanent staff to maintain the data center. Ok, maybe that could reduced through robots, but sooner or later you are going to need a human to do something. -Energy. Similar to the cooling issue, you need bring in energy. Solar panels are the obvious solution, but a shit ton of solar panels. (I think the solar panels would be smaller than the heat sinks, as you are exchanging heat with the sun. (5000K to ~300K for energy incoming vs. ~300K to ~0K for energy discharge.) - Material transfers. Computer parts wear out. Constantly and with significant mass for a large data center. You'd need to be launching computer parts regularly just to replace drives.
  12. Anyone taking bets on who is going to kill whom?
  13. Looking at the 12/4 report from the Department of Labor, it looks like initial claims are recently down, but continued claims are up. Not seasonal adjusted initial claims were down about 20% from Nov 22 to Nov 29 and they had anticipated a seasonal adjustment of 8.6%. So, yeah, it is good news. I am curious how the government shutdown might have affected the numbers. I could see vendors who support the government furloughing employees during the shutdown. But for continued claims, it was up 70k people from Nov 8 to Nov 15, up about 4.1% in a week. Comparing to the same time last year, continued claims are up 3.3%.
  14. Motherfuck him and John Wayne.
  15. And, at this point, non-violent resistance is more effective. Killing cops, federal agents, and national guard members changes the national discussion away from the state-sponsored cruelty.
  16. Maybe, but it wouldn't be nearly as good as I had hoped and I would feel like complete shit after. (You're talking about eating at Cinnabon, right?)
  17. The silver lining is that her life is still going to suck. Publicly throwing cash at an idiot usually has humorous results as evidenced by countless lottery winners.
  18. I had to check if "Crapo" was derogatory. Nope, someone actually became a Senator with that tag. Good for you, Senator Crapo. Now stop being so shitty. Politico article on the Crapo bill. I love how it makes sure that people who can't afford healthcare in the first place are herded into plans that will bankrupt them should shit happen.
  19. My bad. You watched a video of someone calling a black couple n*****s, and your first thought was "I certainly hope people don't overreact to this. Let's make sure we get the full story." I'm sure you think that makes you the reasonable person in this discussion, which is something else you have in common with the Cinnabon lady.
  20. My guess it's because your first reaction to seeing was the video was to speculate what the black couple did wrong. So, yeah, fuck you you racist piece of shit.
  21. That's the kind of question one might ask of a 17th century British monarchy. Here in our modern democracy, the "power of the purse" has been assumed by our Dear Leader.
  22. She has trouble counting beyond 18, and that's with both shoes off.
  23. So, rather than simply waiting for more "narcoterrorists" to show up in an area that you have complete control over, our military decided to murder the survivors? Their defense is their incompetence mitigates their war crimes.
  24. The good news is that most car companies still want to sell their cars in California. Unless the Trump administration is successful in preventing the state EPAs from having more restrictive requirements, they are still going to design to gas mileage standards.
  25. Being a British paper, I am sure most of the readers just think "yeah, they're hiring Americans?"
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