despoticruin

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[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In the context of these large data centers no, it usually isn't recycled water. It gets filtered coming in and run through, then right down the drain. Closed loops do exist in the data center world, but they don't use water, they use a dielectric coolant, and are orders of magnitude more expensive to set up and maintain. You don't usually see systems like that in use at scale like this, the cooling towers would be immense.

If they reuse the water they also have to remove the heat. Down the drain it becomes someone else's problem.

[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Physics puts some useful limits on things that can be applied here. All of the water used for cooling is considered wastewater, and it is generally treated chemically in a way that is difficult to process back to clean water. Water has a specific thermal mass, and we can see what hardware is being used in these data centers. From personal experience a flow rate of 1.5L/min is standard. Each rack is limited in power not by how much the supply can put out, but by what they can cool.

Even doing napkin math with the Blackwell systems that have been out for a couple of years it is as bad as they say and likely worse with the coolants and passivators going into the water.

I have advised a few water cooled systems, and did some work on Cheyenne in college. Not once was water reclamation even mentioned, it was all pumped right to sewage.

[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee 14 points 3 weeks ago

These are pretty simple calculators, those switches on top just change how the printing happens. You can set them to print with leading decimals (eg. adding a .00 to monetary values) and alignment to make reading easier. Otherwise it's just a pretty standard calculator. Great machines, you still see them used for audits as a final hand-calculation stapled to the top of the paperwork.

[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee -3 points 1 month ago

Political: Anything pushing a political agenda or sway political opinion. Example: Making commentary about Obama winning a novel Peace prize isn't political in itself. Saying Obama won the nobel prize because he was a president is political, the statement uses the Nobel award to sway opinion about politics.

I think it's a simple enough definition, it is consistently drawing the line that's difficult.

[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Yup, and you can even find it if you look at the monitors they use for online orders or on the shelf tags.

[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Those are also soft shells, allowing that grip to seal the back side of the taco, preventing food from falling out of the tortilla. You can then eat without holding your head completely sideways, as shown. You still lose juice, but that's a losing battle no matter what, hence eating over the plate. Idk man, I think that guy might just be a rookie at the soft taco game.

[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah, anyone who thinks stealing content explicitly for financial gain is fair use needs their head checked.

[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can put a bit more force into a punch from a standing position because you can use your legs, but using a weapon that adds mass to your hands can very easily cause permanent damage if you punch. Using strikes takes advantage of the weapon itself to take the majority of the recoil. The combination of the added mass usually makes the weaponed strike hit harder than an unassisted punch either way.

[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If you go this route then hammer, don't punch. I hear that those small steel flashlights with the castellated heads are perfect for exactly that kind of swing.

[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because the player base makes League's look well-mannered and downright pleasant in comparison.

[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

But then you have to train a cat to buy more matches at the store for the mouse and they always try to eat the money.

[–] despoticruin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I highly recommend Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig

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