Where were you when I complained we needed additional transmission lines to keep bringing more renewable energy online?
I’ve strongly argued for this in the past.
All these tech bros with AI datacenters are putting their spare couch change together to build HVDC lines across the continent, right?
What kind of third world shit hole makes its dictators face consequences?
You can think that, but you’d be wrong. A ChatGPT search uses 10x the power of a regular Google search.
Google has quietly removed their net-zero pledge from their website:
This stuff isn’t being built with renewables.
When a family in the global south uses coal to cook their food, they release CO2. When a billionaire flies around the continent on a private jet, they also release CO2.
Do you consider the two to be equivalent in need or output?
People downloading stuff for personal use vs making money off of it are not the same at all. We don’t tend to condone people selling bootleg DVDs, either.
I’ve never heard anyone say “we need less data centers” until ai came along. What, all the other data centers are totally fine but the ones being used for ai are evil? If you have an issue with the drastically increased power consumption for ai you should be able to argue a stance that is inclusive of all data centers - assuming it’s something you give a fuck about. Which you don’t.
AI data centers take up substantially more power than regular ones. Nobody was talking about spinning up nuclear reactors or buying out the next several years of turbine manufacturing for non-AI datacenters. Hell, Microsoft gave money to a fusion startup to build a reactor, they’ve already broken ground, but it’s far from proven that they can actually make net power with fusion. They actually think they can supply power by 2028. This is delusion driven by an impossible goal of reaching AGI with current models.
Your whole post is missing out on the difference in scale involved. GPU power consumption isn’t comparable to standard web servers at all.
EV batteries are often still good to use as they are for other purposes. Like home power storage. Their storage amount gets low enough that they aren’t giving sufficient range anymore, but they still have plenty of life left in different applications.
There’s a million reasons to prefer bikes and public transit over cars in general. The reasons specific to EVs are usually bullshit.
The advantage lead acid has for ICE is that it can dump a lot of current all at once. The C output rate on sodium ion isn’t that high, IIRC.
There have been lithium batteries used for the purpose. The original Miata used one because standard lead acid cells caused corrosion issues in the chassis. But lithium has its own supply chain issues.
Ultimately, this goes away because ICE cars go away.
Because humans are really, really hung up about sex in general, and we make it complicated. The idea of a potion that cuts right through all the bullshit sounds pretty good to just about everyone at some point in their lives.
I had a 370Z for a while. I dunno if they did this on the 350Z, but they stuck a very heavy flywheel on it that does terrible things for throttle response. Makes it as smooth as a V8, and that’s obviously a cop to people who aren’t buying it for performance. You can cut the flywheel weight in half and still have a perfectly functional car for regular road use.
The shape of the trunk makes a difference. Yes, the 350Z/370Z trunk is larger on paper, but the Miata’s is shaped nice and square. Easier to drop things into.
Felt like sitting in a bathtub. Has much worse rear visibility than a Miata (even with the top up).
Its oil cooling isn’t sufficient on the track without upgrades. Engine will go into limp mode after a couple laps. Can be fixed, of course, but a Miata is pretty close to track ready out of the factory.
Traded the 370Z for an NC Miata and have never looked back. On any kind of twisty track, the flywheel issue prevents the 370Z from being able to use its extra power; I don’t think my track times are significantly different between the two.
I once did a track day with a Nissan GT-R, Ferrari 588, Lamborghini Gallardo, and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Excepting the 911, I would have been just as happy to have been in my Miata that day.
Supercars are vastly overrated. Even the 911 is a tough sell against the cheapness of the Miata.
This is what gives away the answer (emphasis added):
Russian ultranationalist milbloggers, a key pro-war constituency for Russian President Vladimir Putin, continued to reject the modified peace proposal, criticize the United States for moving away from Russian demands, and claim that Europe only wants to continue the war in Ukraine.[16] The milbloggers called for Russia to achieve its war aims by force instead.[17] The Kremlin has refused to meaningfully negotiate in response to all US-led peace initiatives thus far in 2025, and has shown no willingness to make the significant compromises required of a negotiation process.[18] The Kremlin very likely aims to prolong negotiations to end the war to allow Russian forces to continue advancing on the battlefield. The Kremlin likely plans to use Russian advances to further intensify information operations aimed at convincing the West and Ukraine that a Russian military victory is inevitable and that Ukraine should capitulate to Russia’s demands. The Kremlin continues to show no willingness to compromise for good-faith peace negotiations and has not set conditions for Russians to accept anything less than a full Russian victory in Ukraine.
If they aren’t setting up conditions for the civilian population of Russia to accept less than full victory–propaganda like “we have accomplished what we need to in Ukraine, and now is the time for the Russian people to have peace”–then don’t expect them to negotiate in good faith. Even the full 28-point peace proposal, which was clearly written by Russia and has been whittled down to 19 points, was never meant to be taken seriously. It was meant to say “see, we made an offer, and they rejected it”.
A bit of Perl code from the late 90s/early 2000s that worked something like this (working from memory, untested):
my $hits = `grep $search_string $file`;
my @lines = split /\n/, $hits;
my @real_hits;
for( my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@lines); $i++ ) {
my $line = $lines[0];
if( $line =~ /$search_string/ ) {
push @real_hits, $line;
}
}
Let me explain a bit about what this does. Instead of reading a file line-by-line and using Perl’s regex engine to match, it uses backticks to call out to the shell for grep. Those are split up by line. Then go through those lines (in a C-style for loop, not the perfectly good foreach version that Perl has had for a long time) and now we use a regex to match that line. You know, just in case shell grep didn’t do its one job.
If anything, I’m probably making this code look better by declaring variables with my and following use strict standards.
This was written by a guy who was the main programmer before I was hired. I was told he was a real piece of shit. He often had some checks in his code that, if not passed, threw messages to the client like “WE HAVE DETECTED YOUR HACKING AND LOGGED YOUR IP ADDRESS WE’RE GOING TO GET YOU”. Never met him personally, but his code is a pretty good example of why everyone came to hate Perl.
The world can, but Canada can’t ignore the psychopath who lives in the flat downstairs.
Not very. Ultimately, that’s an argument for anarchism.
But Germany is hardly unique in that regard. Both now and then.
That conflicts with my own theory. Back in 2013, Half Life 3 was quietly released as an easter egg hidden inside a random indie title somewhere on Steam and nobody has noticed yet.
Germany the nation isn’t the problem. Fascism is the problem. There is nothing special about Germany that makes it any more or less susceptible to fascism than anyone else. 1930s Germany happened to have especially fertile ground, but it could have been a lot of other places.
Although AfD does need to be told to go the fuck away.
It is that kind of party!