Damogran6

What's the profit in that?

/s

Forums are gonna get really quiet if that's what everybody does.

(ChatGPT was massively more helpful than you. Not quite sure if that's great for mankind or not.)

Dude. I don't know how what I asked and what you interpreted got so far apart, and yet I'm compelled to respond.

I've been in IT for more than 30 years. I've worked hands-on hardware for the first 20 of them. There's a datacenter in my office (though it's nearly empty as it's all been migrated to the cloud.)

What does a modern AI hosting datacenter look like? What's the network look like from a compute module to the perimeter of the DC? Is the hardware that hosts AI compute a 6U server with 20 RTX 4090's?

When Elon gets in trouble with having too many turbines...are they generating power at all times because it makes some kind of thermodynamic sense to convert LNG to power, rather than pulling power from the grid?

I'm not talking about the software used in training, I'm asking about the bare metal.

This topic (my only one) was a question asking what a current datacenter looks like.

Things like Elon getting called out because there are more generators in his Memphis datacenter than he was permitted for make me thing they're not using the electric grid for power, they're using natural gas?

Not me, but it must be a question of interest, I can check the other thread.

After checking: This is entirely unrelated.

We have pantry moths in the house (came in from the bird food)...is there anything similar for them? We use pheremone traps, but that's pretty late in the lifecycle and not 100%

We have one with a fan and a coated UV light that does similar, it just sucks them in till they dehydrate/starve

https://www.costco.com/dynatrap-1-acre-insect-and-mosquito-t...

catches moths as well, so it's not as eco friendly.

I used RPi's for years for little stuff like DNS and file sharing and when I b it the bullet and got a surplus DELL SFF office PC things just started working a little bit better.

yeah, docker images and the like are supposed to be platform intependent, but there's 'supposed to' and 'is'

Running Ubuntu (and later Proxmox) on it just worked a tad bit better. I was into it for about $160 (purchased from Microcenter)

I'm talking about ramps to public buildings and handicap accessible bathrooms. It's a public good that most people don't realize they're actually going to use at some point.

Everybody drives the same roads ("Why would I pay to maintain Smith Street? I've never driven on it?"), some people REALLY need a firefighter in an emergency.

"We're making accomodations for the disabled because, on average, 100% of the population is disabled at one time or another."

Do you honestly think (being mean to perps at their place of work, church, or while voluntarily attending a court case) needs to be written down? %waving hands at everything% This is the hill you want to (literally or figuratively) die on?

I know the podcast is now two weeks old, but the segment was new to me and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. Writing of R&D Costs seems like a great way to maintain a competitive lead on a global scale...and a TON of IT is mostly R&D...

nanobots.

Stockholders are all about the after-sale subscription model.

The convenience outweighs the cost at this point. I'm not proud about it.

You'd be surprised. I don't like the lock in, but it sure makes running a partial load easy (which, yeah, blows the dollar cost ratio even more.)

Enclosing the dishwasher keeps the internals dust free...

It was awhile before I noticed, unlike every other dishwasher I'd ever owned, it didn't have a big heating coil sitting in the bottom of the dishwasher, the water heater is elsewhere.

Listen, the goal is not to convince you. I would never have purchased it had COVID not done what COVID did to the supply chain. But there are subtly significant differences between this and a $500 plastic Memorial Day special.

In covid had a whirlpool dishwasher that lasted less than 3 years (4 subsystems failing all at the same time)...it was either wait 2-X months for the Miele we wanted, or pay twice as much to have it today. ($2k vs $1k)

I'm uncomfortably enamored with this dishwasher. (Bought it over a Bosch as the percentage needing repair in the first year was 8% instead of 12% and I was flat done with it.)

The dishwasher is fully enclosed...the typical DW is open at the back with all the guts just barely contained in an open structure.

To balance the dishwasher, you slide it into the nook and turn two bolt heads that have a mechanism that raise the back of the dishwasher after it's set in place.

There are instructions on how to install matching cabinet faces...the buttons are on the top of the door...if you want zero indication you have a dishwasher, they'll accomodate.

While the drawers(?) are well thought out and can take a lot of dishes, it shines when you're entertaining, it flat SOAKS UP dishes and flatware and has cycles to safely wash crystal. We never seem to use this.

It has pucks full of detergent, a load now a days costs about $1.80...more than I'd like, but the simple avoidance of pouring soap and having a sixpack delivered when you need it is a crazy luxury.

5 years in and it's been faultless.

Quite possibly. The procedure they performed on me is already in at least the 3rd major iteration. Originally they'd replace the vein with cadaver veins...then they used wires to...ahem...catch and rip out the old vein.

They used a catheter on me using RF to ablate the vein so it would no longer flow blood. Recovery was quick. (Wear support stockings for a week, you can move around as normal the next day...don't run a marathon or lift weights.)

It was _very_ low impact.

There's something like 6 one way valves that let your heart pump the blood out of your leg a little bit at a time. When they wear out, there's not enough pumping action at times to replace the blood as often as necessary. (also, the veins aren't rated for the pressure, which is why they blow out, and you get varicose or spider veins.)

But there are alternate paths for the blood to flow. If you mangle the larger deep veins, the blood will still circulate out secondary paths. And literally the next day, my foot was pink, and I wasn't winded climbing the stairs, and my legs weren't lead weights by the end of the day.

Our conversations amongst ourselves turn to our ailments. The bell curve of people that pass before you do starts to accelerate. My skin, with the help of the sun, has twice tried to -KILL- me.

But the biggie were the veins in my legs. The valves are giving out, my feet are too far from my heart. 15% of my blood isn't getting properly oxygenated.

And then I got that taken care of. A procedure for a thing my father had (he passed 20 years ago)...and I'm really sad he didn't experience it.

Because the treatment made my feel 15 years younger. My balance is better (a factor of the nerves now getting oxygen), my foot and knee stopped hurting....and what gets me is both how much BETTER I feel, but that it was my body WEARING OUT.

Wilfred Brimley (a name that dates me merely by mentioning it) was my age in Cocoon (look it up, kids)...that was where all the old, used up, worn out people found rejuvenation.

I don't feel that old...doubly so now that my circulation has improved.

But you and I both know of 90 year olds that are 'younger' than some 60 year olds.

It's gotten better, but using navigation. It tells you which lane you need to----nope, calendar Appointment.

and the notification doesn't self-dissapear, so stressed navigation also includes a ham-handed reach and swipe up to make the appointment dissapear. Hope it wasn't important.

The screen is MASSIVE folks. SO MANY PIXELS. keep the GPS AND the calendar appointment.

I believe it's an INTENTIONAL BEHAVIOR in Facebook. Particularly the mobile web interface...want to show someone a video, but you're on the can, and really, it's going to be a minute while you wash up (or similar example lasting 40 seconds)

You're not going to be able to do it. They're not on facebook, you can't just link to the video, you're going to hold the phone carefully but the bared fraction of their palm will register with the screen, or the page will refresh, or the screen (now 27 feet deep in the doomscroll) will scroll all the way to the top of the screen.

And you'll end every iMessage with a b. b

The people that want the manufacturing back don't live downwind of the pollution and can't hear the robots screwing together the widgets. They're hanging out in the Hamptons.

Not being at all qualified to comment (though I work for a power company), I'd think the hand crank air compressor wouldn't suffer from no spark or bad gas.

It's a complex enough issue that you can't really 'hand wavey' it. The details are specific and thorny.

Makes me wonder if this is what we'll have to look forward to when there aren't enough youngsters to take care of us in our retirement. (This is meant as a humorous statement...with just a pause to indicate it's not completely humerous.)

It helps for me...of course if I dropped 40 lbs, it probably wouldn't be needed...but then there's the whole GLP-1/Weight thing.

I sleep 5-6 hours a night. I also seem to be bi-phasic...on the weekends if I wake up after 5 hours, hang around for an hour and successfully go back to sleep, the second cycle is the sleep of the dead. Like, I don't move. Wake up with limbs fallen asleep, a deep divot in the memory foam...and a lot more rested.

(as an aside: have CPAP, apnea is not a factor.)

Hypothetically: -Government leader says they're nuking data -Mad rush to back up data through other means -Government leader declares they've 'transferred the cost of maintaining data out of government, thus making for a smaller, more efficient, government'

I hate everything about this.

I had PILES of CD-R and CD-RW from the turn of the century that are coasters now. Stored in the dry and dark...just absolutely unreadable.

Oddly, the photo CDs I got professionally written were great.

I think Denver's status as a hub for IT, Telco, Aviation/Aerospace may skew things a bit, but the town is _lousy_ with Tesla products. Cybertruck included.

And I think this period of time is going to be underscored by the guilt of good products helmed by questionable people. Musk, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, all have either produced or led thousands of people to produce good things. And then they got rich enough to let their filter drop? I dunno how to exactly phrase it.