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There is a global market for energy, a country X that would have bought from Iran but couldn't because of refinery damage has to buy it from someone else, pushing up the price at the margin for everyone.

There's a global market for energy. What you see at the pump translates into electricity prices in a slow and grinding process. Remember that most of our electricity is not generated from renewable sources! Three years ago Russia invaded Ukraine, that pushed up fuel prices and electricity prices have followed. Now, we have the Iran war and that will push up electricity prices even more. The issue here is that you do not understand these markets.

All of this applies to all construction of all types. There are already plenty of environmental regulations around buildings and their construction. Maybe these aren't being enforced, maybe the laws need to be stricter. I'm not an expert but it sounds plausible. But if that's the case, we have to fix those problems otherwise you're just playing whack-a-mole with development. When you specifically focus on datacenters and stopping datacenters it gives away that environmentalism is just a fig leaf for your actual goals.

My understanding is that they don't but there's a measurable amount of the population that thinks they can.

I suspect the authors of this paper would like to hear out your evidence for increasing energy prices https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19777

In the United States at least there's been plenty of polling on why people oppose data centers. Consistently, it's water usage and water contamination fears, which is exactly what you see most often in social media and discussed online. I think a lot of high-minded rationalizations are just trying to dodge the embarrassing fact that people simply think data centers are draining municipal and natural water sources.

This just isn't how you model water use in a practical way.

- If you're going to attribute water use via electricity to data centers you need to be fair and apply it to the rest of the electricity users. And in the end, you're just raising everyone's baseline water consumption in proportion to their electricity use. Why not leave the baseline increase out and leave water use attributed at the industry level (datacenters vs coal plants vs solar plants vs ...)?

- Different kinds of electrical generation plants use different amounts of water. To get an accurate number for an electricity consumer you're backing out the mix of generation sources in your model. You've introduced complexity to your model and reduced the precision of the answers your model gives when you could just get simpler and better answers leaving it at the industry level.

- Suppose we had a place with genuinely scarce water. There is some level of water draw that's unsustainable; you can never cross that level because it'll damage the environment. If there's ever a risk of hitting that limit you're interested in all users of water (so you can correctly model how much draw happens when XYZ business or person leaves the state) pushing you back to direct attribution at the industry level. If you can't model the effects of each choice correctly how do you know the choice you made will fix the problem?

You're the one making the argument! You need to show causality instead of correlation.

True, but this function wasn't handed down to us from the gods, it can be shaped by training and RLHF processes. They still have a little bit of control over its output.

A backup generator wouldn’t be running 24/7?

I think we're in agreement, I was trying to dispute the GP's portrayal of the purges but maybe my intent was not clear.

The Zhou Yongkang incident happened over a decade ago, it happened in roughly the first year of Xi Jinping's tenure, Zhou Yongkang was a supporter of the also-purged Bo Xilai, and while he was still in power he ran the department responsible for internal security. I don't doubt the guy was corrupt but this is exactly the sort of target you go after if you want to maintain your own grip on power.

In StarCraft you can give individual orders to your initial group of workers (drones) instead of giving them one big group order. It takes only a few seconds for your drones to move to the resources so you only have a few seconds to click and give multiple orders.

Now you have two problems.

You dereference a pointer.

Yes, and we are approaching peak monad tutorial https://wiki.haskell.org/Monad_tutorials_timeline

I like to interpret this jailbreak as the discovery that XML is the natural language of the universe itself.

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That operating system is statically linked into the game binary.

I can’t speak specifically to duplicate foreign key errors but I possibly fixed that bug via a fix to parallel dump/restore in the 12-13 era. It would manifest as a dump that would fail on restore with errors related to schema dependencies (trying to restore database objects out-of-order).

The patch is already written, it's on that page. The bottleneck in Postgres is reviewer bandwidth which is why it's been moved out of several commitfests.

Is the headline true at all? It was punted to the next commitfest on 2/1. It could easily keep getting punted like it has been for a ~year now.

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They all seem like APIs that could be abused to fingerprint the device, e.g. no two phones are going to have the same free disk space and no two devices behind the same IP address are going to have the same uptime.

FWIW Tarsnap was launched in 2008, the initial RDS for MySQL was launched in 2009.

The problem it solves is that the vast number of PRs on a busy team don't conflict, both at the source level and the unit test/CI level, so you can increase the throughput of PRs by automating the merging process and merging multiple PRs at once.

You colocate, like every other distro has done since the 90s.

Yes, it uses the same API backend as the other commercial e file systems.