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I don't know what DC Blox was going to put in this particular datacenter, but they are a "traditional" colocation datacenter company. Maybe this one would've been superdense GPUs with a jet engine as electrical generator causing all kinds of noise, but it's also just as likely this would've been a project that 5 years ago no one would've batted an eye over, and wouldn't cause any issues in the local neighborhood

That's the unfortunate thing about the current climate around datacenters. Everyone hates AI, and Elon absolutely screwed Memphis, and everyone thinks anything with more than 10 computers in it is going to be an xAI monstrosity. There's still a need for growth in just traditional datacenters hosting things like your email and Netflix, not just AI, and those projects are going to get swallowed up in the AI hubbub

>this isn't a city or a county

Yes it is, it's both of those things. Consolidated city/county governments are not a weird oddity that no one knows how to handle, they're not super common but they're not governmental arrangements from Neptune, either

They don't need probable cause to search his vehicle if he had a warrant. They can search his car because they are arresting him and towing the vehicle

I know that, does my grandmother? In the heat of the moment, will she remember that I told her 2 years ago when they call her?

There is a similar issue with the IRS. If you call the IRS they use a text-to-speech system to generate the voice for their call tree IVR. The problem is, it's a commercially available system that fake call center scammers also use, so they sound identical. It also doesn't help that it sounds fake and scammy, so you can't use that as a signal to avoid the number you're calling, either

Yeah, this guy picked a weird thing to take a stand on. Apple corporate policy is not enforceable by state courts. IMEI to serial mapping is not a protected data class in any way in the US. I'm actually confused that this had to be handled by a person, one would assume that AT&T would've just had access to this data as a carrier.

Is there a somewhat easy way to sign up for this service as an American these days? I tried a year or two ago and it was not verboten but it was also not easy

How do these plug in panels prevent backfeeding in the case of a complete outage? IE: if lines are down and linemen go to work on lines with trees on them etc how can they be assured they're not energized?

a big problem with passkeys is that there is a lot of flexibility in how it is rolled out with a given site or app. Some sites ask your browser for a passkey as soon as you hit the login page. Some sites you need to enter your username/email address first before you're prompted. Some sites a passkey satisfies both password + second factor. Some sites you need to enter your password and the passkey is the second factor. Some sites you don't need a password but do need the passkey + a second factor (usually SMS)

This is on top of the confusion around enrolling passkeys in your device and synchronizing them

I am a big passkeys fan, and use them on every service I can, but they leave a lot to be desired in terms of user experience. Not sure all of them are solvable, either. The platform vendor side can be fixed: vendors can better integrate with each other to make your passkeys available on every device. But, the issues with how they work across sites and applications is probably not solvable

I mean this thing is "Part of the Qbix platform" and there is an offer to sell services related to the "Qbix platform"

>Kind of wild that states can just sue and have success in blocking a merger. Any of 50 states can potentially have a veto on something like this? On what grounds?

This isn't a permanent injunction, the judge simply paused the merger for two weeks while they can hold a hearing on a longer injunction ahead of a trial

And even that injunction wouldn't be permanent, it would just keep the transaction from completing until the trial is complete, since obviously if they merge it is hard to unwind should Paramount lose

And yes, states can "just sue" to enforce the law, just like the DOJ could have sued to enforce the law. Antitrust is not a criminal matter, but this is essentially the same thing as filing charges

The next time SpaceX wants to sell some bonds they will take a bath. Even if this isn't immediately screwing Elon or SpaceX, it indicates a much higher interest rate next time they issue bonds

If the equity market says something that must make it true. Markets have never gotten valuations wrong

This is effectively an increase in interest rates for SpaceX. That's how it affects them

Probably had his laptop with him and they simply traced the gdid to a specific IP address that they determined belonged to the hotel

There is a difference between this situation, a targeted install in a problem situation, and hundreds of thousands of these cameras at every intersection in the country

Also, Flock cameras are not just on roads. Many institutions use them for surveillance inside buildings. There is a community center in Atlanta that has them and there is evidence that random people with access to all Atlanta area cameras, including Flock employees and police officers in other jurisdictions, were watching juveniles at the pool. More than one deputy at a suburban Atlanta sheriff's department has been fired for abusing Flock cameras to track romantic interests

Like everything else in this country we've taken something that has a useful purpose when used in a limited, controlled fashion and pushed it to the maximum extreme. We can't do anything based on nuance anymore

This is a fight I deal with every day. We have folks in the technology group at work who use AI to write code and do so without issue. But now folks in supply chain or in the executive suite are using it to generate web pages that they want published or apps they want on the internet, and while Claude can generate an HTML file how that gets published, how authentication works, etc is just glossed completely over, and generates a ton of work for the IT team to build up around this stuff as it comes in

AirPower would've been a fraction of a fraction of a single percentage point of Apple's accessory sales

Apple is facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit over Siri features it promised, that it would not charge for or make money off of, but didn't deliver

I think it would be hard to argue Sam didn't know anything about it after the Jony Ive + Sam Altman love videos about their hardware project

You think the group tasked with developing whatever hardware device they're trying to build is isolated away from senior leadership and is running rogue?

Citizens of the District of Columbia have no one to contact. Their laws are set by Congress and their delegate to Congress cannot vote. I suppose you could contact the President, that's basically the only representation they have for this type of legislation

>There is no fundamental reason that datacenters need to be especially unpleasant to their neighbors.

Sure there is, being a good neighbor costs more than being a bad neighbor

And on the other hand people can just design dangerous and dumb products even without the constraint of standardization.

So the problem was that they diverged from the standard design in key important ways. The trick would be not to do that, to actually stick to the standard design. Or, to make sure that the impacts of deviations are fully accounted for and incorporated back into the overall design and project

Again, the standardization didn't cause the problem. Boeing's piss poor engineering culture did. There's no reason that they couldn't have built the plane how they wanted but in a way that didn't crash. Similarly, it's entirely possible that each of these nuclear reactors will be built with flexible designs per project that result in half of them melting down.

Safety and quality control is critical no matter what strategy they use

Nothing about the 737 MAX situation had anything to do with the fact that it was standardized and every plane wasn't bespoke. That is a weird thing to compare this to. You could absolutely still screw it up if you were designing each reactor from scratch every time

Standardizing doesn't mean you never change, but there is a middle ground between the current design is locked in stone forever vs. every plant is completely bespoke with no interchangeable parts and operationally different

Yeah I mean obviously each one would be managed on its own to an extent but one big problem we have in the US at least is that we build so few reactors that each one is bespoke. They may be based generally on certain designs but they will vary enough that operators and maintenance engineers have to train and be certified on each one, and that training and certification does not carry over to any other facility. Parts are bespoke and can't be used from one to another

If Canada builds them all similar enough that you only need one simulation/training facility, parts can be used between all of them, engineers can move from one to the other, and otherwise they are as close to each other as possible they will get incredible economies of scale that we don't typically get in North America in this industry

>15 seems...ambitions, but if we're going to spend at a federal level this is probably one of the better things to invest in.

If they can make them cookie cutter as much as possible and not unique snowflakes like has been the pattern at least in the US, they can probably do it both on the timeline and a somewhat reasonable cost basis

If they build 15 individual projects instead of managing this as a single big project, yeah that is very ambitious

I guess that whole carbon negative by 2030 goal got shuffled down the priority list

Whether it was low or not, the fact that we've been able to effectively cure a certain kind of cancer with a vaccine is a pretty big deal