partial_accumen

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I wonder if this is newly built/to be built data centers for AI, or ones that previously existed/ are being built for general web infrastructure. The article doesn’t say.

The age of the DC doesn't really matter. Its whether it was designed to be an "open loop" or "closed loop" cooling system. Closed loop DC use surprisingly little water because they capture and recycle it. A fast food restaurant would likely use more water than a closed looped DC. The big offending Datacenters for water use are the Open Loop design. These use massive amounts of water.

Close to me there are two DCs under construction. One is a large colocation DC and is closed loop. The other is a new AWS DC, and it is open loop. So as you can see, age isn't really the determining factor.

So you're asking yourself, why use open loop at all? Its energy bill is cheaper! Open loop uses swamp coolers (evaporative cooling) Closed looped requires more electricity for cooling using more traditional phase-change coolant (same as residential air conditioners).

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

If everyone in my area who has AI psychosis needed to be helped, they’d need to re-purpose the latest data center being built as a mental health facility.

"...thats why in these difficult times, I use today's sponsor, Betterhe*lth.c0m." /s

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 56 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Kids these days needing 21 pilots. Back in my day we only had 4, and they were all of them were from Stone Temples.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

spicy food at a restaurant be like:

One consistent exception to this in my experience is Indian food. If you ask for your biryani to be "spicy" then say goodbye to your loved ones and make peace with your maker before the first bite.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Harp, who is in her mid-30s, brings the president stacks of printed-out drafts of social media posts—many of them recycling content from other accounts—for Trump to approve, sources told the Journal.

...and...

"The platform allows Trump to 'offer' his unfiltered and direct thoughts to the American people, without the biased media taking him out of context,” he added.

Apparently not direct thoughts then. Its Natalie Harp's direct thoughts she filters and presents to trump for him to have indirect thought on. That is the opposite of unfiltered and direct thoughts. She's actively fomenting dissent and chaos in the USA. I have no idea what she gains by doing this. Anyone check to see if she's getting a separate paycheck from Russia?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago

‘I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation’

We know, trump. Unless its wrapped in gold or a bribe he doesn't care.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The ribbing is warranted. I'll take it if it means I can still get my All Dress chips, peameal bacon, and poutine.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I like coming north and spending my money to boost the Canadian economy because our laws down here are stupidly hurting my brothers and sisters in Canada. I hope that's still okay that I come north.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 57 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What surprises me most is that I don't think Apple ever sold an expensive cradle for this mouse to be held upside-down. Die hard Apple fans would have bought it.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You might have been provided a "less-ipe". In communities where recipes are closely guarded, social pressures may force one to share what would be a personal secret. So they give an adulterated version ensuring only they, the original recipe holder can produce the beloved result.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Further, your DD 5.25" could have been set up in a RAID array so you could have 3 buses full of diskettes and only need two buses to reach the destination to rebuild the whole file system.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

We can extrapolate.

This comic was published 5 years ago, and that there is a second frame of the comic:

Standing person: "Okay, I trust you. Here's a budget, a team, and a deadline 5 years from now."

 

Don't forget this product for those really stubborn ones.

 

This text description is mine, not from the article. The article linked goes into much more detail.

This is an anti-scam/anti-fraud protection measure. This is apparently a method folks are getting their accounts cleaned out by thieves. They get your SSN, name, and account number from one of the many data breaches that happen today, they open an another account at another brokerage in your name, then transfer your funds out to the new brokerage they control. The system used to do this is called ACATS which is designed to easily let customers transfer funds from other accounts, but it is apparently easy to abuse.

Fidelity makes turning on the block crazy easy just by logging into your account and setting the "Money Transfer Lock" to "on". If you ever do want to use the ACATS to legitimately move your money to another broker, you just need to go back in here and set it to "off", complete your transfer, and turn it back "on" if you still have funds remaining.

Vanguard has this feature too, but its super sketchy to get it turned on. You have to call the vanguard agent, pass an OTP code, try to get them to understand what you're asking for as the agent I talked to did, get transferred around again a few times, do another OTP to a different department and finally they enable it. However they say it takes 5-7 days to take effect. Better than nothing I suppose.

Currently Schwab doesn't have a feature to block ACATS transfers at all in any capacity.

 

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/66094

It all started with a sarcastic comment right here on Hackaday.com: ” How many phones do you know that sport a 5 and 1/4 inch diskette drive?” — and [Paul Sanjay] took that personally, or at least thought “Challenge accepted” because he immediately hooked an old Commodore floppy drive to his somewhat-less-old smartphone.

The argument started over UNIX file directories, in a post about Redox OS on smartphones— which was a [Paul Sanja] hack as well. [Paul] had everything he needed to pick up the gauntlet, and evidently did so promptly. The drive is a classic Commodore 1541, which means you’ll want to watch the demo video at 2x speed or better. (If you thought loading times felt slow in the old days, they’re positively glacial by modern standards.) The old floppy drive is plugged into a Google Pixel 3 running Postmarket OS. Sure, you could do this on Android, but a fully open Linux system is obviously the hacker’s choice. As a bonus, it makes the whole endeavor almost trivial.

Between the seven-year-old phone and the forty-year-old disk drive is an Arduino Pro Micro, configured with the XUM1541 firmware by [OpenBCM] to act as a translator. On the phone, the VICE emulator pretends to be a C64, and successfully loads Impossible Mission from an original disk. Arguably, the phone doesn’t “sport” the disk drive–if anything, it’s the other way around, given the size difference–but we think [Paul Sanja] has proven the point regardless. Bravo, [Paul].

Thanks to [Joseph Eoff], who accidentally issued the challenge and submitted the tip. If you’ve vexed someone into hacking (or been so vexed yourself), don’t hesitate to drop us a line!

We wish more people would try hacking their way through disagreements. It really, really beats a flame war.


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So wholesome!

 

Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers and the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium, has died at 86.

The National Comedy Center, on behalf of his family, said in a statement Wednesday that Smothers died Tuesday at home in Santa Rosa, California, following a cancer battle.

“I’m just devastated,” his brother and the duo’s other half, Dick Smothers, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. “Every breath I’ve taken, my brother’s been around.”

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