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Averages aren't super useful for data centers, since local costs vary so much, and because siting decisions are often made around power generation (ie, they're deliberately getting lower than average costs).

A "high-risk" plan to use old machines to produce modern M795 artillery shells backfired, an Inspector General report found.

I would say that this indicates that the decision makers adequately appreciated the possibility this wouldn't work. This is generally what a high risk plan is.

If China/Taiwan kicks off, you're not getting new parts from Taiwan

Stuff like https://www.hadrian.co/ is pretty neat, but the whole "electric stack" is hopelessly Chinese from this perspective- batteries, motors, all kinds of small and crucial electrical things- and critical minerals, like Gallium for radar.

It's pretty big, too

SpaceX is good at building data centers in tough regulatory environments, in a way that other players have been unable to match

The thing people are worried about is "Seoul is a pile of rubble and so are all the factories". The people in Europe are probably going to stay for a little bit.

Wizard spells more than engineering

I mean, have you tried Pi? It's really good out of the box.

Ford's hybrids come from the Toyota tree, although they've diverged.

The new Honda hybrids are more like a generator + ev, which is also pretty interesting.

Nah, whenever I'm involved in a cloud cost audit, I routinely find boring unfashionable Ubuntu and RHEL servers someone forgot about with 5 year uptimes.

I honestly believe that most Silicon Valley developers could have their pre-AI output replaced by 10 dollars/day in Gemini 3 pay as you go spend.

I don't think existing companies will bite that bullet, but I think you'll see AI native companies in five years with like, a baffling small number of people.

There are two kinds of athletes that win global track events: - athletes from areas with bad doping enforcement (remote places in the mountains of Kenya, Jamaica) - athletes from countries with tons of surplus biomedical expertise (USA and other western countries)

Just turn SOMA into Hong Kong

What's the sleep situation? I have an ancient Dell with S3, which is totally fine, and a Mac for work, which is fine, but the modern standby situation, as summarized by people who are mad about it, sounds bad.

Sometimes the only way you can get basic engineering practices done like "have tests", "have a build system", "run the tests and the builds automatically", "insist that the above work" without management freaking out is to pay someone a lot of money.

You need regional state, or you're still back hauling to the db with all the lag.

Central Computer too

I saw a Cybercab on the 280 today, it looked kind of cool but kind of weird, too. I wonder if it'll be the same thing physically.

Modernity is about not doing what your family says

The flip side is that rich and modern people feel lonely and sad that they don't have strong social bonds.

Sailing. Good to focus your eyes on something not glowing, the cold and wet makes you feel really alive. There's a bottomless pit of cheap old boats and maintenance to learn about- or if you like buying toys, the sky is the limit.

I like racing dingies, adds a social aspect, but ymmv.

The EU has been a huge free rider on defense and pharma spending from the US, they're going to have a rough time reorganizing their economies.

What do you need to get serviced every year? Do the tires wear out that fast?

He's a longtime OpenOffice/LibreOffice and now, I guess, CollabraOffice contributor.

You can bomb a pipeline too

US is way more impacted by fertilizer disruption than China is.

China is also a big food importer, they'll feel it eventually

Until the security team requires a password on the yubikey tap

Potential Conflict of Interest: The government relies, in part, on third-party firms to vet cloud technology, but those firms are hired and paid by the company being assessed.

Hah. First time looking at FedRAMP?

The real reason for this, of course, is accounting, it moves it off of the government's books.

I love https://github.com/lucagrulla/cw , it's like tail for cloudwatch. It's super fast.

There's so much Java development in the Bay