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Geothermal heating/cooling exists because deep down in the soil temperatures are fairly constant. And the earth is a fantastic insulator both in temperature and sound. Aside from the cost of digging a giant hole, there really is no reason not to be doing this.

I would flip my bitch switch if a datacenter was stood up near me, where I could hear it. I am on 5 acres in rural Michigan surrounded by peace and quiet. I specifically came here for this reason. At the same time, I understand that we need datacenters. And tbh, Michigan is under-served in this space (ex, most of my queries thru the Cloudflare network have to go to Chicago first), and I wish we had more. But not close to residential areas. Not on top of valuable farmland.

My wacky idea was that datacenters should be built on EPA superfund sites. It becomes a win-win. Datacenter gets land that humans cannot occupy, helps/funds partial cleanup, slaps a big ass concrete building down on top of the rest of the mess and kills two birds with one stone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites

Also thoughts of mine recently: why are we not doing subterranean datacenters, why are we not doing tall/skinny skyscraper like datacenters (versus enormous sprawling warehouse-style).

you are missing out

They also laid everyone off and their spend went from 400k to 40k so… this feels like a baity post.

docker run itzg/minecraft-server:latest

In my experience they are both good. I have a 15 year old 1080p Samsung 55” panel that has moved across the country 3 times. It’s in my garage and still works great. My C2 OLED is 5 years old, knock on wood still working great. B5 OLED latest in my fleet it’s only a year old.

LG TV’s are really really good. If you never connect them to the internet. And that rule should be applied to all TV’s. Use an external device like an Apple TV or a self-crafted solution (Roku, Amzn stick, etc all garbage phoning home and listening with Alexa crap)

Treat your TV like a computer monitor (ironic here in this context lol)

I used to have the same problem I would buy fancy moleskins or really nice Japanese grid notebooks, and I always felt like I had to model what I was trying to get out of my head to the medium rather than just focusing on getting it out of my head.

Not too long ago I accidentally bought a huge package of wide ruled spiral notebooks. I hate wide ruled and prefer college ruled. So they sat collecting dust for a long time before I finally looked at the pile and figured I'm just gonna start using these and treating them exactly like you do - a drainage ditch. So far so good, the pile is half gone. Definitely helps to go with the no fucks given approach.

throw this onto the wall of fame with https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

The verdana font and virtually every element is misaligned in some way

I ordered one because I lack impulse control.

This is like when a news site throws up a paywall and hides half the article. Open inspector. Select the body, delete the overflow/scroll capture styles, delete the masks... and boom there is the entire article. Only some sites are smart enough to actually truncate the content server-side.

"FLAR is the Fast Light Agent Restrictor. It runs on rocks called gars."

what is rocks and what is gars?

https://archive.ph/C12zw

I hope that at some point in the future there are 'hotels' all over the land where you can go and trip for half the day in a safe and supportive environment. There is so much healing potential in psilocybin.

Really no different than the content that is usually on LinkedIn. It's been a worthless dumpster fire for ten years at least.

Seeing the Anubis weeb interstitial is super annoying.

TIL Mandriva/Mandrake Linux is still around.

A lot of them can, yes.

I gotta say, this is not a very strong argument for not doing auth yourself.

I think it is pretty obvious why they often get conflated. There is substantial overlap between the two. "Who you are" and "what can you access" are tightly related. Of course they do not need to be, but it's not a surprise that in the majority of situations they are.

You are building your app with a single user in mind. They can create <thing> (blog posts, photo albums, code repositories, you name it). Eventually you realize, sometimes people are working in teams or groups. Multiple people need to have access to <thing>. So instead of architecting from the get-go that a <thing> is owned by a user (usually with some kind of FK, like an owner_id, or user_id) you want to start by having an abstraction there right out the gate. Things are owned by a team or org, and a user belongs to an org.

This is why a lot of SaaS you use these days will come with a "default project" or "default team" that might just be 1:1 with your own person. But injecting that abstraction layer makes it super easy down to the road to allow other individuals to join or participate in the management of those entities.

This is kinda like the ORM vs no-ORM argument. I think that off-the-shelf auth will accelerate your development for sure (like an ORM) but eventually, you are going to feel constrained by the framework/tool you are using. You will need to work around it. You will find that using it 'correctly' results in poor performance, and so you deviate here and there. Pretty soon you tell yourself, "man I should have just used SQL" or "man, I should have just rolled my own auth". At least ~20 years of software dev has taught me this.

For an MVP or a prototype, I think it's okay to use an off-the-shelf tool. For something serious that will have long-term legs, I would do it myself. I hear all of your concerns and arguments and agree there are a lot of footguns. But again, having spent the better part of my adult life using and interfacing with these tools, I have an innate understanding of how to model auth correctly (separate it from the user, separate users from an 'org' or 'team' entity, etc).

You said it though, 'it depends' is really the right answer here.

Auth is not hard to roll yourself. Crypto: don't do it. Auth? Easy peasy.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

not quite the same, gtld != cctld they are governed way differently.

I present to you, the 8th wonder of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Pyramid

Welcome to Costco, I love you.

why in gods name is a RTX PRO 6000 $13,000? supply and command?

Eventually capable of producing more than 200 million screwworm flies a week, the Mission factory was a grotesque marvel of insect-producing efficiency. Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it was, in essence, a 76,000-square-foot artificial wound. Trays full of meat, blood, and water, each one heated to the exact right temperature to stimulate screwworm growth, moved through the facility on a monorail system timed to the lifecycle of the screwworm.

Imagine working at the screwworm factory.