🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

Not often I see my neck of the woods - I grew up in Burleson. In my religious upbringing days, we’d go down to a big Christian camp outside of Glen Rose. So I have mixed feelings about those memories. heh. But it’s really pretty down that way.

And this is a really nice shot :)

whale fall

Oh no, not again

nono fucking magic involves getting a big bed, plenty of lube and toys, and is a lot more fun

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett <3

Well, that seems like a VERY critically important decimal point. lol

WEirdly that is 36.5 days into the future. hmm.

edit: Oh, duh. 365 days in a year, the nines repeat meaning it is 0.1 years, so naturaly 36.5 days.

Death. Death solves all health issues.

Oh, that’s awesome. I’d love to see much more architecture done this way. Although as a wheelchair user, I hope there’s an elevator!

I inherently use dumbass soap. </selfdeprecatinghumour>

I’m thankful for the project.

I spend 4.5 hours in dialysis, three days per week.

I was previously using a family Youtube membership provided by a friend. They recently killed my access for geographic reasons, thus meaning that I couldn’t play the playlist I normally play without leaving my phone screen on, killing my battery.

So I used yt-dlp to download the playlist and put it on my phone, using VLC to play it now.

Fuck these people who want to shut that project down. Youtube is getting money for a service I was using and can no longer.

Be like Valve/Steam. Make it easy to give you money and make the service better than piracy, not worse.

Far as I can tell:

• May lead to earlier prostrate cancer detection (which is probably not that useful since prostrate cancer is usually slower so less critical)
• Specifically no use for breast cancer

To me, this is not very newsworthy.

No, she didn’t go to prison for a study trying to detect early markers of cancer, she went to prison for promising magical detection that didn’t exist.

It’s sort of like seeing an article about a boxing match and saying “Didn’t [someone] go to prison for beating someone up?”

Largely a fair take, definitely.

I find myself hating the anti-datacenter thing just because as a geek and web dude since 1994, datacenters are where the internet is, so if you destroy them all, we lose the internet.

But I’m not particularly fond of AI. I’m not nearly as anti as many, but there is absolutely a lot of harm going on. Case in point. This facility is NOT great. And I think they could do it rather better. Maybe solar wouldn’t be an option, but nuclear could be. But because we’re so damn capitalist-centric and environment-be-damned, none of those options would be considered.

It’s a frustrating position to be in because ANYTHING not FIRMLY anti-ai and anti-datacenter is usually heavily downvoted, so I’ve had to learn how to make my case and emphasize that I am not THAT far away from most of the anti folks. lol. I do use some AI for a few things - mostly asking it unimportant questions about trivia online, or to gain basic understanding of things. It does at least as well as googling, and instead of finding videos, which I hate, it gives me the text I want. So it can be handy. But it is also pervasive and capitalists are trying to use it for profit/evil. Soooooo… I’d like it we could find ethical ways of using it, get it to hallucinate less, regulate it so they don’t abuse us with it, and figure out how to use it for all the good that it can legitimately do. Which I know is all unlikely to happen. So I end up being mostly anti-AI… heh

What do you think? I briefly stalked your profile out of curiosity, and scanned some recentish comments. It sounds like we share a lot of beliefs from that brief scan. heh. I support highly regulated capitalism and the DSA, for example.

This is large, yes, but to put it in perspective:

Currently about ⅔ of datacenter energy is spent on non-AI, like websites, databases, streaming, SAAS, email etc etc etc; ⅓ is AI. So yes, that’s a lot.

But it is also true that global datacenter power generation is currently around an estimated 130 GW worldwide, so the >7.5 GW here is around a 5% increase in just one project. (Well, if the ⅓ estimate is true, 45 GW of the 130 GW is AI, so that will go 45 GW → 52.5 GW or so. So like a… 12%-24% increase, something like that)

And it is also true that it will be primarily/mostly used for AI-related things.

And even worse, seems like this would be prime real estate for solar. Welllllll… you can’t generate 7.5ish GW of constant power, you need extra and battery storage. So unfortunately you need 225,000 acres of solar panels. Larger than Chicago or Austin, covered solid with panels. You’d need upwards of 150 GWh of battery storage. THe US currently has about 30 GWh of battery storage all across the US. So it would drive up the cost from natural gas’s $10B to a project of $120B or so.

So that sucks.

The only mitigating factor I can really find is that every new site increases overhead, so at least if it’s all in one place, it will be a bit more efficient. Also they should not need that full power generation all the time, so while it’s still massive, they are talking the worst case scenario.

I’m not trying to defend this thing. I just hate it when the argument gets reduced beyond reasonable truth, and I looked this stuff up because I was curious. I’m not supportive of this.