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So a system to recirculate the same 24 gallons per minute would be more expensive than $100k per year for water?

Sure the water is still somewhere, but its location is important for future use. US water reservoirs are at problematically low levels already.

> Most data centers are closed loop systems, they circulate the water over and over again.

The linked article talks about >500 million gallons used by one large Google AI datacenter in a year. It's nice that most are closed loop systems, but if it's such a common thing to do then why isn't it done by default with all those AI datacenters? How cheap is water for Google that recirculating it is not a no-brainer?

Asynchronous writing basically lets me circumvent all problems I have with communication.

I am still terrible at real-time conversations in person, having a weird speech impairment on top is not helpful either.

Same condition maybe, but circumstances? Doesn't sound like it.

> The people who really have these issues/conditions seem to notice themselves in childhood before they even know what they are or what they're called

Yes. But when you don't know what it is you may start to believe that it's just you being lazy, stupid, slow, difficult, etc. Especially when everyone around you including teachers use these labels and you literally have no other information to base your views on. A mix of living with that for decades and being unable to know how life feels for other people can make you gaslight yourself very thoroughly.

A diagnosis is an acknowledgment of an authority on the subject that you are in fact not crazy and don't have to blame everything that happened on yourself.

> Leaving the reaction for the diagnosed to be mostly nothing in that they already know

I am glad for everyone who experienced it like that, but that's not a reason to diminish the significant effect for many others.

Autism has so many possible symptoms and associated problems that it's unlikely someone affected checks all the boxes.

One of the first signs I noticed in my childhood was that I was asking myself why everyone treated me differently for no apparent reason, and I would say that is a pretty clear indicator for autism as it stems from neurotypical social interactions being more or less a foreign language, and both sides subconsciously recognize that.

> Mostly he's aggressive, low patience, disobedient AF, requires a ton of attention.

I happened to be friends with someone who'd fit that description, the way he behaved at home with his parents was genuinely crazy. But then turned out shockingly normal years later. Sometimes it really is just a phase I guess.

Reminds me of a study[0] I saw recently which concluded that antisocial behaviour from drunk people seems to stem mostly from antisocial people consuming alcohol.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/43/2/204/122225?logi...

YouTube's goals are not aligned with what is best for the majority of users. They are optimizing for maximum time spent watching ads, hence they are working against user interests.

> Oh, and how much are you paying for that service...?

I paid YT Premium once. It unlocked a playback queue in the app. That queue had 5 separate bugs I found within an hour. It's literally a simple playlist and yet not a single feature (adding, removing, reordering etc) worked reliably. The playback queue also randomly emptied itself sometimes. Meanwhile I get a superior version of this in the browser by simply opening a video in another tab, for free.

Why should I pay for that while they only have AI support designed to never solve any issues, do nothing against bots, and then warn you that you may get banned when you report too many bots?

> This seems contrary to so many other complaints we see all the time, that companies push changes out without taking into account what users actually want

Are you not aware how unpopular practically all recent changes on YT are among its users? Almost none of the changes done on YT in the last 5+ years would have happened if they took into account what users & creators want. So how exactly does telemetry and A/B testing help when it either tells them the opposite of reality or they simply interpret the data however they like anyway?

That lifetime of prep is completely disconnected from actual job & life experience. The kids are shown all the doors but have to choose without first opening any. Aside from the occasional internship they might have done by that point or a glimpse into what their parents are doing, which is very hit or miss.

As long as students ask the teacher what they're going to need understanding of maths for they are not prepared adequately.

Long before LLMs the couple of actually good teachers I had gave very little (if any) homework. Instead their lessons were more dense and exhausting, but once it was over it was over and we otherwise mostly had to prepare for exams.

The education systems were already hopeless before LLMs and now they got caught with their pants down. Of course some problems were unavoidable, but this overreliance on homework was always a problem in my eyes.

Both are reasonable, but the recent hype around all the cyberattacks seems far more aggressive and specifically them arguing that they need to slow down for safety sounds very suspiciously like trying to come up with a reason for slowing progress.

Nowadays it's not expected that a website loads paywalled content. This one is an exception, I managed to get the full text by entering reading mode and reloading (firefox)

The headline doesn't imply those two groups are the same. And I never had the impression tech bro refers to everyone working in tech, it's more of a personality trait.

Except for all the eating disorders that make people eat too little.

A relative recently bought an electric Renault. When you open the door and sit in it you are greeted by an annoying voice assistant talking to you (can be disabled at least). It's also got sound effects for everything, but you cannot throttle its charging speed and the charging status shown in the app is often delayed by hours.

I also remember an incident where a rental car refused to start the engine because the driver made the mistake of parking it in an area without reception and it wouldn't start without phoning home to a server.

That doesn't seem very "clear" to me. The article you linked mentioned those were made to go into defrost mode (and it didn't mention any brand). Meanwhile the affected Samsung devices are located in Korea and Samsung admitted it was due to their firmware update.

Also I don't see how it's unfair to expect refrigerators that cost a grand to do their one job without firmware.

"Or I have to learn how to close Firefox tabs"

I use about:processes to stop processes that eat up too much memory over time. The tabs stay open but get unloaded. YouTube especially acts like a black hole for memory if you let it.

No driver problems (well, first party ones at least), good performance and I can still run any software I like.

I do prefer and run Linux on my desktop, and could complain about Apple and Mac OS all day. The level of polish is very inconsistent. But despite everything it's still not as user hostile as Windows got nowadays.

"Linux won't even run on these machines until in 2-3 years, if you're lucky"

I have yet to buy a Windows machine where Linux works perfectly with no issues whatsoever. My most compatible machine to date needed a USB-C ethernet adapter to get a network connection for more than 10 minutes at a time. So ironically old M series Macs might not be the worst choice given Asahi doesn't need to target every hardware configuration of the last couple decades.

If I remember correctly the language promised automatic memory management without downsides, but then instead of implementing that magical feature they started working on a GUI library and whatnot. Apparently now they've moved onto a whole OS while the autofree feature is still "experimental"

Nothing, because that was written by an LLM.

Or the company is grown in an organic way that leads to lower but stable demand.

Designing a UI for left-handed people too is cheaper than losing out on 10-15% of your target audience.

It's sad no one bothered to copy ideas from Windows Phone 8, its UI had a lot of thought put into it and was exactly as efficient to use for left-handed users.

The term "Self-Repair Service" already sounds so wrong.

I genuinely can't tell if this is a real thing because they re-released it so often they even made a joke version called Very Special Edition once.

Just calling it bad does not include the intent of improving it. Verschlimmbesserung does.

Smartphones and tablets support keyboards, and often even have official ones to buy.

The fast machine lacks the most important element: the incentive to do optimizations in the first place.