Or you could build the centers in colder climate areas. Here in Finland it’s common (maybe even mandatory, I’m not sure) for new datacenters to pull the heat from their systems and use that for district heating. No wasted water and at least you get something useful out of LLMs. Obviously using them as a massive electric boiler is pretty inefficient but energy for heating is needed anyways so at least we can stay warm and get 90s action series fanfic on top of that.
it’s really hard to prove that a candidate was rejected because of their ethnicity
Same in Finland at least to some extent. Statistics and published tests show that you’re less likely to get even an interview if you have a foregin sounding name but of course the official reason is always something ‘acceptable’. And when hiring people the reason can be whatever, “not good fit for our team”, “other applicants had better suited skill set”, “not enough experience in X” and so on. All perfectly good reasons to pick someone else in theory and in practise it’s impossible to prove any racism on selection.
Obviously not everyone does this and any of those can be a real reason to pick someone else even without any racism (intended or not), but it’s still common enough to be statistically meaningful.
There’s plenty non-staged attacks around Kharkiv to “disrupt” those negotiations.
Just over the weekend I browsed trough my old blog (yes, those were a thing too) to check which year I did some remodeling on our house and stumbled on a note where I complained about slow 3G connection about 10 years ago. Compared to traditional dial-up that’s still orders of magnitude faster(~10/1Mbps back then on our location) but on a snowy day (with severe packet loss) it apparently took 10 minutes to get Skype and XMPP to even log in and over a minute to get SSH session open.
I suppose you can just barely get email trough today and even then you better not be in a hurry.
Well, depends on what OP is looking for. For example running multiple web servers on different locations with same content and load-balancing them is absolutely doable. But impossible to say what they’re actually after.
gold foil
Aluminium foil hastily coloured with a golden marker.
“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
Eikä ole edes vaikeaa, terkuin Riikka. Koulutus on vaihteeksi saamassa kirvestä ja samaten ns. kolmas sektori. Samaten kuntien valtionosuuksista on lähdössä siivu, joka tarkoittaa kyllä kaiken muun paitsi aivan välttämättömyyksien leikkaamista siellä, joka osuu sitten kirjastoihin, nuorisotoimintaan, kulttuuriin ym kun kunnat eivät ainakaan merkittävästi pysty puristamaan lakisääteisistä toiminnoista mitään irti.
Ei taida näillä eväillä Suomi Oy lähteä nousuun. Vienti ei vedä, työttömien määrä kasvaa, konkursseja on edelleen kuin sieniä sateella ja aikanaan maailman paras koulutusjärjestelmä on vain muisto entisestään ja ruuvi kiristyy lisää. Eikä näillä edes saada paikattua sitä alijäämää mikä oli koko sirkuksen tavoite ainakin julkisesti.
You really got to be a bootlicker to believe that our justice system isn’t available for purchase
It’s not in a sense that’s globally understood. Your Joe Average can’t just bribe their way out of anything. Political and other social cirles and generic cronyism is another matter, but even there currency is pretty often something else than money.
Oh I know, because he’s rich enough to pay off the judges
You really can’t pay off judges here. But if you can show that taking your license away would make things considerable difficult for you (like losing income) they’ll let you keep it on certain cases.
Your rights end where other people’s begins.
Damn right. There’s a ton of things on our everyday lives which limit our ability to use the things we own. And flying a drone is not that different than driving on a street, at least on a very fundamental level. There’s a set of agreed rules we (mostly) can trust in order to keep things running and keep everyone safe. You’re not allowed to drive anywhere you physically could, you need to keep your vehicle in a decent condition, drive on the correct lane within a speed limit and so on.
I’ve had my drone for 3 or 4 years now and I’ve taken a crapload of pictures with it all around and there’s been three cases where the zone limitations were an issue of any kind. One was when I tried to film my daughters sports game where the field was next door to an active airport, other was a bigger local event where police had denied all drones as a safety measure (one might argue if that was necessary on this case, but rules are rules) and third one was nearby Russian border.
And I can perfectly understand each and every one of those. Me getting a few neat photos from something is far less important than safety of other people. Plus I could still take all the photos I want from each of those locations with my cellphone or mount a telescope on my DSLR and use that.
I assumed that our (Finland) rules are EU wide, but apparently there’s some differences. In here, if you’re flying a drone with a camera, you’ll need a registration and license (~30€/year, online course) which grants you “free flight” below 120 meters. But there’s exclusions around airports, military and some government locations, nearby country borders and things like that which make sense. Also if you’re having a bigger event you can request a no-fly zone above it for various reasons (safety mostly but it’s possible to get that to stop non-event managed drone footage as well). And with camera you also need to pay attention for privacy, but that’s no different than carrying an DSLR, like it’s illegal to take photos trough your neighbors bedroom window no matter what kind of camera you use. Other rules dictate that you can’t fly over crowds and other reasonable safety measures.
At least my DJI won’t even attempt to fly on these zones unless I spesifically get a permit from local authorities and send a copy to them to revoke the zone on my profile.
Dad of 4 kids here, I would say use the system that let you concentrate more on the kid and less on tinkering the OS.
Dad of 3 here with 20something years on Linux already. This is the correct answer. Just go for win11 if that’s the simplest route for you, Linux will be there once you have the capacity to learn it. With a new baby you’ll be exhausted, you have a crapload (sometimes quite literally) new things to learn already and you just won’t have the time to do all the things you used to (as you already know). Making things more challenging for you by switching to something completely new just eats the very little time you have for yourself.
My work laptop has 11 running on it and it’s good enough. OS on that thing is not my call anyways, but at least on my workload it gets the job done.
Ukrainian people protesting against joining Russia and moving further away from EU was US operation to overthrow sitting president? Yeah, right.
US had nothing to do with it. If anything, Russia helped the whole thing to happen, or maybe even created it, by pushing against Ukrainian parliament and opinion of Ukrainian people.
did you forget the USSR existed and was a global superpower?
Obviously not. That’s what I’m referring to, they had all the means to prosper. Crapload of our everyday things on medicine, power technology, engineering in general and a lot of other things are built on top of what USSR came up with. And even after USSR fell there was still all the possibilities for Russian Federation to grow and prosper but their leadership chose not to. With their natural resources alone, when managed sensibly, they could absolutely dominate the US and seriously challenge China.
no nation on Earth can brainwash people into supporting an unpopular war
But they have brainwashed people making the war popular in the first place. Creating enemies out of thin air, like claiming Ukraine with their jewish president is a nazi regime, is something Russia (and USSR) have been doing for centuries. Instead of improving their own country they just create distrust and destruction.
racist screed about how Russians are some kind of backwards idiot nation.
Russian people (at least the ones I know) are generous and hospitable. But Russia as a nation is really idiotic as they could just have it all. Practical global market domination with oil, forestry and agriculture, a crapload of minerals to refine and (once) some of the smartest humans around to advance their technology but instead of that they chose basically violence on multiple fronts.
I highly doubt that there would be any revolting, but if there is it’s all created by current leadership in Russia. They have all the resources and at least used to have one of the most advanced scientists on multiple fronts, massive culture and every other possibility to be an absolute global superpower with very few who could’ve challenged that.
But instead they threw that all away, didn’t push their country forward to prosperity and instead let the selected few raid and rape the country. And now with the war in Ukraine, over million russians are either dead or wounded, economy crumbles and the whole empire is starting to fall.
Nothing has changed since second world war in there and seems like nothing will.
There’s no nazi regime and never has been one in Ukraine, unless you want to claim that natzi party actually ruled in Ukraine around 1940. No one, nazi or otherwise, was threatening Russia, Putin just has his obsession of the Soviet Union glory (whatever that means on him) and that’s caused immense suffering and continues to do so every day.
I hope they’re playing swan song soon on your television and radio once again.
Putin can quite easily help. Just pull all of your troops well behind 1991 borders, stop the nonsense with ‘areas voted to join Russia’ and fly to Hague. Ukraine will happily arrange elections for new president once that’s done.
effectively limitless
And it’s generated anyways, no matter if we pull some minuscle amount of it out or not. 47 terawatts all the time (according to wikipedia), or all the power we currently consume per year in about 150 days (assuming my quick math is even close). Of course we can’t (and probably shouldn’t) capture 100% of it, but there’s plenty of energy to at least shut down few coal ovens.
There’s experimental storages where heat is pumped to underground pools or sand, but as far as I know there’s heat exchangers and radiators to outside, so majority of excess heat is just wasted to outside. But absolute majority of them are closed loop systems since you need something else than plain water anyways to prevent freezing in the winter.