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Even under the maximlist goals of AI companies, the projected increase of water use is small compared to what cities and industries already use.
He even mentions how US corn uses 80x more water than worldwide AI use; with 40% of that corn burned as ethanol. And that power usage is the much larger concern.
The water gets used over and over and over in the data center. It’s in a loop. The reporting that data centers consume vast quantities of water completely misunderstand the core concept of a water loop.
That said, most data centers use the water for evaporative cooling. In that case, it comes back down as rain. But again, even in that case the reporting is still very overblown.
Oil products have highly inelastic demand. Most uses for it don’t decrease much when prices change. You still drive to work, trucks still deliver goods, furnaces still heat buildings, etc. There are only marginal cases where people can reduce usage: optional trips, driving instead of flying, things of this nature. Because of how marginal these uses are compared to the more mandatory ones, demand does not respond strongly to price changes. Therefore, prices change significantly more quickly.
Edit: Demand destruction is a thing, however. Maybe you buy a hybrid or a factory closes. No matter what happens with oil prices next year, that factory is still closed and you are still driving the more gas efficient hybrid.
Yep, they are in Low Earth Orbit. A place that has a very, very small amount of air, so the satellites experience drag, lose speed, eventually the propellant tanks run dry, and they burn up in the atmosphere. The ISS experiences the same thing, which is why its altitude slowly falls, then you see a sharp increase as they push to a slightly higher orbit.
At the altitude the SpaceX satellites are at, they only passively stay up for a few years. With the onboard propulsion giving them each another few years.
Iran is blockading some traffic, notably not their own and those that pay protection.
The US is blockading some traffic, notably Iran’s traffic.
The new version of the program doesn’t seem much less confusing than the current system, as there are still a whole bunch of branches, sub-branches, and exceptions to rules
As I read more about the new system, this was my exact thought as well.
they do address the other major pain point of the Insider Program as it currently exists—the thing where you read about a new feature in a fresh Insider build, install that build to your PC, and then don’t actually see the feature on your system.
It was fucking crazy that was even a thing before…
accuracy is not a huge concern at the design stage
Then I doubt they are running the mentioned most accurate, two-week-long physics solvers at this stage either. You only do that when you need accuracy. A quick simulation doesn’t take long.
I’m failing to see why the creative writing machine is better than a simulation set to ‘rough’.
Bullet tracing is mostly a TV fiction. This headline is just the natural state of things.
Please stop asking because I am not telling anyone the reason.
Is it spiders? I bet it’s toilet spiders.
in 2024, Azure Linux Platforms Group Program Manager Jack Aboutboul told me that 60% of Azure Marketplace offerings and more than 60% of virtual machine cores use Linux
From what I see above, mostly Linux.
Edit: Changed the link as the old one was a chatbot repost of the updated link.
How is Russia supposed to invade the US? Russia can’t even take over their neighbor and Russia lost a huge portion of their Black Sea Fleet to a country that doesn’t even have a navy. If they can’t even do that, how do they land troops on a continent on the other side of the world, a continent protected by the world’s strongest navy and air force.
Russia doesn’t even have an aircraft carrier anymore…
Huh, TIL.
Thank you.
Which car is this?
Cars made after 2010 work well with E15. And many cars handle E85 as well. For E100 specifically, not sure.
Hmmm? This is the way you get a gas car to run on sunshine.
Sun > corn > ethanol
E15 is perfectly safe for any car made after 2010. There is a reason it is widely offered in many states.
E15 is also significantly cheaper, like $0.30/gal cheaper. I pretty much only fill up at stations that have it.
On PC: Click your username at the top right > Profile > Saved
Will show any you clicked the save star for.
Every oil company and exporting nation: Drill baby, drill!
Long term, we will see Guyana and Venezuela added into the market, neither of which can be hampered by Iran or Yemen, and both of whom have massive reserves.
I thought those were supposed to be sneaky beaky.
Given how many hundreds of sorties over a hostile country, and only one damaged? Yeah, they are pretty damn sneaky.
I appreciate it. <3
Lots of other people are making solid points as well. Glad to see people engaging.