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- Comment on What is the type of singing in this track called? 15 hours ago:
The search term you’re looking for could be “electro swing”. I’m not sure you’ll find a specific term for singing in a fast bouncy way because that’s just what swing usually ends up being.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 1 day ago:
Not really, because you also start depleting the readily available potable water and increasing toxin concentration in remaining sources. See other comments for just how much these things suck up. It’s truly mind staggering amounts of water. There’s very few areas that can handle that amount of water with no issue for extended periods of time. For some reason (read money) the politicians in charge of approving these things are turning a blind eye to those problems.
Low population areas with high amounts of water are usually nature preserves and things we don’t want these data centers anywhere near. If you do chance into finding a low population center with high water that isn’t a needed nature preserve, odds are you won’t have all the infrastructure you need to build the thing and you’ll run into other issues that might have an equally large but different impact. You can’t just plop these anywhere and run a power line and call it good.
That’s why in other sane countries outside the US you see a large number of proposed data centers get blocked during the environmental impact assessment stages.
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 2 days ago:
The video is Joseph Allen, Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at Harvard University, directly explaining his research and communications directly with the doctor on the cruise ship. I’m not sure you can find a more credible source. It’s not edited clips or anything. A news program invited him on, handed him a mic, and then just let him talk. No leading questions or anything even.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 days ago:
Clouds can move at up to 100 miles an hour if they’re high altitude, average closer to 25 miles an hour for regular cumulus clouds. You pump that vapor into the air and it’s off to the races. If it forms a cumulonimbus cloud those last. What, 5 days? (Can fact check me here, I’m going off my memory of facts from a weather obsessed kid I knew).
5 days x 24 hours in a day x 20 miles per hour = 3000 miles.
So vapor from a datacenter in California might potentially come down in North Carolina or something. For the sake of those Californians, that’s gone.
Sure maybe not all hits high enough in the atmosphere, and some might travel in a circle and fall back around the datacenter, but not all. I guarantee not all.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 days ago:
It’s definitely not able to run a turbine as is but either way it doesn’t really solve the problem. My understanding is steam turbines don’t actually condense or cool the water all that much. You still have hot water, maybe not fully boiling but still hot enough you’ll have a not insignificant amount of evaporation and environmental damage if you just dump it. There’s condensing and non condensing designs but the condensing design requires massive cooking towers and more water draw from a heat exchanger.
I’m not a systems engineer so calculating potential cost savings of adding the remaining heat to capture power vs just letting it evaporate vs using a closed loop system is outside my wheelhouse.
- Comment on What's the deal with AI datacenters using water for cooling? 2 days ago:
I can’t touch on all of them, but a lot of them do actually just make it disappear.
A lot of the large data centers use evaporative cooling. The water basically boils off as vapor they just pump into the sky. This is cheaper in many places than the electricity needed for condenser cooling or other methods as it requires less electricity. (Which at the scale of these data centers they literally are unable to get enough electricity). That water vapor can drift off as clouds and come down somewhere, but no guarantee where or when.
Some data centers also introduce more runoff of pollutants from their methane generators and such that can make the water unusable. If they do capture the vapor and reintroduce into the water table it isn’t always cooled down and the heat can cause major problems in the environment by raising temperatures. This can sometimes lead to the only thing surviving around the data centers being toxic algae or something.
There are so many more ways they can be problematic. That’s just scratching the surface
- Comment on Is there a website or youtube channel that does stuff so you can learn something everyday? Like an IWTL website or channel? 2 weeks ago:
The guy known for going to visit things on location is behind a desk too much? We thinking of the same Tom Scott? Red shirt grey hair? Unless you mean his game show stuff
- Comment on Is there a website or youtube channel that does stuff so you can learn something everyday? Like an IWTL website or channel? 2 weeks ago:
Smarter every Day All of Tom Scott’s stuff More humorous but can still be educational about nature is Natural Habitat Shorts Rob Scallon explore a lot of music stuff The Vintage Space covers a lot of space exploration history
I’m sure I missed some. Of course no good channel can post daily. It takes time to do the research and keep the quality up so best to have several channels.
- Comment on should the BBQ cover be put back on after every use ... or just once at the end of BBQ season 3 weeks ago:
That lid is there to trap heat during cooking. Protecting it is important too.
- Comment on should the BBQ cover be put back on after every use ... or just once at the end of BBQ season 3 weeks ago:
After every use. It’s to keep rain and dust and other detritus off the grill so it’s ready to go when you are. If you only put it on at the end of the season you’re likely to have a rusty grill covered in dirt way quicker
- Comment on In the US or in Europe can I choose the way I want to go out? like maybe like a viking by setting a boat on fire while my body is on it? Or be shot out of a cannon HST style? or whatever? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, if you wanna fight public opinion, decency laws, environmental laws, and find funding to start it. I’ve got $3.50 to pitch in. Good luck
- Comment on In the US or in Europe can I choose the way I want to go out? like maybe like a viking by setting a boat on fire while my body is on it? Or be shot out of a cannon HST style? or whatever? 3 weeks ago:
Last I checked it’s like one county in Colorado, you have to get pre-approval, and the list is basically always full so you’re 6 months to a year waiting minimum
- Comment on Behold: A vibe-designed pcb 3 weeks ago:
Connecting on a diagonal is how I often do my filter caps and every time I have to tell them “yes, that’s intentional”. Really free up routing
- Comment on Just sayin’ 5 weeks ago:
Possibly. But this isn’t that. This is pure coincidence. Big AAA games just take time to produce that happens to roughly line up with the amount of time someone is president in the US
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 5 weeks ago:
Except do we actually know how the Xbox/PC thing will work? Are we sure it will be able to run all games and isn’t just their plan to push game streaming?
- Comment on Steam lawsuits in a nutshell 5 weeks ago:
I mean there is some hint of defense in this meme, and people definitely do jump to Valve’s defense, but I read it differently. I read it as a complaint that all these companies keep making the dumbest sounding ideas and are pissing people off. Like Sony removing the PC tag across all their sites today.
Like yes they’re corporations just trying to make money, but frustrated fans are frustrated and rightly so.
- Comment on Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film. 1 month ago:
I don’t think Bond should end, but it definitely needs a break. It’s gone through so many changes over time trying to reinvent itself from simple action film to gritty realism to love drama. Craig as Bond was kind of a real full arc and a weird time. Now that it’s ended they need to step away, let it percolate, and come back in five or ten years with something fresh.
Patrick Willems had an interesting take on how every Bond film reflected Hollywood at the time. With Hollywood now being nothing but reboots I say it’s a double good time for them to take a break.
- Comment on Day 615 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
So about the same as me, solid. Wish him luck on his Bestiary hunt and Lightning dodges.
- Comment on Day 615 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
How long has your friend been working on it? I’m on 4 myself. Had a lot of free time over the holidays to blast through the first three, but now I’m hoping to finish one every few months
- Comment on Day 615 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
FFVIII is probably one of my top three. Something about the characters, setting, gameplay, and even the mini game triple triad tickles my fancy.
The “squall is dead” theory really was one of those playground spread rumors that I loved too.
I’m currently on a quest to get all achievements for every FF game. It’s real interesting seeing the changes from game to game, enjoy IX when you get there
- Comment on What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll? 1 month ago:
Seconded. You don’t need to have played Miles Morales at all, but I personally think it’s the best story of the three
- Comment on What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll? 1 month ago:
It’s got to be one hell of a game for me to do it. Maybe one in 100 will I touch post game content and I don’t think I’ve finished any
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 1 month ago:
Halo Life is Strange Final fantasy VIII World of Warcraft Expedition 33
None of them are perfect but they all made me think about games in a different light and keep me wanting to play.
- Comment on "Departures are necessary," Crystal Dynamics say as they yet again lay off Tomb Raider staff, but they're "fully committed" to the reboot and sequel 1 month ago:
Best I can do is sacrifice kids to the global pedo ring
- Comment on "Departures are necessary," Crystal Dynamics say as they yet again lay off Tomb Raider staff, but they're "fully committed" to the reboot and sequel 1 month ago:
This is 2026. Everything gets a reboot. The war in the middle east, games, movies, everything.
- Comment on Final Fantasy IX animated series officially in production at EuroVisual, titled Black Mages Legacy | RPG Site 1 month ago:
Have fun. I’ll keep napping in my moogle cuddle puddle
- Comment on Final Fantasy IX animated series officially in production at EuroVisual, titled Black Mages Legacy | RPG Site 1 month ago:
A lot of people mindlessly expected more fantasy and don’t really understand that the underlying theme for like every final fantasy game is environmentalism, anti corruption, legacy, and fellowship, not just chocobos and crystals
- Comment on Final Fantasy IX animated series officially in production at EuroVisual, titled Black Mages Legacy | RPG Site 1 month ago:
If you aren’t aware they’ve released two other movies since then. The FFVII sequel film “Advent Children” and “Kingsglaive” set in the FFXV universe.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 2 months ago:
As others have said it’s savory not sweet and guac is a great choice but I put mine in a wrap.
I cook up some chickpeas in barbeque sauce, spread some avocado on a big ol tortilla, throw in some coleslaw and the chickpeas, wrap it up and go to town.
- Comment on Valve suggests further delays for Steam Machine: 'We hope to ship in 2026' 2 months ago:
Oh no, Trump and Friends have been some of the most consistent people I have ever seen. Consistently awful and against all normal people maybe, but consistent