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  • For the same reason why they let so much water evaporate. They could convert some of that heat back into electricity, just like they could run closed-loop cooking systems, but it would cost more money than it would save. There’s no financial incentive to do so…

    … Until regulators start insisting! These datacenter folks have gobs of money, we shouldn’t be shy about requiring them to not ruin the local environment.

    It would be best to do it on a national level, otherwise these folks will just shift the development to someplace without the regulations.




  • I guess some Amazon sellers sometimes send out free stuff randomly with the intent to use the shipment to generate a fake review, or to lower their ratio of returned items. They call it “brushing”.

    Seems a bit silly to me: if someone is in a position to post fake Amazon reviews in your name, shouldn’t they be able to do a lot more damage? But, I suppose you would report a fraudulent order right away, but might not even notice a fraudulent review






  • It’s effective in terms of cranking out software. I’m talking about skilled senior engineers managing this directly. They know what they’re about. But at what cost?

    Those senior engineers became skilled by starting out as entry-level engineers who didn’t know all that stuff, but learned from the senior engineers before them (and by writing a lot of bugs that hopefully got caught by code reviews.) Now, companies are using AI as an excuse not to hire entry-level people.

    15 years from now, we will find there are no mid-level people to promote, because they never got their entry-level job and are now waiting tables.








  • Not necessarily, I think the courts were already making noise about the original thing:

    The settlement is also expected to stave off a concern raised by the judge overseeing his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, who has ordered Trump and the DOJ to justify by next week why the case should be able to proceed. In a ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams questioned whether Trump and the defendants – the Treasury Department and IRS – are “sufficiently adverse” for the case to proceed.

    “Moreover, although President Trump avers that he is bringing this lawsuit in his personal capacity, he is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction. Indeed, President Trump’s own remarks about this matter acknowledge the unique dynamic of this litigation,” she wrote.

    I think the judge might have been about to start the process to throw it all out, which is why Trump (and his Justice Dept cronies) came up with this “settlement” idea