voluble

u/voluble@lemmy.ca
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Thousand acre ai compute facilities offer significant drawbacks and no tangible benefits to Alberta.

Personally I’d like to see all datacenters require 100% renewable power going forward, but that’s not realistically happening.

Do not expect that to ever happen. Meta's facility will use 1GW of power. Right now as I write this, Alberta is generating a total of 10GW. There are something like 25GW of proposed data centre projects in the queue for the province. Renewables cannot and will not be used for facilities that use this much power. It's impossible.

Bars with overpriced drinks hate this one weird trick:

1oz Campari - $1.10

1oz Red vermouth - $0.75

1oz Gin - $1.50

1 orange peel sliver - $0.1

Ice

100% premium ingredients. A dalmation could prepare it. $3.45 cost, sell it for double @ $7.

I know it's an unc take, but I just don't understand where the appetite for $20+ cocktails comes from. Maybe I'm just poor, like the person said below.

Cocktails are a scam. Most places (and even some of the best places) are using cheap base ingredients, and the end results are gimmicky, boring, and lacking in complexity. At best, the median quality cocktail is nice to look at and features an acceptable balance of sweetness and acidity. A fucking glass of cold juice wins on a head-to-head of those metrics almost every time haha.

True haha. But yeah, a file hash is actually uniquely useless in this case, any gcode spun out of a slicer is going to be hardware and user specific.

Just seems like there would be opportunities for hacking and reverse engineering this measure. At it's root, it's a measure that builds firearm information into the firmware, surely that could be exploited by a person who wanted to do that sort of thing.

For sure, I've heard that argument, but I wonder - if I had wealth that I wanted to protect, and I thought a strong Conservative party was a means to that end, I'd want Poilievre gone yesterday. Still remains a mystery to me what CPC supporters see in him, in light of all the evidence in front of them.

I think the country runs best when there is a competent opposition. Having a dysfunctional official opposition is a bad thing for democracy, and not something anyone should wish for. Even if we disagree with the stance of the opposition, we should want them to be at minimum, logical, representative of the principles of the people who cast votes for them, and an effective check on the government.

And anyway, in Canada, federally, we do not have a single electable pro-trump politician. So, if there's something to be thankful for, maybe it's that.

Politically, Poilievre is an enigma. Somehow, in spite of everything, all the blunders, cringeworthy gaffes, miscalculations, party defectors, he was literally chased out of Ottawa. And yet, he's managed to stay on top of his party rank. How on earth did he overwhelmingly pass leadership review? It's a mystery to me.

What catastrophe would it take to actually chasten this man, and his party? I shudder to think.

“He got me,” Schmidt said of the snake's bite. "That f***ing Dispholidus boomed me."

Schmidt added, “He’s so good,” repeating it four times.

Schmidt then said he wanted to add the snake to the list of reptiles he wants to observe this summer.