Not "we" so much as "they". I'm not a billionaire.

What's really going on here is that modern "scholars" and "writers" dislike Tolkien. I've heard him called a racist many times by the JK Nemisen crowd. She's the banner bearer for these idiots and her awful books and Hugo vote-rigging efforts speak for themselves. Hugos are basically a list of the WORST books, now, but hey they have multi-racial LGBTQTIA2S/trans themes now, riight? Apparently, according to modern interpretation by the woke, the Orc's skin color was the real reason they were the misunderstood in Middle Earth. Anyone talking in positive tones about "The West" is also on the mandatory demonization schedule for these oh-so-enlightened race-warriors.

Tough shit folks. I like Tolkien. Lots of other people do too. He is a master of the Fantasy genre and his fandom speaks for itself, like it or not. No, we aren't going to re-write his works with a sensitivity reader so brown people can feel better about themselves somehow. My beautiful leatherbound copies are just going to sit there, being LOTR, unless on loan to younger relatives, which happens with some regularity, now. Nobody's censorship urge is going to be "editing" them unless you want to come here with force, which wouldn't surprise me, seeing how these oversensitive collectivists all believe might makes right and we all need reeducation: same beliefs as Saruman and Sauron.

I like how anytime someone has the testicles to risk bad karma and says anything non-complimentary about "cyclists" (I laugh every time I say that word), you all have the same reply "Derp, but you drive a lifted truck, Trumper!". No, I drive a Nissan Leaf EV. Moral is: even people you might think would like "cyclists" don't like them because "cyclists" are utterly insufferable.

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In my experience (admittedly limited to a handful places I have lived) rural places, which is where these are being built it, is that essentially the entire county is zoned for agriculture and everything that isn't that is a 'variance'.

This gives your local board of supervisors, town council, whoever tremendous power to 'deal' when any kind of business wants to come a long, be a data center, Amazon warehouse, housing developer, whoever.

It lets them gatekeep pretty effectively; which generally speaking is good as long as voters are selecting people that really represent their interests.

Not to really disagree but my own takes would be

A) does not specify a time horizon. Over a long enough period increased supply usually does follow increased demand, and prices usually do drop. Look at the inflation adjusted cost for refined gasoline in 1912 vs today.. It would be around $5.80 a gallon national average. Will the price of electricity come down enough to help the individual in their life time as far as total savings (my bet is unlikely )

B) Lots of communities drive very large portions of their total revenues from a few large businesses. Entire states in some cases. That isn't really that uncommon. The question is again for people already there is that a savings. More people means more infrastructure, it means things like more roads, or paved roads, municipal water, sewer and gas rather than wells and oil deliveries. All these things are costs that consume those tax revenues. Now as anyone with a well knows they are cheap to put in, they are not cheap to fix when maintenance is needed (even if pretty infrequent). Ditto for septic systems of various kinds. But if you already have these things as an individual property owner, the value of the county putting them in lets new developers build more densely and new residents live more cheaply but you still have your sunk costs. Even if your taxes stay flatish, there is little good news. On the property tax front, the millage might come down but the valuation goes up, again treading water probably.

C) If this is good or bad for you depends a lot on the individual situation. Got a lot land near in to the new projects or existing downtown you can subdivide, probably looking at windfall. Got land on the far side of town but not enough for Ryan Homes to put 50 houses on, your probably a loser.

D) And this isnt actually good news for the locals either, except the construction workers themselves possibly. In a lot of rural areas trades work is VERY EXPENSIVE and tough to schedule vs larger metro areas. Gwd help you if you wanted to get a hundred yards of concrete for under a new barn its either not happening until the data center is done or your going to be paying a whole lot more for someone from much further away to come do it.

But while you still have to familiarize yourself with the specifics of given machine you still understand the basic operation and operating procedure.
That really isnt the same as not knowing how.

A crawl is still moving. Ukraine is not getting stronger, that is stupid. Ukraine is continuing to innovate and find ways to resist, its nothing short of really impressive, but no they can't keep this up and no they can't win without outside troops.

Putin will find more conscripts, or he will continue to bring in mercenaries. Don't be surprised if the situation in Iran works to his advantage. Khamenei might soon look at the Russian army as way to dispose of malcontents and get some used Russian domestic oppression hardware in return.

^^This

The Islamic Republic is nearing collapse and if we are at least somewhat charitable, Trumpian polices are accelerating that.

I have no idea what the aftermath will look like, and we should all probably be more worried about it than the media is, because sometime within the next 2 to 10 years, Iran is a going to be a failed state with a lot of not all together obsolete weapons running around.

Guess you haven't seen the news lately where Ukraine is running out of troops in the South, and Russia's attacks on infrastructure are plunging large parts of the population into deadly cold and darkness here in Winter.

Yes Russia is a shitshow. Yes Russia poses exactly zero threat to NATO. Yes the Russian armies capabilities were dramatically over stated, the Russian navy even more so. No Putin can't keep this up much longer. No the Russian military is not well managed, does not know how to maintain supply lines while even dealing with an adjacent adversary; and yes the entire effort should be seen as an incredibility embarrass fiasco for Putin.

but...

Ukraine is also on the verge of collapse, and it absolutely loses this war unless the EU or the US put some boots on the ground eventually. Putin has no off ramp domestically and for Ukraine it is existential, so these two nations will batter one another until both are hollowed out bloodied shells of the formerly polished shit-holes they were. However if nothing changes Putin absolutely will achieve at least Pyrrhic victory. Don't kid yourself. Also don't kid yourself that the NATO powers understood this from the start. They saw and continue to see this conflict as a way to finishing the complete defanging of Russia and making a ton of bank for the MIC friends while they are at it. Even Trump knows this, or at least the people around him do. Its a great political football for them, a good way to placate various interests whenever they need to score some points with a given group or need a distraction.

Of course the real price tag is innocent Ukrainian civilians and poor Russian conscripts.

There are EXACTLY two possible outcomes, NATO troops on the ground defeating the Russian forces, or an impoverished Russia capturing at least the eastern 1/3 or so of a ruined Ukraine. At this point its just a question of how many more months and what the total body counts will be.

Those AI Accelerators might as well be called ML accelerators, once you remove the hype. The market may lose interest in LLMs but the applications for machine learning are real.

There are lots of enterprises with plenty of data to crunch. One thing that has surprised me so far is I have not seen a lot of support for these thing is MOLAP products or in traditional DBMS systems for ROLAP work yet. With the right storage (read giant memory caches) you could do dimensional data on top of normalized data without any interim steps almost instantly. That would have a lot of value too.

I realize the really big boys terradata and similar are doing this stuff, and Azure and AWS alike off a various BI tools on top of their datalake products. I am more thinking about it filtering down to MSSQL Server/Analysis Services etc for the engineering workstation under the professionals desk or the SMB spaces 20U of equipment rack.

Think about that small manufacturing facility and imagine if they could decide on a Friday morning you know we'd like to have data warehouse capabilities, design some models and cubes, let it suck all the transaction data from the OLTP environment over the weekend and have stuff to play with Monday morning. All in one small box, but performant none the less, and if you made mistake, a measure is wrong, the schema does not really allow what you need etc, so what you can change it and recalculate everything in minutes, maybe faster!

Yeah, I would have guessed it would be more like 4 or 5 units

My company was willing to consider getting me one to use as a screen while flying and traveling (which I do a lot of). So I got the demoit was ok. I’m pretty all in these days on Apple, and I used to work in AR, so you’d think I’d be a perfect customer. But it just didn’t seem worth it.

Funny how people showed up to North Dakota and other frozen hellholes when they were offering $100k to drive a truck. Something tells me the "problem" in these rural areas is that they don't want to pay normal wages, not that nobody is willing to go there.

Look on the bright side: you don't have to sell cars to Americans anymore. You guys can focus on debanking and censoring protesters, now. Maybe let in some more hostile immigrants or confiscate some more guns, see if that helps. Run your own economy, you don't need those American troglodytes. Sorry to distract you from putting on your spandex to go ride your manly bike, Comrade.

Just imply for one second that we should H1B other job fields with the same volume of immigrants and you'll see how "neutral" people feel then. Doctors cry bloody murder when someone suggests bringing in foreign doctors to lower their wages.

That's more advanced, liquid metal prototype (T1000). This sounds more like the T600. Those had rubber skin. We spotted those easily.