It's a trade off: you get abundant free energy to run the server, with extreme constraints on cooling because your server is running in the most perfect Thermos bottle ever.

Others are taking the opposite tack: undersea data centers for abundant free cooling at the expense of having to get the power down to your servers.

If had to bet on which one is more practial, I'd go with undersea servers. Build them off the coast of Chile, run cables out from batery-backed solar plants in the Atacama desert.

geez man, don't leave us hanging -- what was the idea?

No one cares about your hobby stories. Tell us about the conversations you have on your favorite porn subreddits

Yeah, how stupid of them for thinking "why don't we simply just catch all the criminals? has no one thought of that?" is pure dumbfuckery. You really got their ass, champ

Good point. T-Mobiles auditors and cybersecurity insurance will absolutely love that their systems are no longer patched against critical vulnerabilities

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Most people wouldn't share ANY of the facts that (1) they actively make creepy posts on porn subreddits, or that they 2) got "really upset" when they found out that their creepy posts on porn subreddits were archived elsewhere, OR that they 3) consider copying their creepy posts on porn reddits as "stealing from me"

...but then there's you, sharing that with the entire world, without being asked to do so. Just holy shit, lol

So when you found this out, did you demand to talk to the manager of the archving websites?

I think it may be evidence that Amazon has a shitty corporate culture that squeezes every penny it can out its employees.

Corruption can happen anywhere, but it's more likely to happen in totalitarian cultures where people feel like the system is rigged anyway. That's why countries like Russia and China have corruption problems. But I suspect the same feelings of me vs. the system occur in a capitalist enterprise like Amazon where employees are governed by dystopian, rigid, computerized metrics.

Presumably, the same way you'd figure out if a junior dev you gave a bunch of shit to do was doing something fundamentally wrong: by checking its work?

Thanks for sharing the cool story about how the insurance offered by your employer sucks ass. It's not Obama's fault that the US is the only country in the world in which your job determines your insurance coverage, so you'll have to either 1) find a better employer, or 2) move to a country that doesn't have our backwards ass system.

"Oh look, a submission about a company that no one's heard of is shutting down. Should I, the senior editor, add some context of why anyone should give a fuck about this particular company shutting down? Nah." - BeauHD, Senior Editor and masturbation enthusiast

So you found one braincell, but try as you might, couldn't find a second one to rub against it and figure out that maybe it's referring to the physical medium that people have been buying video games for over 4 decades -- on cartridges or optical discs?

And you really can't figure out the advantages of tangible copies:
- can be lent to friends
- isn't permanently tied to a specific account
- isn't dependent on a vendor's storefront needing to remain operational
- price competition between retailers vs fixed digital storefront pricing
- can be sold when you're done
- can be purchased used at a reduced price

...how are you going to do any of that with "a copy on your hard drive"?

wtf are you talking about

Just to be clear, you wrote a rant about how you don't understand "why would anyone in the developed world invest in a TCP/IP data network", without sharing the alternative that you believe they should be investing in instead?

The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.

Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.

> Why would that be used in an enterprise app? You don't understand why an enterprise app would need to work with assistive technologies? This is something that baffles you?

Early reports on the effectiveness of the training has shown mixed results -- the agents are REALLY good at mouse movements, clicking buttons, and navigating dropdown menus, but no matter the prompt provided to it, the agent just opens firefox and starts browsing job postings on Indeed.