It's just ordinary slang.

All of the chargers that I've stopped at in BC (in between cities) have been in big open areas or parks where you can walk your dog. The OnRoute stops also have green areas.

I greatly suspect that the thing you're asking for is actually not any sort of problem at all, you just haven't looked into it so you don't know. I'm not gonna do your homework for you (more than I already have) but you can actually just search for this stuff. Or, frankly, you can just set out and not worry about it, because a) your car isn't going to take 30 minutes to charge; and b) you're likely to end up near some green space anyway. Just pick up after your dog. That's what people walking their dogs in the city do when the dog doesn't wait for a park or a lawn.

Have you? We live in a society, my guy. Just because you lack planning skills doesn't mean that everyone else should have to choke on your exhaust. Electricity (even from coal plants) is cleaner and more efficient than burning petrol in an engine. It's also much cheaper than gasoline. But in all likelihood, your state has SOME mix of renewable power in there, which just makes it better.

Anyway, if you just plug your car in at home, you leave with a full charge every day. It's LESS time spent filling up.

I lived in an apartment in Montreal. I had street parking. The building had an outdoor socket. I would park near my building whenever I could because I actually drove my car so little that I needed to string a power cable to run a battery charger. I got around the sidewalk blocking by throwing it over the branch of a nearby tree, but I could've found a dozen other ways to do it.

But look, you're not wrong that it's stupid that I even had to do that much. People should have better access to charging. But frankly, the amount you need to charge an EV is surprisingly minimal. There are dozens of level 2 chargers in my city (of 30k--I moved away from Montreal) and many of them are even free; a perk of patronizing one of the businesses in town. The ones that aren't free are pretty cheap. Level 2 isn't fast, but it's enough to keep you on the road. Even a level 3 charger in the middle of nowhere (there's long stretches of nowhere in Canada, and in some of those nowheres, the government has built chargers) costs half as much per unit distance as petrol.

Cities should build more infrastructure for people that park on the street, 100%, no argument. But you really just don't need to care very much, it turns out. Small sips of power here and there will keep you going for a long time.

Listen, ding-dongs, the 'explanation' is ALSO just generated pseudo-random text. It's still just telling you what it thinks you want to hear based on some training data and network weights. It can't introspect, it can't tell you why, it has no memory of doing anything, per se. It goes back and looks at the log maybe, or more likely it just reads that you want an explanation for something and just creates it based on that little bit of text.

I bet you could go to any LLM, tell it to pretend that this whole ordeal is that chatbot's backstory, and it would spin you the same yarn.

IT'S HALLUCINATIONS ALL THE WAY DOWN.

Can these things write some pretty okay code sometimes? Sure, yeah. Can you trust any 'reasoning'? NO. STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

Just proof that AMERICAN government is bad.

Other governments all over the world manage to build rail systems, it's just here in North America that we're deeply useless.

That's the beauty of data, you can put the data center somewhere far from where the data is used. Put it somewhere appropriate, not Texas or other places that are high on ambient heat and low on water.

I've been wondering if geothermal might be a solution, only use the ground as a heat sink instead of a heat source. Here in Michigan's Upper Peninsula the abandoned mines stay at 40F all year round, regardless of the air temperature. Place the servers in the mine, drill some cooling loops into the rock. I don't know enough about thermodynamics to know if this is viable. A thousand feet of earth and rock ought to be pretty good as noise insulation, too.

Assuming that AI is actually capable of coding useful, non-trivial, defect-free products... You're still going to need programmers. But instead of writing code, they'll be writing formalized specifications.

The English language suuuuuuuuccckkks at precision. Just look at any RFC that spends the first page defining the terms "MUST", "MAY", and "SHALL". AI prompts will need to become formalized and written to look like legal documents. The average person just doesn't think like that. Programmers do.

"AI Specification Language" (probably several different ones with subtle differences depending on the exact AI model being used) is going to be the next big programming language. Netcraft confirms it.

We'll still need programmers, at least until honest-to-goodness AGI comes along and makes all of us meatbags obsolete.

Agreed. I wish people would stop treating data centers as bogeymen. Most people aren't opposed to data centers per se, they're opposed to the side-effects. They're concerned about the energy usage and its effect on consumer energy rates. They're concerned about water usage. They're concerned about noise. They're concerned about heat pollution in the surrounding environment.

The thing is, all those things (with the possible exception of heat pollution) are fixable! They just take money and regulators with teeth. Don't let the data center owners externalize the costs onto the community. Make them pay for new power plants to satisfy their needs. Pass noise regulations. Require closed-loop cooling instead of evaporative. Address the actual concerns. And when writing the regulations, don't even mention the words "data center". Establish thresholds applicable to any industry, so when the next big thing comes along you don't have to start all over again passing the same rules but in the context of "hoverboard manufacturers" or whatever.

This is less and less true as time goes on, and only for either heavily parallelized processes, processes that require ENORMOUS amounts of memory, or processes that require extreme amounts of GPU. Even then, the GPU gap is getting smaller if you're not talking about gaming.

I compile Unreal Engine for my job. I do it a lot. My M1 Mac Mini, 5 years old, keeps up astonishingly well with my work-issued i9. I'm sure an M5 would blow it out of the water.

I'm sure there are workloads where what you're saying is true, but I don't think you can make this as a broad claim anymore. M-series chips aren't low-powered chips, they're higher efficiency chips. They do more with less. I don't look at benchmarks from Apple (or Intel), either--I only pay attention to benchmarks from 3rd parties, and they're still quite favourable. Aside from gaming--where we ABSOLUTELY optimize the hell out of things, and tune things specifically to hardware as best as we can--most general purpose software that runs on both runs within a totally acceptable margin either way.

In the Mac space, a lot of malware just gives up if it detects Little Snitch is running. It's a really effective tool, and honestly, the cost is so minimal compared to the value. I've been running it for years, and I appreciate how much junk traffic I can block.

If one of the six hydrocoptic marzel vanes fails and is no longer mounted to the lunar wane shaft, side fumbling will no longer be effectively prevented!

And here I am, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, sitting on 347" of snowfall this season. And today, the Second of April in the Year of Our Lord 2026, we have a winter storm warning with another 2-4" predicted this afternoon.

All I'm saying is, if the western states want snow they can feel free to come get it! No one here will argue.

"Michael Marshall Smith's 1996 novel Spares, in which the hero liberates intelligent clones from a "spare farm", was optioned by DreamWorks in the late 1990s, but was never made. It remains unclear if the story inspired The Island, so Marshall Smith did not consider it worthwhile to pursue legal action over the similarities."

Anyway, we're all saying the same thing here. This is all Torment Nexus stuff. We know how this ends.