Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

The most concerning part should be that the utility isn't auditing it's service. The most basic check is to compare water pumped or otherwise brought into the system against water usage billed to customers. Those two numbers should be equal, any discrepancy indicates leaks or other unaccounted-for draws. Any discrepancy should also be relatively stable, with any large variations correlated to known main breaks. You especially audit things immediately after a major change like bringing smart meters on-line to catch problems like this.

It's dead, Jim.

It's not coming back.

"I just put my models on a usb drive then plug said drive into the printer."

You must have a lot of spare time on your hands.

"It works great locally" - Um, no it doesn't?

They've made a nice easy-to-use ecosystem. For $400 you can get a P1S that supports adding an AMS, auto bed leveling, enclosed-chamber printing, high precision, high print speeds, and 300/100C nozzle/plate temps, and has an easy cloud print service and a robust ecosystem of models you can just download and print with no extra config straight from the app.

But yeah, their behavior is increasingly entering bad-actor territory. I wonder how long it'll be before they lock entry-level printers into their branded filament?

The sticky note under the keyboard or in a desk drawer is actually pretty secure. Most attacks are remote, they've no way to read that note. The social-engineering attacks don't target people who'd go to your desk either, they either target you directly (you already know your password) or support people who don't need to know your password to give them access.

I have to ask, are these platforms even trying to secure their systems anymore? Because I keep seeing of more and more of these breaches, involving more and more platforms, and the attacks are less and less sophisticated. I hear companies talk and talk about security, yet their day-to-day practices require their employees and contractors to violate practically every good security practice and treat the red flags of an attack as normal company practice instead.

Occam's Razor no longer applies, because at this level malice and incompetence are indistinguishable.

It would be like employees of a gun manufacturer unionizing to force their employer to produce children's toys instead.

If they were employees of a toy company which got bought out by a manufacturing company which then started manufacturing guns using tubes which were previously destined to be part of a toy.

Spicy autocomplete indeed.

Chuckle.

AI is real. The implications of this are not priced in.

YouTube does already do something to the audio. I notice it when streaming guitar and vocals: the sound which comes out of YouTube emphasises the guitar, so if I balance listening to the mixer feed I have to balance the guitar low.