MS has a history of using lawyers and their influence to go against the spirit of being a good economic contributor, and commercial partner with countries and communities. If not the spirit, then in some cases they are intentionally abusing wording in laws to violate their spirit*. I have no doubt that they will fuck over the people of Kenya to get their way.

* Example from the datacentre in Amsterdam: The local laws forbid the construction of a new hyperscale datacentre, but unfortunately they assumed that all datacentres are designed the way that ... well all datacentres are designed and defined hyperscale datacentres in terms of power consumption and land area use (note: not floor space). So along comes Microsoft and says, ... well if we build our hyperscale datacentre 20 floors high then we can fit it in an area under 8 acres and as such are exempt from hyperscale datacentre bans. *Lawyers celebrate*, *Microsoft profits*, *local communities get fucked*.

You don't need access to water for cooling. The question is only if Microsoft is a responsible party here, building a datacentre with closed loop cooling instead of evaporative air cooling. It's perfectly viable, but ultimately boils down to an economic decision.

I'm going to take a guess that building, owning and operating a datacentre in a 3rd world nation is cheap compared to a western nation so there is more opex budget available to pick a cooling solution that allows a non-evaporatively cooled datacentre to viably operate here. Save money in one place, spend it in another.

But then this is a tech company in an AI rush, I suspect if they aren't using local water then they are probably grinding babies into paste and using that for liquid cooling or some other evil shit.

I've heard it both ways - Kee-cad is a popular one, but Keye-kad (short i - think aye, or the "ki" from "kite")

So far that's the only two pronunciations I've heard

How has building excess power infrastructure that sits unused ever benefitted a developing nation (or any nation for that matter). Power infrastructure must be designed and scaled to the consumption, anything in excess of that raises costs to the consumer without benefit.

If the answer is jobs, well then you're asking the wrong question. If Microsoft wants to build a datacentre they should do what the mining industry, oil and gas industry, aluminium industry, and virtually EVERY OTHER HIGH POWER industry has done, and fund the construction of a co-located powerplant, or partner with someone who will and purchase that power under a PPA.

What's the bat and spider population like near you? Bats and spiders consume tons of mosquitoes. Relying only on birds is insufficient, you need bats and spiders as well, and if you've been chasing those away, then there are no predators.

Every time I have someone else's tobacco smoke come into my car in traffic I wanna puke. I don't get a chance to object to their face. If smoking is so fucking great, why don't they roll the windows up?

I want companies to think before hiring so that they do less firing. That naturally means they're going to do less hiring. But firing causes chaos and overhiring masks actual unemployment. If you're not employed for long enough to get out of a hole, it doesn't count in terms of the nation's economic health, but it looks like it does because it reduces unemployment statistics.

Because people have been convinced that having people pay for things, let alone necessities, is the natural order. But before money was invented, there was another natural order, and it was equity — not equality. We know this because we've studied hominid skeletons from prehistoric times and found that people were caring for each other, they didn't just abandon the inconvenient, despite health insurance not having been invented either.

I have this but not with mosquitoes, instead it's with these bastard ants you find in Panama. They live on specific thorn bushes and their bites raise welts on most people... but not me, I accidentally brushed one and got about a dozen bites and they were nothing, less than mosquito bites.

Alas, mosquitoes adore me.

All keeping the straight closed does is drastically increase the price of everything hurting consumers and people who work for a living. It doesn't create more jobs and it doesn't slow the deployment of AI. If anything the energy crunch and the food shortages caused by missed planting seasons due to shortages of fertilizer means fewer jobs.

If your kids say that social media is a "retard fest wrapped in dogged poo" then it's nothing to do with your parenting (beyond raising really smart kids). If their opinion on social media were different they will have found a way to use it regardless of what you as the parent expect of them. That's the nature of kids and parent relationships.

Your example (and their opinion) may buck the trend but in a more generalised case there are two scenarios:
a) A parent knows their kids are accessing things they forbid them from doing.
b) A parent is delusional and doesn't really know what their kid is doing.

And I guarantee your kids had full access to the internet. Just not in your house or while you were around.

But seriously kudos. What we really need to do is to make kids aware of the fact that this social media stuff is algorithm fed rubbish. I have no idea how you did that, but seriously man, great work.

Given the number of kids using TikTok it's not a "belief" that the government is better at parenting in this case, that's pretty much a statement of fact.

You know we can all read your posts, right?

Yeah, he was paranoid about it turning into MechaHitler when someone else was controlling it, because he wants to be in control of MechaHitler.

Oh thank god. So a company that treats its users with distain, gaslights the community repeatedly, uses legal threats to shutdown legitimate open source capability that expands the use of the printer for some people, and has in history actively damaged customers printers using one of their features, is a-ok in your books?

Fuck I wish I had you as a customer. I could probably piss on you and get you to pay me and thank me for it afterwards.

To be clear this is not a criticism of anyone who has a Bambu labs printer. It's a criticism of those who recommend them going forward. There's many companies out there, bootlicking for shitty ones who engage in anti-consumer practices is just pathetic.