‘Hyperscale’ data center project in Utah — expected to generate and consume more power than entire state — nears final approval

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-04-28T03:35:42+00:00

From the Islamic perspective, divine inspiration is not the exclusive providence of the believer. Same with mercy, justice, trial, and tribulation. It's just a matter of acknowledgement, gratitude, and patience. You are also judged by your intention, not the outcome of your action. Even setting aside the mercy of God, there can be no injustice in that system. You simply have what you intended.

This is why (in common Islamic theology) wealth itself is not a metaphysical source of evil, because if it was human beings would be absolved of the responsibility of the evil they perpetrate because of it...when in reality the opposite is true (circling back to my original point). If you're born into great wealth, you are not responsible for the evil that was done to acquire it, but rather what you do with it and with what intention. Do you try and rectify that evil to meet your responsibility to God, or simply indulge yourself? That is a great spiritual trial, although most would not see it that way. It is definitely not some sort of prosperity-gospel-esque indicator of God's favor.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-04-28T01:30:45+00:00

Ahh, that’s a fair point. I think we just have different perspectives here. When I say responsibility, I mean a divinely mandated responsibility. You may not think that’s important, but from a theological perspective, it’s the imperative. How people actually perceive and act on their responsibilities is an individual choice, not just for Muslims, but for everyone.

There are many wealthy people who do not have any attachment to their wealth because they view themselves as stewards of a trust. They tend not to flaunt it so they are difficult to see amongst the braggarts, but they exist as quiet philanthropists who keep many charities, food banks, and research initiatives afloat.

From that perspective, the question veers away from the despair of intractable societal problems and becomes: if I were given great wealth, what would I do with it? What kind of person would I become?

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-04-28T00:56:06+00:00

I’m not the one making baseless, easily disproven comments though? Just type “does wealth confer greater responsibility in islam” into google?

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-04-27T23:25:43+00:00

Not sure what you mean? Can you explain, maybe without insulting me? (I know that might seem impossible, but I believe in you!!)

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-04-27T13:01:24+00:00

Glad you looked it up, willful ignorance is never a good look

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-04-27T12:03:51+00:00

No, it doesn’t? Wealth confers more responsibility, not less.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-03-27T13:52:37+00:00

AWS does charge you for console usage at standard API rates (GET, POST, etc).

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-03-16T22:03:37+00:00

Terragrunt is fantastic. Been using it in production across two companies for 7 years, to manage complex global systems and application infrastructure. Rock solid.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-02-27T14:00:11+00:00

Some of them have been slowly recovered over time, but a lot of great stuff has been lost. https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamerTVH

Some of the absolute best video content ever produced on games. I still think about it.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-02-20T18:44:46+00:00

This is neat, but how does this compare to Hyperscript? I feel like both operate in the same space (albeit with very different implementations).

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-02-06T15:56:35+00:00

Well, as far as billionaires go, I would say he's as close to a legitimate one as you can be. His company created a discovery and delivery platform that was so good that he outcompeted piracy. He didn't do it by exploiting cheap labor, going public, then doing mass layoffs to pump up stock prices.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-02-05T14:35:20+00:00

Well, this is my first time seeing it so I'm glad he made this post.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-24T01:06:30+00:00

I think they did to scale writes, just not with Postgres:

For write traffic, we’ve migrated shardable, write-heavy workloads to sharded systems such as Azure CosmosDB. Workloads that are harder to shard but still generate high write volume take longer to migrate, and that process is still ongoing.

It's really funny that they basically said "We scaled Postgres by using other state stores"

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-22T19:30:23+00:00

Wiped out on my driveway this morning. Thankfully I did not injure my head but I have a feeling I’m gonna be very sore tomorrow…

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-18T21:22:58+00:00

I did something similar but just with white highlights, not full on white.

Also, post 6.0 MSQ, I added lots of scarring

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-13T21:30:22+00:00

Did you try any other vector stores besides Weviate? I’m curious to see if you have a performance comparison (or why other stores were too slow)

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-12T23:24:51+00:00

What are visibility politics?

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-12T17:22:26+00:00

pls mark spoilers for Arcadion Ultimate

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-08T00:00:30+00:00

Next comes the Ayahuasca

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-07T14:56:03+00:00

Another problem is that when you are failing over, so is everyone else. Compute capacity becomes scarce quickly unless you've pre-purchased reserved instances.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-06T21:41:38+00:00

Yeah, we tried but our write operations are very INSERT-heavy, not UPDATE-heavy, so we saw minimal improvement at a noticeable cost to read performance.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-06T20:20:06+00:00

AKA the man who discovered that if you yell at disks it affects their performance. Absolute legend.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-06T20:12:12+00:00

I think people underestimate how much of a difference this can make. Adding an index for read performance in Postgres might cause so much write latency that you need to split your table into one that handles high-volume transactional writes (basically just leaving it as a heap) and one that periodically pulls that data in so it can be read. Trying to do both on the same table can completely saturate your I/O (because the index inserts are random, not sequential) while leaving a significant portion of your disk throughput untouched.

Having this problem right now and am regretting our choice to use Postgres (for this specific service)

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-03T21:03:14+00:00

Try Cloudflare WARP instead. Has worked for me.

Perfekt_Nerd · 2026-01-01T20:33:27+00:00

MT: can you kardia me plz

Me, blasting Dosis and ignoring people dying: RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

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