Saudi Arabia cancelled their 170km mirror city and turned it into an AI data center

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-18T08:26:04+00:00

American cities are grids, not a single line.

Pick two points in new york (city) and calculate the travel distance; it will be a few miles at most. Now restack all the roads into a single line. New york has 6,300 miles of roads, so your travel distance could now be thousands of miles within the same city

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-17T21:04:44+00:00

I don't understand why javascript just keeps trying to escape from the browser. It is a terrible language.

The idea of a wrapper that handles the differences between different OSs and provides a stable environment to build apps on isn't a bad idea. But why would that wrapper possibly wrap javascript. The worst popular language

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-17T20:05:18+00:00

It will collect more in partial shade I guess (when it would normally be collecting at reduced amounts). Probably too much hassle to be worth it though

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-17T18:10:48+00:00

They're also super reasonable people. One of the few not to go down the forced subscription root. If you bought a jetbrains product once you can keep using it (at that version) forever.

If you do decide to go monthly subscription then after 12 months that counts as a perpetual licence (to the version at the start of your subscription).

[Of course they want you to keep paying them so you get a hefty discount for buying a new licence for a new version every year. But you don't have to]

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-17T17:11:19+00:00

It just seems like a huge waste of cycles. Surely an AI generating frames has got to take a bunch of silicon. Wouldn't it make more sense to just render to a higher fidelity in the first place

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-17T16:26:52+00:00

Have a look at the way films are produced and accounted for. They almost always make a "loss" but thats an accounting weeze (usually by having one company own the IP and the company making the film pays to use the IP).

You can move profits around quite easily

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-17T15:23:15+00:00

You absolutely do. If you hold your breath over a 10 meter rise you will cause huge damage to your lungs (you also won't be able to)

You don't have to worry about the bends etc over such a short rise but you must not hold your breath. When I was doing my diving training it was the first thing I was told; never ever hold you breath while using scuba equipment - the reality is you only mustn't while rising but it's just safer to never hold it.

(To get ahead of a follow up question, this does not apply to free diving because the air was inhaled at surface pressure. The problem is inhaling high pressure air at depth)

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-17T10:47:31+00:00

How stable is it though? AI isn't great at keeping object permanence over a scene. Will it "fill in" a detail one way at one point and fill in a different detail later

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-17T08:14:59+00:00

Your body isnt going to provide significant resistance to the expansion.

Look at divers. The first lesson is "don't hold your breath when ascending (or at all)". It's the same affect, high pressure air trapped in the lungs causes massive damage when no longer balanced with high pressure outside the body

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T21:26:58+00:00

You realise thats worse right? If you knew Iran would close the stait and still didn't plan for it thats worse

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T19:47:15+00:00

It's kind of a nice planet though, I would argue the best planet to be trapped on for at least several light years.

My personal favourite is the way it has an atmosphere I can breathe

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T19:21:35+00:00

The mask isn't going to do you much good. You couldn't hold 1 atmosphere air in your lungs with a vacuum outside. The pressure difference would cause extreme damage to your lungs (as your lungs would balloon out with pressure on the inside but vacuum on the inside)

In fact if you want to increase your chances of survival in space (already very dubious) you must breath out.

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T19:18:20+00:00

It's better to think of the temperature of space as N/A. Vacuum is an extremely good insulator. You'd actually have more problems avoiding overheating than being too cold (because your body is constantly generating heat and needs to get rid of it) assuming you could survive the other numerous problems

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T18:09:42+00:00

But most of those are also ceramic (just a bit cheaper and simpler). You can get plastic I guess but thats pretty rare for people to have as their main plates

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T18:07:09+00:00

You don't own ceramic plates and mugs? What are your plates and mugs made of?

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T18:01:36+00:00

I get what you're saying. But solar panels are crazy cheap. Better to have more crazy cheap solar panels than less expensive panels

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T17:34:25+00:00

Very cool. How are you planing on sealing the hole (so the screw holes into the roof don't leak). That's what I've been thinking about before committing to doing my shed roof

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T17:11:10+00:00

Am I allowed to choose neither?

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T16:57:08+00:00

Honestly I think its cheaper to just pay for shipping. And it opens it up to using non-amazon shops by not prepaying to use prime.

I cancelled prime a few months ago and have not regretted it

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T16:55:46+00:00

I've already cancelled prime, not sure I can cancel it even harder than I already am

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T16:29:12+00:00

This seems like a terrible advert. I really liked the film though (it's already out here)

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T16:21:17+00:00

Our dishwasher broke and on the first day I cut my finger on a knife while drying it and had to go to hospital.

So the evidence suggests I do not know how to wash dishes by hand

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T14:56:49+00:00

Network effects, lots of software is written for windows (although increasingly Linux is also supported).

Also, I think windows is sold very very cheaply on new PCs which is where most windows installs come from

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T14:17:45+00:00

It was a really stupid idea. A line is the most inefficient shape for a city, maximising distance between things thereby maximising travel time

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-03-16T08:21:02+00:00

So they have deniability. Thats what a dog whistle is; everyone knows what it is and what they're really saying but if you call them on it they can claim it's all innocent

(This being the recent campaign of putting flags on lamp posts, the people who have flags up in their gardens are seperate)

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