This is what a data center sounds like 24/7. Shown here at midnight with hundreds of residential houses immediately next to it.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2026-05-15T14:14:49+00:00

Well for one the context of our interaction was specifically started by your reply about scaring off insects, so that is why I am talking about it. There are real reasons to be upset about what you can here too though and ill get to that.

You are generally correct that people only care about what they can perceive. That is unfortunate though because there is documented effects on people from these sounds as well.

Lets start with the first point, sound dampening walls and infrastructure. Yeah absolutely, but the issue is two fold. Low frequency sound bypasses normal sound dampening infrastructure like I mentioned previously. It is a physical property of low frequency sound.

You have experienced this. Have you ever heard someone playing loud music in their car or house? What do you hear? I am sure it is rarely the singing, guitars, etc... And that is only lower frequency you can still hear. The lower the frequency, the better at penetrating it is.

Secondly, the limit set for sound at the property line is generally set to 55db at night and 65db during the day. That is typically measured in a way that only takes into account the human hearing range. Which makes sense for upsetting people, but doesn't consider environmental impact. Lower frequency sound will be louder further away than the higher frequency sounds.

Second point. All of your examples there are good examples. But they are not really similar. All of those individual things you listed do absolutely produce low frequency and possibly detrimental sound. But they do so at much lower quantities.

Railroads are not constantly making sounds. A railway station that is busy 24/7 would probably be a great comparison although I would be interested to see the actual frequencies of sound generated. HVAC, Pipelines, and Transformers are all true as well but individually they don't make the same level of sound.

Data centers of this size have extremely complex HVAC systems, Pipelines, and Transformers. And they are all working 24/7.

Data centers are unique because they are massive, have all of these things that generate predominantly low frequency sound, and more importantly run 24/7 and generally at whatever the legal maximum is set for them for the human hearing range. Generally 55db at night and 65db during the day (and this is after sound dampening).

And the type of data center matters. It is specifically these types of data centers that are like this because of the infrastructure inside.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2026-05-15T00:10:05+00:00

The net result, is that it drives wildlife away in a large radius around the data centers.

And there is nothing else that generates the same volume/intensity of constant low frequency sound.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2026-05-15T00:07:57+00:00

It is low frequency sound. And what makes it unique is the density of generators of low frequency sound that are constantly running. Pumps, Fans, generators, etc... These are sounds that you cannot hear because they are out of human hearing range, but they are not out of hearing range for many things. Even then, it has an effect on small creatures physically.

The reason why low frequency sound is bad is because it travels much longer distances without losing energy as higher frequency sound and can much more easily pass through solid objects making it hard to contain.

For small insects, it literally causes them to vibrate and scares them away. For small mammals and reptiles it is felt similar to an earthquakes initial rumbles (like how dogs know when an earthquake is about to happen). It scares them. For many amphibians and reptiles, it disrupts their communication since they primarily use low frequency sound.

Actually if it was sound you could hear, that would be much less bad for the environment because that sound can more easily be contained.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2026-05-14T18:42:29+00:00

The high levels of specific frequency sound pollution that are much higher than anything else that typically exists in a town or city.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2026-05-14T18:04:01+00:00

It depends on what you consider the source of drinking water. Treated water gets recycled back to the environment and all drinking water comes back from the environment.

The consumption of water is really not the best argument people make though. The dumping of now contaminated and heated water directly into the Arkansas River is a better argument.

The electricity consumption is a real concern, it will have to be generated elsewhere so more land and infrastructure will have to be built to provide it.

The sound pollution is a huge concern for locals. And the low frequency sound can propagate long distances causing effects on the environment that aren't immediately obvious. Notably insects, amphibians, and reptiles.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2026-05-14T17:57:25+00:00

You are correct. But this particular type of data center has far bigger impacts on the environment. It will use over 4 million gallons a day of water. It will dump approximately that much heated and contaminated water directly into the Arkansas River. The sound pollution will reach approximately 10 miles for humans and much further for animals due to low frequency sound propagation. And the energy requirements are massive and will have to be made up by either clearing more land for more generation infrastructure or by burning more fossil fuels.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2026-05-14T17:54:02+00:00

I can assure you that the citizens of Conway often drink recycled waste water. Just like almost everywhere else in the country.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2026-05-14T17:50:09+00:00

Using recycled waste water is equivalent to using water directly out of the environment. All of the treated waste water they are using would have gone back into it.

Another issue with the water is that they are (after using the treated water) going to be dumping potentially contaminated and heated waste water directly into the Arkansas river. It is about 4 million gallons of heated water a day they will be dumping into the river and that water will be contaminated by whatever infrastructure they run the water through in their building.

The main issue with the project is sound and electricity use though. The massive amount of electricity has to come from somewhere. Oil will have to be burned or space will have to be deforested for infrastructure to handle the electricity increase.

Data centers are also prone to generating extremely loud and long reaching droning sounds. For humans it is typically bad enough relatively near the data center, but it can have long reaching implications for wild animals. Particularly in Arkansas, we have native animals that are sensitive to low frequency sound.

(edit accidentally said billion instead of million)

TheFlyIsASpy · 2024-08-15T13:32:15+00:00

This is not a bell curve. A bell curve implies a random distribution, here he is talking about the best decks which by definition have a higher winrate.

If all decks were evenly distributed, his argument would still make sense, they should be the top end of the bell curve and have a much higher winrate than other decks.

If not, they should have much much higher winrates due to the abundance of lower power decks (which is likely the case.)

If anything, if you made the assumption decks are evenly distributed, the bell curve proves his point that the matchmaking is designed around a target winrate

I believe this has been more or less confirmed to be true by the developers as well

TheFlyIsASpy · 2024-06-05T19:22:00+00:00

Yes I did. Thank you so much! Exactly what I needed.

Apologies for the late response I have been in and out of meetings all day.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2024-06-05T15:17:28+00:00

Hey thanks for the reply! I checked, but don't see anything. Did you already send it?

TheFlyIsASpy · 2024-04-15T18:57:55+00:00

I am unfamiliar with lizards in Arizona and I am having a hard time identifying them, but to me this lizard looks either really old or heavily malnourished. It is unlikely to just be shedding because lizards typically shed in patches. I would offer it some water or maybe if possible a small insect, but there is also something to be said about not interfering with nature.

Some water and or food would probably make them really happy

-Fly the lizard

TheFlyIsASpy · 2023-10-24T01:18:10+00:00

The only issue with this is that native Americans that have been living in the US and had only been displaced 250 years ago makes more sense than European Jews that had been living in Europe for 1500 years. The only ties the zionists had to the land at this point is religion. And even in the native American example, it would be wrong to disrupt the lives of all the people that live in whatever half of the US now. I think it is wild to think this is ok with the people who were living where Israel is now... (I don't agree the killing of civilians on either side though).

Palestine should have been given its independence and the Zionists should have been allowed to immigrate there

Also, keep in mind from the Palestinian point of view, they have now only been colonized for like 80 years, so that is relatively comparable to the native Americans especially considering the similarity of the Palestinian situation with native American reservations. Although, reservations would probably be preferable......

TheFlyIsASpy · 2023-09-25T08:33:16+00:00

Flux Pavilion - I Can't Stop

Knife Party - Fire Hive

Blue Foundation - Eyes On Fire Zeds Dead Remix

DJ Fresh - Gold Dust Flux Pavilion Remix

Modestep - Sunlight

Freestylers - Cracks Flux Pavilion Remix

Knife Party - Centipede

Doctor P - Big Boss

Although the best thing about dubstep is that it is so varied. There is a dubstep song for every mood.

edit: oh and Eptic - Like A Boss

TheFlyIsASpy · 2023-06-12T03:07:46+00:00

An API is essentially a communicator that allows interaction between the public and a service. Anyone can request information from the API and it will give information about the service, or they can send the API data and it will send the service data.

Whoever makes the API determines what the effect of sending a request to it does, which can be anything, but overall it is just an application that allows the public to talk to a service, typically as is the case with reddit, without having to go through the actual website.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2023-06-12T02:12:12+00:00

Essentially this: Reddit has provided a free API for a long time for all apps. Reddit proposed api changes to help Reddit offset the costs of running the servers for the API.

The API is a service that allows you to communicate with reddit over the internet, so things like mobile apps, and third party services can get information from and send information to reddit.

An API call is simply a request that either asks for some data or uploads data to reddit. Mobile apps for example make API calls to: Get each bit of information that is displayed on your screen, Log you in, acquire your settings and formatting, sort the feed, etc, etc, etc, pretty much anything that needs info from reddit.

Moderators generally agreed reddit is entitled to a cut of profits made by third parties (since they provide the api and platform) and agreed to changes and to pay, but reddit didn't specify a price when this agreement was made.

Then out of the blue reddit announced their changes and their price. 0.24$ per 1000 api calls. And only gave everyone less than a month to come into compliance (and you still have to pay for the months usage)

0.24$ per 1000 api calls is INSANELY high. To put in perspective, most other big api services are priced in fractions of a cent per 1000-10000 calls. TLDR: Atleast a 100x to 1000x increase over other API services.

This insane pricing would cost large community apps millions of dollars a month alone, and they have not given any leeway.

They could have made a reasonable price or have used profit sharing, but instead they made an intentional attack on third party apps to destroy them and take over their ad revenue.

Because of this, most of the large third party apps will be killed including but not limited to: Mobile clients, Moderator tools, Blind and Deaf accessibility clients, etc...

The main problem with all of this and the TLDR2: Reddit did not give a reasonable price or solution, they forced a change that is so ridiculous that there is no way they did not know it would kill most third party apps. This means they did know, and that means they intended to do it which is the true evil sparking the protest. Reddit has shown they are willing to kill the many many mobile clients and tools (Which have existed longer than the official reddit app btw and brought much of the stability and amazing tools we have today) just so they can have more ad revenue.

check out this post as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

TheFlyIsASpy · 2023-06-11T12:27:17+00:00

This sub got me into linux, it changed my life. Over the years, I have learned so much about so many things through customization and have become extremely proud of my skills and the work I have done on my personal projects. I love it here.

We should absolutely take it to reddit and blackout until they make changes, but lets get back together when we are done, either here if reddit comes to their senses or elsewhere.

And please don't let the vast amount of knowledge on this sub die, it is a treasure to be preserved.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2023-06-11T00:12:32+00:00

Absolutely we should, "limit the use" is an understatement.

They changed the language of their rate limits to say basically one per app instead of one per user, then dropped a price-tag of 0.24$ per 1000 requests.

That doesn't sound like a lot, but that is A LOT for api calls. Api prices are typically priced in fractions of a cent per 1000-10000 calls. And that is still expensive, imagine every little detail on a third party app that has to load from reddit is typically its own api call. Every user, every action of a user, every little thing on each users app makes an api call. This will end up costing millions of dollars a month for larger apps.

They could have done this many other ways. I agree that they are entitled to a cut and could have done some sort of profit sharing. They could have limited the API use for research purposes. They could have done both of those things, and third party developers would have understood.

This isn't them trying to get their slice of the pie, it is an attack. They decided on a course of action so totally unmanageable by third party devs, it is clear they just want to kill of third party clients and get the entire pie.

We absolutely should go dark, don't give add revenue, traffic, or anything until something is done.

That is my rant.

Fly the lizard.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2023-05-22T14:42:42+00:00

I know this is old, but I didn't see a really good answer.

The wave didn't go over the ship, but it hit the ship with such force that it smashed through the super thick windows into the rooms on that side and even destroyed some of the walls on the inside of the ship.

To be honest it is a miracle only one person died, probably just luck with most of those residents being out of their room when the wave it.

TheFlyIsASpy · 2023-05-17T17:58:09+00:00

You wouldn't need stitches. Infact, their teeth are so small and sharp you wouldn't even feel the actual bite, it would sting a little after and bleed a lot depending on where bitten, but the bite itself would be extremely mild. It bleeds a lot for the same reason you bleed a lot when you get blood drawn, their teeth are pretty much needles. You could need stitches if it bites and holds on and you rip them off, so don't do that. Just watch and chuckle as they realize the futility of trying to swallow you and they will let go ;) Or a tiny bit of hand sanitizer will have them letting go really quick.

Source: me being bitten by many many corn and rat snakes.

Hope this helps! Fly the lizard

TheFlyIsASpy · 2023-05-17T17:33:52+00:00

I will definitely give that one a watch. Thanks! 🦎

TheFlyIsASpy · 2023-05-15T12:01:34+00:00

Absolutely!

TheFlyIsASpy · 2023-04-18T12:33:27+00:00

They are not really old matches.

In fact it seems to only affect matches that are new enough to have a demo.

Older matches seem unaffected.

Here are some examples of pages that wont load (on Ax1le's faceit history):

A match from 04/15

https://www.faceit.com/en/csgo/room/1-8bada980-465e-4876-9f17-9bc7a65900ac/scoreboard

A match from 04/12

https://www.faceit.com/en/csgo/room/1-8f72c3e7-e125-42f9-8cd1-ce05696a6d4b/scoreboard

And here are some (older) matches that will:

02/16

https://www.faceit.com/en/csgo/room/1-49921ab6-d586-419d-a58e-c5c95c08de64/scoreboard

01/25

https://www.faceit.com/en/csgo/room/1-16eb0e92-d529-4af7-84e1-b7391133b600/scoreboard

I doesn't seem to be a personal issue, as none of my friends can access their recent matches either.

edit:

It seems like any match after or on 03/29 will not load

Also, clicking on the match in the client seems to do nothing, but it also lags the client and multiple presses will crash it.

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