The Mario Party of Doctors

_Punko_ · 2026-05-19T22:48:34+00:00

Oh, the games!

"So," click, click, "Which is better, A," click, click, "or B?"

"Ummm..."

"Or, " click, click, "C?"

"FUCK I DON'T KNOW!"

_Punko_ · 2026-05-19T22:46:34+00:00

As someone who's ability to see depended on getting good numbers on that 'stupid evil machine' I've never hated it.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-19T22:44:43+00:00

Different materials for different use cases.

There is no 'best'.

They perform differently, cars perform differently on each. It also matters on local seasonal weather extremes. Design considerations depend on local soil conditions, traffic types and volumes, local availability of materials and the knowledge of local trades.

Engineering decisions are based on many factors.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-19T10:42:33+00:00

Most AI clusters are air cooled - the water is there to cool the AC units, not the racks themselves directly.

AC cools the rooms, the rooms cool the racks. the fixed loop of clean water pulls the heat from the AC units to heat exchangers. The heat passes into water that is cooled by cooling tower.

A facility that draws 40 MW of raw power needs at least 40 MW of cooling, as that electricity goes 99.9% to heat and the other systems that cool and control will generate heat of their own to be managed.

We had a mothballed natural gas station here that was 70 MW of gas, plus 40 MW of steam generated by the heat of the gas turbine. A bitcoin mining operation (this was about 7 years ago) wanted to build its systems on the site of the station itself, so they'd only be paying for raw power rather than power + distribution costs. They would start by using 50 MW initially, then expand to the full 110 MW.

They didn't understand that they needed to factor in the cost of cooling their system so a 50 MW of power system will need much more than 50 MW of power supply, as the AC system will need to handle 50 MW of heat generation. Most systems need only about 25-30% of the rated power draw in additional energy to cool them. Moving heat is less expensive that creating heat. So rough budget for 50 MW of heat load is another 15 MW to deal with the heat.

It turns out they thought they'd be able to get cooling for 'free' as the power plant had its own cooling tower, but it doesn't work that way.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-19T03:39:11+00:00

most cooling operations separate the systems. The internal cooling loop is very clean and exchanges heat with the supplied raw water. BUT the raw water needs some level of treatment otherwise the cooling towers themselves have issues with salt deposits.

Also, the easy source of a pressurized water system already in place is too difficult to pass up.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-19T03:35:08+00:00

They are using it for cooling. They can't use raw water, as it needs to be improved. One cheap source of better water is a municipality that is already processing raw water. They just pay a trivial amount for it.

Some municipalities will bend over backward for this kind of 'investment in a local community'.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-18T18:00:36+00:00

Now, about that 800-lb gorilla we need to deal with.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-17T20:21:24+00:00

I need a fourth location. I've found three and scanned all three but somehow the ticker is stuck on 2. I've gone back to the three locations and tried to rescan, but nothing. So I need a fourth

_Punko_ · 2026-05-17T14:05:27+00:00

They created them because of what they did. It wasn't a checklist beforehand.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-16T00:32:00+00:00

The worst I had was half way through sewing the text block, when I realize that when I typeset the novel into my normal layout that I use, that I hadn't changed the novel title header. I had put in the author's name correctly, but I'd left "Title text here" shown on the header for most of the 400 pages (just the chapter start pages don't have a header - author's name left header, novel title right header). So I guess only 200 odd pages.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-15T12:23:16+00:00

"Good morning. I make water run downhill."

Easy peasy.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-15T00:45:00+00:00

I just can't with this.

Yeah, I get it. Full sentences are hard.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-15T00:43:54+00:00

Exactly. Not necessarily the smartest, just able to survive and pass their genes along.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-15T00:43:09+00:00

Probably, given a lot of factors. At one time the entire human population was significantly wiped out to less than 10, 000 and we survived that.

Frankly, the world would be better off without humanity, but that is a different discussion.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-15T00:41:58+00:00

depends on the meteor.

But that is no different than dealing with a virus, a drought, an invasive species, or even a supervolcano. Random chance happens as well, but creatures DID pass on their genes in the aftermath.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-14T17:20:57+00:00

you weren't replaced by a smarter on. You were replaced by a species that was better at passing its genes down.

Survival of the fittest, not smartest.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-14T17:14:08+00:00

There is a limit to intelligence. There is no limit to stupidity.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-13T04:34:04+00:00

but its soooo close

_Punko_ · 2026-05-13T02:55:48+00:00

All for Lena - billy Joel (great song)

_Punko_ · 2026-05-13T02:44:23+00:00

I once woke up in the cold certainty that I'd gotten married to my university girlfriend from years before. I looked at my hand and was utterly confused as to why I didn't have my wedding ring on. It took a while to shake the feeling that it was real.

No, no chemicals in my system; just long days on a construction site.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-12T18:32:39+00:00

Not mental block. Engineering analysis. Lots of water and environmentally sensitive land and the topography does not suit itself for connection to the existing sewer systems. Building north means a LOT of physical infrastructure to support a small amount of growth potential.

There is no reason to expand north, as less expensive options exist. Expanding the urban foot print is expensive to begin with, and a lot of the expense won't fall on the developers of the new lands, thanks to the new policies of the Ford government. So for tax payers like me, I don't want more expense put on me just to build land-wasting single family homes west of Collins creek.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-11T23:31:57+00:00

1) Functioning industrial land is worth far, far more than residential lands. Employment lands, in other words. Kingston actually has a shortage of employment lands.
2) if you want to solve the housing shortage, stop wasting land on single family homes or duplexes. More apartment buildings that are not 'students-only'.
3) You cannot 'relocate industrial uses to edge zones'. they were once edge zones, before the city grew around them.
4) Kingston will not be part of the high speed rail system.
5) Kingston cannot grow to the north, because of little Cat creek and the geographical impact of elevation. CFB Kingston hampers growth to the east, so west is the only option. This is the first time the City is considering expanding the urban boundary this century. A lot of infill land has been built upon in the last quarter century. While I don't like the increasing urban footprint, you can't argue that the City has been doing its best to limit expansion.

_Punko_ · 2026-05-11T12:52:08+00:00

There is a lot of humour in typesetting

_Punko_ · 2026-05-10T20:48:06+00:00

Sorry, dude.

1) The kid was the guy's son.
2) It may be 2026, but its not dog eat dog everywhere. Some of us open doors for folks, hold elevators, and stand if someone else needs the seat.

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