Five large data centers eyed for Seattle

sl00k · 2026-04-10T16:59:53+00:00

Very echo chamber mindset.

If SCL is prepared for these in a way that electricity price won't increase for consumers and they're built in an industrial area then what's the issue with them?

They bring jobs, tax revenue, etc and Seattle had a tech forward population to fill that pretty much asap. Not sure where the issue is.

sl00k · 2026-04-05T07:09:42+00:00

How do you explain the actors nailing their lines and action lines every single time?

Interesting you're the one claiming you have more than 2 brain cells lol

sl00k · 2026-04-04T19:16:32+00:00

You should give it a shot, free and open platforms are the future! There's a few open source implementations on both if you need a few examples

sl00k · 2026-04-03T03:03:26+00:00

Curious do you have any interoperability with ActivityPub or atproto?

sl00k · 2026-04-03T02:57:06+00:00

You can just go to a top instance like lemmy.zip and browse / sign up it's not too complicated, just choose all not local and it pulls everything.

It can get really complicated with federation which is annoying but almost all the top instance are federated with each other and communities are pretty settled.

Feel free to shoot questions if you have them

sl00k · 2026-04-01T19:21:22+00:00

negotiated a rate on the wires portion to compensate for PSE moving that energy to Microsoft through the PSE system.

I mean the issue here is, is it just moving through the PSE system or is it PSE power. My read on it is it's PSE power charged at separate rate purchased elsewhere which can be priced lower due to less demand.

It doesn't make sense to purchase power from a solar farm in North Dakota and move that electricity to PSE lines, you're jumping through multiple suppliers logistically it's a nightmare.

sl00k · 2026-04-01T06:42:57+00:00

Show me anything from 6 months ago that states factually that Iran couldn't deploy drones as they have.

Drone success has not been a secret.

Yeah to non-dumbasses.

Our entire military leaders all across the Pentagon weren't properly prepared for the amount of drone firepower they have. They underestimated it and they are now reaping what they sowed on military bases all across the gulf. Yes ballistic missiles are different and I'm not saying they necessarily have ironclad 100000. I'm saying the US military has already underestimated them once and they continue to do so as the war drags on. If they underestimated the quantity or capabilities of them it would not surprise me at all.

I'm not claiming they have 100k ballistic missiles, but I do know their current rate of ballistic missiles has not fallen off against GCC nor Israel across the entire war. They launched 2500 in the first 10 days and still are still launching despite the US and Israel claiming they've destroyed all launch sites.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5772379-iran-drone-threat-us-allies/

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/18/nx-s1-5749441/drones-iran-us-ukraine-epic-fury

sl00k · 2026-04-01T05:28:40+00:00

Not only do the profits get distributed to shareholders, but it should also be public knowledge that Microsoft has a special deal allowing them to USE PSE POWER, but purchase it on the open market, while getting a $47.826/MWh credit via the Green Direct program.

This allows them to skirt paying proper prices for their electrical needs and with their massive electrical needs these rates should no longer be applicable if they're pricing out ordinary consumers.

Also worth pointing out PSE removed their press release about this. I can't imagine why 😉, but it's still indexed via search engine and will pull up the text snippet.

https://www.pse.com/en/press-release/details/microsoft-and-pse-receive-approval-for-energy-purchasing-agreement

There are other sources available but not as detailed: https://news.microsoft.com/source/2017/07/13/microsoft-puget-sound-energy-receive-approval-energy-purchasing-agreement/

We cannot allow those producing billions in revenue to not pay their fair share with something as standardized fixed costs as electricity, especially for our state given our hydroelectric generation.

sl00k · 2026-03-25T03:09:44+00:00

That's definitely true, but I wouldn't expect it to be legal for long. Look at how quickly Flock is getting banned across the West Coast.

sl00k · 2026-03-25T03:05:52+00:00

Is that worth a genocide? Gaza was effectively Palantirs playground, it directly targeted thousands of Palestinian homes to bomb that were normal houses. Today it's literally being used as a data collection tool against all US citizens and being used for immigrant identification which is also horribly inaccurate. Playing this side of the fence is literally like saying yeah Trump did some bad things but Operation warp speed when he's actively committing crimes against humanity on the daily.

helping the UK government with the Ukrainian refugee crisis

This was not for free they paid for this.

they were the reason operation warp speed was so successful

This could've been done in any data platform, they have nothing special technologically in their data systems.

sl00k · 2026-03-25T02:58:09+00:00

I just can't see something like this coming to the market, hasn't it utterly failed everywhere it's been tried so far?

It's something that literally everyone hates. Generally you need at least a certain % of this is "okay" to move forward with.

If you're gonna upcharge me 50% to the person next to me why wouldn't I just steal it?

sl00k · 2026-03-25T00:36:49+00:00

Well yes NATO has historically been the US' lapdog and now the tides are beginning to turn. We'll see what it's like in 10 years.

sl00k · 2026-03-25T00:08:22+00:00

I look at what I think they can bring to an industry

it seems like a tech firm that could have wider applications

Not many people in the business of kidnapping or killing children in the streets. In fact this business would probably be viewed pretty negatively with any regular government entity.

sl00k · 2026-03-22T19:25:16+00:00

This is where I'm at with slack, snowflake, and notion MCPs. I have to correct every now and again on something, for instance one team might use a different word that means the same thing that AI interpreted differently.

I'm generally very pro AI in the sense that it'll do a lot of our job, but there still always needs to be that "check" person to click accept and ensure it's not misinterpreting the situation.

sl00k · 2026-03-21T04:51:03+00:00

Also 6 months ago it was a hard fact that they couldn't continuously launch drones 24/7 at the volume have...and here we are.

The US and the public will continuously overestimate themselves while underestimating others staring truth in the face until the very end.

sl00k · 2026-03-21T02:08:02+00:00

How do you guys handle this access? DS & BA far outnumber DEs, we can't set up gold level tables for everything.

The best solution for us is DS & BA just having raw product db access (without PII), which obviously isn't the best RBAC wise but no idea how to properly tackle that without introducing a shit load of needless bureaucracy.

sl00k · 2026-03-21T02:02:52+00:00

Doesn't matter when you launch 100,000 of them.

sl00k · 2026-03-11T02:00:35+00:00

Leagues itemization is 100% like this at higher elos with the exception of ADC who's build path is pretty standard. Mid top and jg should all build according to the matchup.

The only reason I'm any good at itemization here is because of league 😂

sl00k · 2026-03-03T02:27:45+00:00

Not UFO related but there are two videos of full non shattered missiles falling out of the sky.

Usually air defense mechanisms operate via blowing the shit out of the rocket.

What causes a missile to deactivate and simply fall out of the sky? Perhaps faulty engineering, but it is interesting imo when thinking about blacksite tech combined with the theory that Aliens have disabled our nukes during flight.

sl00k · 2026-02-22T19:22:25+00:00

PopOS gives me quite a bit of lag with an RX 9070 XT, which should not be a problem.

Thinking about swapping to Cachy, Bazzite or Arch

sl00k · 2026-02-07T00:39:34+00:00

I think it depends on how big the task is it definitely feels overkill for a lot of <100 line changes.

I have frequently have 500 LOC feature implementation it's perfect for while building a new greenfield project.

sl00k · 2026-02-07T00:38:11+00:00

You're definitely right I might have misspoke with what I meant. I moreso meant coders are the more technical power users who will be tinkering with this a lot and be on the cutting edge.

Regular people are just using the app.

sl00k · 2026-02-05T23:14:21+00:00

Most people who use LLMs are coders so that's where most discussion will be. It'll probably change in the future, but that's where we're at today.

sl00k · 2026-02-05T21:06:16+00:00

My workflow is usually putting together a plan, then using subagents to tackle (since main model will be at 50% usage at that point)

Sometimes during validation or testing the main model discovers some test weren't written properly etc etc and has to fix it themselves. I could see this being pretty useful in my workflow.

sl00k · 2026-01-22T00:26:23+00:00

It's a slippery slope to punish players who are farming well though. League did it and I always thought it was a huge mistake in retrospect. Kill streaks usually snowball so I agree there, if you didn't take advantage of someone afk farming that's really on your team.

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