PokerPirate
12hr ago
Thanks for the clarification. I'd be curious if there is anything that I would consider a datacenter that is located in a business zone instead of an industrial zone. In my mind, a "server room" doesn't become a "data center" until you start measuring the size in acres.
I suspect this whole effort is basically just Europeans catching up to how Americans already do things in practice. (That's my general uncharitable impression of most standards organizations that start with "International".)
PokerPirate
12hr ago
Following your dream neighborhood link and a few other I found this post by @Southkraut from 1 year ago:
My wife... WORKED AS A KINDERGARDENER (emphasis hers) FOR LESS THAN HALF A YEAR
I just wanted to highlight that to the German brain "kindergardener" is literally someone who "gardens children" and is the teacher of the class, but to my American brain a "kindergardener" is someone who is enrolled in kindergarten and is the student.
I have 3 thoughts about this:
- I'm going to have kids in kindergarten for the next 3 years. They and their "gardeners" are going to suffer through so many dad jokes along these lines.
- I'm curious when this semantic shift happened. I assume it happened during the time of mandatory public schooling in the early 1900s, but don't know how to prove it. Google ngrams doesn't give me any meaningful insights here. (If anyone knows of any tools for studying this semantic shift, I would love to hear about them! I'm familiar with using word2vec to study semantic shifts, but I suspect this shift is too subtle for word2vec to pick up, and I don't know of any easy-to-use website for doing this analysis.)
- Somewhat relatedly, take a look at the google ngrams of "kindergarten teacher" vs "Kindergarten Teacher". There are two clear spikes when kindergarten teacher was almost always capitalized as Kindergarten Teacher:
- in the early 1900s (this is probably because it came from german and germans capitalize all nouns, not just proper nouns.
- in the year 2000; this is very curious to me. I hypothesize that this capitalization is due to wanting to emphasize the importance of the Kindergarten Teacher role, but it's not 100% clear to me why. I can create all sorts of just-so stories about the rise of feminism/helicopter parenting/credentialism/etc.
- Somewhat relatedly, take a look at the google ngrams of "kindergarten teacher" vs "Kindergarten Teacher". There are two clear spikes when kindergarten teacher was almost always capitalized as Kindergarten Teacher:
- It's curious to me that a German wrote the eggcorn "kindergarden" based on the American pronunciation of the word, when in both German and English the correct version is kindergarten (with a t instead of a d).
PokerPirate
13hr ago
ICC is in the very early stages of developing a guideline on data centers. Nothing but a tentative outline has been published so far (in the "documents" on the linked page).
Data centers have existed for decades. If the ICC hasn't figured out how to handle data centers, then maybe they're really no as important as you suggest.
And clicking that link takes me to this description of the G12 guidelines. I did not think it possible to channel the pompous, verbose writing of an overconfident undergrad without sounding like chatgpt, but damn this committee nailed it.
The G12 Guideline on Data Centers provides a clear, comprehensive, and easy‑to‑navigate framework that aligns the most relevant code provisions for modern data center design and construction. As data centers evolve in scale, operational complexity, and criticality, this guideline brings together key requirements from multiple disciplines, electrical, mechanical, fire protection, structural, water efficiency, and more, into a single, cohesive resource tailored specifically to these unique facilities.
By integrating applicable codes and standards to highlight how they relate within the context of data center operations, G12 enhances understanding for building officials, designers, and developers. It offers a clear pathway for achieving safety, reliability, and sustainability in the built environment, supporting the development of data centers that meet today’s performance needs while preparing for tomorrow’s technological advancements.
PokerPirate
1d ago
I think of being a member of the WPK as being equivalent to citizenship in the US. Once you're a member of of the WPK, you get a "meaningful" vote, can get a passport, and get all the other legal benefits that we give to citizens.
One of the reasons I'm against serve-your-country-for-citizenship-starship-troopers-style is that North Korea style governance seems like the only possible end result.
My understanding is that voting in the DPRK happens as an "approval ballot" where ballots come pre-filled with a single name for every position. Voters can either cast their vote directly, or cross off one of the names before casting the vote. At least in theory, these %0.07 percent of votes that don't go to Kim represent voters who crossed of Kim's name before casting their ballot. There's defector testimony that these modified ballots go into a separate ballot box, and votes are cast simultaneously by everyone in your neighborhood, and so this is an obviously public act of defiance.
The real politics in the DPRK happens in determining who gets put on the ballot. The Worker's Party of Korea is in charge of preparing the ballots and selecting candidates. My understanding is that low-level candidates are determined by a process that would be viewed as more-or-less democratic by Western standards, you just have to be a member of the party to have a "vote" in the "primary" that determines who goes on the main ballot. About 10% of the population are members of the WPK. Being a member of the WPK is relatively prestigious socially and hard to do. I've mentioned here before that I used to teach in the DPRK, and I had a few students explicitly mentioned to me that their number 1 career goal was getting into the party.
There are two other legal political parties in North Korea, and they both get some number of seats in local and nation-level elections (maybe 5% between the two of them). The Chindoist Chongu Party is more or less an anti-Christian party, and the Korean Social Democratic Party is more or less what you'd guess from the title. They've historically had more independence than I would have naively guessed (which is not a lot---they are legally bound to be subservient to the WPK---but past party pamphlets would occasionally have remarks in them directly criticizing national level policies and human rights abuses). I never heard anyone talk about these parties while I was over there, though, and I have long wondered what type of person joins one of these parties instead of the WPK/how it affects their social standing.
The main way we know these things is by people going and visiting North Korea and interacting with "ordinary" North Koreans. But Trump in 2017 passed an executive order that Americans cannot travel there. I think this was a huge mistake because now we have even less insight into this already opaque country.
PokerPirate
1d ago
The equivalent right wing trope is the republican senator having gay sex in the airport bathroom stall.
PokerPirate
1d ago
It does seem weird that this didn't come out with the #metoo movement.
PokerPirate
2d ago
It's a defect of this forum only in the sense that I trust the people in this forum more than I do of other forums. So when someone bullshits a factoid, I am much more likely to believe them.
PokerPirate
2d ago
I'm curious how many "facts" like this go stated and uncorrected on themotte here. I suspect it's common enough to meaningfully distort my worldview :(
PokerPirate
3d ago
That is, the exchange of political tutelege for sexual gratification is fundamentally illegitimate. ... Meanwhile, the exchange of labor for money is inherent to... reality.
This sounds entirely post-hoc justified to me. Every primeape understood the exchange of sex for favors long before homo sapiens invented money.
PokerPirate
4d ago
In your post, you just define "exploitation" to be what the standard capitalist thinks exploitation should mean. The fact that you have a different intuition than Marx does not mean deception is the point. The Marxists could (and did/do!) accuse capitalists of all the same critiques you are leveling at Marxists and their critiques are equally valid.
For example:
If both parties are profiting and are glad for the presence of the other party, then neither is being exploited.
The obvious counterexample to this claim would be the Roman practice of molesting young boys. Both parties here profited from the exchange (the elder statesman receiving sexual gratification and the young boy receiving political tutelage), both entered into the practice willingly, but up-to-lizardman's-constant, every modern American considers this to be exploitation.
So it seems to me you are redefining the term exploitation away from its common-sense meaning into a technical one to perform the exact same motte-and-bailey you accuse the Marxists of.
PokerPirate
4d ago
I mean it in both ways.
You will find plenty of people who have operated US/allied military equipment and so you will have much more credible discussions about that equipment because the posters are have 1st hand knowledge. There are not posters with first hand knowledge of operating Russian drones, or first hand knowledge of Iranian procurement procedures, or first hand knowledge of how Chinese politicians order around the military establishment, or first hand knowledge of what it takes to get promoted in the IRGC. And so there's lots of unfounded speculation about these topics and any post about these topics needs to be taken with a very large grain of salt.
You will also find people celebrating when the Russian infantry gets thrown into the meat grinder and lamenting when the Ukrainian infantry gets thrown into the meat grinder.
Both of these biases is likely to lead to over-estimating US-aligned forces' capabilities.
PokerPirate
4d ago
I'll second /r/CredibleDefense, but also note that you get a very pro-US establishment bias from there. You're not going to find anyone who sympathizes with the Russians/Chinese/Venezuelans/Iranians.
PokerPirate
5d ago
After all the temporary ranks he goes back to the "normal" rank. These read like wartime field promotions to me where they need someone to fill the spot and he's the only one available. I just never heard of anyone getting demoted after those. Going from colonel to captain, or general to major is mind blowing.
PokerPirate
5d ago
The US, via politics and bad strategy (read up on William Westmoreland if you're interested)
That wikipedia article was an interesting read, thanks. The most fascinating thing to me is how he jumped around in rank. He went from O2 -> O4, O6 -> O3, O4->O7->O5->O8. I can't fathom a military career like that these days.
PokerPirate
6d ago
Overall I agree with everything you said. But I'd love to see a source for the following claim:
this is based on studies done during IIRC the Vietnam War that found that carrier landings caused more stress than taking enemy fire
I really doubt this is true. I've been around naval aviators a bunch and never heard anyone say this. But there's a huge range of carrier landings (night, storm, low fuel) and a huge range of enemy fire (small arms, dog fight machine gun, SAM). I'm certain that an F8 landing on a carrier in a storm would be more stressful than the same pilot being shot at by an AK47 while on mission.
PokerPirate
7d ago
You have cited these international building codes in a lot of discussions. It's never been clear to me, however, how they relate to real world construction. What countries actually follow these regulations? Are they effectively law in the US? Would a general contractor in Southern California know/care about these changes? Would my city's building inspector? An architect?
PokerPirate
7d ago
Does Latin content count?
I got my kids into watching minecraftium and magister craft. Both channels use minecraft to teach kids latin. It's not a full-blown course, but it's rather fun.
PokerPirate
8d ago
This is a truely excellent take.
Up next is China and the US jointly implementing Yud's plan to prevent AI takeover.
PokerPirate
8d ago
My guess is that a well-placed if statement/flag should be able to make the light only affect living sprites instead of dead ones. I think that'd be a cool looking effect.
PokerPirate
8d ago
I like the banhammer flair that got added to the offending post. Is that feature new?
PokerPirate
10d ago
I haven't been following along, but I just watched the video. I like the light cone effect. I haven't seen that before in an asteroids clone (maybe I just haven't played enough). The one thing that strikes me though is that there's no easy at-a-glance visual cue of if a bug is dead or not; maybe the light cone should only highlight the living bugs instead of the dead ones?
PokerPirate
10d ago
Oh, I see. You're asking about the bottom link there without the +7. I don't have a way to see if I've previously visited a link or not, but I've never not remembered if I haven't visited.
This is an easy 1-line CSS change to fix, but most users these days don't like the distinction of visited/unvisited links looking different and so webdevs turn it off.
PokerPirate
10d ago
I'm on a laptop, so different UI than mobile.
I work on the research-side of AI and infodumps like this are super helpful for me to get a handle on how people actually use AI. Thank you.
But I want to push back on this comment:
The fact that humans don't read this SEO is what makes it slop. You (and others like you) are what have made writing these "machine only SEO articles" necessary, and why google is increasingly shitty. It was slop before AI and is still slop today (just more efficiently produced slop). You have poisoned the internet commons with this slop and made the internet a measurably less useful place for me.
For this, I hate you and the millions of people like you who have ruined the internet. I understand that you are working within the constraints of "the algorithm", and each of your individual actions has not meaningfully impacted my life negatively, and that I have probably even benefited from some of the actions of people like you (I haven't bought clothing in >10 years, so I doubt I've benefited from you personally). But nevertheless I believe the overall effect you all (as a group) are having on society is net-negative. And for this I hate you. As I type this I realize that this hatred is probably bad for my soul, and so I also feel a need to ask your forgiveness for this hatred.
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