TeaWithDani

Hyper scalers have so little for their models and compute to do they are just brute force hacking things or mining crypto.

Couldnt you just make daily snapshots on baremetal? Like most configs will support a ZFS pool.

All my stuff is just configs anyway, so my backup is a Git commit. Lighter than a full snapshot. My server can be restarted with like 50mbs of information.

Docker images are images so disposable. All my files and databases are on my NAS which is a ZFS pool mirrored and with a weekly backup to a secondary NAS also mirrored. Plus I have an offsite cloud backup of everything. There isnt really anything on my server that matters other than some configs, scripts and ymls. Which by commiting to my Gitea, are all on my NAS with the rest of my data.

I still feel like Proxmox just invites you to tinker and fiddle with stuff that should be set and forget. Or overcomplexify your setup with too many moving parts.

For public stuff I just use a VPS. Better internet connection than at home, high availability and DDOS protection. Otherwise, an LXC with good firewall rules and a well configured reverse proxy should be sufficient.

Yes, and nuclear power plants are built with the strictest oversight and environmental planning. Data centers are just built in industrial zones with minimal supervision.

Do you think people live close enough to them for the noise to be a problem?

The heated water is released back into the waterways and by extensions kills everything living there. This collapses the ecosystem and changes the water chemistry. This can result in contamination, invasive species taking over, etc... Do that on major water ways like the Great Lakes/Saint Lawrence and you fuck with people's drink water supply.

Only closed loop data centers are remotely feasible.

And never turn off the monitor

The farmers are using all kinds of growth hormones, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and GMO that are considered unsafe for human consumption in Canada, Mexico and the EU.

US food standards were a fucking joke before this administration that fired everyone enforcing anything.

You cant even drink the tap water in some places.

Lemmy makes me use social media considerably less. That's a plus.

Honestly, you are right it didn't. CS majors get way less work than Software Engineers where I live. CS is mostly academic and not practical. Maybe different elsewhere, but not a golden ticket. I don't like working with compsci grads because they don't know how to make stuff. They don't know best practices or how to make reusable code and features. Software engineers on the other hand, actually useful contributors.

Nevertheless, Software engineering, just like other engineering fields, way way way over saturated. Mechanical and electrical engineers in places like Toronto are just working Starbucks. You gotta be top of class or there's nothing for you.

The worst part is I was just starting to name these things "SI" but not for that reason. I think "Simulated Intelligence" is the best description of these chat bots.

Well guess that idea is DOA.

Who cares, let them sleep on the value of the degree. ;)

Most Arts and Sciences are liberal arts. But yeah, you can still get general education in lots of places and it'll usually be under the liberal arts umbrella.

Listen, the marines were always cooler than the spartans. They were just normal humans against giant fuckin monsters with gravity hammers and energy swords.

This trailer still goes hard:

https://youtu.be/XRMUYpH7bQk