Yes yes.

Exactly what I was going to suggest. My mom had ankle surgery earlier this year and used one for a few weeks while recovering.

Pretty much what I expected it to look like! It’s really interesting and I bet will make for some fun photos. Basically a very slow horizontal shutter.

That’s interesting! I assume you’re using some kind of pinhole camera setup that focuses the light on the top of the scanner tray? Would really love to see what the camera looks like!

“You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” -Warren Buffet

It’s a quote about investing but applies to software too.

This is one of the better ones I got. From Oregon USA.

I was just kind of shocked that their conscription age was so high considering the US draft age ends at their new low end. When I first read the headline I assumed they were going to start drafting 16 year olds.

Zelensky signed several laws on mobilization on April 2, one of which lowered the minimum age of compulsory military service from 27 to 25, making men eligible for the draft from age 25.

The current draft age in the USA is 18-25.

The actual news release has a bit more information.

The team discovered that a single chip responsible for storing a portion of the FDS memory — including some of the FDS computer’s software code — isn’t working. The loss of that code rendered the science and engineering data unusable. Unable to repair the chip, the team decided to place the affected code elsewhere in the FDS memory. But no single location is large enough to hold the section of code in its entirety.

So they devised a plan to divide the affected code into sections and store those sections in different places in the FDS. To make this plan work, they also needed to adjust those code sections to ensure, for example, that they all still function as a whole. Any references to the location of that code in other parts of the FDS memory needed to be updated as well.

Source: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth

Clearing.

Hear me out…

“Congratulations on reaching a billion dollars! Here is your reward, a one way trip to the Sun!”

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“Old man fucks a whole country”

Water used to cool data centers is either consumed, meaning it evaporates into the atmosphere via the data center’s cooling towers or discharged, as industrial wastewater, usually to a local wastewater treatment plant.

It can’t just be dumped into a river, has to go to a sewer treatment plant.

edit: They do recirculate it, but it eventually needs to be replaced. And some facilities have treatment plants on site, so doesn’t necessarily needed to go to a sewer treatment plant.

These cooling systems remove and release all of the heat produced inside a data center – from servers, IT equipment, and mechanical infrastructure – into the outside environment, through a cooling tower that uses a water evaporation process.

It goes outside and eventually becomes rain.

A Macon man pleaded guilty Monday in Bibb County Superior Court to throwing a pot of hot grease on a man in a Popeyes restaurant.

He plead guilty so he made a deal for a lower sentence.

From the article this article was quoting: https://www.macon.com/news/local/crime/article282436463.html

Some water is used in humidifiers, there are also systems that use direct evaporative cooling where the water is eveporated to cool the hot air. There are probably other ways the water is lost.

AWS’ preferred cooling strategy for its data centers is known as direct evaporative cooling. In this system, hot air is pulled from outside and pushed through water-soaked cooling pads. The water evaporates, reducing the air’s temperature, and the cool air is then sent into the server rooms.

https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-water-usage/

Some of the water is evaporated so it doesn’t leave as a liquid.

My favorite quote: “I would call you a cunt, but you have neither the warmth nor the depth.”