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Regarding “back to the office”: Why is the commute the employee’s burden anyway? Make it part of the work time and have at it, requiring people to come to the office. Three hours commute? You get 5 hours in the office.

Employees are available immediately at home but if they’ve required in the office, the clock starts when they leave home. You rent their time, your choice to spend it on travel.

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In this https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-09-11/lets-put-a-stake-in-the-great-man-biography-starting-with-isaacsons-elon-musk @bcmerchant not only destroys the new Elon Musk biography but buries the whole genre of tech executive hagiographies that really caught on with Steve Jobs'.

New Covid vaccines may be out later this week in the US:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/09/11/covid-vaccine-new-booster/

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Water required by data centers is increasing considerably with the advent of generative AI. Large language models trained on vast amounts of data need considerable cooling.

While some may argue that water can be reused, it is often pulled from water supplies in times of considerable heatwaves, when residents are in need of it as well, and supplies diminsh faster.

In July of 2022, Microsoft pumped in about 11.5 million gallons of water to its cluster of Iowa data centers, according to the West Des Moines Water Works. That’s around 6% of all the water used in the district, which also supplies drinking water to residents.

Meanwhile, the energy required is of course not recycled – and it’s to be expected that energy use is growing as well. The companies behind the tools are just not disclosing how much their AI investments are costing when it comes to their carbon footprint.

”In its latest environmental report, Microsoft disclosed that its global water consumption spiked 34% from 2021 to 2022 (to nearly 1.7 billion gallons, or more than 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools), a sharp increase compared to previous years that outside researchers tie to its AI research.”

https://fortune.com/2023/09/09/ai-chatgpt-usage-fuels-spike-in-microsoft-water-consumption/

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My daughter ran away from me while we were out today in a beeline towards traffic and I screamed in a way I think everyone present will remember

KISS principle for Software Engineering (or any other stuff in life) is the best. Do you agree?

Canada's Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has voted AGAINST:

Child Benefit Payments
$10/day Child-care
Dental Care
Support for Seniors
Women's Abortion Rights
Pay Equity for Women
Same-Sex Marriage
Conversion Therapy Ban
That Climate Change is real & needs to be addressed

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@zleap
The conflict affects Iran because it has been an active part of the conflict that Aliyev's regime trying to occupy and cut the landline between Iran and Armenia

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The “test week,” is for testing Linux kernel 6.5 ahead of the release of Fedora 39, and the “test day” is for testing changes made to Toolbx container software: Fedora Has a Kernel 'Test Week' and a Toolbx 'Test Day' Coming Up - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/2023/09/fedora-has-a-kernel-test-week-and-a-toolbx-test-day-coming-up/

AI came for the actors and writers -- and then it came after everyone else.

@AstroMigration Post of the Day

Today's #POTD (https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/111025157450982774) goes to UK astronomer Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets:

"Almost all the satellites you can see with your eyes now are Starlinks. Nicely demonstrated in this awful/beautiful photo: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220614.html "

Thank you Prof. Lawler for continuing to remind the world of the catastrophe unfolding in low earth orbit.

Check out @AstroMigration for more great #astronomy, #space and #astrophysics

#Starlink