That seems like a giant waste of battery/fuel.

People are addicted to it and see the aspartame water with no sugar and no calories and feel they can drink as much as they want guilt free.

Why? Is it creating construction jobs? Doubt the entire salaries of everyone building it will total anywhere near that amount.

Jobs after? What, like a dozen security guards and a couple IT people? Those things practically run themselves from what I understand.

Just pay that money directly to the construction workers and scrap the data centre.

True, I did forget that it might have been useful for me in one very specific instance where there was a comments section in one of our excel forms and I wanted to summarize the most common words mentioned in those comments. Couldn’t figure out how at the time but this could potentially have figured it out. Not sure I would trust the accuracy of it’s result though

I wonder if it would be suitable to adjust people’s grades each year on their final exam.

For example instead of having assignments worth 25%, attendance 10%, quizzes 20%, midterm 20%, and final 25%

Have it as assignments 75% and attendance as 25%

Then adjust all of that for by midterm and finals

Get 100% on your assignments due to chatgpt and show up to class every time despite not paying attention, if you get 50% on your quizzes, midterm, and final you get 50% overall, not 67.5%

… You aren’t supposed to use it for math… In excel? What is the point?

How is this easier than just typing in sum(a1:a3)??

Well, yes it wouldn’t heat it a “little bit” at the source but once added back into the system the average increase wouldn’t probably be a “little bit”.

I just bought a house which has a pump and water line for garden hoses and irrigation

I have no idea where the water is coming from

The house has a well, but the irrigation system is completely separate and has a pipe running somewhere that I have no idea about.

Honestly question though …

Does a data centre actually pollute or dirty the water when used to cool it’s stuff?

Could it not just take the water, run it through the system, heat the water a little bit to cool the stuff it needs, then run the water back into the city lines which might even save people a few cents on the water heating bills?

I mean, if it creates a bit of competition with tim Hortons I wouldn’t complain. Maybe they might be forced to actually go back to freshly baked doughnuts and proper coffee

I go for a conference almost every year for work. Skipped last year, this year its in Canada (1 out of every 5 years) so I got a two for one.

I thought Trudeau changed the law so even safety related maintenance delays need to be compensated, which were immune before 2022 or 2023 or something?

Of course I’m aware, that’s why I asked if there was a particular reason everyone was freaking out

Is it a particularly bad unique mutation then?

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Hantavirus has been around forever.

Is there a particular reason these few cases have been focused on so hard in the news other than typical fear mongering?

I live on West coast so I think we do actually import a lot of gas from washington

It’s kind of surprising to me that fuel prices in the US seem to have been affected the most by it.

I’m above the border and gas was typically $1.30 and now it’s closer to $1.90-$2.00

Still a big increase but no where near double like some places in the US

Does it matter if the coo knows or not? If they do something stupid and get stopped, the cop will realize and fine them for not being registered.

You can also drive around in a car without a license and a cop would never know unless you drove stupidly and they pulled you over.

Unfortunately it’s unlikely a court will fine them based on a single person generating thousands of images. And it’s also unlikely they will fine them based on many people generating a few each, as it would be a slow and arduous process. I just can’t see it happening in reality.