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Comment · 1 year ago
It would work anywhere, but only with small amounts of current. In Germany the max is set to 800W. Won’t affect the grid much and standard wiring can easily handle 800W flowing „backwards“.

Germany has many rented apartments compared to eg the US. If you own a house, those systems make little sense. But for Germany, where many rent an apartment, it’s attractive for many. And the only way for many to ever profit from solar.

Comment · 1 year ago
But not just for AI, for all their data center operations.
Comment · 1 year ago
Or, with the wrong weather, nuclear fallout heading towards Moscow.
Comment · 1 year ago
> The Level 2 engineer was rostered on-call and therefore was not available on site at the time of the failure. Having exhausted remote intervention options, it took 1.5 hours for the individual to arrive on-site to perform the necessary full system re-start which was not possible remotely.

Which shows that sometimes, remote isn't a viable option. If you have very critical infrastructure, it's advisable to have people physically very close to the data center so that they can access the servers if all other options fail. That's valid for aviation as well as for health care, banks, etc. Remote staff just isn't enough in these situations.

Comment · 1 year ago
From the text it sounds like it looked up if a code was in the flight plan and at which position it was in the plan. It never looked up two codes or assumed there code only be one, just comparing how the plan was filed.

I'm sure there'd be a better way to handle this, but it sounds to me like the system failed in a graceful way and acted as specified.

Comment · 1 year ago
But that wouldn't help you here. The flight plan will come in with the code and you'll still have to resolve that to your keys.
Comment · 2 years ago
Transferwise makes sense to me. They used to be just about transferring money abroad. By now, they offer full bank accounts including card payments. I guess they dropped the transfer to make people aware that they’re a proper bank now.
Comment · 2 years ago
And sent back by fax.
Comment · 2 years ago
I just did a training course and for the ones we used it was still two on the front. Only for children it's front and back.
Comment · 2 years ago
As a website owner, I have an incentive to provide access to the Google crawler because of the visitors they send me. They've started to show more content directly, but a fair amount of people still click through to websites.

It looks to me like ChatGPT Search hides links much more. Is there any incentive for website owners to allow access to ChatGPT?

Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, a lot gets lost in an email vs. video. I'm not saying it has to be a live meeting, but videos of execs talking about strategy often make their ideas much clearer than a written text.

And live has the big advantage that it cannot be re-recorded, so it's more natural and not as rehearsed as a recorded video.

Comment · 2 years ago
Since most applications aren't latency sensitive, space and power can be nearly free by setting up the data center in a place where it's cold, there's nearly free electricity and few people live. Leaves you with cost for infrastructure and connectivity, but I guess electricity prices shouldn't be the issue?
Comment · 2 years ago
Not true. I‘ve been at several companies that self host Jira. With the amount of critical data and processes in Jira, it can be comforting to have it on-prem with no one else being able to access the server.
Comment · 2 years ago
But Europe has frequent floodings, they don't seem to be an issue with buried power lines.
Comment · 2 years ago
Absolutely, takes me less than 10 seconds. And the process is transparent. Passkeys don't really seem to be faster.

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