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RFID tracking would be my first guess. If you want to know where a tag is, you need multiple readers. Are they roughly in a grid pattern?

A second guess, are there e-ink tags in this store? These might be repeaters for programming those.

One small correction. You switched units. You started with Watt-hours (kWh, energy) and then switched to Watts (GW, power). With the right units, it’s even more dramatic.

There are an average of about 730 hours in a month. If a home consumes 1000 kWh per month, that’s an average of 1.3 kW. If we divide 9 GW by 1.3kW, we get 6.9 million.

So this data center will use the same amount of energy as over 6 million homes. For reference, Utah has a population of 3.5 million (total people, not total number of homes).

Here’s another way of comparing the numbers. If this new data center uses 9 GW of power 24/7, that’s an about 6,500 GWh per month, or a little under 79,000 GWh per year.

In 2025, Utah produced a new record of over 35,000 GWh.

So this data center would more than triple the amount of energy produced in 2025.

Looks like the title has been updated: “Eating Kosher in the Heart of Syria: Lamb-Stuffed Zucchini but Hold the Yogurt”

I have a little more foundation for that.

I think you’re right.

I largely agree, but one situation I can think of where condensing the work makes sense is experienced professionals who already meet the learning outcomes. Their goal is to prove that they know the material, then have a degree to show as proof, not to actually learn the material.

The “paperclip maximizer” is a great, realistic example of how an AI could work to destroy human civilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

Remap it to escape if you’re a vim user.

Maybe you could think of it that way, but I don’t think PV cells store much charge, so they’d make pretty crappy capacitors.

Chicken, rice, and corn.

One rule of thumb I’ve heard for estimating repairs as a homeowner is to take however long you think it should take, double the number and increase the time unit

• “I can do that in two hours” --> 4 days
• “It should take a day” --> 2 weeks
• “It’s a short project. Maybe a month.” --> 2 years

Do this.

Whether it would fry the NFC tag or not, you want as little distance as possible between the wireless charger and phone. More distance is less efficient (more heat, more wasted power, slower charging).

We don’t talk about Bruno.

Yikes, thanks for the context. That original comment 🤢

Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause.

This is a friendly reminder that “propaganda” isn’t always evil. It’s just people trying to persuade people.

This picture is absolutely propaganda. It’s also absolutely something people need to see to help understand the very human cost of the actions their government is taking.

On the CPU side, the only Intel procs I’ve used are old enterprise gear for my homelab. No issues there.

On the GPU side, I’ve exclusively used Nvidia for… Actually I don’t remember the last time I used a non-nvidia GPU. The most common problem I’ve run into is updating my drivers and forgetting to reboot. the only other problem I’ve had is years back, I bought the latest gen card, and Nvidia hadn’t updated their official Linux drivers yet.

With your hardware, I’d expect things to work fine.

IIRC, there’s a harder, trusted process for measurement. But an easier method that has gained widespread adoption, and that method is what has been called into question.

Because of how wide and thin it is, it looks like a phased antenna array to me. It’s a way to create cheaper, performant antennas. You see this form factor with a bunch of RF applications in UHF to EHF range.

Here’s an example of a random mmWave radar board. Imagine a plastic case over this to keep out dust and rain.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/60Ghz-long-distance-Millimeter-wave-radar_1601046927371.html

The large flat one looks like radar to me. I hadn’t heard of radar being used with PTZ cameras. But you can also use it standalone to measure traffic flow.

If it isn’t radar, it’s something with a large, flat antenna (probably a phased array). The other two options I can think of are a long-range RFID scanner or a point-to-point network connection.

How does this handle grid power outages?

In my area, you’re required to prevent back feeding if the grid goes down (otherwise it can be hazardous for the linemen repairing the issue).

Maradona with an eye patch and peg leg.