22 August 2026

What is a datacenter – explained for 3rd graders. Building a datacenter is pretty complicated.

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China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux. Strangely, I get the sense that Microsoft doesn't care anymore. It was a good ride, eh?

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Cliff Stoll is still amazing. I sense that Doc Brown from the Back to the Future movies was based on him. What keeps him going?

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Well goodMultilingual people may have brains up to 13 years younger. Do computer languages count? 

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Greenwich moon time? The high-stakes race to set lunar clocks. This something that mankind has not yet had to do before, and of course, general relativity must be taken into account.

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The case for doing this remains somewhat uncertain, but Reflect Orbital has said the goal is to prolong the hours of sunlight for various uses, including solar panel charging, emergency response, and military activities.
Solar panel charging? Eh, no. This is stupid. What's next? Fans in space so that windmills will spin longer? For a concept called renewable energy, things are getting far-fetched. And won't these mirrors raise global temperatures? I thought people were against that.

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Will this be Portland in the future? A socialist dystopia?
That city is too clean to be Portland.
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