dakna's comments

> So where do they ask to put a small data center? Right in the city's entertainment district! Makes less sense than putting it on farmland. Look Michigan needs the jobs, just a little common sense would go a long ways.

The site of the old GM Fisher Body plant is a sixty acres brownfield. The proposed downtown data center location is a one acre unused parking lot. It is close enough to LBWL, Lansing's utility company for water/electricity, to reuse the generated heat [1].

I don't think this really compares to the 270 acres data center for OpenAi/Oracle planned in Saline Township, which will be connected to one of the few 345kV transmission lines in Michigan. [2]

[1] https://www.lbwl.com/community/newsroom/2025-11-05-deep-gree...

[2] https://openinframap.org/#11.64/42.1244/-83.8008

At the time, a standard LAMP stack setup wasn't prepared for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem. Quite often you had no DB connection pool and every request for dynamic data opened/closed a DB connection. Having a fixed number of connections available also quickly hit the limits unless it was a dynamically configured pool. Which also filled up eventually.

If you were lucky you could reduce load by caching the URLs taking up the most resources and generate a webpage copy in the filesystem, then add some URL rewrite logic to Apache to skip going through your application logic and bypass the DB.

Then you discovered there is a limit of open file descriptors in Linux. After updating this and also shutting down all log files you ran out of things to change pretty quick and started pricing a beefier server. For next time.

> and I am surrounded by very tall trees.

https://www.suncalc.org works great for shade calculations, I was surprised when I checked tree shadows for different times a year.

Same here, our freezer has lots of home made dumplings in dinner size packages.

Pancakes also work well for us, we usually put fresh chopped greens into them. We still eat the Bok Choy pancakes prepared months ago, usually when we just want a quick side for leftovers.

Still browsing those pictures, what a lovely project. Kudos for turning a school into housing units, that's a lot of surface area to work on.

Hey, this looks nice, great kitchen/bath module. How did you seal the plywood in the shower, just lots of clear coat? Or is this an epoxy layer? Thanks.

Archaeologists uncover massive 1,000-year-old Native American fields in Northern Michigan that defy limits of farming

Google demoed an automated version upgrade for Android libraries during I/O 2025. The agent does multiple rounds and checks error messages during each build until all dependencies work together.

Agentic Experiences: Version Upgrade Agent

https://youtu.be/ubyPjBesW-8?si=VX0MhDoQ19Sc3oe-

Google needs a widely used platform for AI integration into every computing task, based on interactions with and data on that device. Their best bet is to expand the reach of Android into traditional desktop tasks.

Android already made lots of progress on multi screens and adaptive layouts, and there is now a new developer center with guides for what they call productivity apps.

> The current AI hype might not actually pose a real threat to engineers but the fact that most of our colleagues do not understand the value that we bring is a serious problem that we need to address.

> We need to start meeting our colleagues where they are and explain what we do in ways that make sense to them. The goal is not to turn them into engineers but to help them get a high level understanding of what it takes to build a software product.

See, why stop at software engineers? Because coding is text based? There is a whole class of IT middle managers in non-tech companies making good money due to "responsibility" and "team supervision". How about they start explaining the value that they bring?

If it is not more than the usual

- check a list of incoming jobs to be done submitted by other departments

- assign the jobs to be done to someone on their team, mostly the person who worked in the same area before

- ask every person (daily/weekly) for status updates and an estimated completion date for the jobs assigned

- ask if the job was done sufficiently and can be reported as completed

- report the weekly/monthly completion rate and hours spent to their supervisor.

- every now and then review contractor bids for open RFPs

then the current state of LLMs can do this just fine.

Is there a good reason not to eliminate most of the little kingdoms in a large org and instead invest the money saved into more AI supervision, better QA and a lot more marketing?

You can also make yourself a Hobbes costume and put that on when you read to your kid.

I don't have any advice on how to get started, but please take a look at one of the legends of the 8/16-bit era:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Huelsbeck

Maybe I'm nostalgic, but these tunes were amazing. https://youtu.be/7dJrsmt9BOY

Oh, and if you haven't invested 30 minutes of your remaining lifetime listening to Orbital - The Box (Full Version) you are missing a masterpiece.

Here is Orbital's Paul Hartnoll playing with his gear:

https://youtu.be/VjlWypTclec

We have a modular sofa system that has moved with us two times already and there are no connector or stability issues at all. Same for a large dining table and various bed frames.

Everything that has metal connectors with fasteners on both sides still works well on 2nd or 3rd assembly in my experience.

> I have to wonder what the difference is between a Tacoma sport and an AWD vehicle, I think it’s 2WD mode and maybe clearance

As a long-time AWD driver who entertains the idea of getting an offroad vehicle at one point, this is my current understanding:

AWD: If one wheel slips and starts spinning, all other wheels stop turning. You are stuck. Clever electronics applying the brakes on the spinning wheel can help to redistribute the torque to other wheels, you might get unstuck.

4WD: If one wheel starts spinning, only the other wheel on the same axle stops turning. The transfer case is locked, and the other axle still receives torque. If both axles have one spinning wheel, you are stuck.

4WD with one locker: If one wheel on the axle with a locker starts spinning, the other wheel on the same axle still receives torque. If both axles each have one spinning wheel, you can still move the vehicle with one wheel still receiving torque.

4WD with locker on both axles: If you manage to get stuck with all 4 wheels spinning you should reflect on how the heck you ended up in that situation.

There is already a lot of illegal logging in Romania. Timber is a very valuable resource, and capitalism doesn't care if something is legal or not. As long as there are no revenue streams with less risk available, everyone local will have an incentive to exploit this resource.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_mafia

I had high hopes for WSA as an enterprise platform, not as a consumer platform. Give enterprises an easy way to build one custom workflow app for mobile incl. offline support and syncing, then use the same app on your desktop. There is already great tooling for work profiles and mobile device management. Too bad this didn't get enough traction.

Friends don't let friends use anything but web safe colors. Everyone else can enjoy dithering on their 8-bit CRT

You know what is a sign of a good neighborhood?

When you are comfortable approaching a stranger in a parking lot with a quarter in your hand, saying "Hey, I'll take that cart, no need for you to return it".

An even better sign is when that stranger declines to take the money and just asks you to pay it forward.

I've done both several times, in rural areas and big cities and have seen others doing the same.

Give it a try some day, it's fun.

> How else are you going to achieve that?

People already thought about that problem when the World Wide Web was invented and they came up with Server Side Includes [0], a scripting standard that predates the Apache HTTP Server.

Looks like this inside the HTML document:

<!--#include file="header.html" -->

<!--#include file="footer.html" -->

Not many people use this anymore, but it is easy to share common markup and very accessible for people with just basic HTML knowledge. Major web servers of today still support it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes.

I expect that there will be some sort of code reviews by software experts in the future during a large scale tax audit. Because there is a distinction between regular software maintenance (including diagnosing and debugging) and an actual upgrade or enhancement. So it's not like you just capitalize 100% of the salary, unless it is clearly a support role. But even for testing and quality control, they make a distinction between before and after putting the software into service.