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The facilities team at our office would previously build a C-shaped box out of MDF or plywood to sit a regular, fixed-height desk on top of.

To be fair they did a nice job, they were sturdy and would have recesses for the desk’s legs to sit in to prevent sideways movement. But the problem then became “what about when those people wanted to sit”, so tall office chairs - that didn’t match the rest of the chairs in the office - had to be bought, undoubtedly at considerable expense.

The new, all-standing-desks use-it-if-you-want-or-don’t-it-doesn’t-matter-to-us regime seems to just avoid a lot of unnecessary shifting of furniture.

It should be a great idea, but I feel like the quantities involved are too vastly different.

I’m seeing estimates of 300kW/hectare (30MW/km² or 77MW/mile²) for heating glasshouses. With individual datacentres frequently confirming multiple gigawatts, the land area required just doesn’t match up.

This is not to say it isn’t worth considering, but it would be a rounding error in the datacentre’s heat output before you ran out of space to build more glasshouses.

There’s a secondary concern of water consumption. You might extend that to ah but what if we could use that to grow the plants too? but the evaporated cooling water out of one of these systems tends to be anything but clean. Maybe that’s a more solvable problem.

I started with an assumption there might have been a when component to that question, but nope, apparently we’re taking about 2025 and not 1995.

Somewhat amazingly though, brand new dot matrix printers - not just new old stock, but newly-manufactured units including modern USB and/or Ethernet interfaces - and even the big cartons of tractor-feed continuous paper are still readily available.

As dot matrix printers have not gone the way of the dodo, also neither have carbonless triplicate forms, which they are uniquely able to print on. Seems that’s still a big selling point for these printers.

We took gin, a bottle of tonic water syrup, and a lemon. The tannins in the river water it was mixed with making it look like a cup of tea in no way detracted from the experience.

Your other trick is to decant the alcohol into a stainless steel drink bottle. Saw so many people pulling glass bottles of spirits out of their pack, lotta extra weight to lug about with you.

number in question is ratio of energy used by entire facility to energy used by silicon only (i forgor how it’s called)

PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness).

“Surveillance-minded” (hereafter, “Helicopter”) parents were almost certainly already doing that.

It just required a sharp knife and a tube of contact adhesive previously.

Using the phone as a touchpad has come in handy on a few occasions for me. Also just niceties like having your music on the PC pause automatically if you receive a call.

It should further be pointed out that it’s not even required that one end is a phone. You can connect your laptop to your desktop and share content between them just as easily.

In ours, the coolant is referred to as “PG25” (distilled water with 25% propylene glycol, plus corrosion inhibitors and other additives). It’s widely available, and pre-mixed so it just gets poured straight in.

Your problem is going to be quantity. it might be cheaper per unit, but buying less than a 200 litre drum (if not a 1000 litre IBC) will prove to be a challenge.

I’d suggest a rethink, honestly.

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Also did baking the cupcakes use more or less energy than ChatGPT used to order them?

Random might not be the right word, can we settle on “anonymous”?

It sounds a bit sinister, sure, but underscores the whole don’t-ask-don’t-tell nature of the contents of charcuterie nicely.

Just this past Friday I had a pile of boxes I had to scan barcodes on. Two barcodes per box.

The issue was the form did nothing when you pressed enter, and required tab to get from the first field to the second (a 2nd tab would start a new row, so it was at least equipped for multiple entries).

Most barcode scanners, if you’re unfamiliar, insert a linefeed character (ASCII 0x0A) after each successful scan.

It took me an unbearably long time to read through the 250 page user guide / programming manual for our barcode scanner to figure out how to change this to tab (0x09). It required no fewer than SIX barcodes to be scanned; enter programming mode / modify suffix / 0 / 9 / validate / save, which were spread across three pages of the manual (fortunately it had links, because also >100 pages apart).

It was worth it in the end, but it would have taken 5 minutes for them to code it to allow enter to switch between fields. This workflow is the only thing this site does, it’s unreasonable to expect people wouldn’t be using a barcode scanner.

Same thing with whatshisface that runs Microsoft.

There was an article recently about how he “enjoys podcasts”… by feeding the transcript of the podcast into the AI, letting it summarise it, and having a conversation with the AI about the podcast on his commute to work.

Comically missing the point that a podcast is a performative medium; the presenter(s) telling you the story is a part of the artform, which you’ve just lost. Turn off tech-bro brain, just for a minute, and actually engage in the product as it was intended.

It just boggles the mind, do they really think they’ve stumbled on some sort of secret the rest of us have been sleeping on?

This was about the only non-tabloid source I found, though they’re just quoting the other article.

https://onemileatatime.com/news/british-airways-crew-milan-sex-dungeon-motel/

“Spin up”

Commonly heard in IT circles; “Let’s spin up a meeting”.

There are literally dozens of less stupid words you could use.