TheVat

Actual tearing is more common when there is bad leverage, a common example is the shoulder when you pull something across the midline of your body. Many shoulder injuries come from that - when I'm doing renovation or yard work, I try to avoid reaching across the midline to exert force on anything. Rotator cuff tendonitis can result.

With companies it comes down to relative costs. Open loop is cheap (pipe from the river, dump hot water back in the river, the hell with riparian life), and there's some evaporative loss. Closed loop is expensive, you need glycol and inhibitors in the waters, cooling towers or other means of dumping the heat, and any use of dumped heat is even more expensive. But water use is minimal. I'll guess that closed energy loops are even more expensive (like fairy tales at this stage), where you reclaim waste heat to power turbines which feed joules back to the chips (With whatever mechanical losses that would involve). There's also thermogalvanic batteries being developed, which seem like a potential solution down the road. I still think companies need to think longterm and use solar in the desert, reaping the longterm benefit of not paying to pipe in NG and thus generating with fewer moving parts

Emily drives a sports car through Japan in search of a fabled herb... A MG, in Edo: off on a familiar trail, I'm a fan of food enigma.

Here's the link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash A plan to create one of the world’s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area more than twice the size of Manhattan, has provoked a furious public backlash in Utah amid concerns over its vast energy use and impact upon the state’s stressed water supplies. The Stratos artificial intelligence datacenter footprint will cover more than 40,000 acres (62 sq miles) over three sites in Box Elder county in north-western Utah. The facility will require about 9GW of power, which is more than the entire state of Utah currently consumes, and suck up a significant amount of water in an area that has been hit by severe drought in recent years....(end clip) This is a project with so much environmental impact, I have to wonder if there aren't ways to better engineer the sourcing of power and coolant. And if a baking desert is really a suitable site location for something so critically dependent on cooling and water. The present plan seems almost like the engineering equivalent of trolling. Also, why not at least take advantage of the solar efficiency of a desert? But no, they're going to put in gas turbines. It's this kind of idiocy which makes the US currently look so...idiotic in the eyes of other developed countries.

This was the answer I started typing up, until I saw yours. Yes, statistically meaningful correlations, measuring actual relevant values (like yards rushed in football) and so on....are not numerology. Numerology is analysis like "I was born on 9/18/55, therefore my number is 82 and that means blah blah blah...." IOW, gibberish.

You know how jersey numbers are assigned? Players in the National Football League (NFL) wear uniform numbers between 0 and 99, with no two players on a team able to wear the same number outside of the offseason. Rules exist which tie a player's number to a specific range of numbers for their primary position. Additionally, rules exist which limit who may handle the ball on offense: generally players who are designated as offensive linemen, who wear numbers 50–79, are not allowed to handle the ball during a play from scrimmage, though they are allowed to do so if they report to the referee as playing out of position for a tackle-eligible play, if they pick up a fumble, or if they catch a deflected pass. The NFL's system, while having become more lenient since 2021, remains more rigid than other levels of football, which outside of offensive lineman wearing 50–79 are generally nonrestricted, especially on defense. (From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_uniform_numbers ) I don't see where any mystical quality of numbers (i.e. numerology) would enter into this.

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Har! Classic. Sort of akin to, "All falls are safe, it's the landings which are dangerous."

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Yeah, this is where it all goes off the rails. Impact drivers have specific uses, but if I'm swapping out the ignition switch on my car, the best options are one ratcheting Phillips and one slotted screwdriver. The Phillips loosens the screws on the clamshell shroud and the slotted is good for gently prying it open to remove it. The impact driver would not be optimal, and the ratcheting Phillips is way better for removing screws from tight spaces in an automobile. And the impact driver manufacturer isn't trying to get me insanely addicted to impact drivers and go around with one most of my waking hours using it constantly to do everything from removing bolts to whipping up an omelet. Yes, capitalism often oversells fungible goods to people (look in almost any American garage, or the vast tracts of storage units scattered across the landscape), but AI is carrying that to some wholly different level of magnitude. I was trying to think of anything else that would match that description. I failed. The wheel, or writing, for example, did not stop us from walking or memorizing words we liked. Those just removed some of the drudgery aspect where there were a lot of miles or a lot of words to deal with. (though the ancients did feel that writing had somewhat reduced the ability to memorize)

Whatever you do, don't cross the streams. -- Dr Egon Spengler

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I would caution that not having all the answers is not the same as not having expertise. Cognitive science, where it focuses on the nature of mind and NCC (neurological correlates of consciousness), has some noted experts. They have developed solid lines of inquiry and a terrain of testable hypotheses; they aren't oracles. (And your dismissal notwithstanding, there's quite a bit of searchable human-produced literature on the topic) Generally, regarding what's recently been called the Claude Delusion (due to Richard Dawkins recent embarrassing embrace of a chatbot as conscious), LLM statements may hint eerily at consciousness, but that’s because the models have been trained on vast libraries of writing by conscious humans. When, after writing a poem for Dawkins, Claudia (as he calls it) describes feeling “something like aesthetic satisfaction,” the AI is not reporting an inner state; it’s producing the kind of sentence that humans tend to produce in that conversational context, because it was trained on billions of such sentences. The output is a statistical echo of human introspection, not introspection itself. Claude and his pals are stochastic parrots which, even with the finest and most nuanced prompting will not penetrate the deeps of consciousness.

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NPRBusting 5 common myths about water and hydration : Life KitDo you really need to drink eight glasses of water a day? Can drinking water help you lose weight? Does coffee dehydrate you? Experts explain the science of hydration. Generally. Though salty mouth can be from postnasal drip or some meds, too. Or hearing too many conversations in a barracks or truck stop.

Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong...

Usually evident without monitors, but a refractometer can confirm it when used on a urine sample. Even then, most times visual inspection will work to detect highly concentrated urine. If someone is conscious and verbal, it's usually easy to determine by just asking about symptoms. There's also wearable monitors that check skin capacitance. (IIRC, steelworkers and some miners use them in intense heat conditions) Generally if you are healthy and feel dehydrated, you are, at least a little bit. Just a matter of drinking a tall glass and see if you feel better. For me, headachy plus general achiness is a common symptom, often before intense thirst.

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Thanks. Posted that and then a minute later I'm thinking, oh wait that's a metaphor. Like me saying, "oven set at Mojave in July." (We Yanks don't use "gas mark" in common parlance) Now I am fetching strawberries from the freezer, set at Ice Station Zebra....

I know, right? So I will feel duty-bound to seek counterpoints to Siegel's counterpoint. Just figured, your link was so glowing that it wouldn't hurt to get some other takes out there. I will revisit this tomorrow.

While we're absorbing this, here's a little counterpoint from astrophysicist Ethan Siegel, an article I read a few months ago... Big ThinkWhy "vibe physics" is the ultimate example of AI slopThe conversation you're having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here's why.

What does "at gas mark Nigeria" mean? Not important, but once the universal translator fails it's hard to bring back online.

Emily followed the recent chat about classic cars and their fuel systems and had a question. Her spelling, and use of the epithet "rotter" suggests she is British. Useful information, as I had thought she lived in Adaven, Nevada and was a native of that area. Rotter, u brace a nitro! can I revolve EV lover in a Cortina E carburettor? (My answer is a tentative yes. If Helen Reddy can chronicle a madwoman storing a secret lover in a radio, then rotating one in a carburetor seems theoretically possible. And injecting nitrous oxide could certainly enhance this process.)(And this is possibly the silliest thing I've ever posted, which is a fairly high bar.)

One lucid Iran War brawn: a ridicule, no?

I think you get a third and a fifth harmonic. 12th and 17th pipe ranks over the foundation tone...OSLT. Reinforces the natural partials of the fundamental. I.e. reinforcement of the natural overtone series, for a brightened timbre. Seems like you get an additive synthesis tonal thing, not sum-and-difference tones (I mean, some S+D could trigger in your auditory perception but I don't think that's intended with a sesqui stop?) I am most def not trying to pull any rank here - I will have to check with Ms Vat later who is, fittingly, playing a church KB as I write this. Should we move this delightful subject worth arguing about to its own thread?