Wait your saying it’s not cool if you buy carrots from the grocery store that have embedded sensors so that when you eat them and they pass through you they build a health profile and determine what types of supplements are best to advertise to you?

There have already been crashes where one contributing factor was pressure to land and avoid any kind of delay - even if risky. Remember that pressure doesn’t need to be explicit. It can be the result of all kinds of factors - including physical. Maybe they were already late and pilots with fewer “on time” arrivals are lower in line for promotions. We already have stories from Amazon delivery drivers and it’s not insane to think some of that culture has leaked through to other aspects.

Is there any evidence of your theory?

Has timeliness based performance reviews ever been reported at any US carrier in the past half century?

And high levels of stress can lead people to break rules. People lose the cognitive faculties needed for compliance. Even things that person personally believes and agrees with.

The naming and numbering system for these are now getting annoying. AirPod 3 has the last pro model I guess?

Confusing enough that I see ads from major retailers mixing it up (or maybe it's on purpose?) listing "Airpods Pro 4" only to click the link and see it's the Airpods 4.

Saying the battery life is extended to 22 hours with the battery case is a bit absurd- you have to still take them out and charge them. I’m not sure why we can’t have wires that connect to the AirPods and charge while listening. The battery life will always be the biggest drawback of bt headphones.

When they get down to 10% put one in the case, by the time your other bug gets to 1% you changed the first one. No gaps

It's really not that hard. The Galaxy Buds Plus from 2020 get 11 hours of battery on a single charge. Same for the Sony WF-C510 that are $70

Really?

Not just audio quality. Playback and consumption quality. My Winamp setup c 2005 was worlds better than what’s possible now on a typical listening device. Eq. Crossfading. Visualizer.

All possible but not common

This is just a great starter list. Thank you

Didn’t they do the exact opposite of suggesting the problem was trivial?

Why does that default to dismissive for you? It absolutely did not come off that way for me and I’m wondering if it’s because of experience or culture or something else.

What does it mean to be consumed in this context? After used for cooling isn’t it clean enough for drink and other uses? Can’t it go back into other systems? Can’t it be used for agriculture?

"consumed" means it was used for evaporated cooling and let off into the atmosphere. It's obviously a resource that replenishes, but wells replenish at a limited rate [and can run dry] so it's not a negligible issue.

Feel free to google this yourself, or ironically ask an AI, it'll happily confirm it's a real issue.

That's a small portion of the consumption. According to the article, the vast majority of the water is for electricity generation, and the vast majority of that water is from hydroelectric power generation. Hydroelectric generation does not evaporate the water, it releases it downstream in a clean, usable form.

The title seems to be accidentally confusing, the 17 billion is ALL evaporative.

If we want the other 80% (which I don't personally think we care about) 211 billion more.

What if it’s in an area where there is abundant surface water and 40” of precipitation per year? Not every data center pumps groundwater.

Can that vapor be captured and condensed again? The energy transfer of evaporation happens before it reaches the cooling tower exit. It's a conservation of energy thing for sure but condensation is doable.

There is also the issue that evaporated water doesn’t necessarily go back to the original water source

This refers to water that is evaporated for cooling of both the datacenters themselves and the power plants that give them electricity. The remaining water after evaporation is so full of minerals that it has to be discharged as sewage.

This evaporation process is used to cool the closed loop of fluid that actually moves heat in and out of the data halls.

Exactly. Is that figure about the water 'flowing' through the datacenter? I want to believe they would not just dump it after use.

Sometimes something like a hulking Austrian body builder seems like a weird design for a human killing machine. Then real life suggests people may wear hairy gorilla suits to avoid pain compliance gloves during protests.