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What if he actually meant Under the pool ? Microsoft had a submerged data centre off Orkney for two years back in 2020. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54146718
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you could get a swim badge for, instead of picking up a brick at the bottom in your pyjamas, you have to swim to the bottom and swap a few racks around
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Mar 14, 2023 13:53
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I'd do underwater datacenter service for a living, that sounds fun.
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It's a nice idea, but impractical because datacentres are generally nowhere near pools. Pools are normally nearer the population for convenience, datacentres aren't. It'd cost more to put them nearer residental areas, they use a shitload of power, they don't look nice with all their A/C units and backup generators, you have more people inclined to trespass. There are exceptions of course, often older ones built before these things were so much of a problem. On top of this, I presume there'd need to be a way of capturing the heat - something integrated into the systems from the start which can't be retrofitted to a regular DC.
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Parents left OUTRAGED at plan to heat kiddies’ swimming pool with computers containing PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGERY
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TACD posted:Parents left OUTRAGED at plan to heat kiddies’ swimming pool with computers containing PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGERY My first job was at a DC where there was an awful lot of porn. Found this in the store room one day:  Also I built Youporn's servers way back when.
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drove past three pickets today and finally got to use the car horn for some good I hope they also appreciated the fist held aloft and me yelling something along the lines of "waheeeeeeyyyyyygiveemhellllll"
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lets hope they weren't workers from the car horn factory.
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I remember a few years ago (probably more like ten because of aging/covid time dilation) an uproar about using waste heat from a crematorium to heat the local swimming pool. Always seemed quite sensible to me.
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sebzilla posted:I remember a few years ago (probably more like ten because of aging/covid time dilation) an uproar about using waste heat from a crematorium to heat the local swimming pool. It seems a bit less sensible when you do what the papers did and present it as "pool temp is down two degrees, go next door and tell them to chuck in another granny".
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Jedit posted:It seems a bit less sensible when you do what the papers did and present it as "pool temp is down two degrees, go next door and tell them to chuck in another granny". But that's, uh, not how cremations work? It's not a process that generates heat except insofar that a lot of it is needed to do it. e: Yes technically there's some amount but it's meaningless - like cooking a chicken in an oven doesn't generate heat either. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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Private Speech posted:But that's, uh, not how cremations work? It's not a process that generates heat except insofar that a lot of it is needed to do it. Yes, but that's not how newspapers work: Never let the facts get in the way of a good outrage
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Private Speech posted:But that's, uh, not how cremations work? It's not a process that generates heat except insofar that a lot of it is needed to do it (yes there's some amount but it's meaningless). Like cooking a chicken in an oven doesn't generate a tone of heat either.
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sebzilla posted:I remember a few years ago (probably more like ten because of aging/covid time dilation) an uproar about using waste heat from a crematorium to heat the local swimming pool. It's in Redditch (unless somewhere else has done it too?)
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah but people get all kinds of weird ideas about the dead. Mark Twain started one about mummies being burned for fuel in steam trains in Egypt that has stuck around so long that somebody at some point probably tried it. Sounds like a very good fuel source to me, if you throw enough mummies in there the train's gonna be haunted and run of its own accord.
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Jedit posted:It seems a bit less sensible when you do what the papers did and present it as "pool temp is down two degrees, go next door and tell them to chuck in another granny". I don't see the rate -limiting step here? Graveyards are full of unburned grannies. Normally I'm fine with that as a means of carbon sequestration, but if this resource can be utilized to ensure a comfortable community recreational experience then all the better
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The fuel English bathers use for the pool is composed of grannies three hundred years old, purchased by the ton or by the churchyard for that purpose. Sometimes one hears the profane engineer call out pettishly, "drat these proles, they don't burn worth poo poo - dig up the Queen!"
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Guavanaut posted:The fuel English bathers use for the pool is composed of grannies three hundred years old, purchased by the ton or by the churchyard for that purpose. Sometimes one hears the profane engineer call out pettishly, "drat these proles, they don't burn worth poo poo - dig up the Queen!" A deep cut. But also a decent reminder that casual desecration of ancestral graves used to be not even an eyebrow-raiser. Mummies were used in food additives, medicines, paint colours, all sorts of things, way more mummies than anyone knew what to do with
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Also I built Youporn's servers way back when. It never fails to amaze me that behind every porn site there is an army of staff who just go to work doing SEO, marketing, database optimisation, accounting, general admin etc. Like, pick the vilest most depraved porn site on the internet, your hard core piss bowl cum bukkake facefucking nasty poo poo, and there's a bunch of employees going into the office chatting around the water cooler and having cups of tea before getting back to working out how to make sure 'fart princess double anal milf domination' gets looked on favourably by the algorithm. Insane. Does make me wonder what they say when people ask them about their job. Never sit in the front row of a comedy gig for sure. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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To be clear the place I worked did not run any of it, it provided space and power, and sometimes sold or rented hardware to them. Later on in that job I took on the role of 'porn verifier' whereby when victims of revenge porn had exhausted trying to get the site owners to remove the material they'd contact us as the people who provided the site's connection - I'd threaten the owner with disconnection if they don't get it removed, then I'd have to verify that it was gone. It often wasn't, so I saw plenty. They hosted lots of piracy stuff too, very grubby company as I learned.
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I'm biased coming from a culture that cremates as a rule but still, burials are strange, and kinda creepy imo. If each grave is sacrosanct and we have people dying every day, logically the future of Earth is a giant graveyard, excepting tectonic plate stuff. I guess climate change could solve that problem, but if it doesn't, we would have to figure something else out, especially on this dumb island where most of the land seems to be reserved for private pheasant/fox hunts or some poo poo. Also psychologically your loved one is right there in the ground, able to be visited for future mourning, surely that makes it harder to let go and move on to the next stage of your life compared to say, spreading some ashes in the sea and getting closure. When it's a mummy or some ancient archaeological dig noone even gives a gently caress any more. They put them on display, profit from them etc.
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Bring back catacombs.:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/paris-catacombs-tunnels-france-SKULLS0617-9f65ded2fd494c188c9871194fa47515.jpg)
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Bring back catacombs. Have you been trying LSD?
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Sometimes they're exhumed, polished, and turned into big decorative works of art. It'd be weird not to.
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Jedit posted:Have you been trying LSD? 
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More skulls for the skull throne, imo
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Jedit posted:Have you been trying LSD? The original was one of the best posts to ever grace these forums
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My grandmother's ashes have been sitting in a shoebox in my wardrobe for the past five years or so because I haven't got round to speaking to the cemetary about interring them. I don't feel especially haunted.
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OwlFancier posted:My grandmother's ashes have been sitting in a shoebox in my wardrobe for the past five years or so because I haven't got round to speaking to the cemetary about interring them. You could just stick them in the compost at this point
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Just lob them off a nice cliff in Scotland. It’s what I, and by extension surely your grandma, would have wanted.
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What's wrong with having ashes like that around? It doesn't seem that disrespectful. Maybe a bit creepy and unhygienic, though.
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OwlFancier posted:My grandmother's ashes have been sitting in a shoebox in my wardrobe for the past five years or so because I haven't got round to speaking to the cemetary about interring them. send them to that company to make them into diamonds
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The thing that would get me about those 'turn ashes into a gem' things is what if your nan got stolen in a mugging?
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she haunts them instead
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If gems could haunt people then 17 Charterhouse Street in London would be a howling vortex of vengeful shades. So maybe there's something to it.
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Theres a billion or so years of dead things, how come most ghosts are kids and young women from the last 200 years.
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Most of the pre 19th century ones burned up pushing the sun around for Portugal in 1917.
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Was just trying to sort out childcare for Thursday when I found out that Scottish teachers have won a fat pay rise so there is no need. They don't like it up them, pleasing.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:logically the future of Earth is a giant graveyard the problem is coffins; put bodies in the ground nude and unboxed and let mother gaia reclaim all the nutrients and microplastics in each delicious corpse
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Failed Imagineer posted:The original was one of the best posts to ever grace these forums OK, now the board elders need to gift us with context.
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