Teen Titans. My kids are super into this show. And it’s goofy sibling, Teen Titans Go.

America set the bar with the last pandemic response, and I’m sure this administration aims to outdo itself again.

Unfortunately, it was the low bar that was set.

Wheel-of-Fortune rules.

Is there already a tiktok challenge video?

When you’re a star, they let you.

You think there is only one half person. Really, there’s a lot more than that. It’s odd.

Send them to med school so they can get a job at Sacred Heart.

Download speed is highly relative to latency (bandwidth/delay product). If you have global users and you actually want them to download dozens (if not more) of gigs of data, then yea…they should be distributed.

Fuck for as much hate as cloudflare and akamai (and Amazon and Google and all the others too, but CDN is their bread and butter) get, the internet could not be nearly as fast and efficient if not for CDNs and their massively scalable infrastructure.

Unless you think we should all go back to hosting websites off of an old Pentium in the garage. Which…okay yeah we should do that too, but it’s not at all functional for game distribution.

There’s also Sunshine/Moonlight and you don’t have to buy your games at all.

Tommy Chong makes an effort to still be relevant and he’s still the same damn character, even in kids movies.

I saw them live like 15+ years ago and I think that’s the last I ever saw of Cheech Marin

Tis the British Way.

Built the biggest navy in the world…to protect the biggest company in the world…to trade with India… And yet is known for the most bland food.

Trump really should’ve handled the US “trade deficits” with China the same way the British did. Would’ve been much more interesting.

Yay! Socialized healthcare!!!

Boo! NHS!

Ice bath. Needed an ice bath for sure. Put some salt in the ice water…get it frigid.

I do mine in instant pot now. I take a dozen of my older eggs (from backyard hens), on the rack with a cup of water, 5 minutes high pressure, 4-5 minutes natural release, 1 minute quick release, and then an icebath…at least 5 minutes, preferably longer.

Most of them come out perfect but my olive-egger is always a pain to peel. Not as bad as this, though.

I had a hard time finding a decent vegan wallet that held up…I had a knockoff Ridge for a while and liked it…eventually my SIL got me a real one for my birthday.

If you don’t carry much cash and just need to carry a few cards and ID, I can’t recommend it enough.

Dress shoes that are vegan and ethical/environmentally sound and hold up and fit my bigass US 14EEEE feet is actually impossible.

Real? Pretty sure it’s code. It brings the whole data center offline in an instant. Resume-Generating Event if you don’t have a damn good reason to do it.

But also, data centers are great for introverts who like to work in solitude. They’re dark, cool, have tons of white noise, and you can be pretty isolated.

Oh yeah, only problem is that “dark, cool, tons of white noise” makes me tired as hell.

Or maybe that’s because I know that me being in a data center means I’ve got a loooooong day ahead.

Most the time the data center is lights out. Nobody really needs to go in except for adds/moves/changes to hardware itself.

I very rarely need hands on. I built a pretty robust remote management environment with no dependencies on the prod system. If I’m on-site, there’s a problem.

You should also know their Achilles heel then.

Most of their staff probably is security. The stuff in racks and cages is customer owned.

If I had to guess, from what I’ve seen in a data center, there’s only a handful of “smarthands” on site. Maybe a NOC staffed by a handful of people. A wire tech /LV electrician or two to handle cross-connects. A regular sparky or two for runs to new cages (these are build to spec, i.e. for each cage you’re putting in, you probably want at least 2x 220v 30A runs. If you got dense power-hungry compute or a JBOD…that’s even more.

Oh yeah, a few HVAC people…depending on how cooling is done. Some places just have a raised floor that gets blast full of cold air, with vents on the cold aisles, and returns on the hot aisles. Some places use in-rows that need refrigerant pipes through. I imagine the latter would need more HVAC staff for maintenance/builds than the former.

1-2 for shipping/receiving, 1-2 janitorial.

I dont know for sure but I’d wager the tradesmen and IT folk are on-staff, not contracted. They always have something to do.

But I still wouldn’t be surprised if you told me that a datacenters biggest department (by payroll dollars) was security.

The beauty of datacenters (one of, at least) is the customer being able to put that all on one bill. They charge per square foot for cages, but they also charge by amp available. So a 50A 220v will cost significantly more than a 30A, even if you only draw 12A. And then they charge per-use fees on things like cross-connects (inter-cage or cage to meetme room) or smarthands.

Everything else is rolled in. You don’t have to worry about maintaining all your own elec, or cooling. Water leaks? Overheating? Someone else’s problem. Redundant A/B power with generators, UPS, and ATS, giving five-9s per side? Got it covered.

Plot twist: you’re in the US, so your angle grinder takes 120v but all the outlets in the cage are 240v.

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