It's much easier to find a country or jurisdiction that doesn't care about a bunch of data centers vs launching them into space.
I don't get why we aren't building mixed use buildings, maybe the first floor can be retail and restaurants, the next two floors can be data centers, and then above that apartments.
I think data centers, in the areas where they are most relevant (cold climates), are going to face an uphill battle in the near future.
Where I live, Norway, we've seen that:
1) The data centers don't generate the numbers of jobs they promise. Sure, during building phase, they do generate a lot of business, but during operations and maintenance phase, not so much. Typically these companies will promise hundreds of long-term jobs, while in reality that number is only a fraction.
2) They are extremely power hungry, to the point where households can expect to see their utility bill go up a non-trivial amount. That's for a single data center. In the colder climate areas where data centers are being promoted, power infrastructure might not be able to handle the centers (something seen in northern Norway, for example) at a larger scale, due to decades of stagnation.
3) The environmental effects have come more under scrutiny. And, unfortunately for the companies owning data centers, pretty much all cold-climate western countries have stringent environmental laws.
> I don't get why we aren't building mixed use buildings, maybe the first floor can be retail and restaurants, the next two floors can be data centers, and then above that apartments.
I mean a DC needs a lot of infrastructure and space. I think the real estate economics in places where people want to live, shop, and eat preclude the kinds of land usage common in DC design. Keep in mind that most DCs are actually like 4 or 5 datahalls tethered together with massive fiber optic networks.
Also people prefer to build parking in those levels that you're proposing to put DCs into.
The cost per square foot goes up as you add more floors. Construction goes multi-story to save space where land is expensive. But data centers don't need to be in places where land is expensive.
Data centers don't do anything other than sit there and turn electricity into heat. They only emit nothing but heat (which could be useful to others in the building).
In America they have "temporary" jet turbines parked next to them burning gas inefficiently with limited oversight on pollution and noise because they are "temporary".
Mixed-use buildings with restaurants on the lower floors and residential on the upper floors are very common. Not sure what prisons have to do with anything.
How about Rust is Rust. Swift doesn't really appeal to me as a high level programer. C#, JS and Python largely pay my bills.
The non apple ecosystem just isn't there, and it was never built to be cross platform. If I need to build something I'd probably lean on the languages I already know.
A few times a close friend has wanted an app built and I went with Flutter/Dart + Firebase.
I'm using Godot for games.
Learning a new language, even a similar one is a time investment. In fact I just want better tooling for the languages I already know. Word to UV for Python.
I think Linux is great if you're willing to invest the time, but I don't fault normal people for not wanting to do all that. You can get a very nice MacBook for under $1,000 and everything's basically just going to work
The heroic launcher looks like it was trying to solve this and let you use cheaper gog games in your normal steam library. And I've seen similar tools for emulators to show up basically like native steam games
I'm a bit confused about if it does calls. It doesn't mention it for most of the page, but then says:
> DIY Phone
> Use the Comet and the Linux stack for calling*, messaging and mobile data as an alternate to your walled and closed smartphone. Contribute to the Linux ecosystem for mobiles.
So I guess this means it can, but it's not supported and you need to contribute the software. So perhaps it has the hardware, and perhaps it might work.
Without any mention of 5G capability, I'm forced to assume this doesn't have it.
Or course you can attach a USB stick with a 5G modem in it. To be fair, this makes things really difficult. Not all modems support all bands. Different countries use different 5g bands, etc
The LTE modem will be available on the Pledge Manager. We are currently testing with Quectel EM05, works really well - calling, messaging, data all have been tested. PlaMo dialer app already works, there is a demo somewhere on the KS page. We need some time to design the internal flex pcb antennas but provisions have been made already.
Also, you are free to bring your own modem too - and only opt for the antennas pre-assembled in your unit.
"Hi Ralph, I've already coded a function called GetWeather in JS, it returns weather data in JSON can you build a UI around it. Adjust the UI overtime"
At runtime modify the application with improvements, say all of a sudden we're getting air quality data in the JSON tool, the Ralph loop will notice, and update the application.
The Arxiv paper is cool, but I don't think I can realistically build this solo. It's more of a project for a full team.
Hopefully the EU as a whole can rally behind this.
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