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  • Nik282000@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•New AI Data Center Is So Huge That It'll Generate the Heat of 23 Atomic Bombs Every Single Day
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    3 天前

    Wrong.

    While you’re correct, that much heat emitted in a local area prone to yearly fire seasons seems to be unwise.

    The “23 atomic bomb” facility is ~20MW, equivalent to an extra 40,000m^2 (that’s a 200m square) of sunlight falling on that area. Insignificant.

    . If sparks from trains travelling around curves can start fires (Lytton seemingly every year), multiple nukes’ worth of heat daily might be worse.

    Sparks from a train are pinpoints of incandescently hot metal, more than 500c, falling into dry grass. 20MW industrial building rejects its heat as air or steam in the 50-100c range.

    Also, it’s still an increase of emissions, more is always worse than neutral in this scenario. Yes, there are more polluting things to worry about, but we need to be reducing emissions, not increasing them.

    At least you got one right.

  • Nik282000@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.ml•The Unix way and integration complexity
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    10 天前

    man find tells me that you should be using the -exec flag should be used if you want to do some operation on the files you find one at a time, using man to learn about a tool before you use it is also the Unix Way. (It also mentions the --delete flag as well as the gotchas that come along with using it).

    I will agree that for some complicated tasks that a lot of users might want to do a lot of times, for example downloading videos from YouTube, all encompassing tools are are good idea. yt-dlp has hundreds of functions to cover all the things a user might want to do, but even it relies on outside tools like ffmpeg to get the job done.

  • Nik282000@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.ml•The Unix way and integration complexity
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    11 天前

    Writing a tool that does only one thing looks like avoiding the most complicated task. Which leads to a conclusion that the Unix way only works well in a rather small fraction of use cases; the majority of cases are better served by different approaches.

    The alternative to do-one-thing is do-lots-of-things.

    Users very often need results that can only be achieved after doing several things. With only single-purpose tools at hand, users have to integrate them. In other words, the tool authors delegate integration to the users.

    You describe a need for all-singing, all-dancing solutions over single use tools.