> So where do they ask to put a small data center? Right in the city's entertainment district! Makes less sense than putting it on farmland. Look Michigan needs the jobs, just a little common sense would go a long ways.
The site of the old GM Fisher Body plant is a sixty acres brownfield. The proposed downtown data center location is a one acre unused parking lot. It is close enough to LBWL, Lansing's utility company for water/electricity, to reuse the generated heat [1].
I don't think this really compares to the 270 acres data center for OpenAi/Oracle planned in Saline Township, which will be connected to one of the few 345kV transmission lines in Michigan. [2]
At the time, a standard LAMP stack setup wasn't prepared for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem. Quite often you had no DB connection pool and every request for dynamic data opened/closed a DB connection. Having a fixed number of connections available also quickly hit the limits unless it was a dynamically configured pool. Which also filled up eventually.
If you were lucky you could reduce load by caching the URLs taking up the most resources and generate a webpage copy in the filesystem, then add some URL rewrite logic to Apache to skip going through your application logic and bypass the DB.
Then you discovered there is a limit of open file descriptors in Linux. After updating this and also shutting down all log files you ran out of things to change pretty quick and started pricing a beefier server. For next time.
Same here, our freezer has lots of home made dumplings in dinner size packages.
Pancakes also work well for us, we usually put fresh chopped greens into them. We still eat the Bok Choy pancakes prepared months ago, usually when we just want a quick side for leftovers.
Thank you, I thought the school was small enough to manageable but I was really wrong. The project was too big but I ended up surviving.
I'm really excited to be on the other side of the hard work. I want to organize the images into a website. If you are ever in the area I would be happy to show you.
Hey, this looks nice, great kitchen/bath module. How did you seal the plywood in the shower, just lots of clear coat? Or is this an epoxy layer? Thanks.
The shower is my effort to get away from tile which I find cold to the touch. I also wanted to minimize seams and corners. I have always liked white formica countertops. The only drawback is the it's ability to absorb heat. I don't like the cloudiness of corian.
The 2.0 kitchen countertops will be made of white oak planks like a farm table top. This will be more durable than the formica.
Google demoed an automated version upgrade for Android libraries during I/O 2025. The agent does multiple rounds and checks error messages during each build until all dependencies work together.
Google needs a widely used platform for AI integration into every computing task, based on interactions with and data on that device. Their best bet is to expand the reach of Android into traditional desktop tasks.
Android already made lots of progress on multi screens and adaptive layouts, and there is now a new developer center with guides for what they call productivity apps.
Not to mention, more people than we realize are on their phones. For those of us who use both a phone and computer, it is VERY easy to overlook.
For example, my wife, she is primarily on her phone as a computing device. Only recently after buying a Mac Mini and a Cricut is she back to using a standard computer. She might borrow my laptop for online shopping just so she can open 50 windows and 80 tabs to consume all available memory on my Macbook Air, but that's probably because Safari on iOS has sane tab caps.
I also know that games predominantly for PC / Web have become predominantly mobile over the years. There's a reason Roblox plays on your phone and tablet. You might not have the specs for a gaming machine, but your iPhone / iPad / Android definitely do.
> The current AI hype might not actually pose a real threat to engineers but the fact that most of our colleagues do not understand the value that we bring is a serious problem that we need to address.
> We need to start meeting our colleagues where they are and explain what we do in ways that make sense to them. The goal is not to turn them into engineers but to help them get a high level understanding of what it takes to build a software product.
See, why stop at software engineers? Because coding is text based? There is a whole class of IT middle managers in non-tech companies making good money due to "responsibility" and "team supervision". How about they start explaining the value that they bring?
If it is not more than the usual
- check a list of incoming jobs to be done submitted by other departments
- assign the jobs to be done to someone on their team, mostly the person who worked in the same area before
- ask every person (daily/weekly) for status updates and an estimated completion date for the jobs assigned
- ask if the job was done sufficiently and can be reported as completed
- report the weekly/monthly completion rate and hours spent to their supervisor.
- every now and then review contractor bids for open RFPs
then the current state of LLMs can do this just fine.
Is there a good reason not to eliminate most of the little kingdoms in a large org and instead invest the money saved into more AI supervision, better QA and a lot more marketing?
The site of the old GM Fisher Body plant is a sixty acres brownfield. The proposed downtown data center location is a one acre unused parking lot. It is close enough to LBWL, Lansing's utility company for water/electricity, to reuse the generated heat [1].
I don't think this really compares to the 270 acres data center for OpenAi/Oracle planned in Saline Township, which will be connected to one of the few 345kV transmission lines in Michigan. [2]
[1] https://www.lbwl.com/community/newsroom/2025-11-05-deep-gree...
[2] https://openinframap.org/#11.64/42.1244/-83.8008