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These are pretty simple calculators, those switches on top just change how the printing happens. You can set them to print with leading decimals (eg. adding a .00 to monetary values) and alignment to make reading easier. Otherwise it's just a pretty standard calculator. Great machines, you still see them used for audits as a final hand-calculation stapled to the top of the paperwork.

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Supply voltage variance

88v would be well in the territory of a brownout, but according to that graph you are sitting comfortably within 10% of 115v, with one exception. This isn't bad, if you viewed the graph with the y axis range set from 0v-140v it would look nearly flat. I wouldn't worry about it, the UPS will handle the small transient stuff.

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How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying

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Physics puts some useful limits on things that can be applied here. All of the water used for cooling is considered wastewater, and it is generally treated chemically in a way that is difficult to process back to clean water. Water has a specific thermal mass, and we can see what hardware is being used in these data centers. From personal experience a flow rate of 1.5L/min is standard. Each rack is limited in power not by how much the supply can put out, but by what they can cool.

Even doing napkin math with the Blackwell systems that have been out for a couple of years it is as bad as they say and likely worse with the coolants and passivators going into the water.

I have advised a few water cooled systems, and did some work on Cheyenne in college. Not once was water reclamation even mentioned, it was all pumped right to sewage.

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Bulb replacement/substitution

The base looks like a Type S, as far as replacing it with an LED in a DIY fashion the leads are plain old 110v AC. You don't want to put much more than 5w of LED in there, so you can probably get away with a basic capacitive dropper circuit that matches the LED you choose. Someone mentioned a starter, that is in the bulb base, not the socket on the microscope on these.

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How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying

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In the context of these large data centers no, it usually isn't recycled water. It gets filtered coming in and run through, then right down the drain. Closed loops do exist in the data center world, but they don't use water, they use a dielectric coolant, and are orders of magnitude more expensive to set up and maintain. You don't usually see systems like that in use at scale like this, the cooling towers would be immense.

If they reuse the water they also have to remove the heat. Down the drain it becomes someone else's problem.

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A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in the US

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You can put a bit more force into a punch from a standing position because you can use your legs, but using a weapon that adds mass to your hands can very easily cause permanent damage if you punch. Using strikes takes advantage of the weapon itself to take the majority of the recoil. The combination of the added mass usually makes the weaponed strike hit harder than an unassisted punch either way.

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Those are also soft shells, allowing that grip to seal the back side of the taco, preventing food from falling out of the tortilla. You can then eat without holding your head completely sideways, as shown. You still lose juice, but that's a losing battle no matter what, hence eating over the plate. Idk man, I think that guy might just be a rookie at the soft taco game.

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New storage method just dropped (in the local river)

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It depends on the school, but here in the US it is generally expected that the majority of students return home for the summer. Most universities have housing available over the summer but it is limited and generally reserved for those with disabilities and graduate students who are expected to attend the school for 4+ years. Most college students only go for a year or two.