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

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.

https://www.suncalc.org works great for shade calculations, I was surprised when I checked tree shadows for different times a year.

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.

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Agentic Experiences: Version Upgrade Agent

https://youtu.be/ubyPjBesW-8?si=VX0MhDoQ19Sc3oe-

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.

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> 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?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Huelsbeck

Maybe I'm nostalgic, but these tunes were amazing. https://youtu.be/7dJrsmt9BOY

Oh, and if you haven't invested 30 minutes of your remaining lifetime listening to Orbital - The Box (Full Version) you are missing a masterpiece.

Here is Orbital's Paul Hartnoll playing with his gear:

https://youtu.be/VjlWypTclec

Everything that has metal connectors with fasteners on both sides still works well on 2nd or 3rd assembly in my experience.

As a long-time AWD driver who entertains the idea of getting an offroad vehicle at one point, this is my current understanding:

AWD: If one wheel slips and starts spinning, all other wheels stop turning. You are stuck. Clever electronics applying the brakes on the spinning wheel can help to redistribute the torque to other wheels, you might get unstuck.

4WD: If one wheel starts spinning, only the other wheel on the same axle stops turning. The transfer case is locked, and the other axle still receives torque. If both axles have one spinning wheel, you are stuck.

4WD with one locker: If one wheel on the axle with a locker starts spinning, the other wheel on the same axle still receives torque. If both axles each have one spinning wheel, you can still move the vehicle with one wheel still receiving torque.

4WD with locker on both axles: If you manage to get stuck with all 4 wheels spinning you should reflect on how the heck you ended up in that situation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_mafia

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