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yt-dlp supports a number of video streaming websites, not just YouTube.

This is now fixed, but you didn't used to be able to filter excluding game tags on Steam.

Though Steam doesn't have a single unified search interface. You're probably referring to the most-comprehensive one, the one used on the Steam Store after you've performed a search. That one does have "exclude tag" functionality now. But there are a bunch more, which have varying levels of completeness in functionality. For example, the list that comes up on the store when you click on a sale. Or the list of games in the sidebar in your library. Or the list of games on the "shelf" in your library, in the large pane. They don't all support the same criteria.

I have before commented to say that I wish that they'd unify all their search interfaces.

data centers and supercomputing facilities, which consume voracious amounts of electricity and water

Memphis is on the Mississippi. Evaporating the volume of the Mississippi at Memphis with graphics cards would be a pretty impressive feat.

kagis

https://snoflo.org/flow/report/tennessee/

TENNESSEE FLOW REPORT

August 22 2025

Streamflow levels across Tennessee are currently 92.0% of normal, with the Mississippi River At Memphis reporting the highest discharge in the state with 354000cfs

345,000 cubic feet of water per second is a pretty substantial amount of water.

EDIT: Water has a heat of vaporization of 2.23 kJ/g.

345k ft³ water is 9.7×10⁹ cm³, so 9.7×10⁹g

That's about 2.2×10¹⁰kJ to vaporize it (disregarding the specific heat of water, just the heat of vaporization).

1kJ ≈ 0.28 Wh.

So 6,160,000,000 Wh to vaporize the water going through in a second.

3,600 seconds in an hour.

So at a flow rate of 345k ft³ that'd sink about 22 trillion watts through vaporization alone.

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/egee102/node/1925

In 2024, the world wide energy consumption was about 186,000 TWhs

8760 hours in a year. So global average power usage is about 21 TW.

If we put the entire world's generated electricity towards heat to vaporize the Mississippi at Memphis, it'd still fall a bit short.

EDIT2: I also inadvertently transposed two digits (should be 354,000 ft³/sec rather than 345,000 ft³/sec) in transcribing the initial flow rate, so it'd fall slightly shorter.

The issue with the 13th/14th gen stuff, while serious, wasn't a production problem (well, there was a minor production problem early in the 13th gen, but that wasn't the major issue), but a design problem. I would guess that the principal US interest is in ensuring access to fabs, production capacity. We have other companies that can do high speed chip design. However, there isn't much else out there in high-end fabs.

Note that Europe was also worried about fab access, which is why you had some EU members subsidizing fabs recently too.

Honestly, while he's at the high end of things, it's not just him. I think that a lot of celebrities having Twitter or similar on a phone in their pocket makes them really prone to making extremely public statements without giving the statements some consideration. I don't remember the level of bonkers statements in 2025 from celebrities constantly flooding conversation in the 1990s.

In all fairness, Trump does do a pretty good job of managing to soak up all possible free media time, which doesn't leave much for Musk these days.

The wealth was meaningless without the attention.

I think that the idea of simplifying a logo is fine, but this drops a lot of the feel.

From what I've read in the past, in a normal environment, a sourdough starter is just going to wind up with whatever is living in the environment and best-suited to living in the starter anyway. Like, one can get a bit of some heirloom starter, if they want, but it'll get local microbes falling into it anyway and competing with what's there, and over the long run, it'll reflect that.

kagis

Yeah.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskBaking/comments/j1vi9m/apparently_you_can_keep_feeding_a_poolish_like_a/

Yeah, any starter is going to adapt to the wild yeast/bacteria in its surroundings fairly quickly. Within a matter of days all of that active yeast is going to have lost its mojo and lose out to the yeast in the air around it. Pretty soon you have a stable starter.

This is why I'm always kind of cynical when it comes to ancient starters. Sure it's a nice tradition, but your starter isn't making bread that tastes like your great great granny's did. It's going to taste like a starter that's been living in your kitchen. Have read accounts of bakers being very disappointed after moving to a new area that their starters change flavour and activity. It's the old yeast being pushed out by the yeast that thrives best in your new environment.

So my expectation is that a starter is probably going to wind up reflecting stuff like the temperature and such rather than subtle temporary variations like what initially seeds the starter, because the ecosystem in the starter will re-stabilize to reflect the environment after being disturbed.

That being said, I suppose that you could test it. "Fork" your starter into two containers and make whatever changes you want you want to one, keep the other as a control, and see if one winds up acting differently. But my bet would be things like the initial seeding won't make a noticable change, whereas the temperature and type of flour used might.

https://old.reddit.com/r/cork/comments/1kh0ul8/spotted_on_lower_glanmire_rd/

Looks like it's on the way out of Cork.

I take it that Dublin and Cork apparently have something of a rivalry?

kagis

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-rivalry-between-Dublin-and-Cork

Is there a rivalry between Dublin and Cork?

Yes, there is a notable rivalry between Dublin and Cork, particularly in the context of Gaelic games, such as hurling and football. This rivalry is rooted in historical, cultural, and sporting contexts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12VHPWR

The connector was replaced by a minor revision called 12V-2x6 (H++), introduced in 2023,[2][3] which changed the GPU- and PSU-side sockets to ensure that the sense pins only make contact if the power pins are seated properly. The cables and their plugs remained unchanged.[4]

So does that card use the revised connector?

Well, could be.

I think that it's fair to say that the UK probably wants to maintain reliable access to steel.

But there are multiple routes for that. Hedging against risk costs something, and it's not possible to hedge against everything. Have to pick what risks to deal with.

Another possibility is that the UK "friendshores" -- like, okay, say that the UK decides that, I don't know, some set of specific countries having capacity is sufficient, that any scenario where they're trying to cut the UK off (or someone else is able to cut transport to them off a la the Battle of the Atlantic) probably has larger problems for the UK than just steel access. I suspect that if you go looking, you could find all kinds of supply chains that aren't purely British domestic that would be important

hard to do everything domestically. Could even sign some sort of treaty obligating the UK to have some guaranteed amount of access with said countries (though that might also entail some sort of commitments on the British side to provide things themselves).

Or it could be possible to maintain a strategic reserve of steel long enough to last out a period of shortage, until other counters could be employed.

Or it could be that the UK does want domestic capacity, but feels that the existing British capacity outside of this facility is adequate for national security.

Or it could be that the UK feels that in an emergency, they or someone else could adequately ramp up production.

Or it could be that the UK would like to provide some form of protectionism, but doesn't want to use tariffs (e.g. they use government procurement to ensure a certain amount of sustained domestic demand).

Or it could be that the UK feels that they can deter parties from cutting them off. Like, okay, maybe one could imagine a scenario where steel to the UK were cut off, or at least reduced...but then that party would suffer consequences of their own, lose access to things that the UK provides or can otherwise deny, that might also be critical to that other party.

kagis

I have no familiarity with the situation, so I can't comment on it, but this document from last month by the current government seems to detail a variety of measures regarding support for the British steel industry:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pathway-to-the-launch-of-the-steel-strategy

It sounds like there's going to be at least some guaranteed government procurement from domestic industry in there, for example.