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Cake day: February 27th, 2026

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  • You don’t need an Internet connection to have a control system keep temperature around a setpoint, though. That’s usually handled by a lower level circuit that will continue to operate in the case that the high level interface is not responding.

    Observability is nice, but you don’t need to expose controls to do this, you could just have a Prometheus endpoint.

    I suspect it’s because the manufacturer is trying to sell RaaS (refrigeration as a service) and to ensure they get their monthly dues, they “offer remote maintenance and monitoring” or something.



  • What a bizarre company. Also:

    However, Boom CEO Scholl also acknowledged the recent loss of a $1.25 billion deal that would have seen data center developer Crusoe purchase 29 of Boom’s gas turbines, in a post on the social media platform X on September 25. Crusoe has been involved in building Texas data centers for Oracle, Google and Microsoft that draw upon various power sources including natural gas and renewables.

    Scholl said Boom “will be delivering about 250MW of Superpowers next year to other sites” but did not specify the AI data center customers that may be using the gas turbines.

    Each one of these turbines supposedly delivers 42MW, so after losing this deal, the company is on track to deliver about 6 of them next year. Now that’s what I call “losing a customer”!





  • If we wanted to compare LLMs to actual intelligence, we might say it’s like the voice in your head. It doesn’t solve math problems, or express emotions as art, or plan your motion to climb a ladder; it merely surfaces these things in a way that is observable across your conscious mind and communicable to others.

    Some people don’t know that their consciousness is more complicated than a linear thread of words, so the idea that some other linear thread of words might be conscious is sincerely plausible to them.