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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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I'd prefer we don't datacenter to the gills, but if we're destined to do it anyway, they should offer free Heat/data services to the communities they're thrust upon, and the agreement should be on the datacenter licensing so they can't reorg out of it.

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[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

True. They can't. But most of these systems have high voltage AC pumping into them, so folks should be aware that it's 415/480V AC or 800V DC bus until you get to the internal bus bar.

Definitely now play thing voltages on most of the exposed wiring.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah when I was diagnosing Linux based servers being built grounding was always a serious thing, but the ESD vests you'd wear were really to save someone who makes an oops from well dying really. Massive multimillion dollar racks being connected/disconnected and running liquid cooling through the racks leaves you coming close to the power sources fairly often. The best way to run the power is above and then have them snap on at the top so people aren't tripping over them, but the main issue with that is safety doesn't come before profit, so instead of having dedicated breaker boxes at eye level one uses a metal pole with a hook and reaches up to turn on/off all the breakers when moving in/out racks you are working on. Large metal pole... High voltage/amps...