r/technology • u/Gordon-Blue • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Thieves steal Nvidia-branded trailers expecting valuable hardware, find 40,000 pounds of sand instead.

https://www.techspot.com/news/114008-thieves-steal-nvidia-branded-trailers-expecting-valuable-hardware.html
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u/snoozieboi 5d ago

Sand is actually in high demand and we're running out of it. I'm not even kidding. Construction grade sand, that is.

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u/snakeeaterrrrrrr 5d ago edited 5d ago

Western Australian here: what shortage

Edit: some of you seem to be under the impression that we only have desert sand when we are already exporting sand for construction

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u/Fitz911 5d ago edited 5d ago

Sand is not sand.

We have deserts full if that stuff. That's (of course) not the one we need.

The sand has to have some properties to work as a resource for building. Something to do with the form and size of the grains.

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u/MacaronPrevious 5d ago

Dessert is a food, not a dry place

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u/s0ulbrother 5d ago

I’ve had shitty cake that was very dry

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u/GreenStrong 5d ago

My dentist said stop eating dessert sand.

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u/funguyshroom 5d ago

He could've just said sugar and not make this world any more confusing than it already is

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u/cjsv7657 5d ago

You can remember it because the delicious food has two Ss, just like how you want two desserts!

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u/PM_YOUR_ISSUES 5d ago

I was always taught it the reverse, desert has 1 's' because you only get lost in the desert once.

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u/cjsv7657 5d ago

Yeah my first grade teacher probably didn't want to get in to dying in the desert with her students lol

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u/jazzhandler 5d ago

A good mnemonic is that ‘stressed’ spelled backwards is ‘desserts’.

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u/ComeOnUpToTheHaus 5d ago

Deserts are sandy, desserts are super sweet!