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by ben_w 2mo ago
> or in a swamp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely%2C_Cambridgeshire
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by ben_w 2mo ago
65% per year for a decade is certainly aggressive growth. Not impossible, but at the same time I would not want to guess which side of the global total addressable market $300bn is in 2035.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> JTFC why are you arguing minutiae? The analogies aren't the argument. I'm replying to someone who themselves argued the analogies. > Having a DC in your community has no appreciable personal benefit, only negatives. To the
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by ben_w 2mo ago
The other approach is to expand what land is available to build on. I understand that in the UK, farmers consider it a lottery win if they get planning permission for some of their farmland to become housing. Despite what many in the UK thi
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Probably depends on the tube line; one of them, can't remember which now as I left the country in 2018, left me with black snot on each use. Cycling wasn't that bad, but neither were the other lines.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Mm. As an iOS developer, I have yet to see two different teams agree on best practices, architecture, or code style, and the only reason I've seen anyone agree on UI frameworks is that I've been in slightly more teams/seen mo
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by ben_w 2mo ago
While this is true in principle, my understanding is that the failure to carefully deliniate ahead of time, was why prohibition in the USA ended up being "all alcohol" rather than "just liquor".
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by ben_w 2mo ago
We (humanity worldwide) need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 99.9%. Of the two, use of air con in the US is a bigger source than current data centres, and in the middle of the range of extimates for how many new data centres will actu
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by ben_w 2mo ago
The database is literally Facebook, you upload a picture or video and there it is, on the database, which is Facebook itself, that's why it's called "Face" book: because it is a database of Faces named after an actual bo
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by ben_w 2mo ago
I want to understand how his mind works. Not sure what value this is, now I think about it: I'm unlikely to time a bet against him well enough to win it. So, for this point, I don't care that the words and actions he emits have no
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by ben_w 2mo ago
If faced with two genocidal villains who see a nearby sovereign territory as theirs really even if the locals need to be reminded of this with guns, I'd rather have the competent one who sees the interest of the people collectively as
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by ben_w 2mo ago
I fear you may be correct. On the other hand, how does that combine with his apparent narcissistic need to be seen? Is his need so simple it can be met with "line go up"?
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> How would it be monetized? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook > And if it has been, where can I buy this? Depending on your preference: their advertising portal, or a stock broker.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> other than voluntarily posting your own video to FB/Insta So, nothing except the main sales pitch then? > There is no Rayban data in Facebook There is no war in Ba Sing Se?
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Rush may be FOMO. Even as one who likes using AI, I think the economics is an investment bubble and mostly avoid it. I can't read your link, paywall, but my question regarding Musk's infamous polluting DC, I wonder why it had to b
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Training is part of why there's two orders of magnitude range in the estimates. However, I believe yes, they do include energy production impact.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
It can be done even in rich countries, but the point is I think the opposite of your implication: I am claiming that it is hard to avoid causing costs to one's community (and that almost everything causes more impact than one might e
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Eating meat fills my belly. So do many other things which use less water. The estimates I've seen place the water consumption of water at such a low level that a whole month subscription consumes roughly as much water as 1-120 gra
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> BUT , we've been building huge data centers for decades and they are minuscule compared to the size of the earth. My skeptic meter maxed out when i saw a Tesla with a "End Data Centers" bumper sticker on it. This is jus
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Sure, great idea. [Incoming call: National Security Agency] "Don't you dare stop our malware doing all that stuff you just said". :P All the other nations' agencies, outisde Five Eyes at least, will probably want to stop
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Walking microphone at best, though I think not "everyone" until early 2010s. Given pockets, I don't think the camera part has ever been an "everyone"-level problem.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Facebook itself is such a database, is it not? I mean, it's literally in the name?
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> considered "tech pubs read by a statistically insignificant number of people" Thinking of pubs in a different sense of the word, even Wetherspoons has opinions about them: https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/we
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by ben_w 2mo ago
As are most fashions; this by itself is not enough for me to think the hypothetical less likely than any alternative.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Counterpoint: Burberry. Early 2000s, for variety of reasons, their iconic check pattern got associated with cheapness and violence. Being expensive means your more exclusive. Being creepy , I don't see that helping.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
I'm kinda tempted to do that to classic MacOS. But only kinda, because copyright and trademarks are things, and I don't want to risk incurring the wrath of any legal team, let alone a trillion dollar corporation's legal team.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Why would one computing platform be different from the other? Because malware breaking the sandbox of one of them can mostly only spy on the owner, while malware breaking the sandbox of the other can spy on whoever the owner walks past
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> The OS APIs that most apps use are already paid-for by the user when they buy the device. That argument would assume no cost for upgrades. I remember having to buy new operating systems. That said, looking at the state of recent OS upg
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by ben_w 2mo ago
I might get myself back up to nerdy-hacker level, but I don't think I'd bother with 90% of it. So, big-O, command line, control flow, data structures and algorithms, linear algebra, why floats are not real numbers, orders of magni
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by ben_w 2mo ago
That's been par for the course on the series for some time now. Not sure when exactly, I assume since physical media became less important, but it's been recommended for at least V and VI, not just VII to skip the x.0 releases, wa

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