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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Lake Tahoe should have gotten connected to the California grid sometime in the last 50 years.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Are you sure New York doesn't have many empty lots? I can go drive through Syracuse, Rochester, or Buffalo and find plenty. There's a ton of land that is not being farmed that are is fully of rocky, poor quality soil. The data cen
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
How many temporary and permanent jobs does an empty lot provide? Many temporary and a few permanent sounds much better.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Populist nonsense like this is all that New York passes. Data Centers have minimal impact, provides some jobs, and New York needs to upgrade their power system and build more power plants anyways.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Learning Spanish in school was the single biggest waste of time. 14% of the country are native Spanish speaker! Many professions require some spanish! Those were the arguments back then as well. However... unless you account that the nativ
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
I regularly find the code output of opus and gpt 5.5 to be garbage. Overly verbose, unnecessary abstractions, strange duplication of concepts across objects, unnecessary copying of objects and creation of objects. I have found its much mor
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
And those companies hire more people in the area. I don't care if the guy is driving 30 minutes to work. I know plenty of people whose careers are "security" . Why would I not want them to have more work?
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Gold/Silver tend to increase in price when cash loses value, and drops when cash gains value. I am not saying I believe they are inherently valuable, but there is some kind of cause and effect that is displayed in the market. I can fin
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
SQL teaches Set based thinking. Prolog teaches logical constraint based thinking. ML/Lisp/etc teach functional thinking. There is a lot of use in learning these other things beyond the standard imperative thinking from C/Pyth
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Bitcoin doesn't really have any coherent reasoning behind it, that I can tell. Other investments I can have a theory (which may be wrong) and see it work. I can buy gold/silver to hedge weaker currency. I can believe a stock is go
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
The US has been dragging its feet in increasing power capacity and modernizing the grid. Data Centers (and one day EVs) are the kind of push we need to get the complacent monopolies to do the work. The water concerns are absolutely overblo
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
That doesn't seem too bad, I agree. Maybe that's why QT is used. I haven't really used QT, but the more modern Windows apis, vulkan, etc all are pretty complicated.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
This looks good. But the thing that always lets me down on UI frameworks is how much freaking work it is to get something on the screen. My first language was Borland Turbo C++. It was so comparatively simple to do stuff. If I want to write
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
$18k a year is a non starter in most companies. Ive seen companies balk at Intellij.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Rails was very relevant when I was at Shopify. There were some backend infra services in Go/Rust, Front end was largely React, and Data Science was Python. But all of the main website back ends were totally Ruby on Rails.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
The main blocker was that there were bats there so they needed to buy separate land to preserve. 20k pages of environmental review is just make work to spend money and create an unnecessary paper trail. If polluting with x is illegal then i
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
Government needs to get out of the way. Micron announced a memory fab in Syracuse in 2023. It took 3 years, 20,000 pages of "environmental review", deals with the government on amount of union contracts during building, etc. for t
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
AI Slop adding a bunch of words for no reason. > The restrictions aren't bugs. They're the whole point. Every abandoned balance, every expired card, every 63 cents someone couldn't spend — that's revenue. Pure profit.
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by ecshafer 4mo ago
There is a big difference between "Every customer is a loss" and "We are profitable and re-investing all of our money". Amazon continued to grow, and reinvested its revenue with solid business fundamentals.
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by ecshafer 5mo ago
Why do you think that this is true? Look at the countries by hours worked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a... and there is basically no correlation between birth rates and hours worked. Cou
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by ecshafer 5mo ago
I read once that if we really wanted to be secure, we would have a crypto library that was open source, AND all changes needed to be signed off by more than one of NSA, Mossad, FSB, China's agency, etc. This way if there is a bug they
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by ecshafer 5mo ago
These "Facts" are interesting. "Neptune Deep will start delivering natural gas in 2027." for example is not a fact, its a prediction. "On May 18, 2026, Ukraine carried out a drone attack on Moscow, Russia." is
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by ecshafer 5mo ago
This was GPT 5.5 and codex. The specific model and harness isn't that important here. AI could do it . But the issue seems to be that there are some tasks where AI kind of falls over and provides poor results. It was easier, better, a
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by ecshafer 5mo ago
Here comes the /r/atheism level hot takes. In this moment, I feel euphoric.
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by ecshafer 5mo ago
>Corporate leaders are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is delivering meaningful returns. This isn't surprising. Ive recently run into quite a few rabbit holes where AI is bad enough that its much more efficient to d
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by ecshafer 5mo ago
videos and images have non-ai methods for detecting if its ai, its easier than text. There are some image artifacts in AI that can be found statistically.
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by ecshafer 5mo ago
You just invented the Sabbath.
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by ecshafer 5mo ago
I have really been trying to get local models to work. I have tried different harnesses, tooling, skills, prompts, etc. But when I compare claude code with anthropic models or codex with gpt 5.5, vs qwen, glm or gemma and the same harnesses
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by ecshafer 5mo ago
The book Progress and Poverty argues this. Basically as we see wealth increase, increases in population and productivity raise the value of land (economic rent). Landowners capture this value, while wages for labor stagnate. A Land Value Ta
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by ecshafer 5mo ago
95th percentile is around $150k individual and $330k joint income.

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