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by zug_zug 2mo ago
Well the thing with the livestock is that you have to give a cow water. Datacenters do not need water . It is just slightly cheaper for them than cooling with electricity. Datacenters should be required by law to pay to build adequate powe
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
Good context, but aren't many of your examples simply putting that water back into the ground? Also, where the water is taken from is the key issue. If this was ocean water nobody would care, but if it's Reston, VA that's a l
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
Each datacenter uses as much water as 1,000 homes. You're welcome to put such resource constraints in your own local community if you don't care about the increased demand.
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
"consumed" means it was used for evaporated cooling and let off into the atmosphere. It's obviously a resource that replenishes, but wells replenish at a limited rate [and can run dry] so it's not a negligible issue. Fee
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The American People Hate Data Centers(thezvi.wordpress.com)
5 points by zug_zug 2mo ago|0 comments
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
Eh, I'm not going to say this is wrong, but pretty much like all advice, it's kinda cheap without data. Like Dale Carnegie may be very famous and have a book and say "Use people's names all the times and your conversatio
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
I agree with this and think that when your company isn't profitable and is running out of runway (due to the end of the zirp) and can't get more, moving toward features that more directly could land sales is a natural top-down m
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
Well hopefully there’s a jury so this nonsense can get nullified
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AI doesn’t solve Work Theater(think-twice.me)
45 points by zug_zug 2mo ago|8 comments
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AI won't solve the work-theater problem(think-twice.me)
2 points by zug_zug 2mo ago|0 comments
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
Seems like there are many ways to get toward the best of both worlds -- don't allow people to upload pictures of kids who are clearly under 15 to social media would get us a lot of the way there. Also all of these companies know from a
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
There's no "we take your word for it" that'll ever happen. Once you've proven you can't regulate yourself, that trust will never be regained with "trust us this time." Unless they can come up with a s
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
Maybe the takeaway is that the things we assume we really want aren't the things that make us happy. Okay living in our own perfect little apartment sounds ideal in our head, but a completely mundane risk-free modern life that is entir
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
(continuing this incredibly silly game for fun) If they aren't invisible, my cat would have caught and killed dozens of them, and then I'd be smelling their rotting corpses around my house and slipping on their bodies. Also presum
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
Well my broker (fidelity) requires certain degrees of experience and wealth before allowing certain types of risky trading. Perhaps sports-betting should fall under that category -- e.g. must be an accredited investor.
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
I don't really agree, moreover I haven't had the same experience at all. I find engineers almost never using spreadsheets, ever for clearly tabular data. My coworkers certainly never use nested-ifs. Many times they will put a crap
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
I think that piece is half right and half wrong. I think it's largely correct that hiring bad engineers is dangerous to the company. But that's always been true, especially those "hack out a prototype, get director applause,
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
Building on this, as evidence: If you have shop where you have the best product-owner in the world, and exact clarity on how you want to build something, how all failures are handled, all the tradeoffs, all the implementation details, all t
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by zug_zug 2mo ago
Well, maybe you've been blessed with a better pool of juniors than the ones I've worked with. The ones I've worked with require exactly what an AI would require -- completely defined tickets with no ambiguity, lots of deliber
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by zug_zug 3mo ago
Really? Though the show initially showed some promise, I think I've found it disposable so far. I'd put it out there with Foundation, the LOTR remake, and so many others. I don't know if it even belongs in the category of thi
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by zug_zug 3mo ago
What am I reading here? A matrix fan-fiction? As far as I can tell this is something masquerading as something it's not.
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by zug_zug 3mo ago
Well, this can be interpreted as a reason to give up, but if it has any marginal improvement it can also be taken as a reason to try harder. Imo it’s actually good to run large experiments like these.
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by zug_zug 3mo ago
Yeah that's a good point, in order to see a 10x gain it would require at minimum coding be 90% of your day [7 hours, 20min) (or somehow for AI to replace meetings)
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by zug_zug 3mo ago
I think given that 75% of americans are overweight and 40% is obese, certainly food would be a very reasonable first hypothesis of any neutral, objective scientist. I would be surprised if food you ate didn't affect energy levels, fe
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by zug_zug 3mo ago
Well, good luck to them. If I'm on the jury and he argues "I got my passcodes confused" that's reasonable doubt for me.
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by zug_zug 3mo ago
No, you're being very dramatic. Lying to cops is very often your best strategy. I doubt this person will be found guilty. They will be able to prove he wiped his phone, but it will be hard to prove he destroyed evidence.
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by zug_zug 3mo ago
I think people are aware that the government can physically do a lot of stuff, e.g. shoot you in the face for no reason. And vice-versa for that matter. However there are arguments morally, and constitutionally, and logically, about what ca
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by zug_zug 3mo ago
Well maybe you should have a bit more hubris is in the face of science. You can power a lightbulb just by standing under certain high-voltage lines.
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by zug_zug 3mo ago
> A lot of modern technology is harming kids (and I don't mean dirty videos, social media seems to be much more harmful). If that's all we want then that's trivial -- just make certain phones that don't have access t
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by zug_zug 3mo ago
Cool bro, only 20 years into my career, can't wait to soon discover that! Gonna be so awesome to try hard to keep a mental model of every single director's desires and kiss their ass and make a bunch of fake projects and fake anno

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