chasd00 · HackerLangs

vor 3 Stundendiscuss

Starlink is going to become a phone carrier that doesn’t have to pay for pole or tower access. This is the real story, so long att, verizon, and T-Mobile. Starlink is going to beat them on price and availability. Just think, no international calling fees or hassle and cheaper mobile rates.

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vor 3 Stundendiscuss

Yeah it reminds me of tha Pink Floyd lyric “..we’re so happy we can hardly count!”.

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vor 6 Stundendiscuss

> Better coordinating the attacks let them use less people and lose less people while still achieving the objective

and that has to be in the first chapter of every first year battle strategy/tactic book on the planet. They would learn more tactics much faster by just playing bf6 as a team and going through the tutorials.

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vor 6 Stundendiscuss

AI safety is really brand safety. They don't want to see any more headlines like "You won't believe what OpenAI's chatbot told me!", which was all the rage early on.

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vor 8 Stundendiscuss

This reads like someone who didn't get offered the job after going through a lengthy interview process at Meta.

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vor 9 Stundendiscuss

i would like to see a plot of the population of paleontologists starting from about 6-10 years after Jurassic Park was released. I suspect we'd see a bump starting around the time all the kids who saw Jurassic Park when it came out started graduating college.

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vor 14 Stundendiscuss

my standard Java analogy is it's like a garbage truck. Java is out there every day doing a job that's absolutely critical but rarely, if ever, in the lime light.

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gesterndiscuss

> It does need communication to ask the human for authorization to strike.

well.. about that. "A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casualties"

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomou...

this article says "one time test" but i, personally, can't believe it's not being used daily.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ukraines-one-time-test-us...

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gesterndiscuss

> The US has a tradition of large, supposedly secure bases in the rear. The USAF has relied on this since WWII. It's not working any more.

I guess we're all guerrilla fighters now.

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vorgesterndiscuss

I'm 50, i have two boys ages 16 and 14. My wife was more into music than I was growing up (i grew up in rural areas, she grew up in the city). One of my favorite stories she has is helping Modest Mouse unload their van when playing in Dallas at Club Dada (small local venue) back in the 90s. She also has so many cool rave, hiphop, and sxsw stories from that era since she went to HS in Arlington TX (class of '95), UT for college, and then lived in NYC for a while dating a musician. Austin in the mid/late 90s was a very special place to be a young person.

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Not sure why you were downvoted, it is super interesting. I know nothing of songwriting but it seems like that could be read by a singing performer in similarly to how sheet music is read by an instrument performer. In the graph, there's additional information than just the words that a singer would need to perform the song accurately.

/re-iterate i know almost nothing of music except what i like which i've been informed over and over is incorrect hah.

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vorgesterndiscuss

That is so great. My wife and i love to annoy our teenage kids by getting Alexa to play this song and then singing along very dramatically haha.

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vorgesterndiscuss

here's something more local and what i would expect. However, it's murky [link at the bottom]

"Mississippi officials told xAI it could run the generators without an air permit because they were deemed “temporary” and “mobile” units.". Makes sense because as far as i can tell they were on trailers.

but then there's this: "But lawyers at the Southern Environmental Law Center, representing the NAACP in the federal lawsuit, have long maintained that such a loophole doesn’t exist, and that running such turbines without a permit violates the federal Clean Air Act.

“Mobile, temporary, portable, whatever you want to call them, turbines need air permits,” Patrick Anderson, a center attorney, told Mississippi Today."

as per typical, it's not clear who's right

https://mississippitoday.org/2026/04/15/data-center-turbines...

chasd00

vor 3 Tagendiscuss

Hah yeah if you, as a parent, can survive a day at the water park in the sun then you’re all set for some quiet time when you get home. Waterparks zap kids and they pass out cold in the car as soon as the doors close. Same goes for the beach.

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vor 3 Tagendiscuss

The current NIMBY trend with respect to DCs guarantees it.

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vor 3 Tagendiscuss

> The new ones are being built with massive numbers of unpermitted gas turbines with the exhaust filters removed

That’s every local investigative journalist’s wet dream. Can you link us to a source please?

PS saw an interview with he who shouldn’t be named and they made an interesting point that there isn’t a way to scale the manufacturing of gas turbine blades, there will never be enough gas turbines for these DCs to come online as scheduled.

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vor 3 Tagendiscuss

> But absence of problems is not it.

i disagree, think about what defines a problem. Not being maintenable, readable, performant etc could be problems or may not be depending on the software requirments.

> Occasionally you'll be prepared for hardships that never occur.

this over-engineering and just as bad as failing to meet a requirement, you're wasting resources that could be spent on something else. In fact, meeting the requirements and only the requirements is requirement #1 ;)

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vor 3 Tagendiscuss

or filled with asbestos.

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vor 3 Tagendiscuss

yeah I had a neighbor spend a lot of time and money planting flowers only to have the city destroy all of it when it was time for new utilities heh. You need to know about easements.

I find mineral rights interesting. You can own some land, say 20 acres, and then discover something valuable under it like oil but then it turns out the rights to that oil are owned by someone else. Further the owner of those mineral rights can drill on the surface of the land, which you own, without your permission.

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vor 3 Tagendiscuss

> little family farms that sell "raw milk" and mutton and fresh eggs, basically on the DL

There's a decent amount of that going on in my neighborhood (Dallas TX). The reason it's on the DL is because nothing is pasteurized let alone inspected by the local health department. Some people prefer raw milk as being more natural but pasteurization was invented for a reason. I stay away from it.

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