Polyglot programmer and sysadmin with experience in healthcare IT and e-commerce fulfillment/logistics/operations. Maintainer of a couple FOSS projects.
Website: https://yellowapple.us
Email: northrup @ the above domain
Keybase:
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/yellowapple; my proof: https://keybase.io/yellowapple/sigs/JfN02l9FJTFqFnACyDFYbK7yNYFSlzTvPktWnPQiTZg ]
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Show HN: Base32H, a human-friendly duotrigesimal number system
base32h.github.io
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OTPCL Version 0.2.0: Pipes and Loops and Docs, Oh My!
otpcl.github.io
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Show HN: OTPCL – Tcl-Flavored Erlang
bitbucket.org
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Show HN: Ruby on Bales, another command-line app framework for Ruby
The obvious solution here is for datacenter buildouts to include the power generation necessary for them to operate. Here in Nevada that's exactly what quite a few of the larger datacenter companies (Switch, Google, Apple, etc.) have been doing, whether by outright building solar farms themselves or by signing PPAs with geothermal companies like Ormat. That's indeed how these companies are able to advertise their datacenters as powered by “100% renewables” despite NV Energy's grid power mix including non-renewables (namely natural gas).
You don't specifically need beef or almonds in order to live. Even small reductions in the consumption of either would entirely offset datacenter water use.
If every American skipped a single burger per year, that'd entirely offset the combined water use of all American datacenters.
Datacenters, in other words, do not consume all that much water in the grand scheme of things. There are many, many better targets if water conservation is a genuine concern.
> those that want data centers are doing their damndest to somehow claim that they’re not responsible for the rise in the cost of utilities and shouldn’t be held responsible for it
Because they're not. That's a utility billing issue. The power company can charge residential customers lower rates than it does commercial/industrial customers. If it's not doing that, then you're better off taking it up with them (or quite possibly: whichever regulatory body is hindering their ability to do that).
The UK is surrounded by a planet-spanning body of water. It has no excuse to be complaining about water shortages even if every square inch of it was a single giant datacenter.
Plenty of the people opposing datacenters are opposing them in places that already have datacenters. If there was a direct experience to be had, they would've already had it.
It seems like they're indeed trying to sell “Orion+”, but it doesn't look like it buys you much besides bragging rights, in which case an Ardour-like business model of “source code is free but we charge for pre-built binaries” seems like it'd accomplish the same thing.
The Linux beta feels nice. Built-in ad-blocking and nested vertical tabs satisfies the two main things keeping me on Firefox (unnerfed uBlock Origin and Tree Style Tabs, respectively).
Some things feel like obvious oversights, like the lack of “Search for...” when right-clicking on selected text. Also some of the settings pages are broken (like the one with per-site settings), though I assume this is just a quirk of it being a test build.
The only showstopper is the lack of publicly-available source code. Transparency is a dependency of trust. As much as I want to trust Kagi's browser (I certainly have trusted them enough to be paying them every month for their search engine + AI), web browsers are the biggest attack surface on a modern desktop, and I'd be a lot more comfortable with my daily browsing being done with a user agent that has nothing to hide. I don't even necessarily need it to be FOSS (though that'd be preferable); source-available would be enough.
Huh. Are we using different versions, then? I'm using the one on addons.mozilla.org.
EDIT: I'm now seeing some numbers by usernames; I think that's just how many times you've upvoted that user's posts/comments, not the total upvotes on that particular comment.
Much like how I'd be reserving a Slate right now if 4WD was an option, I'd be reserving an REO right now if electric was an option. Kinda frustrating how this new slate (pun half-intended) of non-behemoth pickup trucks manages to be devoid of an option that's all of affordable, reasonably-sized, 4WD, and electric.
Gas vehicles suffer from that range reduction, too, as my brother-in-law learned the hard way last weekend during a road trip we took to Idaho and back (wherein he was towing a camper-trailer).
Website: https://yellowapple.us
Email: northrup @ the above domain
Keybase: [ my public key: https://keybase.io/yellowapple; my proof: https://keybase.io/yellowapple/sigs/JfN02l9FJTFqFnACyDFYbK7yNYFSlzTvPktWnPQiTZg ]
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