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I can actually speak to this as someone in ruralish Pennsylvania whose town is going through one of these backlashes pretty heavily.

The major issue, at least in my neighborhood, is location more than anything else. We have a lot of industrially zoned areas that are great for data center location, and where they could be surrounded by other established industrial builds (think soda bottling plants, warehouses, transportation depos, semiconductor fabs, etc.) All the infrastructure is built out, electricity needs, etc. There is also a ton of land that exists that could be used for this purpose pretty distantly from town centers, if you can convince the gov/owners to part with it.

But despite this, the folks who want to expand data centers are instead trying to push instead into residential areas, or otherwise on land that would basically butt you up against pre-existing neighborhoods. Where I lack insight is if it's a matter of industrial property being too expensive compared to the swathes of otherwise unused land (at least that isn't used for state forests or whatnot,) or if there just literally is no room available for what they want to build out. But all the aspects of having bought your land to be in a residential area suddenly become way busy, value might go down because it's now in this weird quasi-industrial zone.

While there are legitimate concerns about the electricity/water usage, I (tinfoil hat) think that this is more of a game of influence/propaganda/state-level interest in an subject where it's easy to sow seeds of dissent. I personally think the electricity/water thing is a concern on a bigger scale than just individual utility bills, but it's blown out of proportion under that guise by conveniently cherry picking data from extreme examples. I also (more tinfoil) think that there's a lot of money changing hands since the AI boom is still growing and people are desperate to try to make a buck asap in any way possible, regardless of what may come tomorrow, so they're more willing to make a profit off of everything, but I have no legitimate proof of this.

Very exciting - Thank you for sharing! I knew that there was a new game on the way, but I had no idea it was so immediate!

I keep returning to Zachtronics games endlessly in my free time, despite doing engineering work for 8-10 hours a day for the last months. Sure they're a bit of a facsimile of a programming challenge, but they're pretty tough problems, especially in the ones that are basically using assembly. I even had someone reference that my latest Opus Magnum creation looks like cellular automata.

If you can simplify the problem/solution space into a puzzle, give me a leaderboard to compete against, more specifically let me compete against the people I care about, and give it the barest amount of polish, it's the kind of thing someone like me would obsess over.

Wow it's impressive to see that this page has remained up for so long!

I used to email the owner a long time ago when I was really getting into Pink Floyd in high school. It was one of the first times I can really recall about having long, ongoing conversations online about something I was becoming increasingly passionate about. I really enjoyed the debate and back and forth that they were willing to entertain with me.

Sadly it looks like those conversations have been lost to time/old email addresses. But the idea that people would be open and willing to chat about their hobbies is really what defined the internet to me of that age.

Is there a clear definition of 'typical' when it comes to the speeds/latency - e.g., should I expect this on a p95 level at my residence for the contract?

I ask because I'm paying for a service advertising itself as 500mbps down/10 mbps up/latency 14ms, but I have never in my 3 years of paying for it seen that level of performance. Running a `networkquality` test right now on ethernet reveals about 159 down/2.0 up/latency 50ms, which is closer to what I've come to expect on any given run

On top of that, if the confines of 'typical' are broken on the side of the provider, would this just be an fcc complaint? More than happy to track this over the course of a month and provide data to back up my findings

I love this US box art so much it's so dreadful and left such a weird impression on me initially. My friends and I had a hell of a time trying to figure out who the characters were meant to be.

I think by the end of it, our conclusions were:

Left Side: Barbarossa, Ted, Windy

Right Side: McDohl (maybe Luc?), Leknaat, Three headed skeleton demon because ???

Flying on the dragon I always assumed to be Futch, but who knows. If it's Luc in the corner, I guess it could be McDohl in the center, (he is the main character after all.)

Was bummed to see it in the Eiyuden newsletter this morning. Suikoden and its sequel were formative for me and my immediate friend group growing up. His creative vision definitely left an impact on me. (Or at least as much as made it through the localization.)

It was always such a delight to get random notes from him in the updates. It'll definitely be sad to not get those anymore.

I'd imagine outputs along the lines of 'I cannot comply with that request' or stating ethical issues with continuing onwards in the conversation. This seems to want to catch what most would consider to be publically perceived harmful responses

For me, I started with a very simple routine with dumbbells:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230609011808/https://old.reddi...

It's not perfect, but it was great for getting into the habit 3 times a week. Now I often make up my own sets as I go, taking note of what's sore on me and what I feel could use some work. Doing that gave me the time to do research and get a bit more familiar with how to engage certain muscles, and what machines will do what for me.

I have a number of fabric bowl cozies that can go in with the bowl so I can pull it out easily and it doesn't burn my hands. Do recommend

Heardle was one of the games that we really enjoyed quite a bit, but definitely needed some sort of variation to the game itself other than 'first x seconds'

Usually we would get the answer in a single try, because it happened to be a song we knew by heart, or we wouldn't get it at all because we didn't know the artist/it was just not in a genre to which we regularly listen/the song was an obscure hit or one hit wonder before our time

Perhaps it would have been better as 'guess the artist' and give you 5 second clips from decreasingly obscure songs

It was targeted at journalists that were impacted by layoffs, particularly in response to articles that were coming out along the lines of 'Some ex-Coal Miners have learned how to code' - https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/angr4k/what_i...

I did some reading on this a while back, since I was also morbidly interested, and I believe that they said they found lots of evidence of shoes because they contained the only material that the sea life around them wouldn't eat

Unfortunately, did some quick looking up right now to confirm, and it looks like it's theorized that the shoes were more from luggage that was blown out. But any human body parts would definitely have been long consumed or dissolved by now

I personally remember when Soda taxes were being proposed in Philadelphia. I did and do see soda as a luxury, so it sounded reasonable enough to me compared to alternatives

A lot of otherwise reasonable people that I had known at the time told me that I shouldn't be racist by voicing my support for these policies

I asked them to explain, but they would not, (do your own research, etc.) so I never really got a hold of their logic since the research that I pulled up always seemed so tenuous at best. I don't really recall if the taxes went through or not

This sort of shines a light on all of it though. Shows how susceptible we all are to this kind of manipulation =\

Invoking a pretty old video that still makes me smile to this day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ukMXA0SJaM

Outstandingly catchy (and funny imo) song based on this concept of the bouncing DVD logo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ws0QtAiiXQ

Yes! My mother and I would play this quite a bit together! Though it would always crash on us during certain quiz segments. But it certainly was the first time I learned of the term 'Union Jack.'

I'll give your sequel a try! Thanks for the nostalgic reminder!

It's a reference to the second episode of the TV show Arrested Development. A recurring line about a boardwalk stall the company owns: "There's always money in the Banana Stand."

Ummagumma is a pretty wild ride

I think their early stuff (Piper, Saucer) had a structure of sorts, but it was kinda out there and probably only Syd really understood it

Ummagumma was throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck, and by Meddle they started actually developing a marketable formula (I'd say Atom Heart Mother is somewhere in the middle)

Then after Dark Side, they started their real structure and had piles of success until Waters was myopic enough to kick out the only person in the band that mattered

It's less that they don't work and more that they don't work optimally in the affected areas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD0sq5GN7xc

Zeihan is a bit US-centric overall, but his energy talks are sound (or I'm too biased to realize they're just confirming my own views.)

So it's not a video lecture on Go specifically, but I first started learning itbecause I saw how it looked and how fast it ran while watching a Dynamic Programming series that happened to use Go for its implementations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTjRGe0wRvI&list=PLVrpF4r7WI...

From there, I started reading about it more seriously here: https://golangbot.com/learn-golang-series/

And I've been using it and loving it ever since. There are one or two things that trip me up (slice manipulation can sometimes get me if I'm not paying close attention to my capacity and just pointing around, rather than copying) But for the most part, it's a fairly elegant language, and amazingly fast! For me, it's also been incredibly intuitive start working on asynchronous features.

The new inclusion of Generics is just icing on the cake.

It's convenient, but I've developed muscle memory to just type news.ycombinator over the last 10 years, so I guess it doesn't matter much for me.

When I first discovered the site, I definitely had to google 'hacker news' in order to find it consistently, however, so maybe someone else can get good use out of it.

From context, I'd say the GP is specifically rooting for this company (to do well.)

For the sake of the scenario, though, I'd imagine routing for a (transportation) company would involve logistics and timetables over a map.

Yeah, the first thing I tried was to install some Go extensions. I guess they'll need to have separate web versions (or some sort of extra qualifiers)

In my experience, cider is a bit contextual. I've heard and used it to mean both alcoholic and non alcoholic cider. But usually people default to mean a non filtered apple juice like you said. (Since we also have apple juice, but it's hard to think of it as anything other than super processed sugary drink)

Apple liquor/cordials are usually called just that, or more specific depending on the type of liquor (i.e., my family keeps a bottle of Apple flavored whiskey)

Things like apfelkorn probably just get wrapped up in the catch-all term schnapps, if not one of the above terms

Same for me. I've found maybe a dozen or so creators who put together large (2-10 hour) playlists of game music, mostly from older RPGs (or even better, custom remixes.) Some also have mixed in ambient thunderstorm/rainstorm effects

They've been fantastic for helping me both stay relaxed and focus in on whatever I happen to be doing

You are correct, the original version was a little overhead 2D arcade game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7DQrOa70yk#t=2m38s

Other revisions of the game were point and click style, closer to a FPS

It might also just be a matter of growing up and suddenly realizing that everything seems so much more defined than previously thought.

Anecdotally, but I also noticed that from around 2000 to 2010, suddenly everything needed to be categorized very specifically.

But what stood out is that people would get very weirdly upset if you put something in the wrong box, and all but start a fight about it (over forums, of course.) This was especially prevalent in the electronic music scene, but happens to this day during video game genre discussions.

I mean, the basic rule of thumb I learned for C was that 20 is room temperature, above 30 is hot, below 0 is freezing

Same deal with F, 70 is room temperature, above 90 is hot and below 30 is freezing

That alone has been enough to help me switch back and forth between the two systems easily enough. Or at least I'm not shocked when 14 C is kinda chilly or when 95 F is damn hot

Granted, if you need to be more precise than that, then that comes down to having a calculator handy, but for common use this has been enough for me

Edit: In hindsight, this might just mean that as a F native, C is much easier to learn than the other way around

Nintendo seems to wax and wane, more than rise, fall, and rise again. But when their consoles are popular, they're stupidly popular.