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Re:Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:14AM (#49909298)
I don't know which data center it is, some remote location of Canada, that has 100 million litres of fuel trucked up each month for it's generators. I don't think that has a long term plan behind it because 100m liters of anything is a lot, and with the price of fuel now it's definitely not a small line item.

Btw I heard this second hand a friend in the mining industry.

Re:Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws on Thursday November 20, 2025 @11:41AM (#45994590)
I've worked for startups and established industry giants and being compliant with GDPR did not stifle us in any way at all. It's really not that hard unless the business model depends on profiting off of user data. No good will come from this for the EU.
Re:Tesla market share in US drops to lowest since 2017 on Monday September 08, 2025 @10:10PM (#45176602)
Also has an instrument panel the driver can easily see.

I’ve driven a Model 3 and its handling and overall feel was worse than a barebones Honda Civic. I’d say a Model 3 is on par with how a low end Chrysler feels to drive.

Re:Navy SEALs reportedly killed North Korean fishermen to hide a faile... on Sunday September 07, 2025 @12:44AM (#45155456)
“The rumors are that the Navy's newest nuclear sub, the USS Jimmy Carter, has been designed for spywork, with a "special capability... to tap undersea cables and eavesdrop on the communications passing through them," according to the AP.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20070203165457/http://www.defens...

Re:Teaching National Security Policy with AI on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @12:56PM (#44238982)
I find it perplexing how people are so open to just dumping personal effort onto these tools and believing the tools work accurately.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Erlang? on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:22AM (#41708038)
This is where I started with Erlang, learned it first then leaned Elixir. I really enjoyed working with Erlang/Elixir & OTP.

I’d agree with previous suggestions, either this book or Joe Armstrong’s.

Re:Ask HN: What are your favo YouTube Channels? on Thursday May 16, 2024 @12:56PM (#40380547)
https://www.youtube.com/@MortismalGaming

Mortismal Gaming - Video game reviewer who will review games after getting 100% Steam achievements. The reviews are typically > 20 minutes.

Primarily focuses on RPG/CRPG games but he is very thorough in each review and seems to be quite fair,no hype it's a proper balanced review. Also he has a ton of Divinity Original Sin 2 content.

Re:Announcing GenStage on Thursday July 14, 2016 @01:24PM (#12095680)
If you want to watch a video, check out Joe Armstrong (one of the creators of Erlang) talk about concurrency and Erlang[0]. There are a bunch of Erlang/Elixir videos [1] posted by Erlang Solutions on YouTube.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUPdgtUYko [1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/erlangsolutions/videos

Re:Ask HN: Is My Career Over? on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @09:54PM (#11485145)
Are you a US citizen? Do you think you can pass a background check? If military and government projects don't bother you than try looking on clearancejobs.com. From what I've seen a lot of big defense contractors looking for engineers just need you to be a citizen, get a clearance and have a pulse. Smaller firms will expect you to actually be capable and you will probably do a couple things across the stack and some dev-ops too.

Have you looked at any part-time/contract work? Maybe that could keep you afloat and activey coding long enough to get a fulltime job.

Edit: this quora answer is helpful for those of us without elite algorithms skills https://www.quora.com/I-am-quite-bad-at-algorithms-but-good-...

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (April 2016) on Friday April 01, 2016 @01:46PM (#11406856)
How much of a jerk is your boss? - of the 7 bosses I have they combine for a low score of 2. All are nice people.

How chaotic is your environment? 10 - Agile doesn't mean 6 week waterfall sprints. Unit tests aren't something you do manually and infrequently.

What have you done that is illegal or unethical that can be used as grounds for firing you? Everyday I stay past 6:00pm but I'm only allowed to be on the property till 6:00pm.

What are you currently doing? Waiting for an IBM source control tool to finish doing something.

What would you like to do instead? Learning Erlang & Elixir

Re:First Impressions of a $9 CHIP Computer on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @01:42AM (#11379695)
Check out Neil Kolban's book on the ESP8266 [1]. I’m reading through this out-of-order just to get an idea about how the esp8266 works.

[1]:https://leanpub.com/ESP8266_ESP32

Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software on Monday February 08, 2016 @05:29PM (#11061356)
Well just today I called my wife, neither my mic nor the speaker in my phone were working. I couldn't hear the phone ringing and when she picked up we couldn't communicate. She instead called me and everything started to work. I have no clue where the fault lies and it's concerning because what if I was calling 911?
Re:Ask HN: Standing Desk Folks – What shoes do you wear? on Friday December 11, 2015 @12:08PM (#10718238)
I have a gel mat that is similar to a kitchen standing mat. I forgot what brand it was but it was less than $35 on Amazon. I stand on that without shoes and it's very comfortable. I have a National Public stool to sit on when I need to give my feet a break.
Re:Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:23AM (#10224667)
It's important that makers reach out to kids in this community to let them know it’s okay to be creative. It’s not right at all for kids to feel that they have to hide their engineering talent and keep it a secret.
Re:Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions on Sunday May 10, 2015 @06:34PM (#9521660)
I'm thinking of this as something similar to how OS X releases work. There's a way to get the distribution you need without having to start from OS X 10.0 Cheetah and upgrading all the way.
Re:OS X 10.10.3 seems to have done something bad to wifi drivers on Sunday May 03, 2015 @12:30AM (#9479930)
With Mavericks I was okay connecting to two 30 inch Dell displays. Once Yosemite came out, I would face problems with resolution on the displays switching or even better I would be forcibly logged out. So I gave up on dual monitors for a while until recently but now I face CPU usage issues.
Re:OS X 10.10.3 seems to have done something bad to wifi drivers on Sunday May 03, 2015 @12:13AM (#9479882)
I'm on 10.10.4 and am solid with wifi, but plugging into two monitors with the hdmi and thunderbolt ports runs my cpu full load. It's become extremely annoying.

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