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patching-trowel··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
Not sure it was a disingenuous comparison. If they’re saying the heat from a DC is drop in the bucket provided by the sun (in a given area), then that heat would indeed be negligible. On the other hand, if that heat comes in water form, and upsets the ecosystem (in a given area), then that would be NOT negligible. Not really about optionality in either case.
patching-trowel··on Tell HN: Azure outage
As of now Azure Status page still shows no incident. It must be manually updated, someone has to actively decide to acknowledge an issue, and they're just... not. It undermines confidence in that status page.
patching-trowel··on What if you could do it all over? (2020)
For me it’s not a nihilist pit. The fact that I’m gonna die and nothing I do matters that much alleviates some dread. It’s not a deep and endless ocean I’m swimming in, just a comfy little pool.
patching-trowel··on I designed my website to look like a chat log
If it’s good enough Socrates it’s good enough for Socra-me.
patching-trowel··on What can LLMs never do?
My gut says no because of the way language relates to meaning. In language, a “chair” is a chair is a chair. But in meaning, a chair is not-a-stool, and not-a-couch, and not-a-bench etc. We understand the object largely by what the object is similar to but not.

In order for the LLM to meaningfully model what is coherent, empathetic, free from bias, it must also model the close to, but NOT-that.

patching-trowel··on Ask HN: Has anyone switched from a professional job to a more manual one?
I admire your impulse to be more sensitive to people’s dreams.
patching-trowel··on Logic Gate Simulator
Check out Sebastian Lague’s Digital Logic Sim too. Comes with some of my favourite videos!

https://sebastian.itch.io/digital-logic-sim

patching-trowel··on Bird-inspired dynamic grasping and perching in arboreal environments
Biomimicry at its finest. Soon we will have wacky flying machines like dragonfly ornithopters with eagle talon landing gear and giant blue monkey testicle fuel tanks.