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eskatonicon County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'

Hey, paying for blowing up towns is expensive! PG&E's gotta get the money from somewhere! /s

I've been using it for a little over a year now, and I just upgraded to the unlimited search subscription. Totally worth it.

eskatonicon The weed-smoking, Labubu-loving, hackathon king of SF

"Wantrepreneur." Today I embiggened my vocabulary.

eskatonicon The Blowtorch Theory: A new model for structure formation in the universe

The Xeelee would like a word.

eskatonicon A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house

How... how did he think this was going to turn out? You fake your death, then run to mommy & daddy's house, and hope no one finds you? And just keep the cash?

eskatonicon Ask HN: What books have been worth your time?

I feel the same way. "The Tao of Pooh" is a book I come back to a lot.

"The Te of Piglet"... is not.

eskatonicon Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S.

Jeg byder vores danske overherrer velkommen.

eskatonicon A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon

That was physically painful to read.

Brilliant.

eskatonicon Waymo does over 150k paid trips and over 1M autonomous miles every week

There have already been incidents of people getting frisky in the back of the robo-taxi. Cameras be damned, I suppose.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cru...

eskatonicon Waymo does over 150k paid trips and over 1M autonomous miles every week

I took my first Waymo trip this past weekend. I will be using it every time from now on.

I try to take an actual taxi (Flywheel) whenever possible, because Uber and Lyft feel... I dunno, exploitative to me. But my last 3-4 cab rides have been annoying and/or terrifying. One cabby stopped in the middle of a busy intersection to check directions. Another cabby got lost the minute I got into the cab, and I had to guide him. Then he kept peppering me with personal questions. Another cabby tried to convert me to Islam...

Waymo was quiet. Obeyed traffic signals. Took a rather tricky backroad to get to my apartment, and navigated it flawlessly. Tried to convert me to the Cylon god.

I'm gonna root for the robots on this one, I'm afraid.

eskatonicon Neural network trained on 'Friends' can detect sarcasm 75% of the time

Is this why Microsoft named it "Bing?"

eskatonicon Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI

"If you can't find a hit on the internet, home-made is fine."

eskatonicon The Classic Super Star Trek Game

My Dad worked at Wake Forest University when I was in elementary school. One of my favorite "toys" was an amber-screen terminal in his study, which connected to the HP 3000 mainframe at WFU.

I spent untold hours and hours and hours playing Super Star Trek. I loved it SO MUCH.

The worst was when I was busy blasting Klingons, and someone in the house would pick up the phone in another room and disrupt my modem connection.

This article takes me back!

eskatonicon John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

"Unity would not be where it is today without the impact of his contributions."

something something damning with faint praise...

eskatonicon Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier

As soon as I see the word "learnings" in the title, I know that whoever wrote the article has nothing of value to say.

eskatonicon Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories?

I still listen to the soundtrack on repeat when I'm doing work that requires intense concentration, like coding.

eskatonicon The Milton Bradley Big Trak

The original was grey. ThinkGeek put out a "remake" a few years ago, which was white.

eskatonicon Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?

There are a lot of famous books on the subject of best practices: "Code Complete" and "Clean Code" are the first to come to mind, but I'm sure the folks here can recommend others.

eskatonicon Ask HN: Chinese spam-calls, anyone know what's going on?

I got one of those, and let my Chinese coworker listen to it and tell me what it was about. She got the same call, and when she called the number back (which was the Chinese Embassy in San Francisco), they got mad at her.

eskatonicon What terrible treatment have you seen in the workplace?

South of Market, a district in San Francisco with a lot of clubs/nightlife.