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fauria··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
4 degrees Fahrenheit:

> "... air temperature warming as high as 2.2 °C ..."

fauria··on Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588
Francisco de Cuéllar survived a shipwreck near Streedagh beach, in Co. Sligo (Ireland).

The film Armada 1588 tells that story: https://youtu.be/2LxjGGzjtAE

Every year in September, Spanish Armada Ireland organises an event called Remembering the Armada, to pay tribute to those fallen in that coast: https://youtu.be/xTUwTmjauLg

This year will happen between September 17th and 20th: https://spanisharmadaireland.com/full-programme-2026/

fauria··on Internal Combustion Engine (2021)
"in real running engines the rotating crankshaft should float completely on a very thin surface of oil" - I found this to be a great insight.
fauria··on Sagrada Família Lego set
It is not a cathedral, is a basilica: https://sagradafamilia.org/en/history-of-the-temple that will be finished next June 10th, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Gaudi's death and the visit of pope Leo XIV to Madrid.
fauria··on Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict
Also, the footer reads "© 2026 FEP Holding Company LLC" (probably not automated, the web seems like an HTML exported Word document).

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Electronic_Publishers

fauria··on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
Archive: https://archive.md/5eZWq

The startup is Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs: https://amilabs.xyz/

fauria··on Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)
I'm not sure what the organizative reform of Spain has to do with the founding date of Spain and Portugal's navies. In any case, the Spanish Armada is the result of joining the Castilian and Aragonese navies, both dating from the early XIII century: https://armada.defensa.gob.es/ArmadaPortal/page/Portal/Armad...
fauria··on Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)
Establishing when did Spain become Spain is complicated, but a commonly agreed date is 1480, following the Cortes of Toledo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Castile
fauria··on Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)
No, I'm sayng that Portugal never closed the circuit that led to a global trade route. They built a line between Europe and Asia, but Asia and America remained economically disconnected. It was that loop that Spain closed that enabled a global economy.
fauria··on Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)
Spain was the first globalization, not Portugal. The article forgets to mention two key elements:

1) The Manila galeon[1], the first trading route connecting Europe, America and Asia. This was the first trully global trade route (Portugual never established a trans-Pacific route).

2) The Real de a Ocho[2], the first global currency, used virtually everywhere including the US until the modern dollar replaced it in 1857. It still lives through the $ symbol, representing the Pillars of Hercules and the "Plus Ultra" script [3].

It also downplays the role of Spain in the first circumnavigation. Sure, Magellan was born in Portugal, but he sailed for the Spanish Crown. The expedition was financed by Spain, sailed Spanish ships and finished its trip commanded by a Spanish sailor (Juan Sebastián Elcano).

Finally, it is worth mentioning that the Spanish was not an empire of mere territorial possession, it was a civilization. Spain has currently 50 sites inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage [4], and from the ~150 sites in the Americas, ~50 were built by Spain. These includes entire cities, universities, hospitals, infrastructure, defenses and more [5].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGRn5qCAXBI

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_ultra

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_i...

[5] https://greatbritainandtheusatheirtruehistory.quora.com/33-c...

fauria··on RLHF from Scratch
RLHF: Reinforcement learning from human feedback - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning_from_hu...
fauria··on KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer
$1149.99, in case you are wondering: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1946617-REG/korg_phas...
fauria··on Find a pub that needs you
Find an English pub that needs you.
fauria··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
¡Feliz Navidad!
fauria··on You should write an agent
> I’m not even going to bother explaining what an agent is.

Does anyone actually know what exactly an agent is?

fauria··on BYD builds fastest car
From the official site: https://www.yangwangauto.com/en/car/u9-xtreme

- 6:59.127 Lap Time - The first lap record on the Nürburgring

- 496.22 km/h - The Fastest Car on the Planet

- 1200v - World's first series-production model with ultra-high-voltage platform

- Over 3000 HP - Global horsepower record for production cars

- 30000 rpm - Global fastest motor rpm - 4 motors

fauria··on Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32%
There is an organization doing this in Spain, Adopta un Abuelo: https://www.eib.org/en/stories/isolation-elderly

https://adoptaunabuelo.org

fauria··on Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
I can highly recommend the book Practical SDR if you want to learn about SDR: https://nostarch.com/practical-sdr
fauria··on Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo
Honest question: what kind of problem does this solve?
fauria··on 30 minutes with a stranger
> There's also the interesting effect that people will give you their innermost secrets, knowing you won't tell anyone

This is exactly what David Choe says in this interview: https://youtu.be/HrBhuzHHlhQ?t=127

fauria··on A receipt printer cured my procrastination
Thank you for your insightful reply, I greatly appreciate it. However, it does not answer my question, unfortunately.
fauria··on A receipt printer cured my procrastination
Is there any way of knowing, just by examining it, whether a given thermal paper is toxic or not?
fauria··on Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen
> Warning: In some regions, “View Source” may be illegal. Please use it at your own discretion.

Where is "View Souce" illegal?

fauria··on Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
Command line system monitoring tools like htop, atop, btop, etc: https://static.linuxblog.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/btop....
fauria··on [dead]
In that same spirit, I can highly recommend the book "The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles" and its associated course "From NAND to Tetris": https://www.nand2tetris.org/
fauria··on Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
Roughly speaking, how long does it take you to produce a single ebook?
fauria··on The Shitthropocene
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/4TsndZxysts
fauria··on Ransomware attack on Southern Water cost £4.5M
Offcial statement: https://www.southernwater.co.uk/latest-news/cyber-attack-upd...
fauria··on I still like Sublime Text
Those are actually some of the reasons why I use Sublime.
fauria··on Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
The letters from Francisco de Orellana: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Orellana

https://en.scribd.com/document/647918681/The-Voyage-of-Franc...

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