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jerbearitoon Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

So you’re limiting the scope of your analysis to this report only? Where does it mention water usage by housing built in Austin over the past two years?

You’re comfortable making those comparisons and concluding how significant the water usage is but you’re unwilling to check the context of the data in the report? Not sure I follow.

jerbearitoon Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

Lincoln data center "comes online" in 2026 (info from Google). These are early, non-mature operating numbers. I'm disappointed this wasn't made more clear in the story and, of course, most of the comments here don't understand the context.

jerbearitoon Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

Not a meaningful amount of water in early reporting from a non-mature operating state. Why are we drawing any conclusions at this point?

jerbearitoon Apple Pass Designer

Hey, I appreciate your advocacy for a good idea.

jerbearitoon Muse Gadgets

Fair take, but I'm not seeing anything that makes me buy that rosy theory over Meta just doing PR to get adoption in the dev community.

jerbearitoon Proton Outage

Services are back up for me.

jerbearitoon Proton Outage

I'm looking at Fastmail for email. For other stuff, not sure yet. I've seen folks recommend Nextcloud. I'm similarly dreading moving my files/backups.

jerbearitoon Proton Outage

Same, considering switching after this for sure.

jerbearitoon Proton Outage

Can't access anything this morning. This is getting a bit silly.

jerbearitoon Proton Global Outage

Same issue today? Been down for a few hours.

> We are currently dealing with residual hardware failures that are likely related to the damage suffered from the overheating incident last week. At the moment we are operating at a reduced capacity, while our engineers work to bring additional infrastructure online. We apologize for the unfortunate timing of this incident and any disruption or inconvenience this may have caused you. > Sep 01, 2026 - 16:42 CEST

jerbearitoon Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal

Sorry, I didn’t realize you also had anecdotal evidence. lol

jerbearitoon Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal

> far too high for a social good

Not sure what you're basing this on -- hopefully not just your impression after reading things online.

jerbearitoon OpenLogi

I didn't say that at all.

jerbearitoon OpenLogi

Seems like we should be able to disagree, as you're doing here, without all the "that's harsh" (it wasn't) and "who cares?" (people, including you) comments.

jerbearitoon I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

Thanks so much!

jerbearitoon I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

Sure, but that doesn't allow the author to share an Amazon affiliate link for a product.

jerbearitoon I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

Does HN allow spammy posts written for the sake of sharing an affiliate link? Surprised to see this here.

jerbearitoon Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

Lol they didn't read the article.

jerbearitoon Holocloth

I must flatten it and smooth the wrinkles

jerbearitoon We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

I don't see how that behavior being predictable, in your view comparing to humans, means the prompt was "strongly incentivising" it. Perhaps you could strongly predict the outcome, but there was nothing even bordering on a suggestion to produce a deceitful/false response.

jerbearitoon Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019)

I disagree, and also I'm not here to award points for anything.

jerbearitoon Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019)

Odd take and deeply dismissive. The author addresses your point already.

jerbearitoon Making

> but don’t tell me I did not “make” it because it simply would not exist if I hadn’t created it

You did NOT make the software that you generated with AI. But there's nothing wrong with you feeling proud of initiating it. If anyone tells you that you shouldn't feel proud of the prompting you did, please just ignore that person.

jerbearitoon Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019)

The author addresses that.

jerbearitoon Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/re...

This is known and commonly used -- since 1996. What's the risk? You can't change records about other domains.

jerbearitoon Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

"so I don’t need any realignment of my ability to discern what I’ve read from what I’ve imagined"

Not what I asked but I'm glad you're doing okay! I share your concerns.

jerbearitoon Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

"That seems like a major security issue."

Do you mean something you verified is happening or something you assumed is happening? You can go look at the site OP linked and find out what is happening and if it's a "major security issue". In this case, after user click/intervention, it renames the current history entry to "New Tab". This is not a security issue at all.

jerbearitoon Ask.com has closed

WOW. 12 year old me would've loved this.

jerbearitoon The race to build the next WordPress

This is great. I've considered doing the same thing. After all, I've always used em dashes in my writing, so I suppose all my blog posts are AI-generated as well.