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The 267% number is the rise from 2020-2025, so it already includes that.

I thought that might be what you were referring to. As far as I know the issues there were construction causing turbidity, and water used for construction accidentally going metered. Neither are really relevant to it being a datacenter. Apparently it'll use closed-loop cooling, so it's not going to draw much water in operation either.

It does seem like a canard.

https://dustinrhone.substack.com/p/on-fayetteville-georgia

>In Florida a data center drew water in an unauthorized way and the surrounding community had issues with brown water and had to go into water rationing.

Can you cite a source for this? I can't find it anywhere.

Searching for "267%", I think the source of this claim is a misinterpretation of Bloomberg's September article on datacenters: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-elec...

I that article, 267% represents the highest increase seen. It's not any sort of average. It's odd that it's reappeared in this article now.

It's a bit different than that analogy would suggest. Learning things piecemeal can leave strange gaps in one's knowledge, in my experience. A book is often much quicker.

That reminds me of this story, from developing for the Playstation:

>In the main engineering room, there was a whoop and cry of success.

>Our company financial controller and acting HR lady, Jen, came in to see what incredible things the engineers and artists had come up with. Everyone was staring at a television set hooked up to a development box for the Sony Playstation. There, on the screen, against a single-color background, was a black triangle.

>“It’s a black triangle,” she said in an amused but sarcastic voice. One of the engine programmers tried to explain, but she shook her head and went back to her office. I could almost hear her thoughts… “We’ve got ten months to deliver two games to Sony, and they are cheering over a black triangle? THAT took them nearly a month to develop?”

https://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745

This is probably part of their "weird stuff" marketing scheme. They pick strange items to draw people in: either an item that is truly inscrutable (though often appearing related to sex) or an item that doesn't seem like it would/could be sold on their marketplace.

>To them, I have a question like, are we watching the same interview? How can anyone watch that interview and then consider it in any way positively or anything like that, like huh, have we watched the same interview?

It all comes down to a belief in "trolling". Once you assume that your chosen individual might act stupid on purpose, you lose the ability to discern between actual stupidity and fake stupidity. GameStop enthusiasts see that interview and assume Cohen is mocking the interviewers as a show of intentional disrespect. They think he's not actually clueless, just trolling.

Unfortunately, this sort of belief is self-reinforcing. Once you get over the hurdle of believing in trolling the first time, the next instance seems completely plausible. Every time it happens, you become more convinced that the person engages in a pattern of trolling — after all, you've seen it so many times! You don't realize that the source of your belief is not accumulated independent evidence, but a chain that rests on a single link.

I suspect this is confusion between the statistic that 40% of global shipping traffic is transportation of fossil fuels.

https://qz.com/2113243/forty-percent-of-all-shipping-cargo-c...

The Wikipedia page for it is pretty good. Basically, there are a number of short-chain carbohydrates that tend to pass through the small intestine (where nutrients are digested and absorbed into the bloodstream) and reach the large intestine (where water is removed). Bacteria in the large intestine eat these nutrients (fermentation). In some people, this causes intestinal distress. (Bloating, gas, discomfort, watery stool, etc.) It's not clear why this only affects some people.

You hear a lot about it because a large subset of people have discovered that a low-FODMAP diet relieves their torment of intestinal distress.

Unfortunately, because the number of imports is restricted the cars will likely be about as expensive as the competition. Chinese car companies have no strong incentive to undercut the market when they can take a fat margin and still sell out anyway.

That reminds me of "Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs". There's something so charming about system memory being misinterpreted.

https://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-...

No, unless the terminals being "stupid" is the issue.

It's saying "Available for Immediate Pick Up" for me (90210 zip code).

Why do you want them to take your order if you have access to a terminal?

Is this even correct? It was a two-sided disk, and each side was 174 KB.

Is the link broken for anyone else? I'm getting ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED.

This shifted the race of trainees, but it doesn't seem to have changed the more important metric of how many people were actually hired. The author claims it had an effect, but as far as I can tell he's never quantified it.

The real issue is just insufficient slots.

A more whimsical method is to put the thing in a glass of water with the cord sticking out. :-)

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/1m269k0...

HN has some peculiar medical fixations. It comes in waves. For a while there were a lot of submissions about intermittent fasting. 15 years ago people were excited about polyphasic sleep. 10 years ago it was all about modafinil. Enthusiasm about ketamine for depression was big, but it seems to have finally fizzled out.

Can you change the title? It's far more inflammatory than the content, and people here are reacting solely to it.

People keep claiming this, but my experience is that it's pretty similar. My mom's PC accidentally had only 4GB of RAM for the past 5 years (whoops), and we only noticed it a month ago because the cheap SSD was finally dying due to heavy swapping.

As I understand it, DDR5's on-die ECC is mostly a cost-saving measure. Rather than fab perfect DRAM that never flips a bit in normal operation (expensive, lower yield), you can fab imperfect DRAM that is expected to sometimes flip, but then use internal ECC to silently correct it. The end result to the user is theoretically the same.

Because you can't track on-die ECC errors, you have no way of knowing how "faulty" a particular DRAM chip is. And if there's an uncorrected error, you can't detect it.

As I understand it, the big challenge with brain electrodes is that because they are implanted in a big jiggly piece of jelly, they shift out of position and/or cause localized scarring. The practical effect is that the brain-electrode interface "wears out" after a while, and you can't get useful data. Has this been solved, or are implants still temporary?

It's easy to misread, but they're not arguing that. Note the "eventually" and "but right now".

Regarding Semantle, I found that Pimantle (https://semantle.pimanrul.es/) is a much more satisfying implementation to actually play. It provides a 2D visualization of guesses, which lets you see the clusters and lines of similarity more clearly.

Hmm, what's this one?

  var h = hash(guess);
  if (h==7182294905658010 || h==6344346315172974) { return "Adorable guess, but it's spelled “rosy”."; }

I'm guessing they're hashes for "<something> rosie" or "<something> rosey", but what?

Surprisingly, no. It's a "premium" feature these days.

Are you sure your browser isn't unloading tabs to save memory? I think Chrome enabled automatic unloading a while ago, and it's been standard on mobile browsers for ages.

Ironically, one of the reason Google's offerings are (were?) worse is because Google prioritized privacy and required pings from multiple phones to count a tracker as seen.