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@AndyMasley I agree that people seem to just assume it *can't* be beneficial to consumers. It's very doable, and by assuming the hyperscalers are necessarily bad for consumers, we miss out on the very real possibility of getting rich off of them (with them still seeing it as a good deal.)

@AndyMasley It should be, but is it typically? I think we should make the data centers absorb the full costs of upgraded, including a guarantee that if they decide in five years they don't need the electricity, they continue to cover the amortized cost. But I dunno if we do that.

I think very few people in the debate understand how positive-sum very consistent wealthy buyers from a utility can be

@discordspies I saw someone yelling at another passenger once (maybe twice?). Bus was my sole source of transportation in Austin for about four years. (Daily commutes to across the street from the probation office, so not a great neighborhood.) It needs to be fixed, but it's also overblown.

It's so weird to hear Americans talk like this because I've been reliant on public transport my entire life and it's just Not Like That in the UK Is it really that consistently bad or is this a thing where everyone has like one story that colours their whole experience

@JerusalemDemsas @mattyglesias I just realized yesterday that there hadn't been any new episodes in over a month. Excited for more of it in its new format.

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@lthlnkso Yes, but only after a series of other doctors gave me the dumbest, wrongest diagnoses they could come up with.

Has a doctor ever cured you of a serious health problem?

@ATabarrok @Vanguard_Group Alex, stop, please. If they remake it, it will be worse. I guarantee it will be worse.

How can @Vanguard_Group with $12 trillion in assets have one of the worst websites in existence? It's atrocious and indefensible.

@KentonVarda I've seen this a few times in the past week or so.

Anyone else seeing Claude (both Sonnet and Opus) going into excessive reasoning loops today? I'm just sitting here watching it spend 10 minutes generating reasoning text for a problem it normally solves in 45 seconds. (I use the same prompt a lot as a test of my own harness...)

The fact that the options are still conservative, moderate, and liberal, when the left hates liberals, is going to break polling for that entire generation. What exactly is a leftist who uses "liberal" (and "centrist" / "moderate") as an insult is supposed to answer here??

@dooumass @johnloeber This seems odd to me. inc is an 8086 assembly instruction. Does this reasoning apply to language like C, or just higher-level languages where integers are complex objects?

@johnloeber Incrementing is typically not atomic in most languages unless you use an atomic integer in which case you pay a pretty large cost. Non atomic ops are thousands of times faster than atomic operations.

Learned an incredible Python gotcha today Incrementing an integer is not thread-safe If you know about the GIL, you might think `a +=1` is thread-safe because it looks like it's just one operation No, turns out it's actually four bytecode ops (three logical operations) -- load, add, save Suppose a = 5. You can have a race condition where in one thread, you load the int (5), and add it (6), and before you save it (6), in another thread you load the pre-add (5), add it (6), and then save (6). That's two additions, you'd expect a==7, but you have a==6.

Remember to keep an eye out: This is the one day of the year during which people on Twitter will post falsehoods.

@lthlnkso @cremieuxrecueil I think he's saying it causes you to become richer, more educated, and more likely to be White, so up to you.

@cremieuxrecueil Are you saying I should stop eating ice cream every day?

I looked into the 'ice cream is healthy' associations, and they are as wildly confounded as you might expect. For example, people who reported eating ice cream were richer, more educated, and more likely to be White.

@JeremiahDJohns Maximize growth, and let inflation go as high as it goes. I'd love higher inflation, especially if it also came with growth.

This is 100% true and the replies are economically illiterate people absolutely furious anyone would say that.

@Ebw1fz1F @AndyMasley He's got a section here: blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water…

@AndyMasley Do you know where the actual number comes from / have you also emailed about this? (I do, but the actual story isn't publicly available) The paper they linked is for the wrong model and is 30 times off.

Okay folks, this study is being shared by prominent people already, and I am pretty confident I found a completely over the top goofy numeral issue that will destroy the whole argument pretty quickly involving... 2 orders of magnitude. Stay tuned.

@powerbottomdad1 In short, no one trusts us. US foreign policy (and current admin in general) is too erratic.

@powerbottomdad1 A 2000LBs gorilla attacks a 200LBs gorilla and calls to the 20LBs gorilla for help. The 20LBs one jumps in to help, the 2000LBs one says "I think you've got this", and goes home to let the other two duke it out. OR the 20LBs gorilla says "I think *you've* got this."

couple confusing things about the war: 1. why haven't the gulf nations fully committed. how many times do they need to be attacked before attacking back? 2. if Hormuz strait closure is existential for europe and asia, how come only Ukraine + US seems like its try to fix it?

@powerbottomdad1 @PosterShit83624 What part is wrong? I mean "crude (aka gasoline)" is wrong, and silly. But it's trivial to confirm that we're a net importer of crude oil. We net export gasoline, but refine from imported crude because our refining capacity is not optimized for the crude we produce domestically.

@PosterShit83624 wrong

@EntropicEq @CNN Maybe don't question their "basic understand, or intellectual curiosity" while not applying any of your own. The claims in this article are transparently wrong, and you'd probably realize it if it didn't back up your preexisting views.

@CNN Do the citizen-voters have ANY say in this? Did their favourite elected politicians inform them before/during the election circus?! Do both these groups have ANY basic understanding, or intellectual curiosity, about the detrimental effects on agriculture & their own health?!

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people. cnn.it/4rZSiG5

@GamewithDave 1995 is a pretty late cutoff. Duke3d and C&C: Red Alert might be the biggest ones for me in that date range. Just 'cause I played them a lot. Duke3d had a lot of personality, and Duke 1 had been my favorite game at one point. RA was just the best RTS at the time.

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why?

@AndyMasley I saw something about that paper and used my brain to realize it couldn't be what people were saying. I really just want people to have middle school science levels of education. It would be so nice.

There is a new and very goofy goober interpretation of a paper with already goofy goober methodology that's causing people to start to say data centers raise the temperature in the area around them by 2-9 degrees celsius. Writing a quick emergency post on this

@t6aguirre And trade-offs! Imagine a world with no trade-offs!

Why economists invented opportunity costs is beyond me