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I appreciate the comparison to Timescale, DuckDB, and ClickHouse. It's interesting to see the differences between a more specialized db, like Quest, and DuckDB/ClickHouse.

Ah yes, I specifically mean you can keep earning points infinitely. After the board is full, it resets the game, and you get points for each piece on the board. I usually stop the …

I'm fairly sure the code snippets aren't equal in the last python example: ```python names = sorted({name.lower() for name in users if name}) ``` vs. ```gossamer let names = users …

I've never seen the level of anti-scientific, straight misinformation as I have with data centers. I genuinely think it's to the point where the antivaxxers have a stronger scienti…

The way the game is seeded, it's 100% deterministic. So if you can scan enough potential moves / second, it's very easy to infinitely play the game at a fast rate. Shockingly, Clau…

I started by pulling the game source locally and doing some initial testing with a few solvers. I ended up having Claude make a 1-for-1 perfect sim of the original game using rust …

I had a lot of fun playing the game. I also made a local solver to see how far you can theoretically get, and it's definitely infinite if you play perfectly. Working on the local s…

Fun article and worth the read, but sadly none of the LaTeX was rendered for me (assuming it was supposed to).

I would have loved to buy my children some small C&H figurines or, especially, a stuffed tiger, but I do respect Waterson's decision

How many existing data centers do you think you rely on each day? Almonds do not realistically improve my life in nearly the way the internet does, but also who am I to say whether…

Like producing more tax revenue for a county than the rest of the county combined? That payoff allows for insane levels of infrastructure improvement at literally no cost to locals…

In the case of the Stratos / Box Elder County mega-datacenter, they are planning to use gas turbines to run off of the nearby Ruby Pipeline. It's a pretty tidy solution, if you ask…

The mega-scale ones almost all have power as part of the ramp-up process. They are also a massive tax benefit. Looking at the controversial Stratos data center in Box Elder County:…

Except datacenters are actually very low environmental impact. As long as they provide their own power, they have MUCH lower impact than most farms would.

It's a neat product, but I am also a bit confused by the choice to use C as the primary language. I would think you'd want something more ergonomic since this is entirely I/O bound…

I don't understand why people on this website hate Grok for being tied to Elon Musk, but also have no problem with models that are directly sponsored by the CCP.

Grok and Gemini are the ones I tend to use for finding news related to breaking events. Both were really nice during the Iran incident when I wanted to find out things as they were…

If your data follows a relatively uniform distribution, you can try out interpolation search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation_search

The US doesn't have a desire to annex Canada; that's very silly. And the reason Russia doesn't have the capability is because of Canada's alliance with the US.

That seems entirely plausible. I based my comment on one of Elon's tweets (xeets?) about it: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2028261823678759335?s=20

Ignoring the ... less substantive portions of your response > I can both deny you the means to defend yourself, forcing you to rely on me for protection. That's the definition of a…

> Many people believe that the US annexing Canada is a higher probability than either China or Russia doing so. All three are very low probabilities. I believe those people are bei…

There is a separate entity, StarShield, that the US military uses. I think it's a fully separate set of satellites, but I'm not 100% on that.

You can't simultaneously argue that NATO is a "protection racket" for the US to sell weapons and control European foreign policy, and also argue that the EU would be in trouble wit…

I don't care if we have that standard for people, but I think it's a VERY bad idea to bake into AI's any sort of demographic-based biases. Why would you not want to ensure we don't…