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Derek Lowe has a very distinct voice.

You're getting your book dirty for what is, as far as I can understand, no real reason. Why not read your book after washing your hands? (If you have a severe chair shortage, then …

Everyone's gut is different, but one minute isn't unreasonably short, especially if you have something like a bidet for fast cleaning afterwards. Are you sure you're not constipate…

But you're actually capable of thought. These AI systems aren't: as far as they're concerned, they're predicting the next part of an incident write-up narrated in first-person limi…

I'm not trying to act smug. Open Connect (Netflix's telco CDN system) doesn't seem like it'd take "massive DCs" to maintain: per [DG], each Open Connect Appliance (OCA) draws betwe…

Wouldn't need datacentres if we had IP multicast routing. And actually, Netflix doesn't need that anyway : anycast and telco CDNs get most of the advantages, albeit at the cost of …

This site only recently (a few years ago) got multithreading . I'm pretty sure it could run off a second-hand laptop. It doesn't require a datacentre: just the two(?) moderators' s…

It is interesting to be reminded of this every time I open the thread. By this point, I remember my original comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183711 ) and s-daveb's…

They're most certainly not silent! If you're standing right under one, you can hear it over car traffic and the breeze! (Well, unless the wind is blowing really hard: then the wind…

Datacentres are a resource sink that serves private interests, not a resource source that serves public interests.

Update: no part of this stuck with me after all, not even the part I found annoying.

So, you're trying to upset (former) bullying victims, while having the people you're trying to criticise dismiss you as a mere bully? I don't see how this is an effective strategy.…

The literal meaning of the word is "delayed", which seems less descriptive than the words you rejected in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183728 . Do you understand why this…

It mildly upsets me, because I think the impulse to denigrate that which we oppose is a harmful one which, if cultivated, we can all too readily turn on people who don't deserve it…

No, we're worried about contributing to a hostile environment for people who have nothing to do with this complaint. To illustrate: replace the slur with a racial or sexist one, an…

Please don't use human slurs for computer programs you don't like.

If you frame it like so: Where do birds go when it rains? They then GPT-2 generally doesn't write more questions.

I would call this the "bus factor" theory. If a process (here, quality control) revolves around one person, and then that person stops doing the work, the work stops getting done.

You're comparing steam trains in practice to datacentres in theory. To give one example: the US federal government is suspending all sorts of environmental regulations relating to …

As a rule, you should not add functionality to a website to compensate for browser misfeatures. People who want the browser to work differently can get a different browser: that's …

Obligatory shout-out to OpenNIC: https://servers.opennic.org/

It didn't figure out the bug: the report is largely nonsense. It merely did a bad impression of having figured out the bug, by stringing together several observations into somethin…

I've heard screen-reader users reporting that Chrome and Edge are now virtually unusable in their Windows screen-reader, while Firefox remains fine.

Obtaining the exhaustive list of instances is very difficult, but typing your old handle into the search box of the ten largest Mastodon instances will get you many leads. Aiming f…

> but "physical reaction" specifically means a Newtonian mechanical, reversible process at the macro scale. Or friction.