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New comment by adamsb6 in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

adamsb6 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:14:34 +0000

The air temperature would rise near the heat source, and that hot air would rise in a plume and disperse, not seep out laterally.

New comment by adamsb6 in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

adamsb6 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:14:40 +0000

Something smells wrong. You could dump a gigawatt into resistive heating and not see such temperature rises so far away.

New comment by adamsb6 in "LEDs’ potential to save our night skies"

adamsb6 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:56:03 +0000

My wife's hometown in China used to have two options to reach from Shanghai - high speed rail (top speed ~ 200MPH) that takes about six hours or a roughly one hour flight.

Rail travel has stops and slowdowns in more populated areas that make it a bit slower than the advertised top speeds.

New comment by adamsb6 in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

adamsb6 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:22:11 +0000

Enrique Tarrio got 22 years and he wasn’t even there.

New comment by adamsb6 in "Data centers trigger voter backlash"

adamsb6 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:13:34 +0000

I don’t think you’ve been near a data center if you think noise pollution is a problem.

New comment by adamsb6 in "Data centers trigger voter backlash"

adamsb6 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:08:57 +0000

I’m a voter who prefers we establish rules that be followed rather than encumber every project with a lengthy community dialogue.

New comment by adamsb6 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

adamsb6 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:45:38 +0000

No mention of CAFE standards? How can you write this article without mentioning the policy that incentivizes larger vehicles?

New comment by adamsb6 in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

adamsb6 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:22:51 +0000

What a brave new world where only machines possess general intelligence.

New comment by adamsb6 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

adamsb6 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:55:36 +0000

It could be the case that we’ve reached the last generation of frontier models that can be accessed by the general public. That eliminates a risk that Anthropic could be leapfrogged by a competitor.

Now it’s a competition between products on the near frontier. Anthropic has executed well on products so far. They blew up thanks to Claude Code, not Opus by itself.

New comment by adamsb6 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

adamsb6 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:50:50 +0000

I lean libertarian but I can recognize the danger in having access to a machine that can craft pathogens to spec.

A pathogen with a very long incubation time and a high fatality rate would be about as bad as nuclear war. Maybe we need to figure out how to possibly defend against one person doing this before making it easy for anyone to do it.

New comment by adamsb6 in "Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet"

adamsb6 — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:52:52 +0000

I use my Gen 1 Tesla Wall Connectors to charge my NACS-native Lucid Gravity.

New comment by adamsb6 in "Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux"

adamsb6 — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:12:07 +0000

I had forgotten how much time I spent with this software until I saw the screenshot. Thanks for the port!

New comment by adamsb6 in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

adamsb6 — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:25:01 +0000

I realized that should I end up getting laid off soon I won't have an unlimited token budget and for the workflows I've settled into it would be quite expensive. So I was exploring what it would take to run open models at home.

Was quite disappointed to see that the PC side hasn't kept up. The unified architecture on Macs makes it very hard to justify spending money on a Linux machine for inference workloads.

New comment by adamsb6 in "Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit"

adamsb6 — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:20:46 +0000

Long ago in Linux if you wanted to listen on a privileged port (< 1024) you had to do so as root.

New comment by adamsb6 in "How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]"

adamsb6 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:44:29 +0000

I'm enjoying it. It's wild to realize that I spent countless hours playing Theme Park when I was around 10 years old, and Demis had been a big contributor to the game when he wasn't much older.

Also I don't really care that it's a bit of a cheerleader for DeepMind and Hassabis. Substantive criticism is good, but too often with these kind of books it feels like an editor told the author that the book needs something negative and the author has to inflate an issue to meet the requirement.

New comment by adamsb6 in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

adamsb6 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:28:17 +0000

The insult to tictacs.

New comment by adamsb6 in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

adamsb6 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:58:39 +0000

They can't just build Apollo 18 and resume the program as if there weren't a 50 year hiatus.

Imagine if your employer wanted to start using a software system it retired in 1972. What would you do?

New comment by adamsb6 in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

adamsb6 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:43:42 +0000

Maine banning datacenter construction is is a bit like Texas banning lobster fishing.

New comment by adamsb6 in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

adamsb6 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:57:31 +0000

It's very elegant.

The first time we traveled domestically in China I kept thinking that my wife had to be mistaken, there has to be some kind of confirmation we need to show in order to board. But nope, it literally is just show up with your ID.

New comment by adamsb6 in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

adamsb6 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:49:21 +0000

Jared could have reached out to Everyday Astronaut and probably gotten his crew to do it just for the shoutouts on the official stream.