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New comment by baking in "Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now"

baking — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:27:07 +0000

Link to paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01820-z

It appears that if you go through the link in this Guardian article, you will get free access to the full paper:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-...

New comment by baking in "'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused"

baking — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:07:53 +0000

I seriously thought "AI washing" was going to be scrubbing all references to AI in public-facing documents.

New comment by baking in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

baking — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:31:34 +0000

Probably because energy is cheap and abundant.

New comment by baking in "xAI joins SpaceX"

baking — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:57:17 +0000

Zero.

New comment by baking in "xAI joins SpaceX"

baking — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:53:41 +0000

I thought they had an issue with stuff growing on the cooling grates. Life likes to find warm water.

New comment by baking in "US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it"

baking — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:17:45 +0000

It really depends on how you write the headline. "US electricity demand surges in 2025 while new utility-scale solar installations decrease from 2024" is equally accurate. It's unclear what the future holds if the trend remains down or flat.

New comment by baking in "Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal"

baking — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:05:07 +0000

It may be a commodity, but there is no established commodity market for RAM in the US, as there is for energy and agricultural products. The laws relate to the manipulation of a commodity market. Commodity markets are usually established where the products are produced, not where they are consumed.

New comment by baking in "The Message in the Medium"

baking — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:35:10 +0000

I bought a brand-new book in the 1980s with unopened pages. It was a special order from Schoenhof's Foreign Books in Cambridge. Descartes' Meditations in the original Latin, published in France.

New comment by baking in "Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication"

baking — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:16:10 +0000

https://archive.ph/GLiI5

New comment by baking in "Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site"

baking — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:32:55 +0000

There were glass spheres outside the main pressure vessel containing electronics and filled with mineral oil that were damaged during the implosion, but the electronics survived mostly intact. This probably would have been a good option for a "black box" recorder. Scott Manley discusses the spheres in his video.

New comment by baking in "Meow.camera"

baking — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:14:55 +0000

A vet once told me that male orange cats can become food-obsessed, and my entire experience with cats agrees with that. One orange male that needs to be food restricted, while every other cat I know doesn't.

Dyson Spheres are a joke [video]

baking — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:39:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzEX1TPBFM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282288

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by baking in "OpenAI executives rattled by campaigns to derail for-profit restructuring"

baking — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:53:46 +0000

OpenAI was created as a public charity, not just a non-profit.

New comment by baking in "Tesla Diner"

baking — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:22:13 +0000

Check out the $13 hot dog.

New comment by baking in "What is going on with US weather radar today?"

baking — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:57:59 +0000

I have an idea. If you have a question, just ask a question. Otherwise we have to guess at what your question is.

New comment by baking in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

baking — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 01:05:32 +0000

The NYT had already sourced that she was leaving prior to the Grok incident, so they knew it was not the primary reason. Apparently, she has been planning on leaving since the takeover by xAI.

New comment by baking in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

baking — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:17:02 +0000

She was CEO of X which was sold to xAI. I'm not sure she had any control over Grok.

New comment by baking in "Requiem for a Solar Plant"

baking — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:26:50 +0000

Projects with storage can also take advantage of lower grid connection power limits because they are not forced to dump maximum power at peak supply times of the day.

New comment by baking in "Requiem for a Solar Plant"

baking — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 04:10:53 +0000

He's using the tax credits to undersell projects with storage that would have been more positive for the grid. Solar without storage in Texas is coal to Newcastle. Subsidizing bare-bones solar is not good for the grid.

New comment by baking in "Requiem for a Solar Plant"

baking — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 02:11:37 +0000

> Oh come on.

He was doing it for the tax credits. Without the tax credits, this project wouldn't have come close to making sense.