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New comment by bjustin in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

bjustin — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:07:58 +0000

>In some areas, density is appropriate, and in some areas it's not.

Indeed, the way we have effectively banned density everywhere is wildly inappropriate. Cities should allow dense development. That is, after all, the whole idea of cities: attain the benefits of agglomeration. Cities rejecting anything other than detached single family houses in most of their footprints is contradictory to their purpose.

New comment by bjustin in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

bjustin — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:15:11 +0000

I've heard talk from some folks telling these people that their concerns about data center water use, power, noise etc. are overblown. Water companies disagree, saying data center water usage in fact is quite significant. Oops. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/21/not-enou...

New comment by bjustin in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

bjustin — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:12:05 +0000

Amazingly, they managed to _undersell_ the ill effects that the oil industry would have on even just the US, such as the oil-driven military actions we've taken over the years.

New comment by bjustin in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

bjustin — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:00:55 +0000

The "coastal elites" they resent are made up by conservative media. No behavior changes by the yuppies can affect the ever-increasing resentment people feel in response to this sneering bully, because the bully is made up and the tendency of RW media to use ever-more-dire portrayals of supposed societal ills.

As an aside, I think the culture which produces this result is related to people in the US always thinking crime is increasing, regardless of actual crime trends.

New comment by bjustin in "What's slowing down the AI buildout"

bjustin — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:53:59 +0000

Deploying thousands more gas turbines in a short time is impossible. Lead times for gas turbines are already multiple years.

New comment by bjustin in "Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base"

bjustin — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:44:37 +0000

“Finding and halting the boot stomping on your friends and neighbors is a violation of your friends’ and neighbors’ freedoms”

New comment by bjustin in "How to earn a billion dollars"

bjustin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:36:40 +0000

Market efficiency as most people in the US mean requires the presence of things like roads in decent condition and regulation of RF spectrum use. Both of those are funded via taxes. Reasonable tax rates and uses of tax revenue are required for most non-trivial-sized markets to function efficiently.

New comment by bjustin in "How to earn a billion dollars"

bjustin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:18:58 +0000

One of the problems is that rather than billionaires being it for money, they’re in it for money. They don’t lack for money to live, sure, but they do want more money for the power it provides.

New comment by bjustin in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

bjustin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:29:49 +0000

I agree but I also think this end up a case of "worse is better". Sure it sucks that doing things with AI is slower and more prone to issues, but now you can be more lazy and still mostly accomplish the same things.

I don't expect to go for that, but other people might. Especially if AI stuff continues to improve.

New comment by bjustin in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

bjustin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:25:37 +0000

Apple's market cap would have dropped by 30-50% if they had signed CUDA drivers? How would that have played out?

New comment by bjustin in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

bjustin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:08:10 +0000

I agree that we must stop subsidies for cattle farming.

New comment by bjustin in "MacBook Neo"

bjustin — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:24:37 +0000

Whoever added the pause button on the image carousel on that page, I applaud you.

New comment by bjustin in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

bjustin — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:42:25 +0000

There are plenty of long, straight, flat roads around town here, where riding at 28mph would be perfectly safe. People driving feel free to go 30+mph, after all. My e-bike's assist only goes up to 20mph, which I can sustain even without assist on many of those roads. I'd guess 25mph would be about as fast as I could go with assist while still feeling safe on a bike.

New comment by bjustin in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

bjustin — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:58:08 +0000

I propose a new and improved e-bike classification scheme:

Class A: Bikes that can not go over 10mph via a throttle. And can’t go over 28mph with pedal assist. Or set the pedal assist limit at 20mph if you’re feeling especially conservative.

Class B-Class infinity: These aren’t considered bikes. Class A is the only class of e-bike.

New comment by bjustin in "IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight"

bjustin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:25:46 +0000

How did we go from "wealth extracted from [Europeans and Europe]" to "wealth extracted from a company"?

New comment by bjustin in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

bjustin — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:17:06 +0000

Having used Android Studio for work for a few years and used Xcode quite a lot for longer, I find the praise for Android Studio to be puzzling. I would give it "fine" but no way I'd say it is "good". I haven't used it enough compared to Xcode to say if one is better than the other.

New comment by bjustin in "A Vision for WebAssembly Support in Swift"

bjustin — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 21:15:05 +0000

This problem is very real. There is at least an ok way to avoid it getting too bad: make lots of View and ViewModifier structs, with each one having smallish amounts of code. Split them up to the extent that it feels silly.

As an added bonus, this is also the way to get good performance at run time. It helps minimize how many views need to get re-evaluated when something changes.

Framework Laptop 13 gets Core Ultra CPUs, cheaper Ryzens, and higher-res screens

bjustin — Thu, 30 May 2024 17:27:14 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/framework-laptop-13-gets-core-ultra-cpus-cheaper-ryzens-and-higher-res-screens/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40526351

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New comment by bjustin in "LKML: Zebediah Figura: Kernel interface for Wine synchronization primitives"

bjustin — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:36:05 +0000

Non-archive.org link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/17/312

LKML: Zebediah Figura: Kernel interface for Wine synchronization primitives

bjustin — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:36:05 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20230605003147/https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/17/312

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40046475

Points: 1

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