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New comment by dukeyukey in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

dukeyukey — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:12:56 +0000

Europe is a big place. Domestic air con is ubiquitous in Italy, rare in the UK. But even in the UK, places like shops and offices will usually have air con.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

dukeyukey — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:02:08 +0000

I mean do we not want food to be stored for tough times? And the people who do this storing should get paid for it?

New comment by dukeyukey in "Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution"

dukeyukey — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:56:34 +0000

Unless you're French.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029"

dukeyukey — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:15:08 +0000

Not a single country has a fertility rate of 6 children per woman. And the highest middle eastern country is Yemen at 4.3. The next highest is Iraq at 3.1.

Tract Postmortem (2025)

dukeyukey — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:58:21 +0000

Article URL: https://buildwithtract.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48958722

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dukeyukey in "Learning a few things about running SQLite"

dukeyukey — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:31:03 +0000

They also say it seems to work well up to 500k a day, which is quite a bit.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Learning a few things about running SQLite"

dukeyukey — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:08:02 +0000

To be fair they also say

> Generally speaking, any site that gets fewer than 100K hits/day should work fine with SQLite.

New comment by dukeyukey in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

dukeyukey — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:52:00 +0000

The UK is still the world's 5th largest economy. It's a large domestic market, just not a hyperscale one.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland"

dukeyukey — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:28:22 +0000

This is bizarre to me, because the energy markets in my country (the UK) are bent to benefit solar and wind over all else. We banned oil and gas exploration, and even regulated out coal from the entire market. It's extremely hard to see how this benefits fossil fuel companies.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland"

dukeyukey — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:14:37 +0000

That is not the answer (plenty of profit in solar), it's probably that society is literally older and so people don't like change as much.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland"

dukeyukey — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:25:38 +0000

People hate the idea of solar in currently-unused space. Even if that space is bare desert. So you can get a big PR boost if you propose "solar, but on a thing" (roadways, water, and now trains).

UK home to third largest number of billion dollar startups in the world

dukeyukey — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:34:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.smeweb.com/uk-home-to-third-largest-number-of-billion-dollar-start-ups-in-the-world/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772943

Points: 5

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New comment by dukeyukey in "This blog is written in en-GB"

dukeyukey — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:02:22 +0000

If I (a Brit) moves to the US, I'd absolutely get a Yorkshire-branded tea caddy filled with teabags on my desk. Sometimes you need to live up to the stereotypes.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

dukeyukey — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:00:10 +0000

If you already know what the inputs/outputs are, why should you spend days or weeks of your life typing it out rather than giving it in a well-specified and tested form to an LLM to get it done a hundred times faster?

Random Lives

dukeyukey — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:11:04 +0000

Article URL: https://random-lives.github.io/random-lives/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458134

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dukeyukey in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

dukeyukey — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:05:06 +0000

NASA? JET? CERN?

New comment by dukeyukey in "Lombardy increases charges for the construction of data centres in green areas"

dukeyukey — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:18:18 +0000

I recognise that makes it politically tricky, but "creates almost no jobs" and "creates lots of jobs, but dispersed elsewhere" are two very different statements. And for data centers the latter is true, and the former is a lie.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Lombardy increases charges for the construction of data centres in green areas"

dukeyukey — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:16:54 +0000

To a point, yes. Otherwise you are at the mercy of whoever's compute you use.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

dukeyukey — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:10:36 +0000

What damage do you have in mind? I live next to a big cluster of data centers, second biggest in Europe, and I haven't seen anything like "damage" from them.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

dukeyukey — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:04:13 +0000

Directly, sure. Indirectly, they have created many millions of jobs. Tens of millions at the very lowest. There are nearly 30 million web developers alone.