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New comment by explodes in "DuckDB Internals Part 1"

explodes — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:03:38 +0000

> You open a connection, send SQL over TCP (a protocol to send data over a network),

Thanks for the clarification, LLM!!

New comment by explodes in "Travel locally, where you are"

explodes — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:54:34 +0000

I read this 3 times to try to figure out why you were living in the library for 10 years. It sparked Roofman vibes.

New comment by explodes in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

explodes — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:50:26 +0000

The license change is more than just concerning. This isn't the first time it happens, and won't be the last, without legal action.

New comment by explodes in "Who Runs Your Rust Future? Hands-On Intro to Async Rust"

explodes — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:00:18 +0000

Ah what a great little tutorial. Thanks for sharing that one.

It looks like rust async creates state machines similar to how Kotlin does it with so-called Continuations.

New comment by explodes in "Surprise, pay $1000"

explodes — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:17:40 +0000

> I want to say upfront - we've never pursued these invoices

So those people who would feel guilty not paying are punished and those who prefer to try to cheat the system by skipping payment on invoices are systematically rewarded?

New comment by explodes in "Getting silly with C, part and((int*)1)[-1]"

explodes — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:59:57 +0000

Wow, some of these (probably all) are ridiculous. And trying them on different compilers just adds to the fun.

Love the tonuge in cheek writing here.

New comment by explodes in "America's Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule"

explodes — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:48:18 +0000

This is pretty much exactly my gripes, too. Data centers are necessary, but why are we doing this all the wrong way?

The new Utah data center is building new gas pipelines to generate 9GW instead of requiring ANY percentage of green energy, while also giving massive tax breaks that the families living nearby and statewide will have to cover.

For actionable information on this specific project, see:

https://www.breatheutah.org/news/the-stratos-project-questio...

New comment by explodes in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

explodes — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:15:25 +0000

You don't subscribe to twenty five news outlets, what are you, a freeloader? /s

New comment by explodes in "I ran GLM-5.1 on a 16GB RAM machine"

explodes — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:00:23 +0000

Beautiful. Twenty seconds per token is funny, but the only direction is up from here!

New comment by explodes in "Ohio suspends data center tax break, tech firms face pressure to pay AI costs"

explodes — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:53:18 +0000

The title may be misleading. They are pausing giving out new tax breaks, not suspending previously granted breaks.

New comment by explodes in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

explodes — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:06:54 +0000

How is this a dupe? It's new information, and my take is that it's one of the least biased articles about the topic.

New comment by explodes in "Why We've Filed a Referendum"

explodes — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:30:17 +0000

If you're looking for actionable information, and don't want to sign up anywhere to see it:

https://www.breatheutah.org/news/the-stratos-project-questio...

New comment by explodes in "Why We've Filed a Referendum"

explodes — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:28:07 +0000

This echoes some of my biggest gripes about data centers:

We should be mandating green power, to a great extent, be built to support these facilities.

We (US states) should not be competing, in a race to the bottom, to be the state to give the biggest tax breaks and pass the cost to the citizens.

We should not be ignoring the citizens who will have their health and livelihoods affected.

AI data centers, for better or worse, are very necessary for many reasons. They could be built responsibly, or at least less hazardously, but the care isn't being put into that aspect of their construction.

New comment by explodes in "Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions"

explodes — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:54:00 +0000

2025

New comment by explodes in "Residents furious as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan"

explodes — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:24:53 +0000

They are going to power this exclusively with natural gas.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/05/07/oleary-sa...

It would be nice if they were required to build the clean energy but they are not.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/05/07/utahs-dat...

New comment by explodes in "Residents furious as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan"

explodes — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:50:19 +0000

They have a right to be concerned about increasing power bills

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-elec...

They have a right, if not an obligation, to be concerned about water consumption and pollution, especially in an already drought stricken area, near a drying, poisonous lake.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jersey-residents-cant-ev...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/great-salt-lake-utah.h...

They have a pretty good reason to be upset about adding an extreme amount of heat and CO2 in an area where the tourism for skiing and snowboarding plays a huge role in tourism for the nearby counties, despite lowest snowpacks on record year over year.

https://www.abc4.com/news/northern-utah/box-elder-data-cente...

https://www.ksl.com/article/51477142/utah-breaks-record-for-...

Also as a citizen, I would be furious is my elected officials ignored the locals in favor of 2 other officials' pressure and opinions.

https://www.abc4.com/news/northern-utah/box-elder-county-com...

https://www.aol.com/news/ve-never-felt-threatened-box-033934...

New comment by explodes in "Facepunch launches s&box, the highly anticipated successor to Garry's Mod"

explodes — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:17:13 +0000

Damn, less than 50% rating on Steam.

New comment by explodes in "Utah greenlights 9GW AI campus using over twice state electricity"

explodes — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:13:45 +0000

New comment by explodes in "I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards"

explodes — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:04:01 +0000

Virtual machines don't prevent data exfiltration. Auditing code before using it does. I'm with GP. I was going to use this for personal use until I noticed this problem.

New comment by explodes in "Utah data center will generate and consume more power than state, nears approval"

explodes — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:45:02 +0000

Valid. I certainly do not know myself. We will have to wait for the environmental impact study, or just wait for the real-world effects.