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New comment by goda90 in "Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch"

goda90 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:30:03 +0000

I dug a lot into "starving cancer" while we tried to save our dog from an aggressive sarcoma. I can't find his name off hand but I recall reading about a researcher who used a ketogenic diet to keep glucose low, and then occasionally gave drugs to "hammer" the cancer by quickly and temporarily depleting glutamine as well.

New comment by goda90 in "A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air"

goda90 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:10:09 +0000

Collecting water with tarps is just strategic collection of condensation/dew. Clothing has the issue of often being warmer than ambient because people are warm blooded, so it's unlikely water would condense from the air(though it can condense on the inside from evaporated sweat).

New comment by goda90 in "Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water"

goda90 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:06:21 +0000

Pricing water properly includes figuring out how much someone is drawing directly from wells on private property.

New comment by goda90 in "Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water"

goda90 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:52:18 +0000

With any water use, I'd say it's important to examine how the water gets back into the system. Does it return to the same source or end up elsewhere? Does it return clean, treated, or polluted? If it evaporates, where is that vapor most likely to end up?

A lot of ways people use water can actually end up back in the source area after treatment. That should be considered differently than water evaporated in a desert that rarely receives rains.

New comment by goda90 in "Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water"

goda90 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:46:48 +0000

We should never assume any aquifer can be used up lightly, whether Utah or in a rainforest. Droughts are going to become more common, and not only does a lower water table impact other human activities, but also plants that have deep roots and anything relying on natural springs that might dry up faster if we're wasting a bunch on evaporative cooling.

Demanding closed loop cooling is just as important as demanding self built renewable power for new data centers.

New comment by goda90 in "The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy"

goda90 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:51:30 +0000

And the feeds are largely the way they are due to unregulated greed.

New comment by goda90 in "America's Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule"

goda90 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:31:59 +0000

If these data centers are going to be so profitable, then it should be simple to make guarantees about clean self-power, closed loop cooling, and noise and light pollution mitigation. There definitely shouldn't be deals to avoid taxes while lying about job creation.

Maybe if they did those things, there would be fewer permitting fights.

New comment by goda90 in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

goda90 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:27:16 +0000

> That negligence is not caused by desperation/greed/fear/lack of empathy, but by a confidence that one won't get caught or punished.

Greed comes in for the perceived time savings of speeding or ignoring signals or the desire to "have fun" or be perceived as cool. Lack of concern for pedestrians and other drivers/passenger by driving recklessly is the lack of empathy/compassion part.

New comment by goda90 in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

goda90 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:55:58 +0000

What if instead of trying to figure out how to catch criminals, we focus on building a society where no one wants to be a criminal? Can we find solutions to what causes crime, like desperation, greed, fear, failure to understand and have compassion for other people, etc?

New comment by goda90 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

goda90 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:04:57 +0000

It doesn't, but I'm not going to trust my own safety to a self driving car that can only be said to be better than the worst drivers. It's a bad baseline.

New comment by goda90 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

goda90 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:38:20 +0000

With these kinds of things, I want to see comparisons to trained, alert humans. Cut out all the distracted, stressed, tired, incompetent, intoxicated cases from the baseline. That includes rushed doctors at the end of a long shift.

A self driving car doing better than a drunk on the freeway doesn't reassure me that it'll do better than sober me in a snowstorm.

New comment by goda90 in "Debug Project"

goda90 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:39:27 +0000

A less high-tech way to reduce mosquitoes in your own back yard is to set up an attractive nesting location, such as a bucket filled with plant cuttings and water with protection from the rain, and putting Bti(Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies israelensis) in it. Bti will kill the larvae after they hatch. You can buy Bti pretty easily, usually in a dehydrated form called mosquitoes bits or mosquito dunks. Make sure to remove other potential nesting locations or add Bti to them too.

New comment by goda90 in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

goda90 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:54:22 +0000

This is a pretty narrow anecdote but my employer prefers hiring right out of undergrad and training. They also were quite aggressive in ending remote work after Covid. I felt a lot better about the new developers I worked with before LLMs got big than I do now.

New comment by goda90 in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

goda90 — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:18:12 +0000

Already fingerprinted, perhaps?

New comment by goda90 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

goda90 — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:48:46 +0000

A saboteur might want to cause disruption without violence against people, and such cases would still likely be labeled terrorism.

New comment by goda90 in "Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled"

goda90 — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:22:08 +0000

I'm anxiously awaiting support for using dumps from the HD Wii U version since that's what I have in my own collection(and dumping on the Wii U is remarkably easy with the built in browser.)

New comment by goda90 in "Cars are trying to spy on you, and it's only just the beginning"

goda90 — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:42:18 +0000

I propose requiring explicit opt in for each piece of data collected, and explicit opt in for each piece shared to a third party. Failure to opt in for a particular piece should only result in the degradation of features that can be reasonably explained as requiring the data.

New comment by goda90 in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

goda90 — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:28:46 +0000

People aren't starting competitor businesses because the hassle has become astronomically expensive, also largely due to rent seekers[0]. You need a space, but real estate is absurdly inflated. You need trained employees, but education is absurdly inflated and also poorer quality for the baseline. You need to pay a living wage and give healthcare benefits to attract labor, but cost of living and healthcare are skyrocketing.

Ultimately the influence of rent seekers has grown and the category of people who can take risks by starting a business was the first to collapse, leaving only the wealthy who don't care and the people who can't risk their own survival.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

New comment by goda90 in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

goda90 — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:06:12 +0000

Or maybe they need to bring back quality assurance expertise to the company.

New comment by goda90 in "Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs"

goda90 — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:02:59 +0000

Left part of the page is cut off and only accessible with reader mode on IronFox for Android. Talk about #WebAccessibilityFails