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New comment by kayo_20211030 in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

kayo_20211030 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:13:00 +0000

For sure. Everywhere. Even observationally, we just all know it's hotter, or wetter, or colder - it's all way more extreme in all dimensions.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

kayo_20211030 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:05:02 +0000

I lived in Munich many years ago, but if the temperature ever went to the high thirties for more than a day we'd expect the end of the world :-)

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

kayo_20211030 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:19:01 +0000

> In favorable climates, NVIDIA’s 45-degree liquid-cooling architecture ....

What's a favorable climate, apart from, obviously, Greenland? The piece is a little light on details on the correlation between outside temperatures and efficiency & cost. It'd be nice to see even a broad-strokes discussion of that.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs. Tesco slugfest"

kayo_20211030 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:22:07 +0000

Let's go, tes-co!

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "The Illusion of Determinism"

kayo_20211030 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:26:11 +0000

> ... tasks like auto-generating documentation, scaffolding schema files, and enforcing naming patterns. The kind of stuff that everyone agrees should be standardized but nobody wants to do by hand

Does everyone agree on this? Or is it another appeal for _some_ form of determinism in our development lives? A desire for tidiness?

I'm fine with that, it brings value, but it requires a very strong architect or a BDUF. That's hard to manage at an organizational level given the prevalence of independent product groups and scrum teams within current engineering organizations.

Everything not done within that tidy world is probably considered debt; but if you're willing and capable to fund the debt, maybe all that lack of determinism isn't too bad.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

kayo_20211030 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:58:24 +0000

I dunno. I can go to Tesco in Ireland and the UK (fine, UK is not EU no more, but still Europe) and get a sim without ID.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

kayo_20211030 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:49:43 +0000

David Cameron may be the biggest idiot in almost 300 years of British Prime Ministers, and there's been a few beauties. He really could have done a better job with the whole referendum business. Up/Down only. No "by a majority of...". No requirement for a second referendum on the terms of the disengagement agreement. Asking him to stay around would have been like asking the driver that drove you over the cliff to drive you home. And then there was that other beauty, Boris!

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

kayo_20211030 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:12:32 +0000

I don't think that's true. At least not in the European countries I visit.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps"

kayo_20211030 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:04:34 +0000

Yes. Generally, it's quite good. It does have a blind spot with parens, but good old Claude Opus then cranks up a python script (yes!) to sort it all out. I wouldn't leave any of the models out on their own - you'll still have to clean up some obviously crazy stuff, but it's pretty clear what needs to done. In conclusion, Claude and ChatGPT are quite decent at Clojure. Oh, I do like Biff.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

kayo_20211030 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:55:10 +0000

Right. Anything that matters a blind bit to me is on WhatsApp (don't judge!), I don't consume too much from other sources, and when I do I don't expect anything more than a sensible person would expect. It is what it is. Choose your channel and you'll get what you expect. That's pretty much it.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "Why are cells small?"

kayo_20211030 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:38:22 +0000

> A simplistic answer is that evolution has made each cell the size best suited to its function.

Yeah. That's probably it. Really, it probably is the right answer.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "Spherical Voronoi Diagram"

kayo_20211030 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:20:29 +0000

I reckon that OP did the work and that the map is correct. The CA/NV border seems weird. Under Mercator, you're insisting that the angles are correct in the projection. It just looks a little strange - with all those straight lines that you'd expect to see on a plane, but not on a sphere. The conservation of angles threw me off.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun"

kayo_20211030 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:11:06 +0000

> “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”

Right.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun"

kayo_20211030 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:09:59 +0000

lol

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "Spherical Voronoi Diagram"

kayo_20211030 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:35:24 +0000

Thanks and very fun. The graphic "The United States of Voronoi" is another reminder of why the mercator projection is so counter-intuitive at times.

Indian Indenture System

kayo_20211030 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:01:35 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_indenture_system

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444817

Points: 7

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New comment by kayo_20211030 in "You Can Run"

kayo_20211030 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:12:39 +0000

Yup. A big yawn. It seems like it ought to deep and insightful, but is, as you say, "basically a story about conman/drug guy interwoven with biographical information and anecdotes about how this impacted his family". There's no connection between the two parts that goes deeper that "they knew each other once, but did they really know each other?". It'd be Hallmark, but the parents aren't sympathetic enough.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline"

kayo_20211030 — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:00:37 +0000

Shabbos goy. Pete Hamill was one, and tells a good story. Snow in August, I believe, is based on his experiences.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "Ferrari Luce"

kayo_20211030 — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:44:52 +0000

lol. Emotional Rescue was when I stopped listening, but I hope that Keith and Mick live forever, even as statistical outliers. I love folks that win the life lottery. It's a hope for all of us.

New comment by kayo_20211030 in "Ferrari Luce"

kayo_20211030 — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:34:05 +0000

"Sir" Jony Ive? Sure fine, recognized by the crown and all that. It looks like a Kia. Don't get me wrong, I like Kia's. If Ive was a lollipop he'd lick himself. When you get to a point that you can no longer do seminal & groundbreaking work, and you continue to cling to what you used to be, just stop; even if only in respect to the good stuff you've done already.