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New comment by larpingscholar in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

larpingscholar — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:03:21 +0000

Rack densities have also more than doubled just in last 5 years

New comment by larpingscholar in "FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US"

larpingscholar — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:47:57 +0000

Foreign lidar cars are already effectively banned under the same 7 year old (renewed yearly) "emergency powers" Executive Order that led to this drone ban. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/05/17/2019-10...

And more properly there is an introduced bipartisan bill - SAFE LiDAR Act.

New comment by larpingscholar in "Grok Build is open source"

larpingscholar — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:39:05 +0000

  curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash

this is unauditable trust in XAI.

New comment by larpingscholar in "Preservatives linked to high blood pressure and heart disease in new study"

larpingscholar — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:21:48 +0000

And "Ascorbic acid (E300) was also specifically linked to cardiovascular disease." That is, they are claiming that vitamin c gives you heart disease...

New comment by larpingscholar in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"

larpingscholar — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:52:23 +0000

The difference is share of global production vs exports

New comment by larpingscholar in "Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond"

larpingscholar — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:16:19 +0000

It's the period of the carrier wave (900MHz)?

New comment by larpingscholar in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

larpingscholar — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:15:48 +0000

You think the chemical compounds were just magiced into the ocean with no carbon intensity. It literally says carbon will not be absorbed and that geoengineering is not the goal.

New comment by larpingscholar in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

larpingscholar — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:49:38 +0000

From your link:

> Not geoengineering

> The project is also unlikely to bury much if any carbon dioxide for one simple reason: metabolism. As other iron fertilization experiments have shown, it is relatively easy to get plankton to bloom, but it is harder for that bloom to sink to the bottom of the ocean, where it takes CO2 with it.

This project is a net carbon emitter by design.

New comment by larpingscholar in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

larpingscholar — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:01:09 +0000

You are yet to discover the joys of the managed settings scope. They can be set three ways. The claude.ai admin console; by one of two registry keys e.g. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\ClaudeCode; and by an alphabetically merged directory of json files.

New comment by larpingscholar in "When rust ≠ performance. a lesson in developer experience"

larpingscholar — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:24:26 +0000

I agree. Though the line count is meaningless as the vibe coded diff has pointless formatting and whitespace changes.