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New comment by rcpt in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

rcpt — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:24:32 +0000

I think the only way it makes sense is if local busybodies succeed in banning data centers from the ground.

New comment by rcpt in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

rcpt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:25:53 +0000

I was messing with a stray cat in Yunnan.

New comment by rcpt in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

rcpt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:50:44 +0000

"We're traveling to Tokyo on our way home from China. We'd like to plan a trip accessible by train that hits some beaches, some hot springs, and allows me to get the 4th does of a rabies vaccine sequence (the first three shots were rabvac)"

New comment by rcpt in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

rcpt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:07:01 +0000

Solved a bunch of Erdos problems.

New comment by rcpt in "The dead economy theory"

rcpt — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:01:47 +0000

That's roughly what Elon thought about Twitter. The app is so much worse now.

New comment by rcpt in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

rcpt — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:35:17 +0000

The water usage is floating point error compared to ethanol and the electricity prices near the centers are some of the cheapest you can get. In terms of the physical world this is maybe the lowest impact industry in history.

New comment by rcpt in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

rcpt — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:33:15 +0000

Such as

New comment by rcpt in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

rcpt — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:32:43 +0000

No they aren't.

New comment by rcpt in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

rcpt — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:32:25 +0000

They really aren't.

New comment by rcpt in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

rcpt — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:32:08 +0000

Can't put new technology back in the box.

We don't build the chips or even the machines that build the machines that build the chips. We don't own all the rare earths and our ability to generate electricity isn't anything special.

The data centers are getting built. Up to us if it's in Utah or overseas.

New comment by rcpt in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

rcpt — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:02:04 +0000

Bitcoin Mining is 138–205 TWh annually. Surely that's more than a few data centers.

New comment by rcpt in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

rcpt — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:58:55 +0000

Most everybody isn't affected by data center build outs.

New comment by rcpt in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

rcpt — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:57:52 +0000

Not much layoffs and they're probably due to the Trump #1 tax hikes on engineering anyway. But you can't say that without getting tariffed. Saying you're using AI is a much safer bet

New comment by rcpt in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

rcpt — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:54:53 +0000

> It's not a completely insane idea and like all things can be reasonably discussed

Actually it's a completely insane idea that can't be reasonably discussed.

New comment by rcpt in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

rcpt — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:53:21 +0000

Neither have much impact on the local area so equal weight makes sense

New comment by rcpt in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

rcpt — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:35:37 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform#Taxpa...

New comment by rcpt in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

rcpt — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:17:22 +0000

In the US every Republican takes the Grover Norquist pledge to always make taxes as salient and as unpleasant as possible. The idea being that it will make voters more anti tax

New comment by rcpt in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

rcpt — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:48:33 +0000

I am just not seeing a future where a product manager opens their laptop and says "build me a self driving car company" and then gets one

New comment by rcpt in "Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising"

rcpt — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:24:16 +0000

We all got agents at work now and still the engineers haven't equalized

New comment by rcpt in "Grok 4.3"

rcpt — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:57:38 +0000

I haven't been nannied in a long time. It was definitely a problem 2 years ago but now it seems all the models are ok with just about everything I want.