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

renata — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:09:39 +0000

Hmm, I hadn't considered additions to existing plants versus greenfield plants, fair point. Presumably those have less local resistance and permitting issues considering it only took fifteen years from application to generating power. Guess there's probably a market in selling existing datacenters to the hyperscalers to expand them!

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

renata — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:21:06 +0000

> A nuclear power station puts out many times the waste heat of the sites mentioned in the article. We've apparently mostly made peace with the local impacts of those.

Although to be fair, when was the last time we actually managed to build a new nuclear plant?

New comment by renata in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

renata — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:03:51 +0000

I got a no-name USB adapter for mine and it hasn't killed it in the couple of years I've had it, that's the one I take for travel. You can search for "USB QP2520" to find one.

New comment by renata in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

renata — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:15:34 +0000

m.xkcd.com lets you click for the alt-text.

New comment by renata in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

renata — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:18:46 +0000

It's cheaper if you have multiple computers with normal amounts of data though. My whole family is on my B2 account (Duplicati backing up eight computers each to a separate bucket), and it's $10/month.

New comment by renata in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

renata — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:35:17 +0000

And seems to sound like a normal bell, or maybe that's just my ears. I guess I can see why they didn't put it up front, but that was also all I wanted.

New comment by renata in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"

renata — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:17:20 +0000

Yeah, there were definitely ö and û and © and stuff too, just anything outside the normal 0x20-0x7E.

New comment by renata in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"

renata — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:22:20 +0000

As I recall pseudoloc is just randomly picking individual characters to substitute that look like the Latin letters to keep it readable for testing, so it would be something like рг (Cyrillic) ο (Greek)... etc, and can change from run to run. It would also artificially pad or shorten terms to catch cases where the (usually German) term would be much longer or a (usually CJK) term would be much shorter and screw up alignment or breaks.

New comment by renata in "ICE plans cash rewards for private bounty hunters to locate and track immigrants"

renata — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:58:15 +0000

Heck, they even make TV shows about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_the_Bounty_Hunter !

New comment by renata in "People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020)"

renata — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 06:03:54 +0000

Technically it was because businesses were banned from raising wages during WW2 but benefits were exempt.

New comment by renata in "Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout"

renata — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 16:17:08 +0000

Well, we can't count on the entire rest of the world having all their factories bombed and being the only nation with reasonable manufacturing capability all the time.

New comment by renata in "Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch"

renata — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:08:24 +0000

Nintendo is going to be doing digital game lending now so that's an interesting addition. I'll probably still buy physical since the first-party games hold their value so well.

New comment by renata in "Real Chilling Effects"

renata — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:49:43 +0000

But if you own the biggest social network in the world and say "Taylor Swift is no longer allowed to advertise or promote her music on this platform", just because you don't agree with her politics, people might see that as censorship, or at least shady.

New comment by renata in "Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?"

renata — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:38:39 +0000

Sure, that makes sense. Sorry again and I'll skip the epithets in the future.

New comment by renata in "Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?"

renata — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:22:14 +0000

My apologies, I assumed that applied just to participants on HN discussions.

New comment by renata in "Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?"

renata — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:44:17 +0000

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New comment by renata in "Microsoft is killing Skype"

renata — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:24:30 +0000

Signal also doesn't (on IOS at least), I just set it up for my parents and it asks for specific contacts.

New comment by renata in "Microsoft is killing Skype"

renata — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:10:11 +0000

I mean, Signal works as TOFU if you're not sharing state secrets or anything.

New comment by renata in "Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone"

renata — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:44:43 +0000

911 or 9911 is usually a good shot too.

New comment by renata in "Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII"

renata — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:21:40 +0000

Treaties specifically have to be approved by Congress and have approximately the same force of law and durability as the Constitution. Lately we mostly do "executive agreements" instead, which do not require Congressional approval and can pretty much be ignored on a whim by the next president. We could go back to treaties but considering Congress has given up so much of their responsibility to executive agencies because they can't even pass laws, it seems unlikely.