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New comment by youngtaff in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

youngtaff — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:03:54 +0000

Reality is much of Europe hasn’t needed air con until recently

mMy phone tells me that the temperature this week has been 15°C above the long term average for this time of year.

Don’t really need air con when the peak temperature in the past has been 20–25°C

New comment by youngtaff in "$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf"

youngtaff — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:45:22 +0000

If you every get the chance, go visit Freshwater West… it's a beautiful part of the world

New comment by youngtaff in "The computer that helped win World War II"

youngtaff — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:29:00 +0000

They weren't all destroyed, some were moved to what became GCHQ (UK's equivalent to the NSA)

See Influence and Fate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer

It's Tommy Flowers I always felt sorry for, after the war he wanted a loan to build a computer was refused on the grounds that what he wanted to build was impossible. He knew it was possible but couldn't disclose that due to secrecy laws

New comment by youngtaff in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"

youngtaff — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:03:37 +0000

I adored my MiniDisc too but the limited storage of a single disk makes it easy to find the music you want

Given how much we can store in solid state not sure I’d want to navigate my library without a screen

New comment by youngtaff in "Postmortem of a British Startup: Tract"

youngtaff — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:26:45 +0000

Lack of tradies is part of the problem but house builders tend to rely on sub-contracting so they don't have to bear the cost of employment, training etc and want someone else to solve the problem for them

House builders essentially buy land, get planning, pay a bunch of sub-contractors to slap together a house and then sell it to some poor sap

Saying they build houses is a bit of a misnomer in my view

New comment by youngtaff in "Postmortem of a British Startup: Tract"

youngtaff — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:10:34 +0000

But what problem does move to the US actually solve in this case?

House builders don't seem to have a problem acquiring land and rights to develop it

Indeed there're permission granted for over 1mn yet to be build residential properties in the UK

The problem is UK house builders drip feed houses on to the market to keep their profits up, and slow down building when house prices fall

New comment by youngtaff in "If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe"

youngtaff — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:35:20 +0000

with can provide a combobox

Missing part is dynamically updating the datalist in an efficient way

SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status

youngtaff — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:59:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/3a023b95-66c3-41e1-b0ce-df752a499541

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920181

Points: 562

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New comment by youngtaff in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

youngtaff — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:27:54 +0000

And they claimed their TAM was 20% of world GDP!!!

New comment by youngtaff in "SpaceX's newest Starmind will make earth data centers obsolete"

youngtaff — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:40:54 +0000

> And no, that launch rate does not "wreck the planet".

What's the impact of the atmospheric pollution from both launches and the burn of space craft and satellite's burning up on re-rentry?

New comment by youngtaff in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

youngtaff — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:06:52 +0000

Although it's a bit rougher design wise I prefer https://traksy.uk/live

Amongst other things it shows all the signalling segments so you can actually see where your train is when waiting e.g. https://traksy.uk/live/T+CDU+BRI+d+@2026-07-06T15:00/S+G1548...

New comment by youngtaff in "Half-Baked Product"

youngtaff — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:11:01 +0000

Buy two dishwashers — one of clean stuff and one for dirty stuff — my brother’s seriously thinking about doing it when his kitchen is remodelled

New comment by youngtaff in "Half-Baked Product"

youngtaff — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:07:20 +0000

More posts about British politics than SpaceX recently!

New comment by youngtaff in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

youngtaff — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:44:46 +0000

Are you hypermobile?

My son is and once subluxed his shoulder while running

New comment by youngtaff in "SpaceX's newest Starmind will make earth data centers obsolete"

youngtaff — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:45:03 +0000

How are you going to get rid on the heat?

And they won't all be in constant unfiltered sunlight some will be in the earth's shadow

New comment by youngtaff in "SpaceX's newest Starmind will make earth data centers obsolete"

youngtaff — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:44:10 +0000

20,000 launches is 11 Starship launches a day for 5 years

It's an unsustainable rate and even if we do get to that rate it'll wreck the planet

New comment by youngtaff in "SpaceX's newest Starmind will make earth data centers obsolete"

youngtaff — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:48:43 +0000

According to the authors numbers it'll take at least 20,000 launched to put a million satellite's in orbit

And that's before you consider the issues of operating a DC in space

It's just a a load of nonsense

New comment by youngtaff in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

youngtaff — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:32:18 +0000

A TAM that’s equivalent to 20% of worldwide GDP is just nonsense

New comment by youngtaff in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

youngtaff — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:30:51 +0000

They’re not long term contract though… some might only be 90days

New comment by youngtaff in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

youngtaff — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:25:18 +0000

> The valuation of SpaceX is due to AI, namely the revenue they get for renting out their GPUs to companies that actually have AI customers, as their own AI tech has not panned out.

Renting them out for 90 days!