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NegativeLatency commented on How does the US use water?   construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble
password4321 · 3 days ago
I would like to know how much water is taken by a datacenter vs. the same size space of apartments. I can see why it could be considered a bad choice for communities long term if a datacenter takes more.
NegativeLatency · 3 days ago
Apples and oranges, you can compare the water usage, but places for people to live aren't in the same category as datacenters.
NegativeLatency commented on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature   sso.tax/... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
fabian2k · 5 days ago
Not to defend this practice, but SSO does tend to produce an additional support burden. It's complex, there are many knobs to fiddle with and it can be tedious to figure out if the customer (via configuration, or their identity provider itself) or the vendor are at fault for an issue.

Just had an issue today, I'm reasonably sure it's the customer's fault. But I also misread the spec earlier and was wrong about some parts that worked out of the box with one identity provider, but not another one. So who knows. Okay, I assume this parts gets better once your SSO implementation gets older, but it's a pain when you're starting out with it.

NegativeLatency · 5 days ago
Especially so if the customer is not a tech company or otherwise has IT staff that aren't uh motivated.

Add in SCIM and IT people "changing stuff to better align with our other stuff" and you just get a whole steamy barrel of fun.

NegativeLatency commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging   astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko
tempest_ · 11 days ago
I share your concern but I have saved so much time with uv already that I figure ill ride it till the VC enshitification kills the host.

Hopefully at the point the community is centralized enough to move in one direction.

NegativeLatency · 11 days ago
I've been heartened by the progress that opentofu has made, so I think if it gets enough momentum it could survive the inevitable money grab
NegativeLatency commented on Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?   minimaxir.com/2025/08/llm... · Posted by u/minimaxir
hnlmorg · 12 days ago
I agree it’s not perfect. But it’s just 3 terms those non-English speakers need to learn. Which is a lot easier than having to remember every OpenAI model name and how it compares to every other one.
NegativeLatency · 12 days ago
what's so wrong with: small, medium, and large?
NegativeLatency commented on FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable   techdirt.com/2025/08/05/t... · Posted by u/CharlesW
stego-tech · 19 days ago
You mean the FCC was actually trying before? /sarcasm

In all seriousness, we’ve poured billions of dollars into broadband expansion efforts since the early 2000s. Every single time it’s been largely hoovered up by Big Telecoms, failed to expand broadband/improve speeds/lower prices, and basically just gone right to their bottom line as a subsidy.

The solution all along has been funding municipal broadband as the baseline for private enterprise to compete against and surpass, but lobbyists have all but killed that dead up until the past ten years or so. You can’t treat broadband as a utility in legal language but not in practice, yet the USA seems perfectly fine with their status quo leaving them a laughing stock of the developed world.

NegativeLatency · 19 days ago
Also community/municipal owned broadband is illegal in many places thanks to lobbying from the big telcos: https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
NegativeLatency commented on AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder   afterburnout.co/p/ai-prom... · Posted by u/mooreds
aantix · 20 days ago
I don't think "IDK Claude did that" is a valid excuse. Immediate rejection.

AI may be multi-threaded, but there's still a human, global interpreter lock in place. :D

If you put the code up for review, regardless of the source, you should fundamentally understand how it works.

This raises a broader point about AI and productivity: while AI promises parallelism, there's still the human in the middle who is responsible for the code.

The promise of "parallelism" is overstated.

100's of PRs should not be trusted. Or at least not without the c-suite understanding such risks. Maybe you're a small startup looking to get out the door as quickly as possible, so.. YOLO.

But it's going to be a hot mess. A "clean up in aisle nine" level mess.

NegativeLatency · 20 days ago
> I don't think "IDK Claude did that" is a valid excuse.

It's not, and yet I have seen that offered as an excuse several times.

NegativeLatency commented on Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)   filfre.net/2025/08/roller... · Posted by u/cybersoyuz
NegativeLatency · 23 days ago
Loved playing this game as a kid, Open Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 has been great for some recent replays: https://openrct2.io
NegativeLatency commented on URL-Driven State in HTMX   lorenstew.art/blog/bookma... · Posted by u/lorenstewart
ashwinsundar · a month ago
They failed as a company?
NegativeLatency · 25 days ago
Still around doing, eh fine. But they abandoned the url hash params with an id that references params on the backend (a mess!)
NegativeLatency commented on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
ElCapitanMarkla · 25 days ago
I don't really understand why Youtube won't let me create a profile, on my paid family account that I'm paying $29 NZD a month for, which lets me whitelist channels.

I'm happy for my kids to have free access to certain channels on youtube, but the mind numbing shorts, and shit they find on random channels just does my head in. And it seems to be getting worse, I'm not sure if its that they are getting older and able to search for more content or if the content is just getting worse, maybe both, but I'm probably just going to cancel the sub so they at least have to put up with terrible ads if they try to access it.

NegativeLatency · 25 days ago
You might be able to rig something up with invidious? https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
NegativeLatency commented on URL-Driven State in HTMX   lorenstew.art/blog/bookma... · Posted by u/lorenstewart
o11c · a month ago
Note that you can store longer state (at least 64K; more not tested) in the fragment (`location.hash`); obviously only the client gets to see this, but it's better than nothing (and JS can send it to the server if really needed).

For parameters the server does need to see, remember that params need not be &-separated kv pairs, it can be arbitrary text. Keys can usually be eliminated and just hard-coded in the web page; this may make short params longer but likely makes long ones shorter.

You absolutely should not restore state based on LocalStorage; that breaks the whole advantage of doing this properly! If I wanted previous state, I would've navigated my history thereto. I hope this isn't as bad as sites that break with multiple open tabs at least ...

NegativeLatency · a month ago
I've seem a largish company everyone here knows of, try this and have it fail, because of various weird client things, and also eventually run out of space in the hash. It's a neat hack but I wouldn't rely on it.

u/NegativeLatency

KarmaCake day3923April 27, 2012View Original