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Donald Abrams
@hypethral.bsky.social
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Striver for general adequacy occasionally employed as a software maker
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markripley.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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michaelburchert.bsky.social
#Strawbuilding #Strawhouse is so obviously convincing that it's almost funny that I still have to explain it everywhere.
Study shows how far you can transport insulation materials so that it still extracts more CO2 than it emits.
Straw doesn't even fit fully on the scale.
zenodo.org/records/6599...
Please read the study, see Figure 4.
December 2, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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canadiangirlfriend.mom
hahahahahaha holy shit they reinvented the junk bonds from ‘08 except it’s fucking data centre leases instead of mortgages to min. wage workers
Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don't want to formally take on debt that is, directly ask investors for loans because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sella bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta's rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called "tranches" based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the "innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta's data center projects.")
October 31, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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haskell.org
This is not a drill: GHC (the #Haskell compiler) now runs in your browser. See the announcement (and please report any bugs) here: discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-now-ru...
Ghc now runs in your browser
ghc itself can now run purely client-side in the browser, here’s a haskell playground demo. terms and conditions apply, and i’ll write up more detailed explanation some time later, but i thought this ...
discourse.haskell.org
October 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
They've lost the 9yos
JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan

join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice

www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...
August 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
hypethral.bsky.social
@scalzi.com I was not expecting the Dog King and I love it. It makes me think you could write a solid Orville episode!
August 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars.

Even if those cars are electric.

And then there’s all the parking.

OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.

Choices.

Simple.
Graphic showing a 9 m wide track for metros can move as many people as a 175 m road for cars.
August 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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pwallinga.bsky.social
For everyone who's now suddenly nostalgic for The Sound:
AOL (Sign On - Dial Up)
YouTube video by RetroHead92
www.youtube.com
August 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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ernie.tedium.co
So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

help.aol.com/articles/dia...

ht @mat.tl
Dial-up Internet to be discontinued AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025 this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued. This change will not affect any other benefits in your AOL plan, which you can access any time on your AOL plan dashboard. To manage or cancel your account, visit MyAccount.
August 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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tristangrayford.scot
This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
hypethral.bsky.social
This is how they need to explain reintroducing wolves
lea.verou.me Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · Jul 28
We recently got a Roomba for the first time.

So far, its primary advantage has been getting our 6 year old to pick up her toys from the floor so that the robot doesn’t eat them. Natural consequences 😂
July 28, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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innuendostudios.bsky.social
lies, the first draft's job is to be a referendum on the value of my existence, and whether everyone who has ever disliked me was correct
haileypiperfights.bsky.social 🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · Oct 18
Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist
"is this a pigeon?" meme, except it's a writer looking at a perfectly normal first draft and asking "Is this the worst thing ever written?"
July 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
hypethral.bsky.social
My 3 year old, while setting up a soccer game with his lego models, forgot the word for referee so described them as "the people who stop us when we fall down"
July 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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incident.io
We launched our list of Top engineering voices to follow in 2025 to spotlight engineers whose writing, posting, and contributing make the whole community smarter.

Read the full list: incident.io/blog/top-eng...
July 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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liotier.bsky.social
#Microsoft, under oath before the French Senate, refused to guarantee that U.S. authorities couldn’t access European data—their France director admitted no absolute assurances could be made.
CE Commande publique : compte rendu de la semaine du 9 juin 2025
www.senat.fr
July 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
hypethral.bsky.social
When the journalist emailed to arrange a call, the arms dealer replied "What year are you in, 2004? Even my teta uses whatsapp" followed by both the old man and wink with tongue out emoji

They also expressed concern that the decline of X could negatively affect sales but had hope for FB marketplace
July 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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jaspar.bsky.social
Keep in mind: heat pumps deliver greater than 100% efficiency because they're performing a kind of thermodynamic magic trick. This means in a lot of cases it would be more efficient to heat a home with electricity generated from natural gas than it would be to heat it directly with natural gas.
jaspar.bsky.social J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · Jul 14
Often missing in the debate about adding AC: efficient heat pumps can also replace less efficient and more carbon-intensive heat sources in the winter.
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Jul 14
NYC experimented with new window heat pump models in some public housing units. in winter, "The window unit-heated apartments used a whopping 87% less energy than the rest of the building’s steam-heated apartments did, cutting energy costs per household in half."

heatmap.news/sustainabili...
July 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
hypethral.bsky.social
DUNE AND DUNER: Make Arrakis Great Again
July 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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kfile.bsky.social
TBH this could be a problem for them
July 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
hypethral.bsky.social
Oh this is brilliant. I could just pretend the code I write is LLM generated!
gordon.bsky.social Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · Jul 8
AI codegen is walking us backwards into literate programming.

Instead of jumping directly to code, I now dump my half-baked ideas into md files in a "specs" folder and let the agent rip. Or write a comment describing the function I want and AI completes it. My code has better docs and tests.
July 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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bmgn.rs
The “vampire routing” proof-of-concept, also known as “vampire mode”, solves the problem of finding ways to avoid direct sunlight with a new type of technology. It suggests footpath routes that preferably run in the shade – just like vampires that avoid the sun at all costs.“
The coolest way to find shade paths: Vampire routing on routing.osm.ch
Climate change and increasing urbanization are causing more and more heat, which is particularly noticeable these days. Locals and tourists are therefore looking for ways to avoid direct sunlight. Of ...
sosm.ch
July 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM