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by eel 1mo ago
Data center water usage varies heavily by design and climate. Most data center providers are not openly publishing water usage, and when they do publish metrics they hide behind derived metrics like WUE. So I don't blame the opponents
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by eel 2mo ago
The MUD I play (Aardwolf) averages about 200 players online at any time, but it's effectively dead as a MUD. There's very little player interaction, which is what made MUDs special originally. Part of this is that nearly all multi
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by eel 5mo ago
This reminds me of a chat room interaction I had maybe 25 years ago. The other person was adamant that humans can't see the infrared from TV remotes, and I was adamant that I could. It was pretty a widespread belief (even in school sci
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by eel 6mo ago
Where is your time being spent? I.e., when you aren't feeling motivated to do X, you must be doing Y instead, right? Y might be working more than you are expected. Y could be sleeping more than needed for a healthy night's sleep.
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by eel 7mo ago
Corporate BS is the topic I want to study if I ever pursue a PhD. Not only BS that is directed from the top down, but also BS from the bottom and laterally. I'm curious what in corporate culture allows it to grow and what slows it. I a
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by eel 7mo ago
It's a start. I agree HN is a bubble and doesn't reflect real life as a whole. But I do think HN has a significant bearing on US tech. I've been reading HN for nearly 19 years and in that time almost every new major tech, uni
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by eel 7mo ago
At Amazon, their travel trainings always recommended giving out your laptop password if asked by law enforcement or immigration, regardless of whether it was legal in the jurisdiction. Then you were to report the incident as soon as possibl
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by eel 7mo ago
I use Facebook for a specific automotive model group. All the forums that used to host content have either shut down or gone inactive, and it's the literally the only active online community for the car platform. I've learned to s
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by eel 7mo ago
I'm glad the absurdity of verification is getting attention. I was "forced" to verify by Linkedin to unlock my account. It was last year, and I had left my previous job, but I had not yet lined up a new job. So one of the onl
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by eel 10mo ago
Evaporative cooling (like a "swamp cooler" for residential homes) is how most data centers in the US are cooled. The water is primarily consumed by evaporation. When you continually evaporate water from a system, eventually the re
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Ask HN: Where to start with AI as a software engineer after a long sabbatical?
2 points by eel 10mo ago|0 comments
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by eel 1y ago
It's a shame that Lua did not evolve in a more backwards-compatible manner. In addition to Roblox, lots of others projects started adopting Lua 5.1 as a scripting language in the late 00s. Lua itself is now at 5.4, but it did not keep
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Ask HN: What are the best Google alternatives in 2025?
15 points by eel 1y ago|4 comments
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by eel 3y ago
I agree with starting with a specific repair is ideal. One thing about electronic repair is devices that need repair and are easier to repair will often have walkthroughs on forums, blogs, or YouTube. Starting with projects that others have
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by eel 3y ago
For in-person roles in larger cities, there is usually one or more tech community Slack groups with a job channel. It's a good format because often the roles are posted by a member of the community, so you can check their message histo
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by eel 3y ago
The IRS does have an option for tax payers to electronically fill and file those mail-in forms directly. [0] No printing or mailing required, and there's no income limit. It's called Free File Fillable Forms, and I've used it
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by eel 3y ago
Having grown up in Arizona and attended ASU, ASU has always been this way. ASU has always accepted students at a high rate and has always been sure to structure degrees and classes to meet existing accreditations. "New American Univers
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by eel 4y ago
Usually a combination of the following: - Delivering on business goals - Hiring and retention - Growing and promoting engineers - Feedback from engineers One big difference in determining performance for a manager versus an engineer is the
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by eel 4y ago
Criteria: - Compensation: This is one of the few things that I know before accepting a role. The larger the company the more comp I expect. - Culture: generally I look for roles where I could wear any hat. Anywhere where employees are empow
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by eel 4y ago
My biggest regret is drifting apart from family members and friends. I moved to a new state which was great for my marriage and my career, but it has slowly distanced me from the rest of my family.
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by eel 5y ago
I quit a previous job in 2016. The role had transitioned from software development to system administration. I realized it was no different for my career's future to just stay home instead of upgrading build servers. I gave a two and a
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by eel 5y ago
I think that an employee who has little to lose is going to make better decisions and. take smarter risks. An employee who feels they can't lose the job is probably going to be overly cautious and not risk speaking up or taking action
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by eel 6y ago
Again, I agree tax preparation should be easier. Most income is already reported to the IRS, so it stands to reason that the government could calculate my taxes for me. I still think we're playing into the tax preparation industry by c
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by eel 6y ago
I don't qualify for "Free File" tax software, but I still file my taxes for free using the IRS forms. It's easy. Yes, it could be easier, and yes, Intuit's tactics are repulsive, but the fact remains that filing in
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by eel 6y ago
Prior to extended remote work, I used to feel this way when people just sent a single hello. But now I use it as an invitation to make small talk. So if someone just says hello, I start asking them questions: how's it going, how's
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by eel 6y ago
I just don't see the value of unions in tech right now. I make decent money. My hours are consistent at 40 per week. If the employer employee relationship sours, there are 100s of other companies, and it's easy to switch jobs comp
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by eel 6y ago
> On January 15, 2018, Bohra used her work computer to search Google for “AMZN.” How does the SEC know this? Is it most likely browser history? Google account history? Corporate monitoring software?
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by eel 6y ago
If your FAANG is Amazon, it gets better. When you first join, no one knows what you can do, so you get crap tasks. You show what you can do and you get better tasks. As you stay on a team for a little while, you start to notice small improv
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by eel 6y ago
Sometimes, but not frequently. I'll write abstract classes and inherit from those occasionally. The only times in recent memory where I have inherited a concrete class from another concrete class was to add functionality to an existing
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by eel 6y ago
I'm not a chemist, but the material is likely based on cellulose which is commonly derived from wood pulp. Plastics and fibers made from cellulose are petroleum free. The word "plastic" is pretty loosely defined, so they may

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