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Next StarCraft Game Announced at BlizzCon(ign.com)
4 points by miiiiiike 4d ago|1 comments
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by miiiiiike 8d ago
I started with a UI framework thinking I'd need it but over time I realized that I was using it exclusively for button theming and setting the default font. I was using vanilla CSS and vanilla JavaScript and after removing the framewor
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by miiiiiike 21d ago
My family keeps sending me screenshots of AI generated arguments against building new data centers. Apparently we have too many and they don't understand where the demand is coming from. When I asked how many we'll need over the n
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by miiiiiike 27d ago
Define "tech". If you're talking about programmers working at non-tech companies? Maybe. If you're talking about people excited about technology, then no. I lived in NYC for a decade. NYC is media and finance. And while
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by miiiiiike 1mo ago
Check your blood pressure regularly. Every time I read about a drug reducing dementia risk or increasing longevity I look it up to see if it lowers blood pressure. Never fails. Cialis does.
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by miiiiiike 2mo ago
And when Gabe dies? “I trust company” is not convincing.
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by miiiiiike 2mo ago
You could buy, sell, trade, loan, and backup games with the right regulation. Discs are irrelevant.
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by miiiiiike 2mo ago
Sure. Until the first FromSoftware PS6 exclusive is released. Child, six, seriously considering running away from home after parents refuse to serve dinner on dinosaur plate. People realize that Steam doesn't use physical media, right?
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by miiiiiike 2mo ago
After a few years of using Typescript, having to use type annotations and import basic language features like `abc` in Python feels like an absolute slog.
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by miiiiiike 2mo ago
I use "War and Peace" for this.
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
I know. The Sony UBP-X700U is $330 and the Magnetar UDP 900 MK II is $3,300. So I got the Sony.
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
I saw my first Dolby Vision Blu-ray and immediately started a Blu-Ray collection. The Blu-ray player on the PS5 is fine, but a nice dedicated player from Sony blows it away. I would pay for my favorite albums on Blu-ray too. I wish more art
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
In Northern Virginia data centers are about 3% of land, but account for almost 50% of local property tax contributions.
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
I’ve made a few comments around this. I’m going to wind down my involvement in this thread.
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
I think current gen AI is junk. I don’t use it. I also don’t see mass job losses over it. Scapegoated? Yes. Actual mass unemployment? No. Commercially, I typically see AI used in what amount to scams. And no, I don’t believe that anyone sho
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
We should have been building additional nuclear capacity for the past 50 years. The kinds of anti data center activism we’re seeing now was directed at nuclear back then. It would take decades to build enough data centers to use 100% of the
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
What a bad idea AI therapy is and I don’t know too many people who are using AI art commercially. Translators, sure. But we’ve been using Google Translate for almost two decades now. You didn’t need AI for your plumbing. My dad had a whole
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
And create a lot more pollution while generating much, much less in property tax revenue.
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
Data centers do more than AI. And you won’t defeat AI by killing data center proposals. The technology will succeed or fail on its own. We’ll find out in about 5 years. Remember how “everyone” said all trucks will be self-driving in 10 year
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
Again, I’m talking about my region. We have a nuclear generating station 16 miles from the proposed site of the data center. That station sells 80-85% of the power generated wholesale to other parts of the state and grids regionally.
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
Property taxes. Construction jobs. The land is unused and already had tax incentives. Remember, tax incentives don’t eliminate taxes, they just reduce them for a period of time to encourage development.
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
I’m only talking about my local area. I’m not defending the Colossus sites. I don’t live near them.
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
I’ve noticed that people conflate being anti data center with being anti AI. I don’t have any faith in the current crop of gen AI. I think it’s junk. I don’t think it’s replacing humans in drives. I can barely get it to refactor Sass code i
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
I lived in Northern Virginia, data center capital of the US. It’s far from a “megastructure ghost town”. It’s nice. You should visit. One stat that I read was that data centers comprised 3% of the total land in NOVA but accounted for almost
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
I thought it was funny.
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
I have zero faith in the current generation of gen AI. I think the claims are overblown and the odds of massive unemployment is near zero. Even if the AI bubble pops, the world isn’t going to need fewer data centers. I don’t care if a data
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
I don’t defend every data center everywhere. I’m talking about the proposed data center about 11 miles from my door. In my area we have a nuclear generating station 16 miles from that site. It sells 80-85% of all power generate wholesale to
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
No, I know why they’re angry. Hell, I don’t even use gen AI, I still think it’s unreliable junk. However, most of the things that the people in my community are concerned about don’t apply to our region specifically. We’re actually in a pos
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
Pointing out that others are exploiting their “fears, anxieties, or hardships” is not the same as dismissing those concerns. Nor is saying that people who have been intentionally whipped into an emotional frenzy an inditement of the people
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by miiiiiike 3mo ago
That’s all you got out of my comment? What do you propose building next to the dump? South of the airport? Zoned for heavy industrial use. A playground?

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