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Is it more of a pricing problem? If data centers paid the same for water as I do they’d be far more efficient with it. Likewise for power. Giving sweet deals to these things based on promises of jobs …

What is it that you imagine happens to the water after it goes through the data center?

Only among the people who are yelling, perhaps? I find the majority of people I talk with have open minds and acknowledge the opinions of others without accepting them as fact.

This is in the context of building a SaaS company, so “API first” is kind of everywhere and closely followed by “fake it until you make it” which generally leads to flashy sites with very basic underp…

Are we heading to a place where there will be many DNS resolvers just to get a "full" picture of the internet? Or perhaps topical upstream resolvers?

In modular systems, monolithic or distributed, the nuance of "depends on" is often the crux of complexity. A C++ binary interface dependency is more likely to create work than a string corre…

Perhaps sardonically, sailboats do “fly” these days. Not literally, just terminology.

That’s correct, but look up the Gitana 17. > The Gitana 17 is a 100ft trimaran designed to foil offshore at sustained speeds of 45 knots or more. Also, 1964, the all-nuclear Task Force One, includi…

I’m not sure where people get the idea of the rules don’t apply in international waters. The COLREGs clearly state commercial vessels have right away over recreational sailboats. End of story. You get…

The power required would be the same as that provided by the bunker fuel engines in common use. Modern, computer controlled sails are efficient and very powerful. It’s obviously working for this ship,…

In a word, probably (but without documented speed runs who knows?). Circumnavigation is a longer voyage than those craft would travel in one go, and the stops would increase their transit time. Even w…

Fun fact: the fastest way to get around the world by boat is on a sailboat. Wild, but true.

Modern sailing technology is amazing, and you may want to check it out. Speeds are, literally, 10 times faster (or more) today than the recent past. It’s absolutely astonishing. The even better news i…

That’s what they’re doing

I don’t agree that choosing to host a website without limiting the audience is innocent. It’s a choice, and has been the default for a long time, but it means one has chosen to speak outside the borde…

Isn’t compliance just as easy as asking where the visitor is from (or more specifically if they are from or in the UK), perhaps even just once per IP they visit the site from? Yes, they may lie, but t…

And thrusters for boats as well, IIRC.

Could not agree more, and that is a problem I’m happy to be working on with my startup.

I love the idea but I fear the implementation. I don’t use GitHub actions for builds and upload ancillary artifacts to releases. I guess I know what will be my distraction today.

Fair. But there are legions of developers blindly doing REST over HTTP and creating bad experiences. I know it's fine for many, many cases -- but not all.

But QUIC is another case of "one size fits all" reliability and ordering (etc.) that doesn't allow a great deal of flexibility.

This video walkthrough of the Quake netcode shows some of the brilliance that can be applied over UDP, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8J7fidxC8s …

Sadly, that's almost an expected way of writing online content now. I'll do better next time!

Author here, and I don't really like it that much either. The problem is finding some new way to pose it so the only content out there isn't misleadingly trite.

Author here. I've been called a "robot" in the past so perhaps my writing reflects that, but yes there was some autocomplete involved here.

That’s some old ice, but I can’t help wonder if being “near” the surface reduces its value as evidence. Naively, it seems that deeper would mean better preserved. Also, kudos to the researches for end…

Just like CEOs…

IIRC the cost of Starlink for ships is actually very high. Starts at $5k per month for a commercial vessel I think. Can’t imagine what it is for a passenger ship, but Musk is making his money to be su…