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Democrats Rout GOP (nytimes.com)
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Seems bad for data centers and AI, though the benefit of keeping the deranged president in check likely outweighs lost progress following from anti-tech populism.
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> Seems bad for data centers and AI, though the benefit of keeping the deranged president in check The data centers got rejected on their own basis [0]. While the Texas senator race was more about corruption and a picking a candidate that embodies Texas far more than his Trump hand picked opponent -- the Texas governor race is a clear message vote for data center restriction. [0] https://datacentersontheballot.com
did all that last minute gerrymandering do nothing or did even make this possible?
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Gerrymandering does not affect whole-state races like the Senate. Nobody is re-drawing state borders for every election. And in some areas gerrymandering did backfire as far as I read, though I didn't look at the specifics.
As an Australian, I can say we are all very relieved.
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Big collective sigh of relief here in Europe too, I imagine. Our economies have been hurting in no small part because of the unchecked whims of the MAGA inner circle.
AI stocks slide as Texas governor result raises data center risks (cnbc.com)
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Yeah don't hold your breath. The heavy anti-datacenter campaigning was primarily aimed at scaring votes out of old people and other low-information voters, and was largely successful. I personally observed this. A lot of them don't even know what data centers are, just that they are bad and will steal their electricity and make their arthritis worse. All politicians regardless of party are bought and paid for. Literally every instance I've seen where the angry townspeople fought against a data center, the town council unanimously ruled against them without a vote, like the kangaroo court in The Godfather Part 2.
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I think you are oversimplifying the situation. The problem were not data centers per se, but Mr. Paxton, who, except being a rather horrible person (his own party tried to get rid of him) was taking money from lobbyists and then was trying to push their agenda without taking into account any concerns.
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It will be interesting to see if and how people who campaigned on broad "anti-datacenter" platforms actually make it happen. I imagine it's easy to take a stance but getting the real political capital together, especially as a governor who will almost surely need their legislature, when it means turning down jobs—few as the ongoing ones might be—and real economic development. I hope it works because it potentially sets a precedent and maybe a legal framework for a state to actually say "we don't want this kind of business here" for things that aren't just data centers.
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Legislation or not, good luck getting those permits.
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I'm not sure there being fewer jobs for a handful of datacentre engineers is going to be much of a problem for the voter base. Unless profits made from these datacentres are going to be directly helping the public somehow (if they even can make profits), there's fundamentally no reason for anyone to want DCs in their area. People might want to do things that require DCs, but that's different from wanting one near you. What arguments can you even make to ordinary people as to why they should want datacentres? It's the easiest populist slam dunk ever.
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With all due respect, your sector deserves the shellacking that's coming after the past two years of intolerable behavior.
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Not my sector, friend.
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Don’t let one bad sector ruin the whole disk
Jelly Sheet (mrdoob.github.io)
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This is fun, but boy it gets heavy/laggy as it accumulates.
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[delayed]
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Paste this in your browser console to support shearing https://dpaste.com/6C9TJVTS5
The creativity space moves. Now, it has moved to how you use your tokens.
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For some..
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And some people still make stone tools as a creative pursuit. Everything is valid as creativity.
I thought so too, but AI is kinda destroying everything fun. Game jams, Advent of code, codevember apparently. To me personally it's super sad to see.
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I agree given that it’s about competition and not just having fun.
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Ugh, fun.
I know who he is and I don't care what he does with ai. To me these little challenges are about improving programming skills, showing creativity, and mostly just for fun. So using LLMs on 'codevember' feels weird. That doesn't mean I'm blaming him for it, I'm just having a hard time accepting it.
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Creativity is about coming up with your vision with the tools at hand in my eyes. I would still argue in situations like this you need a sense of style to understand what works and what doesn't.
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If coding is for you about writing beautiful code, then yes. Many of us are in the game because of the love for building things.
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So you get the same joy from building things even when you outsource the "building" to some other person?
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Not OP but if it comes to Claude or OpenAI use, that does make me roll my eyes. That said, I use local AI on GPUs I own, so they are -my- tools on -my- property to help me research debug and help me execute my ideas faster than I could before, so more things get done than were done previously. I keep my AI rack under my 3D printer because they are the same type of tool to me.
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> If coding is for you about writing beautiful code ...when did I ever said that?
Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients (dana-farber.org)
I'm 35. I had a preventative colonoscopy done (I had to insist). I payed out of pocket since these checkups normally start at 50. Adenoma found and removed. This is a type of cancer that is almost entirely preventable with screening. Get your tubes checked.
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Did you suspect you had a higher chance than general population? If so why?
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Not really. I try to live a pretty healthy lifestyle. I work as a cancer researcher, so I have more contact with these data.
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I don't intend to disagree, merely to suggest that while doing the right thing one would be best off considering the potential aspects inflicted to themselves, in this case colonoscopy deaths are one in ten thousand from memory
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I suspect that risk calculus depends on where you live.
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I'd rather die over having a tube up my ass, and I've seen my father die to this exact type of cancer.
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I think its okay when you tell the doctor no homo.
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Surely
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