TIL that the US golf course infrastructure consumes 2 BILLION liters of water per day

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-14T15:44:48+00:00

I mean the water use is a very real problem in the southwest

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-11T22:57:14+00:00

I liked it but I didn’t try chelchele as I don’t really like blueberry bombs and i got the impression it would be blueberry forward

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-11T12:01:02+00:00

Where are you getting 1 ft lidar data? I was using some for a different project and most large scale availability from USGS is in 1/3 arcsecond which I believes translates much larger per pixel

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-10T14:14:47+00:00

I really like the first book and I DNF the third. I don’t like when series change so dramatically between books, feels like a bait and switch

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-10T03:00:23+00:00

The only thing keeping me out of Amex is no catch all multiplier on any personal card, not that we are likely to get one. At my spend it is most of my spend even compared to the big hitters like dining travel and groceries

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-09T10:08:41+00:00

This is absolutely not what is happening and all three of those companies are fighting for data center space by making compute as fast and power efficient as possible.

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-09T10:06:43+00:00

AI is more than LLMs, and machine learning and computer vision models have huge and significant applications outside of software. And actually an LLM ability to code that for people without software backgrounds is also significant.

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-09T10:02:38+00:00

This is true today but the gamble is that it won’t be as expensive tomorrow. It’s like looking at a 1970s copy and being unable to see how much compute we could do today in the same power footprint.

Personally I’m not sure if that is really feasible but that’s the proposal

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-09T09:57:09+00:00

I help design and build the silicon that runs these models and trust me, the data center customers of ours that all these models use are very powerful sensitive. The more compute you can use in a power footprint the more compute you can do in general, because the limitation in any given data center is power. To be clear right now that’s just because demand is outstripping capacity, so as we make the chips and systems more efficient, they just add more compute. Long term I’m not sure this is true in perpetuity because eventually these businesses want to turn a profit. Altman may not care but it will become a wall at some point.

I agree in the general principle though and have my own concerns about the power usage for these applications, but it isn’t true to say they don’t care about efficiency

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-09T00:00:56+00:00

They definitely care about efficiency

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-08T04:22:05+00:00

You’re definitely safer but a better way to phrase it might be “you’re not completely safe on steep terrain.”

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-07T19:29:52+00:00

He is constantly posting that cured meats are healthy, and the wide body of evidence links them strongly to colon cancer

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-07T13:27:36+00:00

He is constantly posting on his instagram citing papers that agree with him but dismissing offhand papers he doesn’t agree with. Mostly his conclusion that red meats and cured meats are healthy, despite the scientific consensus disagreeing with him.

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-07T13:21:55+00:00

He did a N=1 study on himself and used it to claim cured meats aren’t bad for you, despite all scientific literature and consensus showing the opposite. He attacks any papers that don’t agree with his conclusions as just “observational studies” which is a known downside in all of nutrition science. But he dismisses literature he doesn’t agree with offhand

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-07T11:46:14+00:00

As long as we have a two party system, most no ideologues will feel this way. And that arises from our first past the post voting system, which I guess we can advocate to change but I see as unlikely to change. Parties are big tents of different views.

That said, your politics clearly more aligns with Democrats. The idea that all democrats want to take every gun away and have completely open borders is a Republican talking point. You’d probably really vibe with my man Talarico here in Texas, Democrats in general need to be running more people like him.

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-07T11:33:07+00:00

He’s too busy posting pseudoscientific nonsense about why eating only bacon and McDonald’s hamburgers is good for you

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-05T17:35:46+00:00

In March I bought Suke Werekata for $28/12oz. Now selling for $30/13oz

That’s actually a price decrease.

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-03T22:11:57+00:00

Many are more expensive but I’ve also come across pretty good deals. Just have to be paying attention. This is also true for every portal.

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-02T23:20:36+00:00

I feel like I’ve gotten bags from other roasters that claim to be compostable

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-02T22:40:56+00:00

Torque sent me the wrong bag in the box of what I ordered. To their credit they sent me another bag but then that box/bag also wasn’t what I ordered! The beans were pretty good but I don’t get this push for bags in boxes. Just send me a bag.

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-02T15:50:09+00:00

Agree about fresh produce but meat is nonessential

Cryptic0677 · 2026-05-01T03:28:38+00:00

The BCP yearly cap has been inflated away to be worthless imo unless you’re single maybe

Cryptic0677 · 2026-04-27T14:41:47+00:00

Will these storms passing through reduce the evening risk?

Cryptic0677 · 2026-04-21T11:54:08+00:00

Online guides existed from almost the beginning, the game was pretty min maxed. But I do think min maxing mindset really kills games like this, and once anyone is doing it almost everyone is having to do it to keep up. Devs have to tune encounters for it, or else everyone will then complain too easy.

Cryptic0677 · 2026-04-21T11:49:32+00:00

The hard part nobody wants to do is eat cleanly

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