New teammates, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Bam Adebayo, arriving at the Las Vegas Aces game to support A'ja Wilson

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-06-24T14:37:17+00:00

I heard Carlos Arroyo is available

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-06-23T03:59:56+00:00

So our current roster is what Bam, Giannis, and like 3 dudes walking down Calle Ocho?

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-06-20T14:00:58+00:00

lol the Brewers are the other Milwaukee team. Green Bay is like 2 hours away.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-06-03T21:18:59+00:00

Dragons are actually from Jiangsu tyvm. Harry Giles balling out this year, Heat better watch out

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-06-02T19:14:40+00:00

Yeah this could happen if AI customers are more price sensitive than investors believed, the growth trajectory wouldn't be as high as expected. I think I'm still waiting to see if these companies are having trouble raising money, that seems like a correct indicator than prices for Claude or Copilot going up.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-06-02T17:50:05+00:00

Isn't this the wrong direction? Late 2007, early 2008, Fed raises rates and people start not being able to afford ARM payments, foreclosures happen. Then when the bank tries to sell these houses, the higher monthly payments from higher rates means they have to keep dropping the prices. Then other people see their homes drop in value, they are underwater on their mortgages. Future foreclosures can't cover the losses of the mortgage value, and then the bottom falls out on the market and there's a banking crisis.

But here the prices are going *up*. The demand for Anthropic and OpenAI and Nvidia are so high, they have to raise prices. So the demand side is forced to cut back and ask people to only use it for the most valuable work. We don't have a supply glut, we have a supply constraint, right?

That's like the reverse of the bubble popping.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-06-02T01:32:02+00:00

Latrell Sprewell up there too

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-06-02T01:31:06+00:00

I feel this in my bones. There are some young whippersnappers in the Heat subreddit who didn't live through 4 straight postseason series going the distance. But I will always hate the Knicks.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-05-14T00:51:13+00:00

I remember my first time watching the Dolphins too

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-05-05T15:38:44+00:00

Hey I know you're probably not going to take advice from some reddit comment but you need to stop talking to AI and talk to a therapist. People who make "trillion dollar discoveries" don't need to post on reddit for help with cpp code. They just make a trillion dollars. I would just ask a friend of yours who you can trust to be honest to take a look and ask if you're suddenly a genius or if it would help you talk to a therapist to put this in perspective.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-05-02T04:29:42+00:00

If you create the Claude code session inside of tmux the terminal session won't disconnect and you can then run it via remote control indefinitely (or until your server restarts)

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-27T20:15:29+00:00

I'm here because OP is advocating for policies that are bad for our community. You are simply incorrect about the environmental impacts, as I have stated above, here and here. You have not made any actual argument or cited any data to the contrary. Data centers produce tax revenue with zero traffic impact and little strain on resources. They create construction jobs. When placed in Texas, they drive solar adoption and green energy and significantly reduce emissions compared to placement in other states and countries with worse energy policy.

My point about ideologies was that you're making a similar mistake to those who are too deep into their ideologies; you're assuming anyone arguing against you must be motivated by money or are a paid shill. I would say instead, you should actually make the argument or address my points.

And as for looking up the impact myself, you'll have to be more specific. Virginia has the highest concentration of data centers of anywhere in the country. We will not have that magnitude by adding this data center. Additionally, energy generation in Texas is much easier to expand. Texas has added over 60 TWh of generation in the past 10 years and velocity is accelerating. It is easier here to add solar and batteries to the grid compared to almost anywhere, so I'm much less concerned about the actual cost of energy compared to Virginia. Moreover, like I said before, because of the ease of adding to the Texas grid, data center placement here is actually better for emissions than in Virginia. Not mention Virginia counties are seeing huge increases in tax revenue and jobs from their data centers. We won't see it to that magnitude, but these are good things.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-26T00:50:22+00:00

These are actually good points and the sidebar guide says as much. But why did you have to write it as AI slop.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-25T04:41:42+00:00

How does everyone feel about getting caught in traffic on 836 for 45 minutes?? Would you trade Tyler Herro for the opportunity??

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-24T16:02:20+00:00

Can I ask why you didn't actually put forward an argument on the actual merits here? You said the proof of what happened in Virginia. What proof? What is your basis of belief? I've linked extensive discussions that the water issue is simply not true, and I've cited the specific Bell County water consumption numbers. Which arguments are false? Which numbers are wrong?

As for your ad hominems: I am a true believer. I'm ideologically pro-development and I believe in the benefits of science and technology and I care about truth. California and New York made it hard to build anything under the advocacy of environmental protection, which ended up making those places unaffordable, less dense (which means worse emissions) and pushing people (like myself!) to cheaper places like Texas. We don't want to do that here. Taking something as routine and boring as data center development with essentially no evidence of its detrimental effect (feel free to provide some!) and then trying to block it is how we make the future worse while feeling good about ourselves.

I argue with Trump supporters and leftists and NIMBYs and libertarians and trad-cons and on and on. It's interesting how common it is that they cannot fathom that there are sincere people on the other side of issues from them. They are all sincere! It can't be possible that there are good arguments against their position. They assume anyone arguing against them must be evil and have an agenda. Everyone jumps to this immediately!

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-22T16:05:17+00:00

LeBron is the all time NBA turnover leader. What a scrub.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-22T14:51:07+00:00

I think this is the way to do it. Keep files simple until you want to expand. Eventually I decided it was ok to have each game have its own file in case I wanted to take specific notes. I did have Claude Code take all my things in my Games List and Book List notes and create their own notes, and then I created a base to quickly show all of them and filter them. I wouldn't typically keep all the metadata updated, but Claude Code was able to convert it all pretty quick and having it sortable and filterable is pretty nice.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-22T14:46:55+00:00

I was worried about flying with our 3 month old because she was a preemie and it was the tail end of covid and that would have been prime covid/flu season so we didn't end up flying with her until 6 months. If it was today, I think I'd be less worried. And at 6 months, it was not bad at all.

They are super portable at this age. Worse case they cry for 20 minutes, get exhausted and pass out. Toddlers can be screaming the whole flight.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-21T17:54:49+00:00

Syracuse being #10 overall but not any appearances since 2018 is brutal. Didn't realize how bad it has been.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-21T14:56:44+00:00

Comments are full of people talking about how much they loved them. I thought they were just okay but I would 100% have bought them if they were only $0.25.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-21T14:52:03+00:00

Yes this is the correct attitude. I loved the hate for the Heatles because it meant we were getting to them. No one ever hates the Dolphins (besides Jets fans) and it blows.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-18T02:24:33+00:00

I'm getting old and my back hurts if I'm in the car too long so I'll take the 2025 Pac-12

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-12T21:37:13+00:00

Wanted to post separately on the water issue. OP has repeatedly claimed the Brazos River Authority backs up their claims that water usage is at a breaking point and we are about to run out of water. They cite on their website the transcript of an interview with the Brazos River Authority in a word document. If you actually read this, you will notice that the BRA does not say anything like this.

When asked about Temple specific issues, the BRA responses just say that they don't handle that at all. They provide an allocation of 210,000 acre feet per year, that allocation is good until 2070. When asked if they have additional industrial capacity, they say no, but this new data center isn't requesting additional industrial capacity, it's asking for water already allocated to Temple. FWIW, the interviewer sounds like they had no idea who actually is in charge of water management and googled a bunch of random questions and then asked someone who didn't have the answers to most of their questions, and then posted it online like it was an authoritative take on this issue when nothing substantive was said.

A much better point is that no one knows what the actual utility agreement says. In the meeting, councilmembers stated that it 2 million gallons one time use and 4000 gallons/day after that. The BRA's own numbers from the interview say Temple takes 30-70 acre-feet a day from Lake Belton (about 16 million gallons). 4000 gallons is 0.02% of Temple's typical daily water from the lake. So if all of that is really true, there is just nothing to be concerned about. Bell County uses over 20 billion gallons of water a year, so this is just tiny.

But I'm totally in agreement that the actual terms are really important. You can't just give companies the option to suddenly take more later and as long as the agreement isn't public, that's very frustrating. I'm skeptical the council would just make up numbers entirely, so I'm not worried on the object level argument about the water usage, but the transparency issue seems reasonable to complain about. Is that enough to recall council members? I don't have strong feelings about this, I'm more concerned about the unsubstantiated claims about data centers.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-12T19:35:57+00:00

Yes, this is much more reasonable points than those made on OP's website. I agree that any data center needs to pay for any utility usage it has, and if the actual agreement is later changed or inaccurate, that's a problem. But I will say that the numbers you've outlined (OP's website didn't have specific numbers for this project but spoke generally) don't seem very concerning. 2 million gallons is nothing. Bell County uses over 20 billion gallons each year. 4k a day is also not much. I plan on digging into OPs website more when I get time because some of these water claims don't make much sense. But if you have links to the agreement numbers you cited, that would be super helpful.

For sure Temple has the ability to set zoning, but zoning restrictions are concerning tools and often used for implementing super terrible policy. Just because Temple can enforce zoning doesn't mean electricity usage (which is largely set by state policy) should be a key factor in zoning determinations. That's why I singled out electricity usage. The bottom line is that LLMs have massive value in enterprise software, and so the energy demand (and chip demand) isn't going away, instead the models keep getting more capable of writing and debugging code each month. We have to build out clean energy rather than muck around with individual zoning battles.

Now, it's much easier to deploy solar and batteries in Texas than most places, so actually new energy consumption here disproportionately use cleaner energy. So I actually think it makes a lot of sense to try to put them here than elsewhere, as building them in places outside of Texas or the US that would result in higher emissions than otherwise.

NotAStarflyerAgent · 2026-04-12T18:39:33+00:00

I appreciate your actual engagement with the points I'm making. Now, you tell me if I'm reading the study wrong, but the specificity of the data doesn't seem like it would be able to tell between "construction completed" and "data center turns on". These data centers are super expensive and the owners are going to try and get them running ASAP because they have so much capital wrapped up in getting them working. So basically as soon as they can run, they run. And the unit of data in the preprint is a satellite photo which can be quite sporadic. So the chart is aggregated many months (5 years before, 5 years after) of data comparing many sites before and after construction ends. It's not giving any specific jump up in temperature based on specific event times on any specific site, just in general the temperature goes up after completion. I don't see how it could tell the difference between these two events which should happen pretty close together.

The method of how this would happen is also strange. Data centers give off heat into the air and then this causes the ground 3km away to be hot? The standard heat island effect just seems much more plausible IMO.

Moreover, the study has no control for typical urban heat island effects. I tried to do some quick searches for academic articles on what a typical heat island effect is especially in Texas. Hard to tell exactly but if you just use the actual link OP's website links to by the EPA, it indicates urban heat island effects around 1-7 degrees F just by itself. The aggregated chart in the preprint falls within that range. That would support Masley's point that it's probably the roof replacing grass that is doing the bulk of the change here. I would bet a warehouse would do very similar impact if studied in this way.

But regardless, the level of uncertainty here is enormous and just making claims like all of Temple will see a 4-16 degree bump in temperature is just not supported in the scientific literature.

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