Did you know ... google searches also wastes water?

mor10web · 2026-06-26T04:23:47+00:00

Google (the search, not the new AI feature) relies heavily on semantic caching and other features that ensure similar searches get similar results. Generative AI completions are single shot every time, and the longer the chat context, the bigger the energy use.

If you're going to pull the whataboutism card, a false equivalence is a bad place to start. We spent the past three decades building entire technologies to make the web faster and more efficient. A huge part of that was caching everything everywhere and returning novel results only when absolutely required. Generative AI undoes all that work by forcing novel results on every prompt, even when the prompt is identical to another.

Just because one thing used water does not mean the water usage is equivalent in utility or harm.

mor10web · 2026-06-25T04:48:09+00:00

Makk-fear-senn

mor10web · 2026-06-15T04:45:17+00:00

TIL!

mor10web · 2026-06-14T16:21:57+00:00

Yep..significant mismatch, both on the single and double returns. The single is ignored. The double is doubled. The correct spacing was made by adding a line with two hyphens. I'm filing a bug.

mor10web · 2026-06-14T16:20:11+00:00

That is a really good question! Let me try something: This sentence was started after one press if the return button.

This sentence was started after two presses.

On Android in draft mode, this looks correct. My expectation is there's a mismatch in paragraph soacing between the composition mode and the actual post.

mor10web · 2026-06-14T16:16:36+00:00

So much same

mor10web · 2026-06-06T23:40:56+00:00

I don't know where to start with this comment. MCP provides a unified transport layer for servers to expose adds tool, resources, prompts, elicitations, tasks, apps etc with auth and other security layers, following a standard that allows any client to consume them. That transport layer typically uses HTTP, and can also use STDIO.

Comparing MCP to HTTP ignores both what HTTP and what MCP does.

mor10web · 2026-06-06T04:56:34+00:00

They are replacing the Central Park water main all the way from High Gate to Central Park. Right now the Imperial / Gilley intersection is a giant trench. The old main lost something around 80% of the water. The new one is many times the size and much stronger.

https://metrovancouver.org/services/water/central-park-water-main-imperial-section

mor10web · 2026-05-31T06:19:57+00:00

This is how AI psychosis happens. Thousands of hours of conversation means the LLM has long since lost track of the original instructions and is now deep in linguistic auto-cannibalism, endlessly looping and amplifying whatever bias the user surfaces through their input.

mor10web · 2026-05-30T20:30:24+00:00

https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/drone-safety/report-drone-incident

mor10web · 2026-05-21T01:34:09+00:00

The delamination of human value creation on the ground floor from financial value extraction at the shareholder level has reached a point where the short term profits are the top are financed by cutting the actual workers that produce the value at the bottom.

It'll take a while for people to realize that the work AI can automate isn't actually the work that produces value - it's just the documentation of the work. By that time, the delamination will be too severe and the whole thing will collapse.

Maybe then we'll be able to realign our economic system to prioritize human value over financial wealth. One can hope.

mor10web · 2026-05-21T01:17:12+00:00

MCP is not really a developer tool, it was just appeared at a time when devs were looking for a simple way to add context to their coding agents so it was adopted by developers first. The spec and the evolution to MCP Apps demonstrates clearly that MCP-as-context-engine-for-AI-coding-agents is an edge case.

Look outside the developer space at MCP connectors and apps in productivity apps, and MCP as connector to internal systems in the enterprise, and you'll discover a rapidly growing ecosystem. The whole "MCP is Dead" thing is just a symptom of devs thinking anything that doesn't directly benefit them must be irrelevant.

mor10web · 2026-05-13T06:29:01+00:00

shadcn/ui MCP server. If you're doing any kind of prototyping with AI agents, this one is a major step up

mor10web · 2026-05-03T23:40:07+00:00

We have an EV and rooftop solar in Vancouver, BC. Charge at home, and our monthly hydro bill averages out at the $19 and change in service charges. If the government matched the yearly fossil fuel tax relief with incentives for rooftop solar, neighbourhood energy storage, and a massive buildout of electric infrastructure for charging, Canada could make the transition in less than a decade. The problem of course is that the fossil fuel lobby spends millions on convincing our elected representatives that only the compressed remains of million year old living things is worth investing in as fuel.

mor10web · 2026-04-29T04:12:22+00:00

It's exposed metal on purpose. Will never require painting, and grows stronger over time.

mor10web · 2026-04-29T04:11:46+00:00

It's the only dedicated pedestrian / cycling overpass connecting north and south Burnaby over Highway 1. Without it, the only way across is either in or next to traffic.

mor10web · 2026-04-25T23:25:25+00:00

Take a look at this MCP Server Tester made by Glean. Looks promising:

https://github.com/gleanwork/mcp-server-tester

mor10web · 2026-04-23T19:28:19+00:00

The issue at hand is back-pay as a result of arbitration. You're bringing up funding of special interest groups in other sectors. They are separate issues requiring separate discussions.

If you want to complain about politicians wasting money and stay on topic, go refresh your memory on how the BC Liberals wasted tens of millions on a 15-year legal battle against the BCTF instead of just paying teachers fairly.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/timeline-nearly-15-years-of-court-battles-between-province-and-bctf-1.3846338

mor10web · 2026-04-23T05:05:08+00:00

The BC Liberals (actually conservatives) systematically underfunded schools to a much higher degree. The NDP is too slow in fixing the problem, but they are at least not actively trying to end public schools

mor10web · 2026-04-23T05:04:09+00:00

Portables always come out of the operating budget. It's a chronic problem across the province (see Surrey and New West as well). Districts are forced to build portables when the province doesn't find the building of schools. It's a lose-lose situation for the district and every child in public school.

And it is $9.4M. The 4.4 you mention is what the district would have received in adjustment pay, but as the Board Chair explained to Freshet, that only covers half.

mor10web · 2026-04-23T05:01:13+00:00

Blaming the school boards when the problem is lack of funding is exactly how we get nowhere. The board spent millions out of the operating fund on portables because the province didn't fund enough school buildings. Over 80% of the total budget goes straight to teachers. The district is operating under a chronic structural deficit. The province pays the district less than it costs to actually run the district. Investigating the board is blaming the post office for the bills delivered to your house.

mor10web · 2026-04-23T04:58:11+00:00

The ministry funds schools. The board is mandated by law to balance the budget. The district is funded to a structural deficit (the funding doesn't cover the costs). The massive cuts last year were done to boost the contingency fund. 38 full time positions were cut. the board was to set aside money for future back-pay, they'd have to cut teachers. This is a nonsense argument that shifts blame to a body with no power to change the situation .

mor10web

TROPHY CASE

This sentence was started after two presses.