davis
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Comment · 6 months ago
Damn, this is really cool man. I'm a big fan of Gary Kildall, he's one of my heroes so this is great to read.
Comment · 7 months ago
Do you have a source? Curious to learn more about this
Comment · 7 months ago
Agreed. The Soul of a New Machine is my personal favorite but I think Mountains Beyond Mountains as well as Strength in What Remains are the more powerful and interesting books.
Comment · 8 months ago
I can't believe I had to scroll this long to see this comment. Like what the heck is wrong with people on this site. I thought I clicked the wrong comment section.
Comment · 9 months ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
Dude is drinking the koolaid for sure. Did you see his take on Meta's Vibes? It was so embarrassing.
Comment · 1 year ago
Exactly this. This is essentially a new consumer tax in your electrical bill. The buildout of the electrical grid is being put on consumers essentially as a monthly tax with the increase in electrical costs. Everyone in the country is paying for the grid infrastructure to power these data centers owned by trillion dollar companies who aren't paying for their needs.
Comment · 1 year ago
Load growth for the last 15 years has been very small but load growth going forward is expected to rise due to electrification of all things to decarbonize the economy. This means home heating, electrical cars, heavy industries, obviously data centers and the list goes on. So even if we have more grid capacity than demand (this seems unlikely), it will be used before too long.
Comment · 1 year ago
My comment went into details why this month was an outlier by the way.
Comment · 1 year ago
It is an insane number but May 2025 is a bit of an outlier. The entire first half of the year they installed 197.85 and in May they installed 92.92 of that.
Much of this solar was rushed construction to get them in before the new electricity pricing policy goes into effect. It isn't known yet how much the buildout will drop off for the remainder of the year but it is pretty conceivable that some fraction of the construction for the rest of the year was "pulled" forward and rushed to get it in before June. I'm hopeful China's insane buildout will continue but we probably won't see numbers like May 2025 for awhile at least.
The short summary: if a renewable project was built and finished before June, it gets the old, more profitable electricity rates, but if it is finished after June, it is less profitable.
More details on this here: https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-chinas-renewable-p...
Comment · 1 year ago
The decline in emissions is due to the massive build out of renewables of solar and wind. The amount they are building is insane. Your theory is ignorant and you are spreading misinformation and nonsense.
Comment · 1 year ago
I love this
Comment · 1 year ago
Man, you need to hang around different and good people if this is your world view.
Comment · 1 year ago
Here they are: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114881419368778558
Climate change has been in the zeitgeist for decades now. Pretty sure many people are cognizant of this and want to move away from fossil fuels. This is just a boost to do so.