| Place | Charlottesville, VA, USA (Monacan land) |
| Website | https://waldo.jaquith.org/ |
| Bluesky | https://bsky.app/profile/waldo.net |
| Pronounced | JAKE-with |
"Data centers' heat exhaust is not raising the land temperature around where they're built"
https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-centers-heat-exhaust-is-not
Interesting to see Copilot injecting ads into PR descriptions. Although there are a handful of older instances of this, if GitHub search is working properly, it looks like this started happening at scale around 10 days ago with more than 1k injections of this particular ad per day since then (if you search for other ad strings, you can find the rate of other ads)
What will they think of next?
New blog entry: “Capital funding poisons software projects."
Color of money shapes a lot of things about government in the U.S., and a big one is how we buy software. When agencies have to treat custom software development (an operational expense) as a capital expense, that has a cascading series of effects that lead to billions in wasted spending annually. If we can shift to opex, such as via an IT investment fund, we'll see better results. https://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2026/03/opex-not-capex/
I truly love my job (seriously!) and love all the work I'm doing, but I have to admit that the 16yo boy buried decades deep inside me looks at this with a bit of envy:
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The concept is simple. “We put fuel in a rocket, blow it up in a remote location, and measure how big the boom is,” said Jason Hopper, deputy manager for the methalox assessment project at NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@botgov/116296144837778111
EOP registered onlyfarms.gov.
It’s a real missed opportunity in Project Hail Mary that at no point does anyone look to the camera with a steely gaze and declare, “It’s daylight saving time.”
Max Fenton
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