Jake Hash

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VP of Engineering @WorkHands, open-source enthusiast Lover of nature, biking, hiking, plants & fungi, music (mostly indie), Brazil

Findings from this week's UN report on AI vs climate: 🌿 80-90% is not in training models, but in day-to-day use. 🌿 Generating an image is 1450⨉ more energy intensive than text, generating video much worse. 🌿 We need to monitor water and land footprint, as well as carbon. unu.edu/inweh/news/e...

Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions

By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns

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I don't understand why "it's only downhill from here" means things are going to get worse. Imagine fighting an uphill battle only to find out that it's only downhill from here

Finally, TanStack Start now supports React Server Components! Start's RSCs are a truly fetchable, cacheable and composable primitive that work with your favorite tools instead of dictating your entire architecture. Oh, and one more thing... "Composite Components" 😉 tanstack.com/blog/react-s...

React Server Components Your Way | TanStack Blog

RSCs are genuinely exciting — smaller bundles, streaming UI, moving heavy work off the client — but existing implementations force you into a one-size-fits-all pattern. What if you could fetch, cache,...

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you know how everything is made out of plastic and feels like crap but still technically works we've been headed this way with software for a while but at least we used to be embarrassed by it now people are proud of how much they don't care