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`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
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`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Patrik Svensson @patriksvensson@mstdn.social

2/12/2026, 11:09:26 AM

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I'm happy that you can finally outsource all the boring coding to a chatbot: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.09598

I will hopefully be dead before the water wars of 2052, but our children won't. They will hate us for this.

Here is a nice accompanying dashboard: https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZjVmOTI0MmMtY2U2Mi00ZTE2LTk2MGYtY2ZjNDMzODZkMjlmIiwidCI6IjQyNmQyYThkLTljY2QtNDI1NS04OTNkLTA2ODZhMzJjMTY4ZCIsImMiOjF9

If I read the data correctly, 100 billion queries consume as much water as 100 million people do annually.

6 months ago, ChatGPT alone handled 2.5 billion queries/day. You can probably extrapolate from that...

How Hungry is AI? Benchmarking Energy, Water, and Carbon Footprint of LLM Inference

Nidhal Jegham; Marwan Abdelatti; Chan Young Koh; Lassad Elmoubarki; Abdeltawab Hendawi

arxiv.org

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