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- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 day ago:
Basically, it’s just a number whipped out the backside, since response delay varies a lot, and I don’t think we know what hardware OpenAI uses exactly.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 day ago:
They could have kept it at the same price, though.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 day ago:
Once it generates the response, there is a button you can click to make it use the reasoning model.
Why they did it that way instead of giving users the option to just set the model that they want to use ahead of time boggles the mind. Surely it would be more efficient for them to chose a model if they want ahead of time, rather than generating something that’s going to be regenerated with the desired model instead.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 1 day ago:
Depends on it and its dependencies, probably. A lot of the core utilities are generally unchanged enough that they should still work despite being a decade old.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Can’t have issues on the issue tracker if you’re not allowing people to submit issues.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 day ago:
It seems like the kind of thing that would give rise to the
~Earth movement - Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 day ago:
It’s only made worse by the people who treat it like the Master Computer from Star Trek, claim that it can solve all the problems, and thus attempt to shove it into anything and everything.
It’s baffling why my notepad needs to be hooked up to an LLM in the first place. It’s a notepad, for quick scribbling. If people want to write something serious in it, there are far better things for that.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 days ago:
In my experience, it’s been a bit of a mixed bag. There are some things that work in Linux, and some things that don’t, even after a bit of fiddling. My desktop’s front panel is completely unusable on Linux, for example.
Windows is at least widespread enough that it’s far more likely that parts will work on it at least to some degree. And sure enough, the front panel works fine there.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 days ago:
Although 10 years ago isn’t that long in computer terms any more. That’s basically 4th Gen Intel Core CPU territory. It’s an older computer, but still perfectly usable these days.
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 3 days ago:
Although that really only works as long as the camera doesn’t have an IR filter in place.
- Comment on OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models 3 days ago:
Unless it wasn’t as low as they wanted it. It’s at least cheap enough to run that they can afford to drop the pricing on the API compared to their older models.
- Comment on World's first 'thermodynamic computing chip' reaches tape out 4 days ago:
Link in the description repeats http in a weird place and breaks it.
Here’s a working version: …ieee.org/thermodynamic-computing-normal-computin…
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 4 days ago:
You joke, but there are already protheses which are proprietary, and have shut down. Artificial eyes is a famous example, where the company making one shut down the product line, and blinded people who’d had it installed, due to it just shutting off.
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 4 days ago:
Only if the alternative was doing nothing. Having to sit down and stay still in a chair for many hours whilst hooked up to machinery doesn’t sound like much of an improvement.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
No, Darknet is just a website that’s not listed anywhere. Lemmy is listed in many places.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 2 weeks ago:
As has Siri.
It used to have all kinds of plugins, like Wolfram|Alpha, that let you do fun and silly things with it.
It’s simply gone downhill ever since.
The new Apple intelligence siri is arguably even worse. I tried asking it what the date would be next Tuesday, all I got back was “I don’t understand”.
Unintelligent Siri managed to crack that one without fault.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 2 weeks ago:
Do they already not do that? They just call it “the computer”.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 4 weeks ago:
One of the worst things that the newer Windows versions did is get rid of that little view of defragmenting. It was much more interesting than watching a number slowly tick up.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 5 weeks ago:
Might be because the ATM doesn’t belong to the bank, so it charges non-partner bank fees, as opposed to the card itself charging people to look at the balance?
- Comment on How are you doing fellow kids 5 weeks ago:
Nah, they’re fine. They’ll just pivot into being real news.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 5 weeks ago:
Doesn’t the Congress and Election College have final say? The rest of it could be a sham, but what they say goes.
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 1 month ago:
More to less. It varies a bit, but it extends a tiny bit along the shoulders and down the spine.
The brown fat is basically a metabolic heater, so indulating it will help warm things up.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Socialism as in Norway, not Stalin.
It should be pointed out that Norway is not socialist. It’s a social democracy/capitalist country.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 1 month ago:
YouTube also defaults to it, so if you open it, and the video you want is already there, no need to jump to another page to load the exact same video.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 1 month ago:
G - gumanities
Or as we like to call it, GNU/Gumanities.
- Comment on wtf 1 month ago:
Other animals get zoomies too.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 1 month ago:
You can get them fresh from the factory. Sure, they need 96 batteries each, but beats all that nasty wood and bugs.
- Comment on Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real 1 month ago:
What makes anyone think that the West is immune to it?
Especially when we had something like that happen a few short years ago. Did people just forget about the pandemic and lockdowns?
- Comment on Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why 1 month ago:
How exactly does one suck a fuck?
With consent, of course.
- Comment on Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl? 1 month ago:
Does it matter if it is weird? Everyone is weird in some way.
There’s no weirdness warden who will whack you into gaol for being weird.