T156
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- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 5 days ago:
Higher cycle life might also make it good for hybrids, since they cycle their batteries a fair bit.
- Comment on Am I the only one who things the community is being to hard on the Rabbit R1? 6 days ago:
Also a little bit with it being advertised as “not an app”, when it turns out to be an app, and doesn’t have any special magic that makes it need that dedicated hardware.
- Comment on Why the Guardian is investigating the deep failings in Australia’s school system 1 week ago:
Covid?
In 2017?
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 1 week ago:
Because I was only aware of Intel (and Apple) doing it on computers, whereas most major flagship mobile devices have those accelerators now.
GPUs were excluded, since they’re not as universal as processors are. A dedicated video card is still by and large considered an enthusiast part.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 1 week ago:
It’s arguably worse, since it seems to be more pervasive than crypto and NFTs were at their peak.
Crypto never really hit the mainstream, and even NFTs were still fringe. Whereas AI and AI accelerators are packed into basically every new phone and (Intel) processor.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 1 week ago:
Military would be fine, because they don’t tend to update very frequently, if at all. If it works, that’s the way it will stay, and the recent controversy wouldn’t exactly encourage them to do so.
What about its use in a company that has extremely valuable trade secrets that need to be kept that way?
Same way the LLM debacle has currently gone, where people will just throw sensitive information into it with abandon. At least one major tech company has penalised workers for doing that with ChatGPT.
If there’s a group policy to turn it off, maybe, but Microsoft might just not have one, or it’ll need to be disabled every update.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 1 week ago:
Unclear. But eventually, people would work. People get bored, it’s nice to have something to do, and get paid extra on top of it.
UBI just ensures that if they don’t like a job, they can just quit, rather than be forced to keep working on pain of starvation.
Tests so far seem to be fairly positive about it working. People who get UBI aren’t likely to sit on that money, they’ll just go and spend it either paying back debts, or buying something nice for themselves, so the money will keep going around. They might even buy more than they might otherwise have, if they’re not just scraping by.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 1 week ago:
Making the world a better place doesn’t need to be some grandiose revolutionary affair.
All the little things you do while being alive would add up. Whether it’s hanging out with a friend, giving your pet some extra pats, or cleaning up your own space, and that would put you a good deal of the way there, if not be enough on its own.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 3 weeks ago:
Although RAM is vastly more durable than the flash chips of an SSD, so that wouldn’t make sense.
It might make more sense from a cost viewpoint, since flash is typically cheaper than RAM.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 3 weeks ago:
Even then, 32GB might be cutting it a bit fine for production or professional work.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 3 weeks ago:
The irony is that it’s arguably the opposite, since the GPU and CPU just have a shared memory pool, rather than having dedicated memory and the shared memory pool.
So if you’re watching a 4k video, you might have lost a gigabyte or two just for VRAM.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
In theory, maybe. In practice, the bots might just pay and post anyway. If they can recoup those costs in the scam, it costs them basically nothing.
- Comment on Why did they put eyeliner on evil Kirk 😳 (I'm watching TOS for the first time) 3 weeks ago:
Could also have been to make the difference more subtle, since they’re different parts of the same person, rather than being two separate people like the goatee counterparts are.
- Comment on Why did they put eyeliner on evil Kirk 😳 (I'm watching TOS for the first time) 3 weeks ago:
Gives him dark eyes, as opposed to the bright/spotlit eyes on good Kirk? So you can immediately tell there’s a difference between the two.
Idk why but my shitpost-ridden brain instantly went “wait… d-did they make Kirk hot?”
Depending on your taste/sexuality, they arguably do that most of the time. The man seems to have shirts made of tissue paper.
- Comment on Why did they put eyeliner on evil Kirk 😳 (I'm watching TOS for the first time) 3 weeks ago:
It also makes him stand out more. Where regular Kirk has a spotlight on his eyes (like Morticia Addams), Evil Kirk has darkened eyes instead.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 3 weeks ago:
The loophole is that they aren’t paid that amount in maximum wage anyway. The actual wage is some degree of modest. They just get paid in bonuses and stock options, which don’t count for one reason or another.
- Comment on Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly 3 weeks ago:
F-Droid has allegedly had automatic/silent installs for a while now, although only on newer versions of Android (12+).
- Comment on Why is "Dear X" considered more formal than "To X" in e-mail/writing? 3 weeks ago:
Or at least, for introductions.
Probably fine once dialogue is established.
- Comment on Why AI is going to be a shitshow. 3 weeks ago:
Also that LLMs have a habit of churning out junk. Microsoft in particular, probably has some extreme restrictions in place after the recent debacle with Sydney begging someone to leave their wife, and all of that controversy.
They don’t need it going full Tay.
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- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 3 weeks ago:
Unclear, as I don’t work for Microsoft. But searching Bing isn’t part of the default GPT function set, that’s at least one proprietary one that they’ve specifically done up for their own uses.
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 4 weeks ago:
Not exactly, ChatGPT is OpenAI’s GPT interface. Whereas CoPilot is Microsoft’s, and has a bunch of plugins and tweaks to suit their uses. The underlying model is the same, but not the customisation.
Think of it like different flavours of Android. Samsung, Google, and Nothing all have their own spins, even if they all run Android under the hod.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
They might not be. We’re already starting to run into the limits of silicon as it is, and I can’t imagine that we can keep pushing it for another 3 decades.
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Normally, the OS “fixes” this by making a second, bigger recovery partition, but that only works if you have the space for.
- Comment on On a huge election year for the world, Meta will shut down CrowdTangle, it's tool for election integrity observer without replacement 4 weeks ago:
We’re at the point of what?
- Comment on Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine and printer enshittification 5 weeks ago:
Now I could obviously take 30 minutes and print it at the library, but those 30 minutes would add up fairly fast, making a printer the more accessible and economical option.
Privacy is also an issue. There might be reasons why you don’t want to have something printed out at the library/local print shop, like if it’s tax documents, and someone hitting “repeat job” could just have it spit out personal info.
- Comment on Opera is testing letting you download LLMs for local use, a first for a major browser 5 weeks ago:
Not exactly. Most integrated chips have a small pool of dedicated VRAM, and then a bit more that they share with the system memory. It’s only Apple’s unified memory, and maybe other mobile chips that has them both share a memory pool, for better or worse, as far as I’m aware.
But it is worth noting that if you don’t have enough VRAM and have to put it into RAM, the minimum expectation is that you have twice the amount of RAM space. So if you have a GPU with 4GB of VRAM, and need to offload the extra to the system, you don’t need 16 GB, you need 32 GB.
- Comment on Opera is testing letting you download LLMs for local use, a first for a major browser 5 weeks ago:
Unlikely, at least on non-nvidia chips, and even on AMD, it’s only the latest four chips that support it. Anything older isn’t going to cut it.
You also need a fairly big amount of VRAM for models like that. (4 GB is the minimum for the common kinds, which is more than typical integrated systems, or 8 GB of system memory). You can get by with system RAM, but the performance will be quite bad, since you’re either relying on the CPU, or you’ll be adding the latency from data moving between them.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 5 weeks ago:
The layman is very stupid. They hear all the fantastical shit AI can do and they start to assume its almighty. Thats how you wind up with those lawyers that tried using chat GPT to write up a legal brief that was full of bullshit and didnt even bother to verify if it was accurate.
Especially since it gets conflated with pop culture. Someone who hears that an AI app can “enhance” an image might think it works like something out of CSI using technosmarts, rather than just making stuff up out of whole cloth,
- Comment on Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software 1 month ago:
Also that the people who don’t care about that kind of thing wouldn’t have bothered moving from Reddit in the first place, or be bothered enough to interact with the post.