Olap
@Olap@lemmy.world
Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
- Comment on Replacing forests with solar a net positive, but neighbors bear an outsized burden, study finds 2 days ago:
What’s your guess? What could possibly elicit such a response to an article like this?
- Comment on Replacing forests with solar a net positive, but neighbors bear an outsized burden, study finds 2 days ago:
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Just fucking no
- Comment on Why are a lot of statues vandalised with traffic cones in Scotland? 1 week ago:
It started with the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow afaik. And the council would send someone up to take it off. And so a local would stick it back up. And so on. So mostly just a laugh, I don’t think anyone really had much to say about Wellington in the 20th Century. And it just kinda spread. Glasgow City Council don’t bother removing it these days, too much faff
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Anyone actually playing 7? I know of no one personally, and I’ve played them all religiously
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m gonna bet he’s not massively experienced and thus could be a bit nervous too. Airflow, hydration, you could go on top some more, try more positions, and most importantly, have plenty of fun!
- Comment on TikTok plans to lay off several hundred of their moderation team in the UK in favor of AI content moderation 3 weeks ago:
How much will the fines cost vs paying these people I wonder? 200*25k is approximately £5m/annum. Come on £10m fine!
- Comment on Next time I swear bro 3 weeks ago:
I’m also not saying LLMs and Markov Chains don’t have a use. Just it’s a dead end towards general artifical intelligence
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X strikes tentative agreement to settle $500 million lawsuit over Twitter firings 3 weeks ago:
Don’t be so sure. Very little of his net worth will be liquid. Meaning giving up a big chunk of something
- Comment on Next time I swear bro 3 weeks ago:
They are basically just giant markov chains. Knock your heart out
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 3 weeks ago:
Prospect in the UK
- Comment on CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
So as much as I dislike crypto, it is basically built to be enshitification proof. And hence a good fit for the fediverse. But I wouldn’t want to touch the crypto ecosystem with a ten foot pole, nevermind a lemmy/mastodon integration
Which leaves us at the behest of traditional payment processors, and they are all faceless conglomerates who care not for anyone. Meaning we’re fucked there too
Maybe we should instead not bring transactions to the fediverse
- Comment on Do I need the ISPs home router? 3 weeks ago:
You might be able to do mac address cloning for fiber ports, if you have openwrt or similar it usually offers it.
A firewall may not offer full routing and NAT though for ipv4 devices, or wifi if you need it, or ipv6, or many other features. I’ve also used a cable modem and stuck the router in the dmz which essentially makes it a passthrough device also in the past
Basically, play with it and good luck!
- Comment on What foss MP games are still active? 4 weeks ago:
Xonotic still has a few servers running and 385 players yesterday
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 5 weeks ago:
Me too. I don’t regret the Series X either, the SSD is great for online loading times and play
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 5 weeks ago:
SSDs - they are very nice. Series S is very affordable too if you aren’t a disc gamer
- Comment on Picked this up for only $20 5 weeks ago:
$50 sounds a bargain for the amount of time this may take! Order today, you’ll be booting by the weekend
- Comment on Picked this up for only $20 1 month ago:
Ooh, I’ve blown up some transistors in my time (crack!), but never seen one go bad. But it is quite old!
- Comment on Picked this up for only $20 1 month ago:
It’ll be the caps. Best of luck! Even for the other parts it is worth a packet more
- Comment on Wes Streeting says striking doctors ‘will lose a war with this government’ 1 month ago:
Doesn’t sound like a Labour government to me
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 1 month ago:
More facism from Trump. And he won the popular vote. Americans love facism
- Comment on The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later 1 month ago:
Nah, most of the banks solved this years ago already
- Comment on Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? 2 months ago:
Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Page ruined the internet for us. That’s who to blame
- Comment on Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts 2 months ago:
It encourages dog-piling essentially
- Comment on Simple Wikiclaudia: Chrome extension that finds a simple.wikipedia.org version of any wiki article. If one exists, click to open it; otherwise, it uses Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it. 2 months ago:
Because AI sucks at basically all tasks. And if I wanted the simple article I’d have visited the simple article. What you have done is denied entry to one of the most valuable resources ever created: wikipedia
- Comment on Simple Wikiclaudia: Chrome extension that finds a simple.wikipedia.org version of any wiki article. If one exists, click to open it; otherwise, it uses Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it. 2 months ago:
Thanks, I hate it
- Comment on The Education Crisis: How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market 2 months ago:
I suspect people (not billionaires) are realising that they can get by with less. And that the planet needs that too. And that working 40+ hours a week isn’t giving people what they really want either.
There’s also the value of money has never been lower either. Working for less isn’t rewarding. And so demand is getting intensely squeezed, and this is likely to continue with a planet that is full of enough stuff
- Comment on US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t bet on that. American military might is still untouchable, and America is still a huge oil producer
- Comment on US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? 2 months ago:
Trump understands that it doesn’t matter about the debt. Who does he owe it to after all? The banks won’t call the debts in, cause they don’t need to, and if he devalues the dollar he sees it as a win for exports
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 2 months ago:
I work in this field. I’m trying to change these numbers! We are heading the right direction is the good news. China may well save us all with cheaper panels and battery manufacturing. And if 97% reduces our emissions even 50% on todays emissions then we can start talking about actually meeting some climate targets.
So this is all good news, but as I also said: I work in this field and know we have a long way to go yet. There also isn’t a single answer. Batteries, smart grids, grid-interconnects, efficiencies, supply mixes, demand offsetting; power is the best thing in the world to work in right now, it touches sooo many aspects of humanity and is changing so fast!
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 2 months ago:
Coal has long been unprofitable, and nuclear has always needed huge state funding (you get weapons as the byproduct of nuclear power, hence the subsidies). Until it beats gas it still isn’t cheap enough imo. Gas of course is still massively subsidised too though, and that’s where we need to continue to work: our policy makers need to end fossil fuel subsidies