joonazan
@joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 2 hours ago:
It depends on what you are practicing. If it involves things out of your control, for instance poker, you definitely shouldn’t adjust after every result. In the poker case that leads to not playing well just because you lost one time.
Even in less random things you have to be absolutely sure you found the problem before adjusting.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Oof. Mechanicus starts out ok, even has some cool mechanics but then gets utterly trivial and just keeps going like that.
Are you playing modded Xcom? I enjoyed a run with amalgamation classes, gem-based psi and lots of mods to make the enemies harder but it has been shelved for a while because the Humanity’s requiem Mutons are too much to take on and I need to think about how much to sacrifice to pass missions until my weapon upgrade finishes.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
The writing is seriously good. I enjoy just reading random furniture descriptions.
The only reason I haven’t beaten it yet is that it feels repetitive since the main story and certain profitable side quests are always the same.
While some RNG like the faction relationships add great and flavorful variety, others like the medicine recipes are technically different every time but it doesn’t matter.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it is different elsewhere but according to my calculations, renting property is not very profitable. Investing in stocks is better if you only want to make money and do not care about the apartment otherwise.
You can’t easily get your money out of the property and if loan rates go up, you pay more and the property value goes down.
The real parasite is the bank who takes a cut but has little risk as the money it lends out is created from thin air.
- 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 month ago:
My guess would be that using a desktop computer to make the queries and read the results consumes more power than the LLM, at least in the case of quickly answering models.
The expensive part is training a model but usage is most likely not sold at a loss, so it can’t use an unreasonable amount of energy.
Instead of this ridiculous energy argument, we should focus on the fact that AI (and other products that money is thrown at) aren’t actually that useful but companies control the narrative. AI is particularly successful here with every CEO wanting in on it and people afraid it is so good it will end the world.
- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 5 months ago:
The tire thing is completely made up. Yes, they sell their premium tires but they are not necessary and do not contain electronics. www.tesla.com/support/tires
You are arguing a side rather than looking at facts.
You are correct that it is best to have a lightweight car if you have to have one. But an electric one does take over in environmental cost relative quickly and is cheaper in countries that don’t subsidize fossil fuels and tax emissions. In addition the air quality in cities improves.