wischi
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- Comment on Time to refill the popcorn 🫢🍿 4 days ago:
The joke is on you, I hate all sports teams.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 6 days ago:
Life can’t exist in a high entropy environment. Of cause you can declare the entire solar system a closed system but because of the sun our solar system will be in an extremely low entropy state on average for a couple of billion years. Once the sun “dies” and the temperature averages out in our solar system there will be no life.
And yes it’s (almost) always an energy argument that why the water argument is a bad one. But not everything is an energy argument. Take He and H2 for example if you let that into the air ot will eventually escape our atmosphere because of solar winds and os truly wasted/lost - but that’s not true for water. You can’t really waste water in a sense that we will have less water im the future (unless you split it into hydrogen and oxygen and let the hydrogen escape).
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
Entropy always increases in closed systems. Because of the Sun, the Earth is not a closed system. If Earth were a pure entropy game, there would be no life. Also the atmosphere can’t hold infinite amount of water - that’s why it rains sometimes. So “using” fresh water is only a problem in regions where it doesn’t rain much and/or where the water has to be prepared/cleaned im the first place (which would probably make it too expensive to cool data centers in the first place) - if the water was from a natural fresh water source than just heating it is actually not a water issue - but it will contribute to global warming, but then again the argument shouldn’t be about water but about that data centers contribute to global warming.
So the amount of water is pretty much constant. And because of the huge amount of energy the Earth gets from the sun, there is plenty of opportunities for clean energy that can (and is be used) to reverse entropy. All living things reverse entropy all the time. So the issue is not using the water but the unclean energy sources that lead to global warming.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
Throwing away water? Does it escape into space. I completely understand the energy arguments but water?
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 2 weeks ago:
First, could be autocorrect, and second: How many languages do you speak FFS?
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 5 weeks ago:
Probably a scripted route.
- Comment on holee shiet 5 weeks ago:
Aerosols aren’t gases in the classial sense and reflect sunlight. This works especially well high up in the atmosphere.
…nasa.gov/…/aerosols-small-particles-with-big-cli…
There are studies that collect data around volcano eruptions and coal power plants getting online and offline. Long story short: Climate is complicated; I’m not a climate scientist and not to be trusted; it would work great at cooling the planet; we definitely shouldn’t do it (yet?) because it masks the temperature problem and could lead to us not reducing CO2 because we “wouldn’t have to”, but it could be a tool if we might be on the edge of a catastrophic runaway effect that causes too much water to evaporate into the atmosphere.
- Comment on holee shiet 5 weeks ago:
It’s not really hard to implement at all but would just trade pest for cholera. We could just burn a lot of coal again, the dustier and dirtier the better. But that’s pretty bad for air quality but it would seriously cool the planet.
- Comment on Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository 2 months ago:
Any backups of the repository itself (and not the GitHub rendering)?
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 2 months ago:
LLMs are not AGI tough.
- Comment on Challenges accepted. 2 months ago:
The “may” carries a lot of weight so it probably depends. The way US law works is pretty weird IMHO and the reason for many of such waivers. “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear”, “Contents may be hot”, etc.
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 2 months ago:
Thank you. But are jellyfish really not that far off. Looks like a pretty huge step to me. Jellyfish look complex enough to not just magically reassemble if we grind them through a sieve.
I personally (but I’m not a biologists 🤣) definitely would consider a jellyfish an animal because different cells (at least ot very much looks like that) have different functions and thus throwing it in the meat grinder (even if individual cells are not damaged) I can’t imagine how ot could reassemble itself.
But a sponge seems so homogeneous it (I guess) almost doesn’t matter what goes where and that’s why it can reassemble. That why (I personally) wouldn’t think of that as an animal.
Are there other things that are technically animals that are that homogeneous?
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 2 months ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 2 months ago:
Honest question. How is that sponge an animal and how is “animal” defined? If we grind something through a sieve and it reassembles surely the lifeform can’t be to complicated.
- Comment on Number neighbors! 2 months ago:
Take your phone number. Now add/subtract 1. Those are your number neighbors.
- Comment on >:)> 2 months ago:
I’m not sure for that specific case, but in the general case there doesn’t need to be evolutionary pressure for change. If there is no pressure one way or the other random mutations can (and will over time) cause change without environmental reason (genetic drift).
- Comment on Least anticipated game in history 2 months ago:
You comment just brings attention to the fact that you didn’t even look at the signature in the picture and look up the artist.
- Comment on fake keepass repo on github 2 months ago:
I used keepass since ages and about two years ago I switched to a self-hosted vaultwarden instance and I still think it was a great choice. So of you have a docker experience and a little VM lying around you could give vaultwarden/Bitwarden a try.
- Comment on WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages 3 months ago:
It’s not called Meta data by accident 🤣
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 3 months ago:
“Amazingly” fast for bio-chemistry, but insanely slow compared to electrical signals, chips and computers. But to be fair the energy usage really is almost magic.
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 3 months ago:
But by that definition passing the Turing test might be the same as super human intelligence. There are things that humans can do, but computers can’t. But there is nothing a computer can do but still be slower than humans. That’s actually because our biological brains are insanely slow compared to computers. So once a computer is better or as accurate as a human it’s almost instantly superhuman at that task because of its speed. So if we have something that’s as smart as humans (which is practically implied because it’s indistinguishable) we would have super human intelligence, because it’s as smart as humans but (numbers made up) can do 10 days of cognitive human work in just 10 minutes.
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 3 months ago:
AI isn’t even trained to mimic human social behavior. Current models are all trained by example so they produce output that would score high in their training process. We don’t even know (and it’s likely not even expressable in language) what their goals are but (anthropomorphised) are probably more like “Answer something that humans that designed and oversaw the training process would approve of”
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 3 months ago:
To be fair the Turing test is a moving goal post, because if you know that such systems exist you’d probe them differently. I’m pretty sure that even the first public GPT release would have fooled Alan Turing personally, so I think it’s fair to say that this systems passed the test at least since that point.
- Comment on Recommend EU webhosting provider to replace DreamHost? 4 months ago:
Hetzner ❤️
- Comment on Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data 4 months ago:
JPEG does not support lossless compression. There was an extension to the standard in 1993 but most de/encoders don’t implement that and it never took off. With JPEG XL you get more bang for your buck and the same visual quality will get you a smaller file. There would be no more need for thumbnails because of improved progressive decoding.
- Comment on Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data 4 months ago:
It’s not just like jpeg with extra channels. It’s technically far superior, supports loss less compression, and the way the decompression works would make thumbnails obsolete. It can even recompress already existing jpeg even smaller without additional generation less. It’s hard to describe what a major step this format would be without getting very technical. A lot of operating systems and software already support is but the Google chrome team is practically preventing adoption because of company politics.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 4 months ago:
He is comparing himself to Caesar? Maybe someone should stab him to help him out.