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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Why would they use more energy in one direction versus another? This doesn’t really make sense to me. Heating and cooling is just swapping which element is the condenser and which element is the evaporator.
The gradient determines that. Moving heat energy from inside ambient 25°C to outside ambient 30°C is easier than moving heat energy from outside ambient 5°C to inside ambient 20°C, for example.
- Comment on What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend? 2 days ago:
10k? 100k? A million?
I am not talking about calculating with numbers, but rather the point where numbers stop being comprehensible, or “no longer mean anything”.
Try visualizing exactly 10000 apples in your mind.You’re quite optimistic. I recall from old Psych classes that visualization breaks down even before double digits, so the 5-7 range. Don’t have any references at hand so I might be misremembering it, but now I’m curious too and see if I can find anything in my notes.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 2 days ago:
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 days ago:
I bet OP didn’t.
I really don’t think there’s much point in speculating what other folks think. They’ll tell or they won’t - all I can do is offer my input. As I said, it’s already hard enough to fully make yourself understood even when you want to.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 3 days ago:
Any decentralized place like this one is, ideally and intentionally, just a network of many small clubhouses. There might be overarching themes and attitudes, but each clubhouse has their own agenda and makes and enforces their own rules.
I wouldn’t expect most any clubhouse to throw you out if you argued any point with dligence, compassion and respect.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 1 week ago:
Never. There’s always more to do. Once you can produce food, shelter and entertainment with zero effort
We’ve been able to do that for about 100 years now. All of humanity’s technological problems have been solved - on paper - for generations. There’s unfortunately never been a magical consolidation period where all the hungry were fed and all the exposed were sheltered. That’s not something that automatically happens.
The technology and production capacity to raise Somalia to the same literacy, living standard and life expectancy Denmark exists. It would just require surplus growth and production capacity to go to Somalia and not Denmark for a few generations. Example nations are arbitrary, adjust as needed.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 week ago:
Well, if you’re worried about thoughts, what do you suppose will create a safer environment for your offspring? De-stigmatization of problematic urges, allowing the afflicted to openly participate in society and receive assistance, or active and violent ostracization and persecution, forcing each and every afflicted person into immediate, life-long and hopeless secrecy?
Just like anyone else you have the ability to act against your immediate instincts, because sometimes, as exemplified by the topic of this whole thread, instincts are just shit.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 week ago:
Fuck anyone who thinks abusing children is fine and normal. Fuck you all so hard to hell. Get the absolute fuck away from my kids.
I’m pretty damn left, but I have zero empathy at all for anyone who is thinking sexual shit about children. I’m livid. Holy shit.
Abuse is a choice. Sexual attraction isn’t. You’re worked up about abuse, not about pedophilia.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That’s not a question.
Looks like some kind of advertising account with either a product or an idea to sell.
- Comment on How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results? 1 week ago:
Yes, it hurts discoverability. How can you have a community without people?
I’d like to ask it the other way around: How many people would it need until you’d say “Yep, that’s a community alright.”?
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 week ago:
The alternative is no morality at all. And in that case, you’re either following the law out of love for your state and/or fellow human, or because you don’t want to be sent to prison for breaking the law.
You’re going in a circle there. If individually define moral action as “an action that cannot be derived from anything but some kind of supernatural being”, then yeah, you can dismiss anything else on normative grounds. But then what’s the point of asking “How can something be morally wrong if there is no God?”?
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 4 weeks ago:
I was an idiot and bought a high end TPLink router, I can’t even use Vlans without signing up for their back door service.
Hm, at least with their enterprise equipment you can completely disable Omada.
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 5 weeks ago:
There are lots of traditional crafts channels from all the corners of the world, if that scratches your itch. How about something like this?
- Comment on Why are ghosts never racist? 1 month ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Driving a car and doing it regularly is the most dangerous task most anyone living in any number of western societies with service-based economies will ever undertake. There is nothing wrong with treating it accordingly - with awe, care and a healthy portion of respect and fear.
But whether the decision not to do it is a good one depends on your life circumstances. Do you live or plan on living in a big European city? Yeah, you don’t need a car in your life, good riddance. Do you live in a North American suburb or rural area? Er… not using a car is probably not an option unless you relocate.I had a pretty bad car accident due to failing to yield the right of way (I struggle with multitasking)
Maybe I’m misunderstanding something here. It should go without saying that when one is driving, one’s attention should ideally be focused on nothing else and multitasking therefore shouldn’t be a factor.
- Comment on Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me? 1 month ago:
How do you know? Statistics reported by websites… which are recording user agent strings?
If you randomly stopped people in the streets and asked them what a user agent was, you’d get a certain percentage of folks that give you the correct answer. That percentage is the upper ceiling for any possible error margin that websites recording user strings have in attributing those strings to actual browsers, since nobody unaware of that term will know how or be interested in changing their user agent.
Do you think it likely that this percentage is going to be in any way, shape or form… impactful, considering that most people won’t be able to tell you what a browser is? 😜
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 1 month ago:
Enshittification is inevitable for all free services (services as in with a server component).
No, it is not that bleak. It is only inevitable when there is an active push for a short-term maximization of user base monetization (which is very much in the nature of VC). It can usually be avoided with products that are wholly under the ownership of all users (such as a cooperative or a government-provided service) or - only if one is lucky - with products of financially independent private enterprises under vaguely benevolent and unhurried leadership (such as Steam, to some extent)
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 month ago:
Sure, for a basic machine that allows for better than 20mph, or 35kph.
What makes you say that? Wearing a helmet is always recommended, since it provides protection against debilitating injuries whether the cyclist moves at 35km/h or is at a standstill. The basic risk of injury stems from being a mere participant in traffic, after all. Just like the basic risk of a debilitating defect in a piece of electronics that gets used every day stems from it getting used every day.
Trying to compare that to my phone is a false equivalency. Try trolling someone that hasn’t had both university level ethics courses, and university level debate courses that I fucking hated. The debate ones, not the ethics. Ethics I breezed through. Debate is some absolute bullshit because you have to entertain the viewpoint of liars, like you.
While I don’t understand how ethics figure into this, I’m glad that you understand how a debate works! I’ll graciously ignore the no doubt involuntary ad hominem (which you as an expert will know has no place in any kind of discussion) and will ask you to now employ the most useful technique you’ve likely learned in that course and rephrase the original point I made in a way that makes me go “Yep, that’s what I said!”, because from my point of view there must be some kind of misunderstanding. What (did you think) was I equating with what?
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 month ago:
I wish there were aftermarket components available for that thing.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 month ago:
TIL I’m a savage with a crack-less Samsung Galaxy S10 e
Riding without a bicycle helmet is just never a good idea, whether you’ve ever hit your head or not doesn’t factor into it :P
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 1 month ago:
yes, however as far as I am aware there are no laws in the us against any private vehicle usage on private land. Unlike the FDA which criminalizes owning or consuming certain chemicals.
You may have reached the limit of that car-metaphor there.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 1 month ago:
Exaclty … certain types in certain areas with a reason. That’s regulation.
Which is just what I wrote, yes. Excising every unmaintained or outdated vehicle from traffic everywhere for example is just as valid a regulation as excising a certain type of food - any food - from general consumption. There’d simply have to be a good reason. And once there is, yep, what can and can be eaten gets dictated.
Again, that’s already how it works, in traffic and in cuisine. - Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 1 month ago:
This would mean they’d be against food safety regulations, would it not?It would not.
Having traffic laws isn’t the same as banning cars, either.
Of course it is. Part of traffic legislation literally involves banning certain types of vehicles, either in certain areas or on any kind of public road in general.
- Comment on Minio strips away almost all features from OSS interface and suggests people use their paid "AIStor" service instead 2 months ago:
Monetary needs and all that. If it’s a startup with VC then there is either not enough people paying or not enough private users supporting by other means like bug fixing, support, etc. Or greed by VC.
Well, VC is greedy by design. A VC-funded business will never be optimized for longevity, a good product or happy customers. They may achieve those things en passant, but they’re never the objective.
For example: Any case of “there is not enough people paying” can also be rendered as “the scale and moving speed of the business is way off”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Oh, right. A conventional public library can’t just pirate all of their content, I suppose.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
How so?
- Comment on Selling BTC or not..? 2 months ago:
This might be a bit of a bad question, but I don’t know where to ask to get the least biased responses.
So, I have about $1.000 in Bitcoin that used to be $300 (I’ve put in about $1.500 in various shitcoins before getting those BTC)
I fly drones as a hobby and I was thinking of getting a new system for that amount of money.It’s not really a complex equation. If you need liquidity, liqudate assets. If you don’t need liquidity, don’t liquidate assets.
How badly you want your new hobby system is something only you can answer. - Comment on GitHub - gardner/LocalLanguageTool: Self-hosted LanguageTool private instance is an offline alternative to Grammarly 2 months ago:
Kind of offtopic: Can we call something offline if you need a server to run it?
Sure, you could run it on your own PC and that’s it, but I don’t think that method fit well with this community
Er… maybe I am misunderstanding your post but this community is literally built around hosting your own local infrastructure.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
So, uh, what’s wrong with that?
… with damaging infrastructure? Well, presumably the infrastructure will no longer be as good at serving its original purpose once it is damaged.
- Comment on Can local LLMs be as useful and insightful as those widely available? 2 months ago:
Why do people host LLMs at home when processing the same amount of data from the internet to train their LLM will never be even a little bit as efficient as sending a paid prompt to some high quality official model?
inb4 privacy concerns or a proof of concept this is out of discussion, I want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one. I don’t care about anything else than quality of generated answersIf you ask other people for their reasoning and opinions, it doesn’t really make any sense to put something “out of the discussion”, does it? :P
But no, if you have no qualms about sharing your innermost feelings, sexual preference or illegal plans with those that have an explicit desire to exploit that information then there is little reason to attempt something as complicated and wasteful as self-hosting your own LLMs.