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- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 1 day ago:
Go 4chan!
Not often I get to say that, but this is one case.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 2 days ago:
None of those advanced nuclear projects are yet actually delivering power, AFAIK.
…and they won’t be for at least 5-10 years. In the meantime they’ll just use public infrastructure and then when their generation plans fall through they’ll just keep doing that.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 days ago:
I guess I wasn’t trying to say there’s absolutely no-one that idolises homelander. Some people watch Star Wars and want Darth Vader to win. There’s not many of them, and social media tends to amplify the “edge lord” opinions.
Just that I thought sometimes pearl-clutchers can see people enjoying something that contains horrific aspects and interpret it as meaning those people support horrific things.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 days ago:
Anthony Starr is knocking it out of the park. Amazing performance.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 4 days ago:
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 4 days ago:
The comics are from long before Trump. (2006-2012) Homelander is just what happens when you give a flawed person Superman powers. That’s the whole premise of the Boys. “What-if superhumans were real people with real flaws?”.
He’s the manifestation of “absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 4 days ago:
The Boys is great because it explores how horrific a world like that would be, and how close that world is to ours.
Thankfully I’ve not seen people fawning over Home Lander. I see people say they exist, but I do wonder if that’s drive-by people mistaking fandom of the show for fandom of Homelander.
The guy is a forever child whose insecurity makes him a monster. You’re shown how all his “romantic” relationships are about him being mothered. He literally keeps breast milk in his fridge. He’s an infant given god like powers. There is nothing inspirational about him.
He’s a great villain though.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
We don’t have 2025 data because 2025 isn’t finished yet.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
Yes, but do you think that rate is good enough given they are still growing coal at a massive rate?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
We imported all the consumer protection laws, so as long as this isn’t a recent change it will be the same in the UK.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
You said it was their trajectory. It’s not. Renewables are a part of their plan, sure, but that coal graph isn’t turning around.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
- Comment on Thames Water says new Abingdon reservoir could cost bill-payers up to £7.5bn 1 week ago:
That’s what our bills are meant to be for. Not lining the pockets of shareholders.
- Comment on Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount 1 week ago:
At least the ones on the north east coast are close to the wind farms.
The ones around London are in the worst place imaginable. We all know the state of Thames water, and it’s got the least excess power. Scottish wind farms keep on getting curtailed at great expense. We literally have power to spare up there, but I expect it’s the financial services firms saying they need low latency links to the financial markets.
We’re a country with a gambling addiction.
- Comment on The UK needs a new electoral system – should it copy Scandinavia? 2 weeks ago:
Personally I hate the “one MP per area” aspect of our system. You only have one person to raise issues with and they may not be sympathetic to your views.
Multi-member constituencies it’s much more likely that you can get your issue heard by someone who won’t dismiss you.
- Comment on The UK Grid is currently 80% renewable energy (and 10% nuclear) 2 weeks ago:
The connectors with France only total 4GW. That’s about 10-15% of our demand. It’s s no more than a top up when it makes financial sense .
Today we were about neutral on import/export. We imported 2.5ish from France but exported just as much to The Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Belgium and Denmark.
- Comment on The UK Grid is currently 80% renewable energy (and 10% nuclear) 2 weeks ago:
It’s real and not that uncommon. Windy weather, especially with sun, is very good for the UK from this perspective. It will get even better over the next 12-24 months as a number of wind farms come online.
- Comment on Revealed: “Skyrocketing” scale of UK police's Secret Facial Recognition Searches of Passport and Immigration Databases 2 weeks ago:
So, on average, every adult in the UK has been searched for 3 times.
- Comment on Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows 2 weeks ago:
Not “more negatively”. A higher proportion of that group view it the same amount of negative.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 2 weeks ago:
“…likely pushing up…”
“…likely…”
Of course it will! What kind of reporting is this? “…forcing the price up…” Is the phrase they were looking for.
- Comment on Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety 2 weeks ago:
Paywall: archive.is/wyJxi
- Comment on Trump says pharma tariffs could eventually reach up to 250% 2 weeks ago:
Demand drops because people die.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 weeks ago:
End to end encryption of a interaction with a chat-bot would mean the company doesn’t decrypt your messages to it, operates on the encrypted text, gets an encrypted response which only you can decrypt and sends it to you. You then decrypt the response.
So yes. It would require operating on encrypted data.
- Comment on This 50% recycled glass solar panel performs like brand new 3 weeks ago:
“Burning it out” still leaves contamination. You need to remove it.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s different. The fundamental operation of all these models is multiplying big matrices of numbers together. GPUs are already optimised for this. Crypto was trying to make the algorithm fit the GPU rather than it being a natural fit.
With FPGAs you take a 10x loss in clock speed but can have precisely the algorithm you want. ASICs then give you the clock speed back.
GPUs are already ASICS that implement the ideal operation for ML/AI, so FPGAs would be a backwards step.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 weeks ago:
If an AI can work on encrypted data, it’s not encrypted.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 weeks ago:
It’s when the coffers of Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and investment banks dry up. All of them are losing billions every month but it’s all driven by fewer than 10 companies. Nvidia is lapping up the money of course, but once the AI companies stop buying GPUs on crazy numbers it’s going to be a rocky ride down.
- Comment on This 50% recycled glass solar panel performs like brand new 3 weeks ago:
As long as it hasn’t been coloured I believe.
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 3 weeks ago:
It’s spent on NVidia GPUs. Jensen Huang just buys leather jackets from what I can tell.
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 3 weeks ago:
They’re different, and I think this one has the capability of being more devastating.
The dot-com bubble was really broad. Hundreds or thousands of companies, all without vowels in their names trying to break new ground. A wild west style gold rush. When it popped a lot of small companies went bankrupt.
This is a handful of companies with billions of capital buying GPUs from NVidia to be make the largest hungriest machine they can. All in the pursuit of being first to create “AGI”. If one of them succeeds, the others are toast and multiple 500+B dollar companies will collapse in on themselves. If none of it works, the same thing happens and it takes a large chunk out of $4T Nvidia too.
