jaycifer

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There's a sentence in the article I linked to in another comment that, in the city the article was about, there were data centers for Microsoft and similar companies that had required high-speed internet infrastructure be built in town despite its small size. I suppose, based on what you said, that speed wouldn't be too essential but you would want stability to maintain a connection. Satellite internet probably wouldn't be great for that (maybe Starlink is?) in which case you still want to run some kind of cable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll concede there’s probably something to miners footing the initial capital to build the infrastructure, and if it’s in a remote area it may be prohibitively expensive for public utilities to extend the grid to it. But mining setups still require high internet speed connections to use the network, and I just have to wonder if installing that is a better use of resources than installing power lines to take some load off non-renewable power sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dug up the original article: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/09/bitcoin-mining-energy-prices-smalltown-feature-217230/

  In this case, they already were exporting 80% of the hydro-energy generated, about enough to power Los Angeles in 2018 when it was written. Maybe there are some cases for your suggestion on a small scale, but if a site is generating enough excess electricity to make mining worthwhile, why would it be less worthwhile to connect it to a larger grid?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a caveat to this. It’s been a few years since I read the article, but oftentimes the reason Bitcoin miners run on renewables is because they set up shop in places that have established local cheap electricity.

  The example in the article was a town with ideal geography for hydro power, to the point electricity was cheap enough to sell it to the next town over. Crypto-miners set up in the first town and quickly began using more power, driving up the cost and eventually causing serious issues for the second town as there wasn’t enough electricity leftover to send their way anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor - Release Date Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be depending on what you like. You have a flying drone to help you that isn’t in multiplayer because there you all have different abilities to cover each others’ weaknesses.

  Personally I think single-player gets stale and lonely quick, it’s just a lot more fun panicking and overcoming challenges with friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I buy a Fairphone? If not, what SHOULD I buy and why?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The words before “superior privacy” were “out of the box,” not in general. I don’t think loading a custom OS counts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frostpunk 2 - Official Gameplay Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey thanks, I hate to see when those get misused. I don’t know how that flew over my head. Maybe their is something wrong with me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frostpunk 2 - Official Gameplay Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of my favorite games, and now is a good time to play it! It gives me a similar feeling to Halo where humanity itself is on the backfoot and nearly extinct the whole time, yet enduring as best it can. The difference being that your controlling a city fighting the snowpocalypse rather than a cyber-soldier fighting aliens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's remember some Star Trek games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shoutout to the ST: Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire. I didn’t play the originals but the mod is really impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the Internet and society itself is so divided nowadays ?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but behind that wrong side is a valid person, and without a discussion you’ll never know how they ended up on that wrong side. Without knowing how they got there, you’ll never be able to sway them away from the wrong side and they will continue to be wrong.

  I think everyone has something worth saying, but in the majority of cases I just don’t have the time, energy, or patience to get to that something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't we just talk about it without the maths? Guys?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On the contrary, I’d argue energy mostly meets many of the philosophical criteria for God.
  Omnipotence: It literally is what drives stuff to happen.
  Omnipresence: It is present to some degree in all things everywhere for all time, though you could argue about vacuum.
  Omniscience: See omnipresence, although having knowledge implies some level of consciousness, which is pretty debatable. My psychedelic phase tells me that it’s totally a thing, but I’ll be the first to admit that’s not a rational argument.
  Omnibenevolence: I don’t understand why God needs to be good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If the author no longer has passion for his OSS project, and isn’t being paid for it, why is he still working on it? Why should he feel responsible for companies building their processes on a free piece of software without guaranteed support? Why the heck is he sacrificing sleep for something he claims not to care about anymore? It sounds to me like he’s not living his values.

  If compensation for volunteer work is mandated, it becomes less volunteer work and more of a part(or in some cases full)-time job. My understanding is that a core pillar of open source software is that anyone can contribute to it, which should make it easier for contributors to come and go. Based on the graph shown it would take more than a full-time job worth of money to meet his demand, which seems unlikely in any case, and it’s time for him to go. Either someone else will volunteer to pick up the slack, the companies using it will pay someone to pick up the slack like the author mentioned, or the software will languish, degrade, and stop being used.

  I don’t see how any of those outcomes suggest that people need to be paid for the time they voluntarily give. I could get behind finding better ways to monetarily support those who do want to get paid, but “how could it be easier to pay OSS contributors after their passion is gone?” is a lot less provocative of a headline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  30 seconds for what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skull and Bones Has Yet Another New Release Window⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not a delay. They are updating the window from "Early 2023-24," which the article states is likely anytime this past year to the end of their fiscal year at the end of March to... "Q4 2023-24" which ends at the end of March. So there's no real change to when it could release by (yet).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the perfect time to quit when they’re making it so easy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I? Who knows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a chapter or two from a book by philosopher Derek Parfit that tackles the transporter issue pretty head-on. It draws what I feel to be a pretty compelling distinction between the continuity of your conscious mind, referred to as Relation R, and the personal identity that is lost when using the transporter. He then asks which is more important. Worth a read if this stuff interests you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I? Who knows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There's a book series based on using cloning and memory storage to accomplish very similar things called Undying Mercenaries. The main difference is instead of copying someone and keeping the copy on ice they have cybernetic implants that send engrams of their mind to remote storage, and if they die a clone can be rapidly grown and those stored memories saved to it. It gets pretty schlocky as time goes on, but it's a fun premise to play around with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games are one of the few places where failure motivates us to get back up. It's a temporary setback that allows you to keep going, teaching us resilience and the power of a second chance.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, there’s a Hidetaka Miyazaki now, the head of FromSoftware who is unrelated to Hayao Miyazaki as far as I know. It took me a while to figure that out.