ByteJunk
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI is not bad for the environment in comparison with many other regular activities. 1 day ago:
Upvoted for controversial post…
This whole analysis is based on the cost of queries, which are consume, in fact, a minuscule amount of power.
You (or OOP) also acknowledge that the massive, obscene, megalomaniac power consumption of AI comes from building up the models themselves.
And then you proceed to ignore that the first one is the driver for the second. This is asinine. It’s exactly like saying that the CO2 emissions of fossil fuels is the cost of running the pumps at the station.
Here you go, according to the same logic: Image
- Comment on Hey, that’s not yours! 1 day ago:
No the duck will be ready on time for supper.
- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 3 days ago:
Gamecopyworld omg that’s a blast from the past! I loved that site…
- Comment on Big things happening in the 3D print community 3 days ago:
Upgrade from serial smoking to parallel smoking.
- Comment on Life hack 5 days ago:
I fucking chew it
- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 5 days ago:
And this is why profits above a certain threshold need to be taxed to oblivion.
Massive profit cannot be the single goal.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 1 week ago:
What’s a mater?
No really, I don’t know what it is. Is it like a local dialect for tomato?
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 1 week ago:
I meant the machine itself! The print out is your typical systemd boot, though they’re usually covered by a distro splash but it can be disabled.
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 1 week ago:
49% owned by Rosneft while another 49% are owned by “UCP” (Russia’s United Capital partners). Basically a 100% russian refinery in India…
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 1 week ago:
I’ve never seen one of these, but I assume it performs other functions - surely monitoring sensors, probably reporting that data, maybe allowing triggering maintenance functions, etc.
That said, processing and storage is so cheap on this scale that it’s probably better (and cheaper) to go with a tried and true, widely supported system, than it is to optimize with custom hardware/firmware.
- Comment on Dirty slut for water 2 weeks ago:
I laughed way too hard at this.
“Of course, where are my manners”
- Comment on Anal probing doesn't seem that bad 2 weeks ago:
Probes just don’t do it for him I guess.
- Comment on Anal probing doesn't seem that bad 2 weeks ago:
On the other end of the spectrum, vets go elbow deep into their patients. We’re not judging…
- Comment on Anal probing doesn't seem that bad 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s just some people who are so afraid and yet so fascinated about the thought of getting plowed in the ass, that they have to envision a powerful, advanced alien race that they’re unable to fight, so they can justify the fantasy to themselves without having to come to terms as to why their peepee tingles when they look at other peepees.
- Comment on Anal probing doesn't seem that bad 2 weeks ago:
Don’t threaten me with a good time…
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I was thinking this was late 90’s setup, but if that’s a PS3 then it’s like 10 years later…
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 2 weeks ago:
I would never in a million years would consider this as “next level” unless there’s a MegaDrive behind those doors under the TV.
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 2 weeks ago:
To this day, I don’t understand why Visa or MasterCard are necessary. If the banks can’t create a global, shared way of processing payments, then the governments should step in and do it for them.
- Comment on bank circuit water 2 weeks ago:
While you raise a valid question, this is 100% a joke.
- Comment on eggs 2 weeks ago:
I’d go with “OK” as well, but on the grounds that the intent isn’t sating hunger.
Wait, I mean, not that kind…
- Comment on I'm hotmail 3 weeks ago:
Did you find that people were supportive of your transition? Did it take long for people to stop deadnaming?
- Comment on bad board games 3 weeks ago:
I absolutely despise the game, so there’s two of us.
- Comment on 13 skeletons 3 weeks ago:
Is this just a meme, or not? I can’t tell. I expect that as a proper, responsible tiefling pyromaniac, I’d always be touching myself - and occasionally casting Protection from Energy while I’m at it. Or keep Absorb Elements in my back pocket.
- Comment on British Slander. :) 3 weeks ago:
How? Did they have a straw?
- Comment on hobby 3 weeks ago:
This reminded me of “tapa na pantera”.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
Drinking seawater will kill someone quite fast…
- Comment on RIP 4 weeks ago:
What a nice looking stick you have there…
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 4 weeks ago:
Newfag.
(sorry! seemed like the appropriate 4chan reply)
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 4 weeks ago:
Ball headbasher to ballgnasher is a quick chomp.
- Comment on Fun new game 4 weeks ago:
Yes, that’s the second arc.
In the first accident there were no half-spheres, the neutrons were being reflected back using bars of tungsten carbide placed around the exposed core.
Wiki photo from a recreation of the first incident: Image
In the second accident, a year later, the reflective material was the two beryllium half-spheres. Shims were used to ensure the two halves were never fully closed, which would trigger the nuclear chain reaction.
Supposedly, this guy liked to show off and had done this demonstration a dozen times in front of different audiences, wearing jeans and cowboy boots and using his screwdriver instead of the shims.
Some report that Fermi told the guy and others that “they would be dead in a year” if they kept doing that… and voila.
The good thing is that he at least was hunched over the core, so he mostly shielded everyone else in the room from the worst of the radiation by absorbing it himself. 9 days later, he was dead. The guy closest to him was in the hospital for several weeks with severe radiation poisoning, but at least survived but died fairly young, in his 50s, which may or may not have been related…
