MNByChoice
@MNByChoice@midwest.social
- Comment on ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team 2 days ago:
No advantage to using social media tied to your name or identity.
Be a hermit crab. Start new accounts periodically. Be certain they are not tied to your meat space persona.
- Comment on U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device 1 week ago:
Or this is incentive to simplify the devices sent to the US with the complex calculations taking place out of country. Fewer imported chips, more monthly subscriptions.
- Comment on Who got raptured today? 1 week ago:
They all are disqualified for praying in public. Shouldn’t have done that.
Also, presuming to tell God what is what, and vanity.
- Comment on Who got raptured today? 1 week ago:
With a hard cap of 144,000 in Heaven, the rapture happened already.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 1 week ago:
Yes. Though gullible people are often stupid. Skeptical people are not necessarily smart, but have learned to not believe everything said to them.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you. The implications are staggering.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 2 weeks ago:
The kernel change in WinXP really helped stability. It was certainly easy to have a bad install with any of them though.
Win98 SE was my personal “best experience” with Windows, with WinXP a close second. (Though this likely has to do with the hardware and tasks I was experiencing at the time.)
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
Remember how much people HATED Win95? They still moved to it to escape DOS, but still. Loads of hate.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 3 weeks ago:
Ah, but I bet those monkeys produce more text than Shakespeare! At least within the last 6 months!
spoiler
The joke is that Shakespeare is dead and no longer producing text.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 3 weeks ago:
Seems a better prompt could solve that.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 3 weeks ago:
One’s dishwasher is not exposed to a harsh environment. A large percentage of code is exposed to an openly hostile environment.
If a dishwasher breaks, it can destroy a floor, a room, maybe the rooms below. If code breaks it can lead to the computer, then network, being compromised. Followed by escalating attacks that can bankrupt a business and lead to financial ruin. (This is possibly extreme, but cyber attacks have destroyed businesses. The downside risks of terrible code can be huge.)
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 3 weeks ago:
What was the timing of the US Senate vote to not release the Epstein Files?
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 3 weeks ago:
That is the nice thing about the American Way. Just call up the neighboring states’ militias and ask who didn’t show up for drills and if any weapons are missing.
- Comment on A conundrum 3 weeks ago:
We know.
There are a number of people that have a home in the country with their family, and they travel to the city to work. Sometimes they are homeless during the work, or rent a small room.
No, it is not the ideal solution, but it is a solution. Fixing the housing situation is beyond most people’s power, and it will take a long time for those trying to fix it to actually fix it.
- Comment on Society needs to keep score on positive impacts 5 weeks ago:
It negatively impacts the children.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 month ago:
Alternative Headline: Billionaire Signals States Should Speed Fiber Rollout
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 1 month ago:
It is always tempting to try to justify one’s position and get out of being laid-off/fired.
The decision has been made by those that “know your position”, or your manager is being let go next.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
Secure your guns. Toddlers kill an insane number of people. snopes.com/…/toddlers-killed-americans-terrorists…
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- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 month ago:
Perhaps this could tax the huge data centers being built in the USA, which tend to get huge local tax incentives. But, if I had a data center I was trying to kit out, this would encourage me to setup shop any place other than the USA. (Latency matters, but not equally for everything.)
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 1 month ago:
That is really interesting.
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 1 month ago:
Didn’t Nancy Regan, wife of former USA President Ronald Regan, did this as well. (Ronald was apparently not mentally fit for the last few years as well.)
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 month ago:
50 years ago was 1975. Inflation, depend on the month was between 6.9% and 11.8%. (cpiinflationcalculator.com/1975-cpi-inflation-uni…)
A random comparison of costs. (amerititle.com/…/1975-vs-2025-traveling-back-in-t…) Mortgage rates are down from 1975 levels. Another random site (www.1970sflashback.com/1975/ECONOMY.asp)
Is everyone better off? No, Homeless people in both years had a hard life.
Does any of this invalidate what you said? Nope. This is for other people.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 1 month ago:
that can also do GenAI work for a similar “hardware cost per output”? No
FYI, the server hosts for the cards often have eight of the cards each. The power draw becomes the host server’s RAM and CPU, plus eight times 750w (or whatever). It scales up quickly.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 1 month ago:
A lot of the need is due to the heat density of the GPUs used for GenAI. Could they build less densely? Yes, and they likely already are but need to go further. I have seen data centers with racks less than half (I think it was closer to one quarter) populated for energy density issues.
Could they use sea water? Sea water causes more corrosion. (I am uncertain if this data center is close to the ocean.)
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 1 month ago:
Stinky teens need shirts that point the blame at Microsoft. Get ripe and hang out with old people.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 2 months ago:
Epstein prosecutions started in 2006. apnews.com/…/trump-epstein-investigation-records-…
- Comment on linus tech tip 2 months ago:
Linus Torvalds is super well known for creating Linux. Linux is heavily used in “tech”. Linus is not a common name globally.
Personally, I had expected that “Linux Tech Tips” was Linux Torvalds giving Linux tech tips. Clearly, I have no bothered to read any of them.
- Comment on Easy mistake to make 2 months ago:
Good on you for not judging people by their looks.
- Comment on linus tech tip 2 months ago:
He chose his channel’s name to be deliberately confusing.