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- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 9 hours ago:
it’s also it’s own rabbit hole. I quit all that tech & dozens of learning curves when I realized I was spending more time on that than on music. Think how technically shitty that record ‘Louis, Louis’ was, yet it got covered thousands of times. Can’t ‘quantize’ or ‘EQ’ or ‘reverb’ or ‘mike arrange’ a great song.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 9 hours ago:
Oh geez, so your electric bills go up a little bit. But in 4 more years they’ll make so much money you’ll never have to work any more, just party until the day you die!
- Comment on ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? 4 days ago:
There are no other alternatives for baseline power generation.
- Natural gas is FAR preferable to coal. I completely agree that coal is unacceptable.
- Efficient use of existing capacity: How many heat pumps can be purchased by the decades-long costs of a 1GB nuke? Can your country subsidize low-energy lighting? Installing more insulation in old homes?
- Datacenter urgency is B.S. … AI slop was supposed to be the topic of this post
You can’t run a national grid on 100% renewables and batteries Of course not, but the quickest and lowest-cost solutions should have much high priority. Ergo nukes should be lowest.
- Comment on ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? 5 days ago:
(to my understanding) renewables don’t have the output and stability required to fill that void.
Your understanding would change if you actually looked into the facts and the numbers, and change even more if you’d been keeping track of what financial markets have put their money into for well over a decade.
- Comment on ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? 5 days ago:
What has worked great for France is keeping their nuclear mishaps very well hidden… as it did for the Saint-Laurent meltdown in 1980, and at the Centraco plant in 2011, for two examples.
- Comment on ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? 5 days ago:
That expenditure would displace the 10x the power which renewables + storage have already proven to do all over the world… that’s what nuclear would replace. Nuclear is never good news.
- Comment on The Birth & Death of JavaScript 6 days ago:
Well-done, funny stuff!
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 6 days ago:
Amen.
- Comment on ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? 6 days ago:
Nuclear energy is never good news.
- Submitted 6 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 1 week ago:
That’s not how capitalism works.
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 1 week ago:
I suspect that it’s always been the case that bigger customers are able to negotiate better prices. 1 car a year vs 1000 cars a year? 200 pounds of bread vs. 200 tons of bread?
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 week ago:
Oh yeah! But not so many people can handle that option.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 week ago:
Absolutely … smart thinking! Each brand is likely to have different ways to lobotomize it, might take a while to decide which is easiest/best return, then start stocking up.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 weeks ago:
I heard a talk a few days ago, and the fella said that if you want a non-smart monitor, you’ll need to pay somewhat more for what he called an ‘industrial monitor’. He said the ‘smart TV’ is cheaper because of all the data it’ll collect, and they can sell that data to make the price-to-the-user lower. (Don’t know for myself, my old Samsung monitor’s only smarts were to send data out to one URL, and I was able to change that URL to a site that doesn’t exist.)
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 2 weeks ago:
For 30 years I watched the fossils downplaying, lying about, covering-up the facts about free solar energy and other green tech. Now they see the writing on the wall, and they’re buying because that’s the way the wind blows … because They’re rapacious assholes, and never have enough money. They started in the US cutting down all the ancient forests, they’ll rape whatever looks like dollars.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 2 weeks ago:
I’d never ask a friggin machine to do coding for me, that’s MY blast.
That said, I’ve had good luck asking GPT specific questions about multiple features of Javascript, and of various browsers. It’ll often feed me a sample script using a feature it explains … a lot more helpful than many of the wordy websites like MDN.
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 2 weeks ago:
Damned good question, and I played stump-the-search-engine for 15 minutes and it’s like they’re AVOIDING that question
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 2 weeks ago:
But fossil fuel companies don’t want energy storage, right?
- Comment on Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 2 weeks ago:
Stockholders and aalesmen make them put that towards the end… to make investors feel dizzy I think
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 73 comments
- Comment on The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News 3 weeks ago:
It is the case that posts people make on HN can quickly be moved from the front page to the 2nd or 3rd. This may be algorithmic or a moderator decision A valid point is that there’s no way of knowing why this happens, apart from careful reading of the site’s guidelines. Some users will be bad-jacketed.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 4 weeks ago:
LOL I would NOT be surprised !!
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 4 weeks ago:
What if some civilization in the past already had something like this, and there are ‘plates’ or pieces of rock out there (under sand dunes? written in the sides of those vases from ancient Egypt?)
Could they make portable readers that can at least spot old pottery chunks that are probably FULL of videos?
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 4 weeks ago:
Manipulating the atoms in a crystal to store info is extremely high-precision, as is verifying the accuracy of the write). So is reading positions down to a few nanometers, But consumers wouldn’t need a $6000 reader to get, say, 10GB dumped to a hard drive … you’d carry your crystal and 16GB drive down to the corner store and user their reader to dump sector 37BJ to the drive. No need to trust them with your platter … but are you exposing all 360TB to potential damage from the machine?
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 4 weeks ago:
Encrypted text is pretty much worthless to LLM. The hard part is getting decrypters to potential readers. RSS could get the text to readers; it could even get decrypters to readers as well … if someone was working on this problem.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 168 comments
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like a ripping good way to keep corporate data (and government secrets) from the public radar.
That way we won’t find out whose hands public taxdollars (or public-owned structures rented to corporations) wind up in.
- Comment on AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles 5 weeks ago:
To quote ChatGPT:
“Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT cannot accurately cite sources because they do not have access to the internet and often generate fabricated references. This limitation is common across many LLMs, making them unreliable for tasks that require precise source citation.”