crimsonpoodle

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For fucks sake I hope your joking x.x

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow the spread of disease through Dutch bulb fields⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Millions of hard working Dutch people depend on the tulip system for their retirement. The crash was not due to the management of the tulip market, rather it’s an unavoidable pattern of boom and bust. Given this, it’s only right that the Dutch government to bail out the tulip funds to avoid a breakdown of the liliaceae system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could just add a small nonvolatile buffer to each camera if it’s not wired, such that if it loses connection with your home assistant server it will start recording. With 720p video and a 64gb flash storage you could, depending on encoding, store well over a day of footage. (Napkin math so could be wrong)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems anecdotal at best— I play beat Sabre at least a few times a week with the family, which is ironically, still anecdote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ray tracing might not be essential(it is cool though), however the tensor cores and ram are for certain things. — Naive Zoomer

  (Technological advancement can be a net win for society— however people have been burned one too many times by the business types circle jerking it to short term profits and monetizing data collection)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So sort of: the 3g is part of a standard for data rates, but the difficulty, comes in that networks are not homogeneous. Similarly to how you might be familiar with 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz WiFi signals. As a general rule of thumb the higher the frequency the more data you can send but with more attenuation so the signal can be blocked more easily and cannot travel as far, whereas the inverse is true for lower frequencies. So while the generations did make some changes in terms of protocols— it also came with higher frequency emitters which can theoretically carry more data. Other changes include MIMO antennas which do beam forming to make more of the energy go in the direction of a user using constructive and destructive interference from an array of antennas to accomplish this. However marketing people are always very eager to adopt technical terms and inflate them into oblivion. However some of this can be attributed to honest misunderstanding within a company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI girlfriend bots are already flooding OpenAI’s GPT store⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say the following things would help:

  •	Rethink the way our cities are built and reduce the ratio of work to weekends so that people can find time and have ease in going to spaces where they can interact with others socially.
  
  •	Allow for the construction of third spaces, especially for adolescents. Seriously, as a teenager in the 2010s, the amount of surveillance and regulation by parents and schools was kinda insane. It pushes teenagers online, as it’s the one place where they tend to have an edge on their elders enough to break free from it. (And it also normalizes invasions of privacy by corporations.)
  
  •	Withhold judgment by mass public opinion for minor transgressions. We have all said things that make us cringe at ourselves down the line when we think of them, or even when reminded of the perhaps more innocent action of simply looking foolish. It is little wonder, then, that people, already socially withered from lack of experience, shy away from the very actions that might give them confidence when faced with the potential for public immortalization of these acts via the internet.
  
  •	Regulate platforms to reduce the existing profitability of addiction. It is no contest when the largest companies spend billions and employ thousands to keep their users under their thrall. The only recourse for the individual is to join in group action to wield the power of government for the public good.
  

  While by no means an exhaustive list, I feel as though if we follow the steps of RAWR, we can at least make an incremental improvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US joins in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While methane is worse it’s worth noting that it doesn’t stay the atmosphere for as long; so if we stopped producing the fall off in warming would be a lot steeper; so theoretically if we assume that eventually renewables will take over there would be an optimal ratio between the longer term but less damaging CO2 and the more damaging but short term Methane. But all that is driven by economics not science so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Attractiveness is an interesting point; it would be interesting to see a “boring” normal looking car that doesn’t lean into the somewhat polarizing EV aesthetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not doing huge models a used 2080ti can be picked up on eBay for 300 ish bucks which is pretty capable (best price to performance cuda core count I think)— just a little lacking in ram for huge stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What card do you have?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨14 Signs of a GOOD Manager⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because there is no “I” in team

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CPython Object System Internals: Understanding the Role of PyObject⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s just me but everytime I try and use cython or CPython I end up just thinking it would be easier to write the whole thing in c/cpp. (Note that everytime = ~ 4 times so could just be that).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you manage code snippets?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could just write a little terminal utility that puts the string literal of the snippet in your copy buffer with a little search and db for finding the right one and storing new ones— might have to have some weird cases for cross platform tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s excellent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typing is not a programming bottleneck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also m, while I agree typing speed is an advantage, there’s nothing stoping you from laying out the whole program on paper or with psudo code and then filling it in which can reduce the need to keep it all in your head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  (defun clever-comment (comment) (if (equal (count-parentheses comment) (* 2 (count-letters ’LISP))) ’Clever ’Not-Clever))