IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 2 days ago:
Hey, you leave us out of it. You touched him last; he’s yours now.
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 3 days ago:
One of the biggest parts of the problem is that corporate management types can’t quantify experience and skill. This leads to them thinking of projects purely in terms of man-hours, and they cannot comprehend that not all man-hours are equal. It’s an issue that plagues a lot of industries.
- Comment on Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services? 4 days ago:
I used a hodge-podge of chinesium parts and leftover drives to create a DAS system that hooks up to an HBA via DAC. I’m actually kinda surprised how stable it’s all been.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 4 days ago:
I used to use Spotify, but then I learned that YouTube premium cost the same amount, and came with access to YouTube music, so I switched. Got tired of playing YouTube ad blocking whack-a-mole.
If Google starts enshittifying Premium too much, I’ll go back to sailing the high seas for stuff I’m not going to/can’t get on vinyl.
- Comment on True staple of the format 5 days ago:
Except, when you Google something, the best answers are (or at least used to be) most often Reddit comments provided by people who aren’t douchebags.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 2 weeks ago:
If something is red shifting, it’s accelerating away from you. If something is blue shifting, it’s accelerating towards you. An entire galaxy accelerating towards you is somewhat concerning.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 2 weeks ago:
Does anyone make a 65"+ monitor though?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I assumed it was some corporate shenanigans where Zuckerberg sues himself and somehow ends up with more money because of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
There absolutely is such a thing as a benevolent dictator. The problem is that it’s impossible to tell ahead of time who they are.
- Comment on Right in the feels 5 weeks ago:
I think “Last Kiss” by Pearl Jam is next on this hyper-depressing playlist.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
Either way, they don’t have the reserves to supply their own demand.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s crazy what you can do when you don’t have to pay people, and you can instantly stomp out all dissent.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
China decided to end their dependence on fossil fuels, and I decided to retire by age 45. Me and China are about equally close to achieving our goals.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 month ago:
An entire state government could fit it your cellphone. That’s never been one of the use cases for data center level compute.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 month ago:
For some it will be. For the pure AI software companies, yes. For the hardware vendors and data centers, less so. Even if it’s not for generative AI, there will always be need for hyper scale compute.
- Comment on UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems' 1 month ago:
It sort of does. Each drive uses energy, simply by being on (spinning rust moreso than flash). As storage demands increase, data centers will just keep adding disk shelfs and more drives, which use more energy. So at home, data storage is effectively “free” since you need at least one drive running anyway. In data centers, there is a calculable energy cost per GB.
- Comment on Intel collapsing? 1 month ago:
If Intel disappears, I imagine AMD will end up as the sole owner of the relevant Intel x86 patents during bankruptcy proceedings. Then AMD will then either negotiate a new agreement with someone else who wants to make x86 processors, or they end up having a monopoly on x86 and are forced to tread extremely lightly to avoid an antitrust lawsuit.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 1 month ago:
The guards are facing south.
- Comment on openSUSE Leap 16.0 will need Steam gamers to install some extras due to no 32-bit 1 month ago:
Is this a Leap only problem, or is 32 but going to be dropped from Tumbleweed as well?
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 2 months ago:
Who said the device based service has to be closed source?
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 3 months ago:
Here’s some more food for thought: what happens if the piss off the Eve players? Those clowns have basically been training themselves on how to come out on top in a no-hold-barred capitalist system.
- Comment on The "We Tried" Award 3 months ago:
As a millennial, at no point did we actually want participation trophies. The feeling of coming in last was not changed in the slightest by receiving a junk trophy.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 months ago:
The state of mobile phone market in Canada is so frustrating. Not only is our market dominated by 3 players who refuse to actually compete with each other, but we miss out on half the cool phones that the rest of the world gets too.
- Comment on huge tracts of land 3 months ago:
“Capitalism” isn’t some self aware entity that you can blame all evils on. It’s humans all the way down. And it’s not even the cartoon evil type of humans; those are rare. Everyone responsible at each step of the way is terrifyingly ordinary.
- Comment on no way right 3 months ago:
I seriously doubt that will happen. The current administration has shown zero indication that they give two fucks about what the people want.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 3 months ago:
The other side of the coin is that customers aren’t obligated to buy. There’s always a limit to how expensive you can make a product/service before people will simply stop paying for it. Trying to find that balance point can be damned difficult.
- Comment on Sheeple 3 months ago:
I mean, you can. Probably shouldn’t though.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 3 months ago:
VPN becomes VPS and life goes on.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 3 months ago:
The VPNs will be harder to ban. Not just from a technical standpoint, but politically as well. Big businesses will be absolutely opposed to VPN bans.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 months ago:
I work in a factory making turbine engines, if I worked in a factory making 50k$ watches we would produce just as much CO2.
You absolutely would not. Not even remotely close.
Also, you’re ignoring the emissions over the lifetime of the thing. As soon as the watch is manufactured, it’s emissions contribution is done. That turbine will continue generating emissions over it’s entire existence.