IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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? 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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. 2 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 2 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. 2 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. 2 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?" 2 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.
- Comment on Arcturus looking for playtesters! 2 months ago:
Because this is Lemmy, I feel like I have to ask, Linux support? Or is it Windows-only for now?
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 months ago:
The kind of waste I’m talking about doesn’t give two fucks about proportionality. CO2 in the atmosphere makes no distinction between being emitted by a single person or three million.
Also, fuck living in a world where only things arbitrarily deemed “useful” are considered worthy. Does art have no place in your world? It’s not “useful”. Should people be banned from having hobbies? Those aren’t “useful”.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t say so in this case. A watch is probably about as close to “good” conspicuous consumption as it’s possible to get. Think about it: it’s generally a “buy once, keep it forever” item, takes essentially 0 resources to keep functioning (generally the expensive ones don’t require batteries), uses very little material to manufacture, and all the price is coming from specialist labour.
It’s a waste of money, but it’s a harmless waste, especially when compared to things like private jets and yachts.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 months ago:
That’s pretty much the theme for most of the responses here.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 2 months ago:
We already have a definition for this, the Karman line.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 2 months ago:
In new build stuff, I’ve actually been seeing a lot more torx.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 2 months ago:
Blame Henry Ford. The superior screw head style was available to him, but he refused to use it.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 3 months ago:
I don’t currently use a VPN provider, but when I do, it now won’t be VPNSecure.
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 3 months ago:
You’re free to do whatever you like, but I really can’t imagine cutting myself off of seeing most of the world, simply because of a bunch of theoreticals. I fly fairly often for work and I’ve not even experienced half of those (I’m not even sure what problem you might have with airport limos). Most of those issues are easily avoided anyway, since they are a product of your own planning.
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 3 months ago:
When the people end up with nothing left to lose, things tend to get exceptionally shitty for a few generations. Then it’s a die toss to figure out if what comes after that is any better or not.