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- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 6 hours ago:
If you enjoy this sort of stuff make sure to support the Kiwix Project which like 90% of these commercial offshoots are based off of.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 1 day ago:
I wish philosophy was taught a bit more seriously.
An exploration on the philosophical concepts of simulacra and eidolons would probably change the way a lot of people view LLMs and other generative AI.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 6 days ago:
Don’t they charge per token?
So they’re also making money every time somebody says please or thank you…
- Comment on Best ‘simple’ budgeting app 2 weeks ago:
Command line, plain text files so anything can read them, and GPL!
- Comment on China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech 2 weeks ago:
According to the Trump that’s exactly what he wants, countries to sell off the bonds they have in exchange for super long term bonds that defer interest for like 100 years.
- Comment on Your Doctor's Screen Time Is Hobbling Health Care. 3 weeks ago:
You really gotta hope those 5-10% LLM interpretive miss rares don’t hit your particular case.
Also if it fucks up, the doctor is still liable for malpractice right? Or do they get to kick that ball down into the abyss of trying to get LLM companies to take responsibility for their products.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
In terms of getting to an exact location, the most efficient is no vehicle, walking.
Cars are less efficient, followed by busses, then probably trains, then boats, then airplanes (unless you parachute).
Cars are the least efficient in terms of moving large numbers of people from places they can then walk from.
- Comment on Mediawolf - Looking for contributers 4 weeks ago:
I’d say this seems useful mostly for pulling non nbz/torrent sources from readarr and lidarr services
- Comment on Warning users that upvote violent content : RedditSafety 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure comments with directed violence get removed and repeat users banned on most Lemmy instances as well…
- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 1 month ago:
Why is Ryubing beyond reproach? I don’t see them doing anything differently than Ryujinx.
- Comment on “It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews 1 month ago:
I think most ML experts (that weren’t being paid out the wazoo for saying otherwise) have been saying we’re on the tail end of the LLM technology sigma curve. (Basically treating an LLM as a stochastic index, the actual measure of training algorithm quality is query accuracy per training datum)
Even with deepseek’s methodology, you see smaller and smaller returns on training input.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 month ago:
Licenses for sublime text 2 just said “and future updates”. I remember the “lifetime” thing being a selling point on producthunt. This was back in 2012 though, and the weird way the licensing change was handled made me switch to emacs.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 month ago:
Before sublime text 3 all updates were included in the single license, not just major revision updates. This was back in 2012.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 month ago:
After having been shafted by sublime text I will never believe anything called a “lifetime subscription” is such.
A “lifetime subscription” is just a “until we decide otherwise” subscription
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 month ago:
Again from my experience, knowing lisp (yay guix and emacs) definitely helps me write more elegant code in every language.
I also have to explain almost every single thing I write in code review.
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 month ago:
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 month ago:
it would require kernel developers to be savvy in both C and Rust
From my experience knowing how both C and rust works makes you a better developer in both languages.
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 month ago:
Did somebody say “provably correct”?
Haskell has entered the chat
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 months ago:
None! My comment may be misunderstood.
If you’re of my generation you kind of grew up being told fusion energy was the holy grail of energy production as it’s clean and doesn’t produce a bunch of radioactive byproduct. (Stuff like SimCity etc. made fusion reactors seem like a miracle technology)
In reality fusion also produces a massive amount of radiation and radiative byproducts, so it’s not the holy grail of energy that I think most people might assume it is.
Fusion and Fission are two sides of the same coin, so fusion experiments are important because they aid in making fission reactors safe as well!
I’m especially looking forward to seeing how material scientists attempt to solve the massive fast neutron radiation that fusion reactors produce, as Thorium reactors have the same issue.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 months ago:
The primary issue is that deuterium-deuterium reactions (the only practical fusion process that seems to work is deuterium-tritium and deuterium-helium, as you need insane temperatures for proton-boron, so deuterium will end up reacting with itself) produce 3 times the radiation of equivalent power output from fission reactions, so you need MASSIVE amounts of shielding for a reactor to run for an extended period of time.
This also highly irradiates the materials inside the reactors themselves, to a degree that maintenance requires built-in robots because the inside of the reactor is too radioactive for humans (this also eventually destroys the robots). The most optimistic estimates for how long a reactor could possibly last is 100 years. At that point the entire reactor would need to be torn down and buried because most of the components would be too radioactive to use anymore. At which point you have the exact same issue as radioactive waste storage, but no recycling process for something crazy like a radioactive isotope of silicon.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 months ago:
Yea one of the most interesting applications of fusion reactor research is the requirements in advancements for material science also benefits fission and even solar power generation, so the research bears fruit well and above the stated goals.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 months ago:
This is cool but also remember the practicalities of Fusion make it not much better than nuclear:
- Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix 2 months ago:
There’s lots of developers contributing to the wifi drivers, there’s just no “lead maintainer” now
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 2 months ago:
and I see it when I’m forced to write fucking YAML for fucking Ansible. I let the GPTs do that for me, without worrying that I won’t learn to code YAML for Ansible. Coding YAML for Ansible is NEVER going to be on my list of things I want to remember.
Feels like this is the attitude towards programming in general nowadays.
- Comment on eggs in japan 2 months ago:
Wait till you see our healthcare prices.
Image Orthoepoedist visit and back medicine for two months.
- Comment on eggs in japan 2 months ago:
Just got these from the grocery store and they’re like the size of an apple.
- Comment on eggs in japan 2 months ago:
- Comment on eggs in japan 2 months ago:
This is one of those neat factoids that isn’t entirely true.
Japan does wash and refrigerate its eggs, just not all eggs and brands and groceries (it’s not a law).
Refrigerate and unrefrigerated eggs side-by-side Image
Refrigerated eggs Image
Most of the low salmonella incident rate comes from a higher inspection rate of egg producers and, here’s the fun one, a higher rate of raw egg ingestion, leading to faster report and response times for when there is contamination.
- Comment on eggs in japan 2 months ago:
You really shouldn’t use sites like this for comparison as they’re not really adjusted for average expected living in any certain country.
They’re for if you took your lifestyle from country A and tried to transplant it in country B.
A good example is price per square foot for apartments etc. in Japan doesn’t really say anything about how the average living space is also much lower so you shouldn’t try and buy an American suburban house in Japan anyway.
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 2 months ago:
The OSI’s definition actually tackles this pretty well:
Sufficient information as to the source of the data so that one could potentially go out and to retrieve it, and recreate the model, is sufficient to fall within the OSAI definition.
