FaceDeer
@FaceDeer@fedia.io
Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.
- Comment on Aliens Probably Exist - But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason 1 day ago:
Yeah, it's really hard for the human brain to intuitively grasp exponential growth. Anyone who says a galaxy is "too big" hasn't actually run the numbers on that.
FTL is impossible so each species is stuck in their own solar system.
FTL is in no way necessary to allow for interstellar colonization to proceed.
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 day ago:
A bit, sure. But as I mentioned, the majority of the surface area in my house is the floor. I'm fine with it settling on the floor because I vacuum that with a vacuum cleaner anyway.
There's always going to be some dust on the shelves. Even if I meticulously cleaned them with the most thorough of methods more dust would immediately start accumulating anyway.
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 2 days ago:
Depending on what's on your shelves, you might find my solution of use. Whenever things are a bit too dusty in my house I put on a filter mask and fire up an electric leaf blower. Blasts all the dust off of the various hard-to-reach surfaces and into the air. Then I either use a high-volume blower fan to circulate the air out of the house through a window (if the weather's nice) or if it's winter I just let it settle and vacuum it out of the carpet (some ends up back on the shelves, sure, but most surface area in the house is floor so it's still a net win).
Some other stuff gets knocked off the shelves in the process, but I just consider that a sign of weakness. Those things didn't deserve their prominent position on those shelves to begin with.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica 6 days ago:
It's the approach I've been advocating for for years now, throughout this whole lawsuit circus. I got a lot of downvotes for it over the years too, people couldn't separate my position from capitulation.
Really, it's just a matter of fighting the battles you can win and not fighting the battles that will annihilate you simply on the basis of principle. The analogy I kept using was a man carrying a precious and fragile treasure going up to a bear and whacking it with a stick, and then acting like we should be sympathetic to them as they desperately scream about how the precious treasure was at risk now that the bear was eating their leg.
They should be focusing on protecting that treasure. Let the EFF take the bear on, that's what they are for.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica 6 days ago:
Indeed, I consider this to be an okay outcome. It's the Internet Archive, not the All Information Ever Archive. It archives the Internet. There are other projects archiving books.
And it's the Internet Archive, not the Internet Barely Disguised Pirate Bay. I'm okay if the data they're archiving isn't super easy to access by everyone all the time, as long as it's being preserved. Someday eventually copyright law might become sane again, at which point these archives can come out of their bunkers. Until then those bunkers are important for keeping them safe.
I really think the Internet Archive did a downright stupid thing poking this bear with a stick. I'm relieved they survived and I hope they learned from the experience.
- Comment on If I can only find an artist on streaming platforms and no other search hits, does that most likely mean it's an AI generated artist? 1 week ago:
How do the songs sound?
- Comment on xkcd #3162: Heart Mountain 1 week ago:
Sadly, the Heart Mountain Relocation Center has little to do with this.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
But he's so hungry. :(
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
So don't use rad-hardened processors, put them in a radiation vault instead. Those become more mass-efficient the more hardware you're putting inside them.
Really, I assure you the people proposing these things have put more thought and expertise into it than a bunch of random Fediverse commentators.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
Okay, two then. It's still cheap.
in a non-reusable configuration
Why do you say that? 120 tons is well within Block 4's projected capacity in reusable configuration. 240 tons is almost within it, even.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
You're not P1k1e.
In your case, though; if you don't think it's realistic then you don't have to worry about it happening and you can ignore it.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
So, one Starship launch per year. Doesn't sound like a problem.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
Another thing they probably didn't think of. Nobody's run chips in space before.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
Include spares.
I hope they're reading this thread and taking notes, they probably didn't think of that.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
They'd better not try to sell them to anyone who has access to an engineer, then. Just a single engineer will bring the whole scheme crashing down.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
If only they'd hired you, they would have known.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
Again, I'm pretty sure they're aware that you need bigger radiators when you're using more energy. This is space engineering 101.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
I'm pretty sure they're aware of the need for radiators. They've probably designed satellites before.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
No, it started when a scriptwriter came up with an idea for a movie that would sell a lot of tickets.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 week ago:
> People complain about the environmental footprint of data centers.
> Companies attempt to move the data centers outside the environment.
> People complain even harder.
What do you want?
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 1 week ago:
You can say "Nazi". When I first read that title I filled in a different N-word and was very confused.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 week ago:
It's religion, the rules are made up. So if a flip book is considered good enough then it's good enough.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 week ago:
There's also prayer wheels going back to the 4th century.
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
My issue is that this is like having the tab snap off of your pop tin and declaring it to be a sign that we're in a dystopia. It sets the bar so low that the word "dystopia" loses its meaning completely.
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
Clearly the end of civilized life.
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, seems like a "click no thanks and go on with your life" scenario. Some folks have an extremely low dystopia threshold.
- Comment on Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands 2 weeks ago:
A pervert problem, or a pervert opportunity?
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
Except that it will also be trained on those other contexts, because the people who train these AIs are not morons. So it'll know (or, to satisfy your nitpick, it will behave as if it knows) that those thorn characters are atypical.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 2 weeks ago:
Back on Titan, Thanos told his people "you need to kill half the population to save our civilization from disaster." The people of Titan dismissed Thanos as insane. Thanos, being actually insane, decided he was going to prove he was right by going around massacring halves of populations.
In other words, he's not doing this to actually help anyone, he's doing it just to prove he was right. Solving the universe's problems by other means wouldn't do that so that's not an acceptable outcome for him.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
Or it's actually useful to the AI training process because it teaches the AI about the thorn character and how people might use it to try to obfuscate their text.