leisesprecher
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- Comment on Guerrilla Women 1 day ago:
No, but it causes alpha particles to be emitted.
- Comment on Is an AI winter coming? Diminishing returns and scaling limit fears freeze AGI hopes 5 days ago:
No, line must go up!
- Comment on Oopsies 5 days ago:
Germany is currently considering a third way: they ask you.
Everyone in Germany has health insurance, so the idea is that the health insurance simply asks you directly to decide. Most people are in favor of organ donation, but never actually get an organ donor card or talk to their relatives. Asking them to decide won’t get anywhere near the donor rates of an opt-out scheme, but it could drastically increase them.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 6 days ago:
They don’t want to pay employees.
- Comment on The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries 2 weeks ago:
And that’s mostly the “bullshit IoT” category. It’s not like the demand for phones and laptops exploded in the last years, it’s IoT, AI and other useless crap - regardless of the process node.
- Comment on The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries 2 weeks ago:
What exactly do you think these chips are used for?
Because it’s often enough AI, crypto and bullshit IoT.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
These schemes never work forever. But the big investors usually know when to jump ship.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Not for the shareholders. And that’s exactly the problem.
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 3 weeks ago:
Admittedly, I only ever entered an operating room under anesthesia, but could you just, you know, put the displays somewhere else?
This seems like one of those informercial “problems”.
- Comment on Absolute Units 3 weeks ago:
Why is that guy so annoyed, though?
A person being passionate about something is a good thing!
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 weeks ago:
Most companies seem to have don’t ask, don’t tell policies in place.
Technically we’re not allowed to use Teams on our phones, but most of us do, including management.
I’m also technically not allowed to use Spotify on my laptop, but if they’d enforce that ban, IT would be gone tomorrow.
- Comment on Can U.S. Tech Giants Deliver on the Promise of Nuclear Power? 3 weeks ago:
This is just the peak power. The average power is much less. And batteries can maybe work on a grid scale for smoothing, but not for an individual consumer like a data center.
- Comment on The Death of the Junior Developer 3 weeks ago:
Outsourcing is realistically often a tool to get mass, not for cost.
There’s a reason so many people went to coding boot camps, there was a huge demand for developers. Here in Germany for quite a while you literally couldn’t get developers, unless you paid outrageous salaries. There were none. So if you needed a lot of devs, you had the chance to either outsource or cancel the project.
I actually talked to a manager about our “near shoreing” and it wasn’t actually that much cheaper if you accounted for all the friction, but you could deliver volume.
- Comment on Can U.S. Tech Giants Deliver on the Promise of Nuclear Power? 3 weeks ago:
I get your point, but have you looked into the power demands of data centers? They already have room filling batteries for power outages, but those are just enough to keep the lights on while the diesel generators start.
- Comment on Resource efficient AI model for LocalAI 3 weeks ago:
None. There is no model that can output anything even remotely usable on that tiny amount of RAM and certainly not using the few CPU cycles your vps has to offer.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 3 weeks ago:
Businesses (at least the larger ones) replace their hardware every few years anyway. They don’t care whether their new Optiplexes run Windows 10 or 11 and most hardware bought since 2022 probably has Windows 11 installed already, probably all since 2020 supports it. So there’s hardly a problem here. (Btw I’m taking the management view here, I know that it’s a pain to actually deploy, but that doesn’t matter to management).
- Comment on Steps to repurpose old laptop as home server with Debian 1 month ago:
And how much need is there for a UPS in this scenario - realistically.
Some of the people here take their admin-LARPing a tad too seriously. Most households have reliable enough electricity, and even if there’s an outage once every quarter, would a dead battery even help?
I advocate for being realistic with one’s own needs. Don’t build a five-nines datacenter for a glorified weather station or VCR.
- Comment on Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 1 month ago:
Not even two weeks ago.
- Comment on Steps to repurpose old laptop as home server with Debian 1 month ago:
In case you didn’t already do that: remove the battery. It’s probably dead anyway, you don’t need it and it poses a potential (albeit low) risk.
- Comment on AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds 1 month ago:
Also my experience. It sometimes tries to be smart and gets everything wrong.
I think code shows clearly, that LLMs don’t actually understand what’s written. Often enough you can clearly see it trying to insert a common pattern even though that doesn’t make sense at this point.
- Comment on DIY mini-ITX motherboard lets you play DOS games without emulation — ITX Llama features a Vortex86EX 500 MHz CPU 1 month ago:
Yeah, but better!
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 1 month ago:
That’s not the argument. The argument is rather that good employees can easily find new and better jobs. So the remaining people are on average worse.
It’s also called Dead Sea Effect. The good ones evaporate, only salt remains.
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 1 month ago:
Especially in sales and finance: every call is potentially on the record, and that’s a problem.
A lot of internal communication in these departments is, to put it mildly, legally not without interest. A quick chat after a meeting is completely off the record, an email is not.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t that break the necks of everyone over 50?
- Comment on FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework. 1 month ago:
First of all the nitpicky stuff: Mac OS never used anything FreeBSD in the kernel. The kernel is XNU/mach, FreeBSD only supplies the user land. Pedantic, but we have a cliche to defend.
Anyway, I think you got the update part backwards. Apple doesn’t update its side of the deal. MacOS ships with old bsd apps, simply because apple doesn’t care all that much about it.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 1 month ago:
No. Large organizations suck at managing IT, simply because it’s not crucial for them to keep it managed and they usually have enough institutional insulation to mitigate the impacts. Whether that insulation is money or disregard of the public doesn’t matter all that much.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 1 month ago:
Facebook is huge and has very diverse teams/departments. It’s absolutely possible the guys who know what security is, and the guys who build app xyz are in different departments, countries, continents.
The capitalists want us to believe otherwise, but large corporations are just as convoluted and inefficient as a planned economy.
- Comment on c o e x i s t 1 month ago:
And let’s be honest: the Mongolians were probably not worse than any other invader. War, destruction, looting and raping is kind of par for the course for most civilizations in history.
- Comment on Glass Antenna Turns Windows Into 5G Base Stations - IEEE Spectrum 1 month ago:
Public private partnership ♥️♥️♥️
- Comment on 2real5me 1 month ago:
So you feel like you’re an imposter syndrome imposter?