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- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 1 hour ago:
huh? every data center i’ve been to has hundreds of megawatts of stand-by power generation which is regularly used to take up slack, because data center loads are peaky as hell. when facebook was building their first european datacenter in 2012 they were heavily criticised for their planned local power infrastructure, which was and still is diesel generators. the one being built in my area, which is a colo, has planned for over 700MW of local generation despite being built next to multiple hydro dams.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 3 hours ago:
they captured the “niche wiki” market as wikia, then rebranded and started serving shittons of ads. the vim wiki is unusable these days because it runs like ass and looks like a gamer rgb nightmare
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 10 hours ago:
it’s not that they are “correct”, it’s that they are a close enough approximation to work well enough at the scale they’re used. it’s not like the universe runs on math.
- Comment on Micro-miniskirt supremacy💖 11 hours ago:
this makes perfect sense now
- Comment on Wealth inequality seems like the only outcome in a system where capital gains are taxed less than labor 15 hours ago:
because as long as money is involved in your existence those games still decide whether your income is decent. the speculation economy decides the cost of wares and services, the worth of land and currency, and the political decisions that may change the way all those things develop in future.
also, presumably, because you don’t want to see others suffer.
- Comment on Micro-miniskirt supremacy💖 15 hours ago:
right, i forgot women don’t have butts
- Comment on 17 hours ago:
in some books… depending on how for away from his death you read he seems to have some very different opinions
- Comment on Wealth inequality seems like the only outcome in a system where capital gains are taxed less than labor 17 hours ago:
most speculation today isn’t on land though, it’s on value itself. like, trillion-dollar software companies use very little land compared to their value. elmos riches aren’t bound up in land, it’s all stocks.
i feel like i’m missing a step.
- Comment on 17 hours ago:
it changes so much depending on which book you read too, the apostles had very different opinions
- Comment on 19 hours ago:
i’d even go as far as to say that the point of the sacrifice of jesus was to tear up the old testament, so christians have no reason to follow all this old crap.
- Comment on Wealth inequality seems like the only outcome in a system where capital gains are taxed less than labor 20 hours ago:
is that useful in a world with speculation and day trading? genuine question.
- Comment on 21 hours ago:
this is the one that’s usually quoted and i’m not sure it’s actually what people say it is:
numbers 5, verses 11-31, english international standard version (aka the readable version, fuck you KJV):
The Test for Marital Unfaithfulness
^11^ Then the Lord told Moses, ^12^ “Instruct the Israelis what to do if a man’s wife turns astray so that she unfaithfully acts against him, ^13^ a man has sexual relations with her and she conceals it from her husband, keeping it secret although she has defiled herself with there being no witnesses against her, but she was caught anyway. ^14^ If an attitude of jealousy overcomes him so that he becomes jealous at his wife when she is defiled, or if an attitude of jealousy overcomes him and he becomes jealous of his wife even though she isn’t defiled, ^15^ then that man is to bring his wife to the priest along with an offering for her consisting of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil or set frankincense over it, because it’s to be a jealousy offering, a memorial offering that will serve as a reminder of iniquity. ^16^ Then the priest is to bring it and make her stand in the Lord’s presence. ^17^ The priest is to put some holy water into an earthen vessel, take some dust from the floor of the tent, and put it into the water. ^18^ The priest is to have the woman stand in the Lord’s presence, uncover her head, and put the grain offering as a memorial, a reminder of jealousy, into her hands. The priest is also to have in his hand the contaminated water that carries a curse.
^19^ “The priest is to administer this oath to the woman: ‘If indeed another man didn’t have sexual relations with you and you didn’t become unfaithful to your husband, then may you be free from these waters that bring a curse. ^20^ But if you have become unfaithful to your husband and have become defiled because a man who isn’t your husband has had sexual relations with you…’ ^21^ then the priest is to have the woman commit to an oath by saying to the woman, ‘May the Lord make you a curse and a curse among your people. When the Lord makes your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell ^22^ and this water that brings a curse enters your abdomen, making it swell and your thigh waste away.’
“Then the woman is to say ‘Amen.’
^23^ “Then the priest is to write all of these words in a document and wipe it off with the contaminated water. ^24^ The woman is to drink the bitter water that brings a curse and the water that brings a curse is to be considered contaminated. ^25^ The priest is to take the offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, wave the offering in the Lord’s presence, and have her approach the altar. ^26^ The priest is to take a handful of grain from the memorial and offer a sacrifice on the altar, after which he is to have the woman drink the water. ^27^ When he has had her drink the water, if she was defiled and had acted unfaithfully toward her husband, then the contaminated water that brings a curse will enter her and infect her, causing her abdomen to swell and her thigh to waste away. Then she is to be a cursed woman among her people. ^28^ But if the woman isn’t defiled, then she is to be freed and will be able to bear children. ^29^ This is the law in cases of jealousy when a woman defiles herself while under her husband’s authority: ^30^ When a man becomes under the control of an attitude of jealousy regarding his wife, he is to present her to the Lord, and the priest is to apply this entire statute to her. ^31^ The husband will be free from guilt, but the wife is to bear the punishment of her iniquity.”
tl;dr: “if you think your wife is fucking around, you can have her drink dirt water. if she’s a slut, her pussy will fall off”
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 22 hours ago:
*monkeys paw curls and i turn into cake*
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 22 hours ago:
i really wish we wouldn’t do those. feels too reddity.
- Comment on irl 1 day ago:
cartoon gulp so powerful the choker snapped
- Comment on Jump on in. 1 day ago:
so jump head first
- Comment on CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse 1 day ago:
tl;dr: it uses stripe
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 2 days ago:
yeah it’s almost like there as already a system for this in place
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 2 days ago:
yeah i think that’s about the same time. there are so many versions at the same time that it gets confusing
- Comment on I hate Wireless devices. 2 days ago:
i am not getting that from any of your earlier comments.
- Comment on I hate Wireless devices. 2 days ago:
usually if you use bluetooth headphones it’s because you want wireless headphones. you were saying that it wasn’t possible to get the same quality when using bluetooth and i’m telling you it’s entirely possible. you weren’t talking about a usecase to begin with, only that you were not happy with the headphones you had tried.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 2 days ago:
I’m no accountant but surely if they were being profitable it would sound better to say something like “We’ve remained profitable throughout and our earnings per quarter are on par if not greater than before.”?
no, because profitability isn’t the key figure they are interested in. it’s growth. i recently got fired because of disappointing growth; e.g. the increase in profitability was not as large as they expected. which means they still made more money than last year.
this is why expenditures get relegated to “externality” status; because otherwise projections would make it look like a company can not grow infinitely large, and surely that’s not true
- Comment on I hate Wireless devices. 2 days ago:
i know what a balanced output is. i am saying that there are dedicated audiophile-grade, battery powered bluetooth receiver DACs with balanced output, which you can plug any wired headphones into. they usually come with a built-in mic and a lapel clip so you can use them to take calls.
- Comment on I hate Wireless devices. 2 days ago:
it’s absolutely possible, since the signal is digital. you can get bluetooth DACs with balanced output.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 3 days ago:
they just want all text
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 3 days ago:
considering that “web 2.0” is widely accepted to be “the social web”, where the focus was on user contribution and interoperability… no.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 3 days ago:
i mean, the web server in question is the Go standard library. if there is a vuln in there we have bigger problems, considering it’s also used by the docker binary.
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 3 days ago:
yeah, but as soon as the web actually enough traffic to take off the ads were everywhere. before 1996 it was basically just a prototype.
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 3 days ago:
there were so many fucking ads online in the late 90s
and you couldn’t block them because they were either served from the same domain or used the same plugin as the content and it was an all-or-nothing thing
all those goddamn blinking gifs with “click here” and “you’re our millionth visitor”, and the pop-ups, and the flash bars with “shoot the ducks”…
- Comment on It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material. 3 days ago:
doom 3 is all narrow corridors and pitch darkness. they created a very impressive-for-the-time dynamic lighting engine to be able to hide the monsters, made it so you couldn’t have your gun and your flashlight out at the same time, and had all interaction to open doors and such be done through virtual screens with a mouse-driven interface so you couldn’t look away. it is very much so horror.