humanspiral
@humanspiral@lemmy.ca
- Comment on New California ghost gun lawsuit takes aim at company that sells 3-D printer filament 1 week ago:
It’s like saying steel is specifically designed for guns. For plastics, stronger is a nice property for many applications.
- Comment on Mmmm yes smashing 1 week ago:
US/British oligarchist empire continued opium/drug wars this century. Afghanistan was the same opium restrictions. This is what led to fentanyl development. South American right wing puppet installments all come with narco backing against “war on drugs” left.
- Comment on is K2 horizons historically significant as the first actual open-source LLM, or am I falling for hype? 4 weeks ago:
This seems to score well on benchmarks. Better than any previous “open blueprint release”. While an exact ordered blueprint on static data provides reproducibility, it’s not obvious that a different ordering, or more recent versions of webpages/github repos would produce inferior results. I don’t really see a huge area of study available from the blueprint, though other labs may find areas of improvement/inspiration in their approaches.
- Comment on Any external NPU that can be hooked to a proxmox miniPC? 5 weeks ago:
if you don’t have oculink, you can get a nvme to oculink adapter (if you have 2nd nvme port).
- Comment on Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point | Solar now requires no more upfront capital than coal or gas to produce the same annual electricity 1 month ago:
can be leased, and at end of lease, land is free for any use. ie. it is not polluted. Fossil plants need exclusion zones for air pollution and noise, and still depress neighbour property values.
- Comment on Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point | Solar now requires no more upfront capital than coal or gas to produce the same annual electricity 1 month ago:
Probably true in every market that is not the US, with extreme tariffs and EOs banning solar technology.
This is true when comparing to peaker gas/coal plants which are less efficient than more expensive Combine Cycle plants, though both can still run 24/7. The myth of baseload as a requirement ignores that “outside of heating or extreme summer night heat” night demand is half of day/evening demand.
Batteries are now extremely cheap as well, and certainly the combo compared to Combined Cycle is cheaper for better baseload coverage because combined cycle/baseload must overprovide daily needs by meeting peak demand, while solar+batteries can better cover full day needs.
The absolute clincher though is price certainty for 30 years. Free from extortion or geopolitical oppression/chaos of fuel supply chains. Global warming has direct costs to property values, insurance costs, and food scarcity. US policy has moved to create global fuel scarcity for increased dependence on US, as well.
- Comment on Chimpanzees have been hurling rocks at the same trees for more than a decade 1 month ago:
why not game? Practice for either hunting or tribal warfare.
- Comment on Fund managers worry about Trump’s mental state amid tariff debacle 1 year ago:
It’s more that the plan was based on overconfidence in US exceptionalism and power, and gross misunderstanding of Navarro’s stupidity. Like propaganda that west is stronger than Russia militarily, and sanctions would cause Russians to be as stupid as the west’s gullible population, instead of extremely determined to defend themselves. Tarrifs on the world combined with military threats to allies creates the same determination against US, and the illusion that the US is more powerful than China is something that disappears when reality is tested. The illusion that the US has any economic sustainability or strength at all, gets tested.
It’s all about plans that are based on lies, and the propagandized belief of those lies, must adjust to reality.