HugeNerd
@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
I am a huge asocial nerd that lives in a hovel surrounded by vintage computers.
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 1 day ago:
Don’t light a match!
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 2 days ago:
Why is that wizened old man dressing in a leather jacket?
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 3 days ago:
Great, can we unleash the bonkers insane computing power for something useful like simulating matter to understand aging?
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 3 days ago:
Wow.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 days ago:
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 4 days ago:
That’s nice. Now run a modern civilization of 10 billion (upcoming) with only electricity.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 4 days ago:
One is an energy and material source. The other is neither and is simply storage.
Why would you compare them?
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 week ago:
Doubtful, the average American doesn’t have the cardio to walk that long. It would be a bunch of cars honking while the driver watches football on the phone and eats cheeseburgers.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 week ago:
“A lot” is two words.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 1 week ago:
Oh wow, 500$. So what?
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- Comment on Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever 1 week ago:
Boring. I want the Kuro5hin site. That was actually good and hysterically funny at the best times. ASCII reenactment players of Michael Crawford anyone?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy?
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 week ago:
A graph is not proof of fusion energy. Yelling at clouds would probably generate more net energy than all fusion research has to date.
It’s a dead end. It will never ever work. A combination of civilizational die-back and concomitant reduced energy use and a hodge-podge of renewable sources is the likely future for humanity.
And that’s my optimistic take.
My more realistic take is that we are running out of cheap easy energy. The kind of monstrously massive contraption filled with high-tech exotic materials that is a fusion reactor is exactly the kind of thing we will NOT be able to build anymore in the future.
It’s the same impasse that kills all the space fantasies (like people who think Avatar is just around the corner). If we HAD the resources to build fusion reactors or mine asteroids, we don’t HAVE a resource problem!
And if we have such a resource crunch that we think fusion/space is the only solution, we don’t have the resources to do it.
The future is horses, not Star Trek.
Get used to it.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 week ago:
How about: figuratively tilting at windmills would have generated more net energy than fusion research.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 week ago:
There are fusion reactors that fit between your fingers.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 week ago:
You’re so dense you could fuse hydrogen.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 week ago:
Lol any year now!
ha hahahahaahaaaa… oh boy… you techno utopians are funny. Maybe build a Space Elevator out of 3D printed AI Bitcoins and run a fusion reactor at the Lagrange point? Privately! On the Moon! To colonize Mars and mine the asteroids! Become a multi star species!
OK, time will tell. How about I save you the wait: nothing will happen. At all.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 1 week ago:
How’s your Turkish?
- Comment on u WoT m8 1 week ago:
What for? I can’t think of a single problem I have in my life where the answer is AI.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 week ago:
Only 75 more years to go!
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 2 weeks ago:
You know what I like about you? Your humility.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 weeks ago:
its
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 2 weeks ago:
You can just pour it right in!
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 2 weeks ago:
How’s your butt game?
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 2 weeks ago:
Well now that I know you have a big cock too, wanna hang out?
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 2 weeks ago:
What are you talking about? I meant Caleb’s eggplant parm recipe.
Weirdo.
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 2 weeks ago:
🍆
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 2 weeks ago:
Well I’m sure you’ll be heating your place with Venezula heavy sour by next week!
- Comment on genius 2 weeks ago:
My RC helicopter is sturdier.