absentbird
@absentbird@lemmy.world
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 10 hours ago:
I’m not sure I agree. There’s efficiency gains to be had in the tech, but I think it’s better not to count your chickens before they hatch. In arid climates where trees struggle to grow it makes sense to deploy carbon capture tech, but I think there’s a also a profit motive that muddies the best practices. Nobody gets rich by replanting forests and leaving them alone, but there’s a lot of money to be made in these power hungry facilities.
At the core trees are just a more advanced technology in many ways. They have biological processes that don’t only remove the carbon but build it into useful timber; plus they’re entirely solar powered by default.
There’s also the potential to combine high tech solutions with our existing flora, either through genetic modification or specialized sensor based agriculture. Something isn’t low tech or backwards just because it involves plants, they’ve been scrubbing carbon for millions of years and are valuable tools.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 day ago:
But planting trees doesn’t provide transportation or electricity, it does pull CO2 directly from the atmosphere though. In this case you can compare the capture technology to trees planted on the same area of land and see which one is better land use for the same purpose.
- Comment on Have you know???. 4 days ago:
I think it’s all made up. The most power hungry data center in the world consumes 150MW of power, and that’s from a massive 11 million square foot facility in China that’s significantly larger than any other data center.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 5 days ago:
I love LibreOffice, but I wish there was an Android app. I’ve even considered learning more app development to try and help, but it’s such a daunting task.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 5 days ago:
I’ve been writing all my college papers in LaTeX and it’s been great. They look so professional, and it’s easier to work on a collection of text files than one monolithic document.
- Comment on Have you know???. 5 days ago:
People say this, but almost every time the time interval is left off it’s hours.
Either way, the numbers in this meme are clearly made up. Most image generation uses fewer than 10 watt hours.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 6 days ago:
So like the size of a horse?
The average horse is about half the height and weight of the average giraffe. Giraffes are just a really bad unit of measurement, males weight about 400kg more than females and there is a wide height difference over their global population, they are technically four different species we just all call giraffe 🦒
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 1 week ago:
P cores give them better single core performance. But in parallel computing AMD has the advantage and has defended it for a long time now.
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 1 week ago:
Why would you use a large language model to examine a biopsy?
These should be specialized models trained off structured data sets, not the unbridled chaos of an LLM. They’re both called “AI”, but they’re wildly different technologies.
It’s like criticizing a doctor for relying on an air conditioner to keep samples cool when I fact they used a freezer, simply because the mechanism of refrigeration is similar.
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 1 week ago:
Yes they did. It says so in the article.
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 1 week ago:
Yes, but also because they’re just better chips and you probably should have only been getting them to begin with. Way more power efficient, smaller process, less heat, easier to upgrade, better multi core performance, lower price; you just get a better CPU.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 1 week ago:
Reading comprehension is a skill.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Dang, what a mean cow.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, banning it is wild. I could understand setting it to opt-in, like a lot of websites do for adult content, but removing it entirely is just backwards and hateful.
- Comment on Parallel Empires 2 weeks ago:
You can do plenty of work on an air. I have one because it was a gift, but I find it pretty convenient. It’s so small and portable. For serious work I have my desktop, but the air is great for emails and programming on the go, homebrew runs my entire workflow.
- Comment on Parallel Empires 2 weeks ago:
The air is still very thin.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 2 weeks ago:
Windows in particular I think gets overlooked as ‘good enough’, it’s only when you get into Linux that you really understand how far it has strayed from the light.
You don’t need to spend hours and hours to start, you can dip your toes in with WSL, maybe use a Linux VM for a few tasks that make your life easier at work. It’s not an all-or-nothing affair, but having proficiency in more than one operating system is great professional development regardless of your personal computing preferences.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 2 weeks ago:
I’ve found that many people will go to great lengths to avoid learning anything new.
They want to be able to ignore their computers as much as possible, even considering the prospect of alternative software is taxing and upsetting for them.
I think that’s basically how Microsoft and Adobe are so successful, they bought and cheated their way into the default position, and now they can do whatever they want with no real repercussions.
The user wants to click on the same icons with the same names as before, sometimes it’s as simple as wanting the same name; if it’s not called ‘outlook’ they don’t want it, doesn’t matter how well it works.
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 2 weeks ago:
Same for the PNW, but it’s don’t mind keeping a low profile.
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 2 weeks ago:
Which is a little funny, because the Appalachian mountain range is part of the same mountains as the Scottish Highlands: youtube.com/shorts/c_JWEipGwgs
- Comment on Lemmy be like 3 weeks ago:
The problem is the companies building the data centers; they would be just as happy to waste the water and resources mining crypto or hosting cloud gaming, if not for AI it would be something else.
In China they’re able to run DeepSeek without any water waste, because they cool the data centers with the ocean. DeepSeek also uses a fraction of the energy per query and is investing in solar and other renewables for energy.
AI is certainly an environmental issue, but it’s only the most recent head of the big tech hydra.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 3 weeks ago:
When people say this they are usually talking about a very specific sort of generative LLM using unsupervised learning.
AI is a very broad field with great potential, the improvements in cancer screening alone could save millions of lives over the coming decades. At the core it’s just math, and the equations have been in use for almost as long as we’ve had computers. It’s no more good or bad than calculus or trigonometry.
- Comment on The UK Grid is currently 80% renewable energy (and 10% nuclear) 3 weeks ago:
Where is all that non-grid fuel being used? I assume people aren’t using coal to fuel their vehicles.
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 3 weeks ago:
We need a system of community where humans can offer that to one another. A setting where safety is a premium. That is one of the only things that weekly church service did to truly help people, have a safe space they could visit. Though even then it was only safe for people who fit in, we can do better with intentional design.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 3 weeks ago:
I used to do that with HTML, make a fake little website and open it.
- Comment on Count yourself lucky 3 weeks ago:
And a little compartment for dry ice to slowly sublimate into the ventilation system
- Comment on Great Advertise 4 weeks ago:
Who has ever seen a yellow Canada tour bus? Pretty much the only yellow busses in US and Canada are for school.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 4 weeks ago:
Couldn’t they just start accepting ACH to get around the payment processors? Or is that overly complicated?
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 1 month ago:
the-boys.fandom.com/wiki/Ashley_Barrett
She’s a character in The Boys
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 1 month ago:
Sounds like Madelyn Stillwell.