absentbird
@absentbird@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Gina got fired for something she did outside of her job. Jimmy got fired for doing the job he was hired to do, because a government official threatened his employer.
The first amendment is to protect against government censorship, it has no intention to protect you from public outcry. It should have protected Jimmy, but it’s irrelevant in the case of Gina.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Dropout?
- Comment on 2 days ago:
This is the way
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 days ago:
To some extent, yeah. I work in web development and there’s no shortage of opportunities for someone good at reactive front end development and JSON APIs. But I think there is a shortage of grads who have the necessary skills.
I’ve been trying to grow my business, and it’s frankly depressing how many people graduate with computer science degrees without learning the basics of the field, the volume of vibe coders is too damn high.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 1 week ago:
I must be out of the loop.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 2 weeks ago:
How many people is it killing?
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 2 weeks ago:
Nearly all of those can run just fine on-device. I think the part of the bubble that’s ripe to burst is the gigantic gigawatt data centers; we don’t even have the power to run them if all the ones under construction were completed. The current trajectory is not sustainable, and the more contact it has with reality the harder that will be to ignore.
- Comment on ISO 26300 2 weeks ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on ISO 26300 2 weeks ago:
I write my papers in markdown. Simple to write, easy to paste into Discord or Lemmy, and you can use pandoc to instantly turn it into any format you like.
- Comment on Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal 2 weeks ago:
Tl;Dr: he cut a phone in half and gave it a keyboard.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I still feel like that year is when things really went off the rails in the US. I lost a lot of friends and family to the cult, and I’m starting to think they’re never coming back. A chasm has formed in America and it’s only getting wider.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 2 weeks ago:
And if it’s SQLite (which I believe is the default) it’s really just reading and writing a file on the file system.
- Comment on No brainer 2 weeks ago:
But this gravel is free.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 2 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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???. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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???. 3 weeks 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?? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Reading comprehension is a skill.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Dang, what a mean cow.
- Comment on 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
The air is still very thin.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 5 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.