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- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 1 day ago:
Yeah I had the same thing. All of a sudden the load on my server was super high and I thought there was a huge issue. So I looked at the logs and saw an AI crawler absolutely slamming my server. I blocked it, so it only got 403 responses but it kept on slamming. So I blocked the IPs it was coming from in iptables, that helped a lot. My little server got about 10000 times the normal traffic.
I sorta get they want to index stuff, but why absolutely slam my server to death? Fucking assholes.
- Comment on Which is it?. 2 days ago:
May I see it?
- Comment on Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤 4 days ago:
Is Prince Andrew a leader tho? Leader of the loser society perhaps, but beyond that.
- Comment on Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤 4 days ago:
Also, this isn’t a picture of the Milky Way galaxy, so we are most definitely not there. And even if it was, our Sun is about halfway from the center in the disc part of our galaxy, not all the way on the outskirts. And this isn’t even the right kind of galaxy, our galaxy has a bar in the middle and more pronounced arms.
- Comment on As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts 5 days ago:
Why is AI entering the operating room? Why???
- Comment on You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question? 5 days ago:
Not much has changed, but we live under water
- Comment on If you had native-level fluency in a language, and don't talk in that language for a while, can you develop an accent later-on when trying to talk in that language again? 1 week ago:
You can actually change accents when you move to a different area, even though you are speaking the same language. I’ve even heard peoples accent change because they got a new work from home job, where they talk to people with another accent each day all day.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No they will simply steal it, like they usually do.
- Comment on Everything was indeed brown. 1 week ago:
Yes! I definitely had the huge ass tower of stereo equipment. It was a Philips branded stack and the main volume knob had a little red light on it, when you used the remote to put the volume up or down, it actually rotated the knob! It blew my mind when I saw that, so I just had to have it. It had a dual cassette deck, with fast rewind and fast copy options. A very good CD player, AM/FM radio and an amp with EQ. I think there was an option for records, but I didn’t have that, this was the 80s we needed high tech! The CD player had stuff like random order, lead-in, lead-out, etc. Mine was all black with little silver metal trims. Big ass speakers that weren’t optimized for volume or bass like these days, but for excellent sound quality and clarity.
I also had the glass shelves with a whole bunch of CDs and one of those towers where you put in the CDs at a 45 degree angle.
Man those were the days.
- Comment on We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments. 1 week ago:
Aren’t those just tool rental shops? Those are pretty common
- Comment on Everything was indeed brown. 1 week ago:
You often see the super colorful 80s in pop culture. But at the time there was also another movement going on where everything was black, white, metal and glass. I remember white rugs, a black leather couch with stainless metal, glass and black metal coffee table. Walls painted black or made entirely out of glass bricks. People wearing black and white clothes with sunglasses on. A lot of it was super classy and I wouldn’t mind having that in my home again. It was one of the first times in my life I remember home decoration being aligned with fashion, and people doing interior design.
- Comment on Trump audibly loses control of his bowels during a press conference - via Forbes Breaking News 1 week ago:
Yes he is an old man who’s been wearing adult diapers for at least the last decade or so. He shits his pants regularly. Which is totally fine and understandable for old people, it’s not uncommon at all. Often when they get as old as that they have daily help or are in a facility where they can get help quickly. I remember my grandma going thru that when she was 75, as a strong independent woman it was very hard for her.
Now when it’s the goddamned president of the United States, it’s somewhat more of an issue. He is in rough shape both physically and mentally. Just go watch some clip of the man from 10 years ago and compare it to today. But he has a whole bunch of cronies that protect him. Otherwise there is no way this man would have been allowed to still have any sort of job, let alone an important one.
- Comment on 'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night 1 week ago:
No that’s not right, it’s about 1000 watts/m2 on the surface. But it is on a totally clear day with the sun directly overhead. So depending on your latitude you get less per m2 because the Earth is round.
- Comment on Researchers find reducing salt in everyday foods could prevent tens of thousands of heart attacks and strokes 2 weeks ago:
Wtf is this headline? The money the NHS saves is the important part? Why is that even mentioned, sure it’s a useful side effect perhaps. But even if it costs more money, isn’t reducing heart attacks and strokes the important part?
Also “Without the public having to change eating habits” is BS. If you reduce the salt, by definition you are changing the eating habits. And in my experience, food with less salt tastes like shit. In the EU the amount of salt on crisps has been reduced. Which is a good thing for health reasons, however all crisps tastes like cardboard now. My favorite snack have been ruined. I still buy the crisps to enjoy on a Saturday evening with some beer and a movie, but when I eat then I regret it instantly. I know it’s not healthy, neither the the alcohol nor the crisps, but can it at least taste good if it kills me?
- Comment on Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI 2 weeks ago:
What data exactly? I don’t know how Starlink works in terms of the user experience. Do you need to use a proxy or something? I’d assumed they simply provide and route IP? Because almost all IP traffic these days is SSL encrypted, that’s not really useful data for training AIs on.
- Comment on It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00 2 weeks ago:
I’d recommend the movie Threads (1984), if you don’t feel like sleeping for the next week or so.
- Comment on Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades 2 weeks ago:
In the real world you can expect panels to lose on average no more than 10% per decade. Usually it’s less, somewhere around the 7-8% mark. Some manufacturers or installers give warranty for a max of 10% in the first decade. However due to natural variability of the energy produced, it would have to be pretty bad in order for anyone to notice.
The reason lifetimes of solar panels is given somewhere around 20-30 years isn’t because they stop functioning after that time. It’s because they simply won’t perform very well after that time. It’s a double edged sword, where the existing panels degrade and new panels get better. Especially if the mounting can be re-used, it becomes more and more favorable to just replace the panels. Chances are within 30 years at least one panel would have failed, in a string configuration that often means the entire string goes down. Depending on the setup that one defunct panel can be bypassed, but simply replacing all the panels makes more sense.
One of the parts I would like to see improvements in longevity is the inverters. Those are pretty expensive a lot of the time (depending on where you live they have to meet very strict specs and certification, driving up cost) and don’t live as long. Typically an inverter will work for at least 10 years, but they hardly ever make it to 20 years. So an installation that runs for 25 years will probably have its inverter(s) replaced at least once.
This article doesn’t state anything new, this has been the case for a very long time now.
- Comment on obesity even kills stars, but the bigger they are, they shine brighter too 3 weeks ago:
Most of what is left after Jupiter is in Saturn and after that Neptune and Uranus take up a lot of the mass. The amount of mass in the small terrestrial planets, all of the moons, all of the asteroids etc. is less than 0.002% of the mass of the Solar system.
- Comment on Is such a thing even possible? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes. 3 weeks ago:
Uhm the Moonmen built the pyramids, why would we need to teach them? Man it’s sure going to be embarrassing if we get up there and proclaim: “Hello Moonmen! We are here to teach you about pyramids” and they are like “Dude, we know all about the pyramids, what else you got?”. Can you imagine how red the astronauts faces would be?
- Comment on obesity even kills stars, but the bigger they are, they shine brighter too 3 weeks ago:
And 0.1% is Jupiter, the other 0.4% is everything else…
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 3 weeks ago:
Someone send this to Randall Monroe, how fucked would we be if we actually created this piece of land?
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah wall plug efficiency is much harder since you need to do the power conversion as well, in a small and cheap way for mass production. I’d assume they have a specialized power supply for the big LED in the sky?
There are super efficient LEDs used in flashlights, the lumen per watt figures these days are absolutely crazy.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 3 weeks ago:
This can very a lot depending on the LED. The average LED is indeed somewhere around the 50% and 60% mark. But there are LEDs out there that can get up to 90+%
- Comment on They played us for absolute fools 3 weeks ago:
Oooh that’s what you meant. I was referring to the time horses became obsolete almost over night and their population got reduced to only 10% of what it was before within a very short time.
- Comment on They played us for absolute fools 3 weeks ago:
Just don’t mention the part where 90% of them got killed off because they weren’t useful anymore.
- 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 weeks ago:
Management loves that they are using AI, they will probably get promoted if anything.
- Comment on Spong Berb Adventures #6 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Jupiter from the Webb Space Telescope 3 weeks ago:
It’s still stunning to me how small the great red spot has become. If it gets any smaller it’s hardly a feature worth talking about. I remember back in the 80’s looking through my telescope at Jupiter and clearly seeing the spot. I know it’s entirely possible, but to see a large thing like that visibly change over my lifetime still somehow feels wrong.
- Comment on He must be a great guy 3 weeks ago:
Did you tho?
- Comment on Mama! 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact, we do not just orbit the galaxy in a circle, we also have a motion perpendicular to that circle. We oscillate up and down through the plane of the Milky Way. The Milky Way is super thin, like super ultra thin. If the Milky Way were a pancake, it would only be the thickness of a sheet of paper, a sad pancake indeed. However in terms of human scales it is still huge, so we have a large way to travel. Our galactic orbit is tilted as compared to the galactic plane, so throughout the cosmic year we move up and down as compared to the center. A motion of 100-200 light year, so pretty big. That orbit also has procession, so we move through different parts.
The galaxy itself is also moving, although at that scale it’s easier to thing of the galaxy to be stationary and other galaxies moving towards or away from us. In general we are all moving towards a galaxy cluster known as “The Great Attractor” as it is the most massive (except for your mom).
It’s also often forgotten that our sun isn’t the only star moving in the galaxy. All of the stars orbit the galaxy in a lot of different orbits. And some don’t orbit at all, instead moving with escape velocity to get flung outside of our galaxy. Some have their own orbit in companion dwarf galaxies that in turn orbit our own galaxy. It’s easy to think of a galaxy as a fixed thing, with all the stars in the same place moving together like on a disk. But this isn’t the case at all, stars aren’t bound together and can follow their own path. Over time their relative positions change and the constellations we know won’t exist anymore.
The structures we see in galaxies like spiral arms for example are only structures in the same way a wave in the ocean is a structure. It is clearly a thing that exists, with properties we can at least somewhat constrain (like size for example). But the water inside that wave is just water like everywhere else. At one point it’s part of the wave and then at some point it no longer is.
