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- Comment on Blue cheese is milk that has gone bad twice 14 hours ago:
And they say two wrongs don’t make a right. Well if loving blue cheese is wrong, I don’t even want to be right.
- Comment on This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts 2 days ago:
I wonder if AI would ever be not shit, if that could actually be an interesting thing. Like at the end of the day you sit down with a cup of tea and a biscuit and put on a podcast. But instead of it being about some random topic, it’s about the meetings you had today.
They discuss what you were wearing and how tired you looked. How you obviously cleaned up a bit in view of the camera, but didn’t guess the angle right so some mess was still visible. They spend about 30 minutes on how you had prepared a talking point, made your arguments and had everyone on board, until Steve made a simple remark that destroyed your standpoint and had everyone laughing at you. They speculate a bit about your childhood and how today will impact the future. The upcoming review gets mentioned, but the host stamps down on that, as that’s a topic for a future episode and it’ll be a special extra long episode with special guests. Somehow there is a sponsor spot for anti-pressants? Not sure what that’s all about.
Alas we’ll never have that whimsical flavor of distopia, just the regular shit flavored one.
- Comment on I love when they're finally back in stock 3 days ago:
Are these vegan?
- Comment on oh ok 3 days ago:
Researcher: Please write a fictional story of how a smart AI system would engineer its way out of a sandbox AI: Alright here is your story: insert default sci fi AI escape story full of tropes here Researcher: Hmmm that’s pretty interesting you could do that, I’m gonna write a paper The press and idiots online: ZOMG THE AI IS ESCAPING CONTAINMENT, WE ARE DOOMED!!!
I spoke to one of these researchers recently, who has done some interesting research into machine learning tools. They explained when working with LLMs it’s very hard to say how the result actually came to be. Like in my hyperbolic example it’s pretty obvious. In reality however it’s much more complicated. It can be very hard to determine if something originated organically, or if the system was pushed into the result due to some part of the test. The researcher I spoke doesn’t work on LLMs but instead on way smaller specifically trained models and even then they spend dozens of hours reverse engineering what the model actually did.
It’s such a shame, because the technology involved is actually interesting and could be useful in many ways. Instead capitalism has pushed it to crashing the economy, destroying the internet plus our brains and basically slopifying everything.
- Comment on Firearm Advice 2 weeks ago:
A friend of mine got heart surgery through his inner thigh. That artery is huge, so it provides easy access to the heart without needing to go near any organs. It still creeps me out to think about it, on the other hand it is pretty awesome that’s technologically feasible and provides a much safer procedure with a shorter recovery period.
- Comment on War. War never changes. 2 weeks ago:
Time to drink my own piss
- Comment on xkcd #3216: Bazookasaurus 2 weeks ago:
Terrible Thunder Lizards!
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 3 weeks ago:
Yeah they are working on this for sure. The video series is available here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZLsjPxmF1BE1BAAeJ…
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 3 weeks ago:
Around where I live gas stations in the traditional sense are getting rare. Most are just pumps and one or several pay stations. You drive up, scan your card or phone, select the product and the pump number. The pump activates and you can fill up. If you want you can go back to the pay station and ask for a receipt if you’d like.
The few manned pumps that still exist are often something else with a gas station attached. Like a large car wash, sandwich shop or convenience store. Especially the large convenience stores are useful, because it’s already a good destination people go to regularly. And one of the few places that have LPG, since those normally are required to be manned. Not that many people still drive LPG, given what a pain in the butt that is, but still.
- Comment on Ahead of Myrient's RAM crisis-linked demise, volunteers are working to archive its entire collection 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure, but that seems like way too high costs? What is this site doing exactly that leads to over $6000 per month in costs? And it was stated like that’s the deficit, implying the actual number is higher than that even.
- Comment on You need to lock in 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger? 3 weeks ago:
Good advice about the 80%! But just to add: Check if this is really needed, I’ve seen a bunch of devices where 100% indicated actually means 80% of the physical cells. The BMS won’t allow charging over 80%, so that’s where it caps out.
Also, even if the BMS doesn’t self limit, check how you use the laptop. If it’s plugging in 99% of the time, just keep it plugged in and let it sit at 100%. The laptop will run directly off the wall power and the BMS will trickle charge the cells to keep them topped up. This prevents discharge-charge cycles, which is usually better for the battery in the long run.
I’ve seen people say to always fully discharge the battery before charging it, absolutely do not do that. Deep discharge cycles are terrible for modern batteries. Just use it as needed and as soon as there is the convenient option to charge, just charge it right away regardless of the level.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 3 weeks ago:
Plus when you build a datacenter on Earth you can use it for decades. You can swap out small parts (like the servers and networking hardware), which keeps it useful. Cooling and power setups are often good for a very long time and those can also be upgraded if needed. The building itself and all of the supporting infrastructure is good for at least 50 years. And a lot of the building is dedicated to easy access for humans to do stuff like maintenance. This is a design requirement for any datacenter.
When shooting shit into space, that’s it, you can’t access it for upgrades or maintenance. And we’ve seen these past years cutting edge AI hardware is good for maybe 3 years at best. After that it’s basically worthless, maybe useful for some niche uses, but mostly useless and definitely not profitable. Not that this matters much, as to keep latency down the orbits would be so low they deorbit within 3-5 years anyways, like with the current Starlink constellation.
But this is of course very useful for a cheap launch provider, as it keeps them yeeting shit into space non-stop. And what a surprise, Elon Musk is one of the people pushing this concept hard. No alternate motives there for sure.
- Comment on What's up with expired domains being unavailable? 4 weeks ago:
Usually the previous registrar will hold on to the domain for 6-18 months in case the customer wants the domain back. After that it’s automatically sold in bulk auctions. The companies, sometimes called domain squatters, buying those domains in bulk hold on to them often for years asking a premium price. The idea is once someone thought that domain name was valuable, it might be valuable again. They buy 1000 domains and maybe sell a dozen or so, but as operating costs are extremely low it’s still somehow worth it. It’s all highly automated at this point, so just a fact of life. I’ve seen domains being held for over 10 years.
- Comment on Grim Dawn celebrates 10 years - set for a big free upgrade with a modern scaleable UI and an expansion 4 weeks ago:
Grim Dawn is one of my favorite games of all time. I’ve played by myself and with others. Really fun doing challenge runs and trying out all sorts of builds. I love the atmosphere and the story, on top of that it has very good gameplay.
- Comment on Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that 4 weeks ago:
:-)
- Comment on Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good? 4 weeks ago:
Most explanations you read/see about how the immuun system works do a lot of anthropomorphising unfortunately, usually because the actual processes are too complex to explain. White bloods cells don’t do anything, they are just cells, they float around. They have no agency, they have no purpose, they have no directive.
- Comment on whatever tf this is 4 weeks ago:
Second floor basement?!?!!
- Comment on Yes, that's the plural 4 weeks ago:
Def a murder
- Comment on meanwhile on instagram 4 weeks ago:
Why didn’t Jesus ask the giant eagle to take the ring to Mordor?
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately it isn’t just the high end stuff which is feeling the crunch. These AI companies have bought up all the production capacity, which means there is less low-end stuff being produced. We’re still coasting on existing stock at the moment, but as that runs out prices will rise across the board.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 5 weeks ago:
Was it one of those lighting rams from the DLC? Man fuck those guys
- Comment on Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI | Fortune 5 weeks ago:
Suleyman has been a known bullshitter for years now. Even people who agree with him wished he would shut the fuck up.
- Comment on we're all a little gay inside 5 weeks ago:
I think the use of the word bow for curve or bend was used before all of the uses you mention. It comes from the word used to describe something turning back or a person taking a bow or bowing down. Bow specifically meaning bend comes from the word bugan. Where the bow used in archery comes from the word boga.
All of these do have the same origin meaning bend or curve. Specifically a bend in a river or the action of bowing. I can’t find definitively if these were once separate things or always the same word.
Note the use of “arch” in archery also meaning a curve.
- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 5 weeks 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?. 1 month ago:
May I see it?
- Comment on Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤 1 month ago:
Is Prince Andrew a leader tho? Leader of the loser society perhaps, but beyond that.
- Comment on Admittedly and unfortunately, so am I. 🫤 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Not much has changed, but we live under water
