BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 1 day ago:
That does not apply to humans who are capable of intentionally avoiding certain breeding problems, and also who have medical knowledge that can apply even if it does happen.
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 2 days ago:
Hockey, started in my late thirties, couldn’t even stop at the time.
Great exercise
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 2 days ago:
British Columbia
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 2 days ago:
The simple answer is most desktop PCs will not come even close to that at idle. Even just having a few case fans may draw more than that, without involving the CPU at all.
Laptop devices can do that in some cases with their extra power management features.
That being said, do the math to see if it matters. The difference between 10w and 40w is 0.7kwh per day, at least where I live that’s about 7 cents or about $25 per year.
In my case it would be more expensive to purchase a dedicated low power device than it will save me in 4-5 years compared to just using something I already have laying around.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
In terms of time investments, working out may be one possible consideration.
- Comment on How do Ghostwriters work? Does the person the book is about say to the writer I will give you 2 or 20 percent of the sales or is it a 50 50 split? 4 days ago:
It’s definitely not 50/50, there would be a negotiated amount (Fixed or percentage) less than that. The ghostwriter may be employed by the publisher and just receive a salary too.
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 4 days ago:
Never again?
China unfortunately. I enjoyed the country the last time, but I see no future where I go back in my lifetime. It’s not safe for me.
Not till they clean up their act a lot more?
The US, I live right next to it, I’m the right colour and gender to not get harassed, but I’m not crossing that border anytime soon.
- Comment on [META] Is it ok to ask for advice here? 1 week ago:
That question is fine here in my opinion.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 3 weeks ago:
“For essay writing task”
I’m not using it to write essays. I’ve been programming far beyond my normal capabilities.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 3 weeks ago:
My daily use of said tool disagrees with your assertion.
- Comment on Why does information want to be free 3 weeks ago:
Gases expand to fill their containers due to the random, high-speed motion of their individual particles and the minimal intermolecular forces between them.
The translation for humans is that humans like to move around and talk, and there’s not a lot stopping them from doing it.
- Comment on Why does information want to be free 3 weeks ago:
It’s the same reason that liquids and gasses expand to fill their container
- Comment on Should 21-23-year-olds be allowed to date older people? 3 weeks ago:
The age of majority (or various ages) are somewhat arbitrary, but it has to be drawn somewhere because it’s used to allow a whole bunch of activities rather than just for relationships.
There’s a significant difference between “you must be this age to be considered old enough to make your own choices on a variety of things” and “here’s a specific range of people who you are not allowed to have sexual intercourse with”
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I have a couple Tapo cameras set up with HA, I had to use the tapo app initially to set up but once they’re set up you can ditch it and run the system entirely locally. I saw someone had a way to configure them locally too, but it wasn’t simple enough for me to bother and I was fine with the one time step.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Blame the democrats
- Comment on What does it mean if I’m the first person my former friend turns to? 1 month ago:
It means you should move on
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 1 month ago:
Bouncy balls are already reasonably efficient. If you want them to be more dangerous, you just get ones that weigh more.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
If that’s all you want to do, one of the cheaper Ubiquiti managed gateways would probably work and not break the bank.
If you want to tinker even harder, an open source router running openwrt.org (or even their own device) may be a good option.
- Comment on Any self hosted personal finance projects doing anything interesting with AI that you've found value in? 1 month ago:
Why?
- Comment on Any self hosted personal finance projects doing anything interesting with AI that you've found value in? 1 month ago:
You aren’t going to find a useful AI system for personal use in Finance, you simply don’t have the scale needed to benefit from it. You don’t make enough transactions per month that looking over it yourself is going to be any slower than reading the AI summary.
The question as with most process optimization and data analysis is, what’s the actual result you’re hoping for? If you want it to be able to summarize WALMART, WAL-MART and WMART so you can see those numbers added together, you already know you spent a lot at Walmart. Whare are you going to actually do with that information?
- Comment on Any self hosted personal finance projects doing anything interesting with AI that you've found value in? 1 month ago:
Saving money doesn’t really need an AI, there really aren’t many ways to cut budgets down short of paying attention to the most obvious spending problems (Too much housing, too much vehicle, too much food (especially eating out), and too much entertainment(too many subscription platforms))
It’s usually a far better investment of time to improve your earning power (upskill, change jobs, add hours, etc.)
Cutting $40 per month from your budget by not going to the movies every week just isn’t going to have the impact you need in your life.
- Comment on Should you look for a relationship if it feels like a compromise? 1 month ago:
Compromise doesn’t necessarily mean “less”
If you ask your boss for a 20% raise, and they give you a 10% raise and you stay there, you have compromised on what you wanted but you still got more than you had before.
Relationships are similar, you may not get everything you specifically want, but if you’re getting more than you have alone it may be a good idea to look for one. That could relate to all sorts of aspects of a relationship, from sharing chores and saving money on expenses to having someone available more easily/frequently to enjoy shared activities with.
Not all relationships are going to be worth it, in fact most will not until you find a “compatible” person where the alignment of your needs and willingness to do things for them end up, and their needs and willingness to do things for you end up with a net benefit to both people.
Two people that hate doing dishes and cooking could work, if you both make enough money to eat out every meal, but if you don’t those two people likely aren’t compatible. However, if you like cooking, and they don’t mind cleaning, that can be a reasonable compromise that benefits both people.
- Comment on Lowering power consumption on Opteron 2 months ago:
Even if you could shave off 50% at idle, you’re talking about like $0.10 per day in power savings. Is it really worth spending any time on that?
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 2 months ago:
The HVAC system no, the home itself, yes.
Depending on how old your home is of course, newer homes tend to have lower exchange rates.
Also datacenters don’t have windows, or even doors constantly letting people in and out of cooled areas and outside.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 2 months ago:
The simply answer is that your A/C dumps heat outside using big metal fins, it’s not terribly great, but it works well at that scale.
Dissipating it into the air for the amount of heat some data centers need to get rid of doesn’t cut it, so they use evaporative coolers.
The phase change of evaporating water from liquid to gas uses approximately 7x more heat energy than taking room temperature water and getting it up the boiling point itself.
Essentially they stick their large metal fins from the AC into a large pool of water and boil it off. This gets rid of the energy with a much smaller and cheaper system, but uses up water.
- Comment on How much of a persons body is needed to survive? 2 months ago:
Yea, we can probably keep a head alive by itself for a short period, I suspect as you pointed out that the “immediate risk of dying from a complication” means if we attempted it the first person wouldn’t even last weeks or months.
The ethics of doing so on the other hand are stupidly complicated, which deters almost all effort in the development of this kind of system. You couldn’t ethically do it to anything smarter than a pig without huge problems, and you may even have trouble with that.
I’m honestly surprised we haven’t seen any hint of this coming out from some random billionaire funding a bunch of doctors to work on it behind the scenes. I’m sure there are doctors who for the right price would be willing to move to some country with less-stringent regulations and attempt some tests on chimps.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It’s only if you look under 25 here…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Had the same problem, now I’ve got a touch of grey hair at my temples and it has helped immensely.
I got carded for alchohol up into my late 30s.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 3 months ago:
There is a need by the population to be protected against being directly killed to help others.
That question becomes a lot murkier when it isn’t a direct killing, such as the American healthcare system where poor people are just left to die so that doctors can be more quickly available to handle patients who can afford care. That happens daily, and plenty of people are totally okay with it.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 3 months ago:
The answer is yes, with the caveat that the many are not particularly good at figuring out what they need and that they often choose a sub-optimal solution to help a few people that there is some sort of emotional attachment to.
They’re also really bad at understanding their biases in this scenario. They will often say “no” verbally but then make daily decisions that contradict that.