BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Lowering power consumption on Opteron 3 days 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 Is it weird I don't typically answer how old I am anymore, because literally nobody besides my family believes me? 5 weeks ago:
It’s only if you look under 25 here…
- Comment on Is it weird I don't typically answer how old I am anymore, because literally nobody besides my family believes me? 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The chance of them pulling it off with nobody noticing or saying anything is very low, it’s not a one person operation. Then depending on the speed of the poison it would become obvious that there’s something in the water very quickly and people would stop drinking it.
- Comment on YSK: WD-40 is perfect for removing adhesive left behind by stickers 2 months ago:
Hand sanitizer frequently works too.
- Comment on Are there Designs for Kiddie Pool Water Filters? 2 months ago:
They do exist, google floating pool filters/chlorinators.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
From a best friend, sure, I fully agree.
However do be careful when it comes to other relationships, it does have the potential to cause problems.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 2 months ago:
I like the government to force companies to meet certain regulations for production of various food items so that they’re safe for everyone, but then let me pick at the grocery store from what’s then produced.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
As with Rome, the limitation is often communication and transportation.
You’d have a hard time even keeping Mars part of unified empire with Earth given our current technology level. We simply can’t move things back and forth easily enough until we figure out fusion reactors (or some other power source) to a much higher level than we currently have.
Any sort of empire spanning more than a single solar system would require faster than light travel and communications.
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 2 months ago:
Yes, normally noise is cumulative
It’s pretty easy to think about this in the context of a stadium of people. One person cherring, 10 people cheering, 1000 people cheering. They produce a louder result.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I thought you were talking about some obscure car until number 4
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 2 months ago:
They didn’t even realize covid was killing them while they died in droves, so my bet is on never.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 2 months ago:
You think it’s a kids job to learn how to become an adult themselves? What the fuck
I’m 40, with my own kids. I’ve been teaching them everything I think they should know how to do to be an adult when they move out. How to cook and clean, make a budget, fill out forms, how to show up on time, be part of a team, etc. The school is taking care of most of the academics, but I add some extra things that the school fails to cover as extensively as I’d like such as how to properly use Microsoft Excel.
What they do to grow once they’re out of the house isn’t my problem, I’m just setting the foundation and that absolutely is the job of parents and teachers.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 2 months ago:
Practice can also be on using AI.
I think a lot of this is going to boil down to companies figuring out how to determine if someone can successfully use AI to produce output faster, or lack the skillset to do so. If you manage to get through university using AI and the profs are happy with the results, why wouldn’t a company be happy with the results?
Nobody asks me if I can do the math behind the spreadsheets I build, but I couldn’t do most of it by hand at this point because it’s been so long since I practiced that.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong, but also you aren’t right. The basics that you need should be taught to you by your parents and at school before you move out. AI isn’t interfering with either of those at this point.
You couldn’t manage your life in the event of every possible problem either, the question then becomes which things should you know how to do yourself, and which things can be delegated.
I don’t know how to repair a car beyond changing a tire or the oil, but even that isn’t really necessary anymore since many cars don’t even come with a spare at this point and knowing how to change the oil is now irrelevant to me, since I’m using an EV.
Knowing how to ferment for preservation may come in handy for saving a couple of dollars, but it’s hardly a life saving skill anymore. Even in the event of a massive catastrophe, it’s unlikely that fermentation would come in handy before aid arrived or you were able to leave the area.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 2 months ago:
You fail to realize that in order to get AI to do anything, you have to understand what to ask it in the first place. AI is not likely to do things you can’t accomplish at all, you would have no way to validate the results and therefore it would end up causing problems (like we’re seeing with people submitting papers written by AI without reviewing them) or making some code that doesn’t even compile/run.
It’s just a tool for speeding up that work that you already know, like learning the basics of multiplication, then using a calculator for the rest of your life. You still need to understand what multiplication and division are in order to work a calculator properly.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 2 months ago:
AI all the things? Bad
AI for specific use cases? Good
I use AI probably a dozen times a week for work tasks, saving myself about 2-4 hours of work time on tasks that I know it can do easily in seconds. Simple e-mail draft? Done. Write a complex formula for excel? Easy. Generate a summary of some longer text? Yup.
It’s easy to argue that we may become dependant upon it, but that’s already true for lots of things. Would you have any idea on how to preserve food if you didn’t have a fridge? Would you have any idea on even how to get food if you didn’t have a grocery store nearby? How would you organize a party with your friends without a phone? If a computer wasn’t tracking your bank balance, how would you keep track of your money? Can you multiply 423 by 365 without using a calculator?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
There are stabilizing benefits in some cases. Traditions can be valuable, even just for show.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Even something as simple as suggesting “Hey, these figures are made in Vietnam instead of China, so they’re lower cost right now” is political. It is, as you said unavoidable.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The problem is that they’re actively impacting your ability to participate in many hobbies, or eating up funds on necessities that force you to forgo other things entirely. It’s not that we’re just repeating “tariffs bad” when talking about them, it’s that they’re actually factoring into decisions being made in order to live our life.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Maybe if some orange turd wasn’t busy fucking up everything from board games to airplanes politics wouldn’t come up so much.
Hard to have a conversation without it when there’s a massive tariff on every single product related to work, hobbies, and even just living.
- Comment on If someone is bullied to suicide/threatened to death, and they actually attempt something like that or die, will the person who told them to do so get charged? 3 months ago:
This has happened, the girl was found guilty of manslaughter.
- Comment on What would I need to do to successfully paint with my own menstrual blood? 3 months ago:
Well this is pushing the boundaries of “No Stupid Questions”
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 3 months ago:
Unless there’s some method for you to help them become eligible to work in your country, you legally need to put the company’s safety first. If you give different reason to hide things you could be exposing your company to liability, so the safest option for both the company and for the applicant is for you to straight up ghost them.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 3 months ago:
I really hope you mean to say “hiring” instead of “hitting”
The simple answer is just don’t hire them, and don’t give any reason.