BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What's the FBI gonna do when white nationalists turn on Kash Patel (current director of FBI)? 1 day ago:
Blame the democrats
- Comment on What does it mean if I’m the first person my former friend turns to? 1 week 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 week 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 week 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? 2 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on Any self hosted personal finance projects doing anything interesting with AI that you've found value in? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 5 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? 5 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? 1 month 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] 1 month ago:
It’s only if you look under 25 here…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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? 2 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? 2 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.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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] 3 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? 3 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] 3 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 3 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] 3 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? 3 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? 3 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? 3 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? 3 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? 3 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? 3 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?