JohnDClay
@JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Bloomberg - Are you a robot? 4 hours ago:
As I understand it, profit is price minus costs. Profit margin is the percentage of the cost that is profit. So I don’t see how they’re getting more profit out than the total price? Are they counting extra value from selling or training on the prompt data?
- Comment on In first, private US spaceship lands upright on Moon 17 hours ago:
Love the upright qualifier, since the last one fell over.
- Comment on In first, private US spaceship lands upright on Moon 17 hours ago:
Yeah I think decontamination is standard. But why is this bad for public space exploration?
- Comment on [Video] Mozilla lost touch with reality; how becoming rich through failure stunts mental & emotional growth 18 hours ago:
And just backwards comparability. Web developers aren’t going to fix their old site for your new browser, so you’d need to use the ancient convoluted code base to access them.
Unless you’re okay with only using the big new websites. Is it most people only use 4 websites regularly?
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 1 day ago:
It’s infuriating when a light turns red while only a few of the cars have gone though, makes sense a more inte to intelligent algorithm would be more efficient.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 2 days ago:
We’d need to break the speed of light, which isn’t possible with our current understanding of physics, but who knows.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 2 days ago:
Not till the heat death of the universe.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 2 days ago:
You could also use a wormhole to travel to different universes. It breaks the speed of light, so all bets are off.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 2 days ago:
It’d be interesting to see what a log scale would look like for this. I’ll see if I can find one.
Here’s one.
Log scale diagram of the observable universe pablocarlosbudassi.com/…/atlas-of-universe-is-lin…
Looks like the image at the top is a bit condensed comparatively.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 2 days ago:
The edge of the observable universe is moving away from us faster than the speed of light from our perspective. (Due to space stretching) So we’d need to go faster than the speed of light to catch up.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 3 days ago:
If we assume the hubble constant is the same in all directions, the farthest we’d be able to see would be a sphere, dictated by the time light has had to travel to us.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 3 days ago:
Is the radial scale logarithmic? Or is it even more compressed than that?
- Comment on Why should someone join the Fediverse? 6 days ago:
If you use Reddit, but don’t like the direction it’s going, (more extractive, less user control) Lemmy is a good alternative. Same thing for Instagram or Twitter, pixelfed or mastodon are good alternatives for those. And they have the advantage that it’s harder to make them universally worse in the future, since the infrastructure is more distributed.
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 1 week ago:
I haven’t actually found anything that doesn’t work on Firefox on my personal computer. At work we also use Firefox, and some things don’t work on it, but some things don’t work on chrome or edge either, it’s a hodge poge.
- Comment on 'Europe did more than the US' — EU defense commissioner pushes back against Trump accusations 1 week ago:
- Comment on Russia is ‘recycling’ wounded troops, sending some to the frontline on crutches 1 week ago:
I guess the reasoning is if they are killed in Ukraine, they don’t use a pension.
- Comment on Why do people say more people didnt vote for trump than did? 1 week ago:
Turnout was one of the highest at 64%. (2020 was the highest recently at 66%) It’s hard to get everyone to do anything.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 1 week ago:
Looks like China’s is coming down too, but still a little over the worldwide average.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 1 week ago:
Good on them.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, frequency might go a bit higher. But I doubt many people could tell the difference between 8k and 16k.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you’ll need much more than 8k 144hz. Your eyes just can’t see that much. Maybe the connector will eventually get smaller, such as USBC?
- Comment on Yes that is definitely what I was going for, thank you 2 weeks ago:
This is the one use of LLMs I actually really want, smarter text prediction!
- Comment on MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs 2 weeks ago:
Looks like they hovered for 1000 seconds. It was previously stress limited such that the joints would break after just a few seconds. I think they might still be tethered for a power source, I haven’t seen any of these micro flapping bots include a battery yet, and they didn’t mention that they did.
- Comment on The Safety Alternative 2 weeks ago:
Why? It’s much more eco friendly CO2 wise than concrete.
- Comment on If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose? 3 weeks ago:
Minecraft. But immortality in any case is kinda scary. SCP-7179
- Comment on DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all 3 weeks ago:
The original claims of energy efficiency came from mixing up the energy usage of their much smaller model with their big model I think.
- Comment on Can The EV Charging Business Survive the Trump Administration? 3 weeks ago:
Tesla I’m sure will do fine. I’m not sure about the others who don’t have an in at the white house.
- Comment on Tinder will try AI-powered matching as the dating app continues to lose users 3 weeks ago:
Tinder loses users by making good matches, so maybe this algorithm will match people worse to retain them longer? But that is also what’s keeping people from using the app in the first place.
- Comment on Trump to get $25 million in settlement with Meta 4 weeks ago:
Is this just a bribe?
- Comment on Will solar panels overrun farmland? The two are more likely to coexist. 5 weeks ago:
I heard from a solar installer a while ago that most of their panels on northern areas are bi-facial, since they get noticable efficiency improvements from light reflected off the snow.
