PupBiru
@PupBiru@kbin.social
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 10 months ago:
i didn’t downvote you, and i went to school before a bunch of things but technology evolves and either we evolve with it or we end up being just straight up wrong in a modern context
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 10 months ago:
not exactly because of pairs unless you’re talking about 1 and 0 being a pair… it’s because the maximum number you can count in binary doubles with each additional bit you add:
with 1 bit, you can either have 0 or 1… which is, unsurprisingly perhaps, 0 and 1 respectively - 2 numbers
with 2 bits you can have 00, 01, 10, 11… which is 0, 1, 2, 3 - 4 numbers
with 3 bits you can have 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, 111… which is 0 to 7- 8 numbers
so you see the pattern: add a bit, double the number you can count to… this is the “2 to the power of” that you might see: with 8 bits (a byte) you can count from 0 to 255 - that’s 2 (because binary has 2 possible states per digit) to the power of 8 (because 8 digits); 8^2
the same is true of decimal, but instead of to the 2 to the power, it’s 10 to the power: with each additional digit, you can count 10 x as many numbers - 0-9 for 1 digit, 00-99 for 2 digits, 000-999 for 3 digits - 10^1, 10^2, 10^3 respectively
and that’s the reason we use hexadecimal sometimes too! we group bits into groups of 8 and call it a byte… hexadecimal is base 16, so nicely lets us represent a byte with just 2 characters - 16^2 = 256 = 2^8
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 10 months ago:
which is why we have kibi, mebi, gibi, etc
- Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes 10 months ago:
kilobyte (KB) is 1000, kibibyte (KiB) is 1024
at least according the the IEC, and id tend to go with them… SI units say that kilo means 1000
- Comment on Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request] 10 months ago:
i’d avoid BIOS-based RAID… it doesn’t really offer many benefits over linux-based raid like MDADM, and MDADM offers a LOT of up-sides for portability, repairability, diagnostics, etc
- Comment on AI Doomerism: Intelligence Is Not Enough -- “The lack of arms and legs becomes really load-bearing when you want to kill all humans.” 11 months ago:
i think this is the perfect time for the phrase “thanks i hate it”
- Comment on AI Doomerism: Intelligence Is Not Enough -- “The lack of arms and legs becomes really load-bearing when you want to kill all humans.” 11 months ago:
inhabiting a boston dynamics robot would probably be the best option
i’d say it could probably use airtasker to get people to unwittingly do assembly of some basic physical form which it could use to build more complex things… i’d probably not count that as “human assistance” per se
- Comment on The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying 11 months ago:
i feel like i need to preface this comment with the fact that this is undeniably a bad thing and no amount of “but on the flip side” will change that, but it’s interesting to express regardless…
this could lead to a few interesting situations:
- more ubiquitous ML could lead to enforcement of laws more evenly… ML doesn’t make “oh sorry sir i didn’t know who you were” decisions, and if that’s coupled with transparency then maybe we will be left in less of a “laws for thee and not for me” situation as it becomes more difficult to break laws for people in power
- more ubiquitous ML, as long as it’s fairly openly available, will absolutely be used by media to piece together complex structures and do investigative journalism. it could help to hold people to account
- more ML in tax could mean less tax evasion? or setting it to task on suggesting fixes for tax loop holes if it can see a lot more invasive data?
- Comment on Why people say good morning (or something like that) on chat after a night? 11 months ago:
wake up, time for some SYN 😈
- Comment on New Battery Crushes Tesla's Tech, Unveils A Solid-State Marvel With 300% Higher Energy Density, 15-minute Ultra-Fast Charge 11 months ago:
from what i understand, solid state batteries are legitimately about as revolutionary as lithium ion were because they are all of those things, and by their very nature they have a huge number of charge cycles
- Comment on What happens if flat Earthers go to space? 11 months ago:
and also the flip side: who the fuck cares if it’s flat and the government is lying about it?
- Comment on Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI 11 months ago:
in fact it’s literally the basis for the “tools” functionality in the new openai/chatgpt stuff!
that “browse the web”, “execute code”, etc is all the LLM formatting things in a specific way
- Comment on Yes 1 year ago:
well now you’re just describing ansible
- Comment on Yes 1 year ago:
who hurt you?
- Comment on Is that $35 Apple Watch real? How misleading TikTok influencer videos could be the next big headache in e-commerce 1 year ago:
lemmy doesn’t really have a TOS afaik (and even if the software had something in its license, it’s the fediverse: people can interact with you on lemmy without using lemmy!). your instance might, but other instances might have totally different rules… there’s nothing stopping a just-ads-lemmy.com instance, other than it’d probably get defederated pretty quick
- Comment on US Senate Democrats block Republican bid to aid Israel, not Ukraine 1 year ago:
gutting IRS funding is absolutely absurd and you can probably leave it at that
- Comment on AI generation is on fast track to kill porn industry. 1 year ago:
i make porn
i’ve spent thousands of dollars on camera equipment
i post it online, in 4k, for free, and there’s no way to pay me for the content
i do it because i like the exhibitionism (among other things)
i do it because in the sex-positive communities i prefer to associate with, it’s like posting your day to facebook
i do it because the camera pushes me to imagine new and interesting things to do
i do it because it helps me meet people with similar tastes that aren’t flakey and are equally sex positive and non-judgemental
there’s an enormous amateur community (that often becomes professional) that makes porn because they want to… money is a nice thing to help buy new gear for porn, but it’s not the primary concern
- Comment on Political Compass Fetishes 1 year ago:
study is a stretch… a guy asked a bunch of people
i can tell you right now as someone deep in the pet
play community that its position is entirely incorrect - Comment on The FCC is Expected to Propose the Return of Net Neutrality Protections Oct 19th 1 year ago:
that’s true, but this would require time and money to implement, market, etc, and would almost certainly require big b2b contracts to be signed
- Comment on What are some underrated instances of the Fediverse? 1 year ago:
re peertube discovery, i saw this the other day:
framasoft developed both peertube, and this… i assume to address that exact concern
- Comment on The FCC is Expected to Propose the Return of Net Neutrality Protections Oct 19th 1 year ago:
hopefully at least when ISPs and companies see that it’ll just be back and forth, and that things like “fast lanes” can’t be relied upon in business planning there just won’t be a market for it, or at least the fuckery will be significantly diminished because it’s not reliable long-term
- Comment on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible 1 year ago:
okay but the clip on rj connectors is a locking mechanism which usb just lacks… break off the clip and they’re relatively equvelent no?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
also (somewhat ignorant myself), possibly useful to distinguish between palestine and hamas… palestine the state might be more amenable than hamas
… but idk
- Comment on D or d come on 1 year ago:
afaik there’s options you can turn on that enable it
search .inputrc and set completion-ignore-case On
- Comment on D or d come on 1 year ago:
“magically know what they want” aka occasionally set you and your files on fire
i prefer not fire
- Comment on D or d come on 1 year ago:
also idk does zsh do this automatically? don’t think i’ve ever had this problem except on legacy AF servers
i mean… unless you don’t tab complete, but then who doesn’t spam tab 30 times ever keystroke?
- Comment on So many posts for Lemmy resources are out of date (ex. apps, communities, addons). Could we have a repository to pull from? 1 year ago:
i’d suggest using the CI built into whatever git host you choose: commit a change and CI runs automatically and updates posts
less bot per se, but definitely easier than webhooks or scraping to sync
- Comment on LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find 1 year ago:
i’d guess they could hyper optimise for “perceived difference” rather than data loss specifically… they do a pretty good job of generating something from nothing, so i’d say with enough data they’d probably generate a pretty reasonable facsimile of “standard” stuff
- Comment on AI developing too fast for regulators to keep up, says Oliver Dowden 1 year ago:
it’s kinda exactly the same as someone on the street handing you a bit of paper with a rumour on it and you publishing it without checking that it’s correct
- Comment on Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? 1 year ago:
and you don’t need lemmy/kbin either, but yknow we like it
what’s your point?