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- Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website 6 months ago:
Hi! Great post, good research with sources, great initiative, thank you. 🙏
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
So, OK, I’m willing to learn: please show me good brands then.
They need to resist to mud (thick mud, the kind with a ton of suction that will keep your soles when you try and move), seawater, rocks and sand, and pretty dense vegetation.
They also need to have steel toe caps, good soles (vibram or equivalent if possible) that don’t sleep and aren’t too hard (wet stone is enough of a removed as it is), and to go higher than my ankle.
The best brand I tried so far was caterpillar, but they lasted only 3 years. That’s a far cry from “a decade or more”.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
Exactly. Nah, we just gotta have man made monoculture everywhere, or a desert, right? So that, in the end, it just amounts to deserts anyway. Yay. 😶
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
Yeah so, the amount of meals is correct. But that’s about it. I mean, I can’t say about the taste, to each their own, but one kg of cow meat needs two dozen kg of grain.
That’s about as inefficient as it gets.
As for the leather, the industry doesn’t like products that last a decade, so it isn’t actually using the leather in such a way. Industrial leather boots last a year tops.
Finally, pet food is made out of discarded cuts of meat, the uglies, etc. But also lots of cereals, and vegetables.
So we could really afford eating less meat. It isn’t good for anything. Not for us, not for the other species (certainly not for the cows, that get often half assed butchered in a hasty way because of quotas and profit), and absolutely not for the ecosystem.
But I guess the taste is all that matters.
- Comment on A bot in Tekken 8 is demolishing players by only pressing one button over and over 6 months ago:
So I was right. It is about the controller…
- Comment on The End of an Era: Women Who Code Closing - Women Who Code 7 months ago:
It turns out that “Women Who Code Closing - Women Who Code” actually isn’t about Women that code a software called “Closing”, and Women that code in general.
In fact, what they meant to write was:
The End of an Era: “Women Who Code” Closing – Women Who Code.
I know I’m gonna get downvoted for this, but punctuation matters, and sadly, it has to be said. So here I go.
- Comment on OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022 | Ars Technica 7 months ago:
Maybe they mean it in the sense of “forgery”. You know, as in “let you imagine what it is like to have friendships, by letting you make forgeries of your life, but with friends in it” 🤪
- Comment on Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry 7 months ago:
Fuck yea!
- Comment on Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record 7 months ago:
I think we can all agree on that… But without the entire article, one can only parametrise their answer… I was hoping someone with a full version could do an HTML dump. 😅
- Comment on Your Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That. 7 months ago:
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 7 months ago:
Is it using XLR?
- Comment on Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record 7 months ago:
Is it just me, or is everyone here commenting on a half article, the other half being behind a paywall? 😬
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 7 months ago:
I think you’re overstating the compute power […]
I don’t actually think so. A100 in server chassis have a 400 or 500W TDP depending on the configuration, and even if I’m assuming 400, with 4 per watercooled 1U chassis, a 47U chassis with those would consume about 100kW with power supply efficiency and whatnot.
Running those for a day only would be 2.4GWh.
Now, I’m not assuming Amazon would own 100s of those chassis at every DC, but they probably would use at least a couple of such chassis to train their model (time is money, right?) And training them for a week with just two of those would be 35GWh, and I can only extrapolate from there.
But I don’t think that going to TWh is such an overstatement.
[…] and understating the amount of cardboard Amazon uses
That, very possibly.
I have seldom used Amazon ever, maybe 5 times tops, and I can only remember two times. Those two times, I ordered a smartphone and a bunch of electronics supplies, and I don’t remember the packaging being excessive. But I know from plenty of that they regularly overdo it. That, coupled with the insane amount of shit people order online… And yes, I believe you are right on that one.
Even so, as long as it is cardboard, or paper, and not plastic and glue, it isn’t a big ecological issue. It makes no difference to Amazon financially, cost is cost, and they only care about that, but let’s not pretend they are doing a good thing then. It is a cost effective measure for them, that ends up worsening the situation for everyone else.
- Comment on Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. 7 months ago:
IMHO the issue is two folds:
- The makefile were never supposed to do more than determine which build tools to call for a given target. Meaning that in very many cases, makefile are abused to do way too much. I’d argue that you should try to keep your make targets only one line long. Anything bigger and you’re likely doing it wrong.
- It is really challenging to write portable makefiles. There’s BSD make and GNU make, and then there are different tools on different systems. Different dependencies. Different libs. Etc. Not easy.
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 7 months ago:
Yeah, it is one of the least bad uses for it.
But then again, using literal tera-watts of compute power to save on the easiest actually recyclable material known to man (cardboard), maybe that’s just me, maybe I’m too jaded, but it sounds like a pretty bad overall outcome.
It isn’t a bad deal for Amazon, tho, who is likely to save on costs, that way, since energy is still orders of magnitude cheaper than it should be[^1], and cardboard is getting pricier.
[1]: if we were to account for the available supply, the demand, and the future (think sooner than later) need for transition towards new energy sources… Some that simply do not have the same potential.
- Comment on End of coding? Microsoft framework makes devs AI supervisors 7 months ago:
The thing is, devops is pretty complex and pretty diverse. You’ve got at least 6 different solutions among the popular ones.
Last time I checked only the list of available provisioning software, I counted 22.
Sure, some like
cdistare pretty niche, but still, when you apply for a company, even tho it is going to either be AWS (mostly), azure, GCE, oracle, or some run of the mill VPS provider with extended cloud features (simili S3 based on minio, “cloud LAN”, etc), and you are likely going to use terraform for host provisioning, the most relevant information to check is which software they use. Packer? Or dynamic provisioning like Chef? Puppet? Ansible? Salt? Or one of the “lesser ones”?And thing is, even among successive versions, among compatible stacks, the DSL evolved, and the way things are supposed to be done changed. For example, before hiera, puppet was an entirely different beast.
And that’s not even throwing docker or (or rkt, appc) in the mix. Then you have k8s, podman, helm, etc.
The entire ecosystem has considerable overlap too.
So, on one hand, you have pretty clean and useable code snippets on stackoverflow, github gist, etc. So much so that tools like that emerged… And then, the very second LLMs were able to produce any moderately usable output, they were trained on that data.
And on the other hand, you have devops. An ecosystem with no clear boundaries, no clear organisation, not much maturity yet (in spite of the industry being more than a decade old), and so organic that keeping up with developments is a full time job on its own. There’s no chance in hell LLMs can be properly trained on that dataset before it cools down. Not a chance. Never gonna happen.
- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 7 months ago:
Do bullets kill soldiers?
Infantry soldiers in the open, yes. Soldiers in an APC? No.
Same applies to companies. A single sufficient bad review on a small, one-person company can take it out entirely. A single review of a big corporation? Not even one from a big shot like MKBHD.
This headline is dumb.
- Comment on Why do video cards get slow when there's an available update? 7 months ago:
I believe you’re missing the actual causality chain here.
While it is actually proven that vendors will degrade your experience artificially to “motivate” you to buy new devices, in the never ending pursuit of monetary gain, there is no such potential incentive here: you aren’t paying for new drivers.
And while others suggest biases, I do believe you are witnessing an effect that is at least partially real, if not totally, but not for the reasons you believe:
Most programs that leverage GPUs end up being GPU bottlenecked. Meaning that one can almost always improve the program’s performance by using a better GPU.
But then, why does a new driver not improve performance, and rather, simply “bring a degraded performance back to previous levels”?
Well, that has to do with auto-updates, and the way drivers are distributed.
While, in a world where one would have to manually update everything, a new driver would almost certainly mean better performance for a given program, most programs auto-update silently and automatically. And the developers are usually on top of things wrt drivers, because they follow drivers updates closely, get early versions, etc.
Meaning that when a driver is updated, your apps usually are, too. I way that leverage the new driver for more processing, rather than faster processing.
And the consequence of such updates, when you are too slow to update your drivers, is a degraded experience.
Not because anyone artificially throttled your device’s performance, but because you lag too much behind expected updates.
- Comment on Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors 7 months ago:
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- Comment on My opinion on Bone conduction earphones 7 months ago:
Oh. Yes, that makes sense. I read it too literally I suppose. 🤪 thank you! 🙏
- Comment on My opinion on Bone conduction earphones 7 months ago:
Thank you very much for this post. I’m glad someone did the effort of getting some of those and presenting them from the PoV of a first time experience. I was curious.
However, I’m not sure what you meant with:
BUT when I shared it with others, people in body reported less effectiveness due to thickness of skin and under-dermal stuff, so it’s better to test it if you aren’t skinny as a skeleton.
At first it sounds like you say that overweight people have trouble using them (which is logical, the device needs to touch the bones), but then you go on saying that it doesn’t work for underweight people? I’m confused. Could you please elaborate a little? Thanks 🙂
- Comment on My opinion on Bone conduction earphones 7 months ago:
I’m not one for labeling music in genres, so I’ll write my answer in two parts: the “canonical” information, with artists documented as “IDM” artists on Wikipedia, and the “personal” information, which I think fits the so called “IDM” genre, but don’t quote me on that, I wouldn’t really know. This is “best effort”.
Canonical answer:
Orbital, aphex twin, and boards of Canada come to mind, but that’s more for the curious casual reader of this thread, as I’m sure you already know them. Also John Tejada, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Moderat, which are less known.
Personal answer:
I dunno if I would say that they fit in “IDM”, but I really enjoy the music of the artist Siriusmo. Also (in no particular order, all this could be hit or miss for you, so don’t dismiss it all because you don’t like one) Sasha, Kaito, Ernest Saint Laurent, Vessels, Barker & Baumecker, and pretty much everything under the labels monkeytown and Kompakt (respectively based in Berlin and Koln). I’m not sure where the genre lines stop tho, so you might add nick warren, Phil k, Dave seaman, John Digweed, etc. to that. Labels renaissance (the British one) and Global Underground.
- Comment on Quite a talent 7 months ago:
Notable flatulists: two Brits and a French. I dunno you, but they seem full of shit.
- Comment on Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. 7 months ago:
Honestly, if the makefile is well written, I will take that any day. Good makefiles are 😙👌.
They are extremely rare, tho…
- Comment on xkcd: Machine 7 months ago:
It should be, but the server is overloaded.
- Comment on xkcd: Machine 7 months ago:
Cool, but it’s now impossible to submit anything, as the server is being DDOS’d. Not out of malice, mind you, there are just too many geeks out there, and this is a Sunday…
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- Comment on This is a Test 7 months ago:
A then C. If you know how to do it ofc. If you don’t, then assume it is. Very different situation if the weapon is loaded. Both require C, but one much more intensely than the other.
- Comment on Looks like SEO chuds are now adding 'Reddit' to the titles. 7 months ago:
Yes, I get that point, but I also think that it’s tempting for the privacy-minded novice to think “the less information I provide, the better!”, while in actuality, it is better to provide “more” information: the most common UA, even if it means lying about your featureset. In this case, truly, more is less.
- Comment on Looks like SEO chuds are now adding 'Reddit' to the titles. 7 months ago:
Oh gee, I wasn’t aware there was more to it than the UA. Thanks for opening my eyes.
