Thorry84

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There is another factor in this which often gets overlooked. A LOT of the money invested right now is for the Nvidia chips and products based around them. As many gamers are painfully aware, these chips devalue very quickly. With the progress of technology moving so fast, what was once a top of the line unit gets outclassed by mid tier hardware within a couple of years. After 5 years it’s usefulness is severely diminished and after 10 years it is hardly worth the energy to run them.

  This means the window for return on investment is a lot shorter than usual in tech. For example when creating a software service, there would be an upfront investment for buying the startup that created the sofrware. Then some scaling investment in infrastructure and such. But after that it turns into a steady state where the input of money is a lot lower than revenue from the customer base that was grown. This allows to get returns on investment for many years after that initial investment and growth phase.

  With this Ai shit it works a bit different. If you want to train and run the latest models in order to remain competitive in the market, you would need to continually buy the latest hardware from Nvidia. As soon as you start running on older hardware, your product would be left behind and with all the competition out there users would be lost very quickly. It’s very hard to see how the trillions of dollars invested now are ever going to be recovered within the span of five years. Especially in a time where so much companies are dumping their products for very low prices and sometimes even for free.

  This bubble has to burst and it is going to be bad. For the people who were around when the dotcom bubble burst, this is going to be much worse than that ever was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You would need to investigate the soil you put the wood in, in order to select the correct wood and wood treatment. The wrong kind of wood in certain soils can be broken down in weeks to months. Getting wood to last years is tricky and depending on the soil could even be impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Guess it's Better than Having These Cowards Doing it Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand I hate a society with cameras all over the place, monitoring every aspect of our lives in order to fix one issue. I don’t want to end up in a super controlled environment, where everything we do is tracked and we are punished if it doesn’t conform to some arbitrary standard. Especially if that standard can change depending on whichever dipshit is in charge this week. And abuse is right around the corner, with cameras installed for one purpose quietly being used for a whole other purpose.

  On the other hand, I ride my bike to work every day and the way people drive has gotten way worse the past few years. Cars have gotten huge and people just don’t care at all about their fellow man. Those big cars give a sense of safety and disconnect the driver from their environment. So driving too fast is easier and a form of complacency can set in, not paying attention or thinking they can get away with more than they actually can. We are also moving towards a very selfish and individualistic society. This means people being busy on their phones even while driving. But also cars that are super loud and emit way more emissions than really necessary.

  So I would actually like a bit more regulation and actual enforcement of the regulation that’s already in place. The number of near death life flashing before your eyes moments I’ve had trying to ride my bike to work has increased to an uncomfortable level. I’d wish people would care a bit more about their fellow man and the world, but alas it’s not to be i’m afraid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dying Light: The Beast looks absolutely brutal in the new trailer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah The Following was pretty good. I also really liked all the community shit they did, like those freak gnomes that would come out at xmas. We laughed so hard about that one. I don’t know who did the community event management for DL1, but they kept it going for so long, it was great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dying Light: The Beast looks absolutely brutal in the new trailer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dying Light 1 was excellent, loved it a lot and played it a lot.

  Dying Light 2 was terrible, I don’t know why it got as much praise as it did. It had zero enemy variety, copy pasted assets all over the place, entire copy pasted missions. The whole night time stuff was a joke because the AI was so terrible. It ran like shit on release. The story and characters weren’t interesting at all, where this was a strong point of the first game.

  So I don’t know if I trust them for a 3rd time. They had beter come out swinging with a real banger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, most experimental technologies aren’t allowed to be tested in public till they are good and well ready. This whole move fast break often thing seems like a REALLY bad idea for something like cars on public roads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the war on drugs was extremely effective and didn’t cause any bad things at all!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Checkmate liberals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop trying to make ‘kagis’ a thing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, I feel like saying ‘kagis’ makes you streets ahead of the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SOURCE!?!?!?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨😭😭😭😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunatly even when you are in the hospital when this happens and everyone around you is aware of what’s happening fast enough to act, it’s probably still fatal. Often times this happens deep inside the brain, there is no way to get someone into brain surgery fast enough. And even if somehow the doctors can get in there, often there is nothing to be done. If it’s deep in the brain, there is no good way of getting in there without causing a lot of damage and depending on the exact situation it can’t even be fixed.

  It’s just one of those really sad things that happens without anybody being able to do something about it.

  This is unfortunatly common in my family and I’ve had family members eating themselves up about it, if they just acted faster and got them to the hospital faster. But everyone from the hospital side was very clear about this, there is nothing that anyone could have done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar powered personal umbrella with battery?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People always severely underestimate how little power solar panels actually produce. In optimal conditions they get around 1000 watt per square meter, but are only around 20% efficient. So that means 200 watt produced at the panel. Once you convert that into something useable and transport it to where you need it, you’ll probably lose another 5 - 10%. And that’s a square meter, that’s more than you can comfortably carry. Think a flat panel of around 2 meters in length and 0.5 meters wide and lifting that above your head, pointed perfectly at the sun.

  And the reality is, most solar panels even in permanent installations don’t experience perfect conditions. They don’t track the sun, so most of the time they aren’t perfectly aligned to catch all that energy. They are most likely never aligned perfectly, or if they are just a few days out of the year for like an hour a day. The sun isn’t always out, not just because you know night time, but also because of clouds and other weather or human related stuff. Lots of times there are shadows that prevent optimal workings. Dust and grime also plays a part. But another thing is temperature, solar panels are rated at around 20 degrees C. But when you put a black thing in full sun, you know it’s going to get scorching hot. This also reduces the amount of energy you can usefully extract from the sunlight as well.

  The annoying thing about solar panels is they aren’t linear at all. It isn’t like when conditions are 80% from optimal, they produce 80% of the power. No, usually it’s more like 60%. And once you drop below 40% of optimal, you just produce basically zero. With a bit of effort this can be improved upon. For example I use microinverters which can regulate each panel individually, but even then it’s not great. And that’s with state of the art panels, which are very fragile, so they have a sturdy metal frame, a very tough plastic backing and a big ass layer of glass on top to protect them. If you get those more sturdy thin and light panels, you’ll be lucky if they get 15% efficiency (most likely a lot less).

  So putting solar on anything that isn’t a permanent installation is usually pointless. It’s way too hard to get those ideal conditions and the panels aren’t very good to start with. If it’s moving, it’s hard to point at the sun all the time. Exception are maybe a small panel on the top of a campervan, which is probably the best case for a mobile installation and gets just a little bit of energy. But only if it doesn’t distrub the wind profile of the van, otherwise it probably costs more in gas to push it along at high speed than it ever delivers back in electricity. One of those small foldable panels can also be useful when hiking for example. You can carry it collapsed on your back and if you take a break, you can fold it out, point it at the sun and get some useful energy for a couple of hours while you get some rest. Putting it on when hiking would be pointless, as it would be bulky when folded out, usually not pointed at the sun and under cover of trees for example.

  Maybe the technology will improve in the future, but for now any useful personal solar is very niche.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help prevent teenage agricultural addiction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Buffy <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: What are 'forever chemicals' and why do they matter? – DW – 07/15/2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One common misconception I’ve seen is people suddenly being afraid of their PTFE items they use at home. For example coated pans or PTFE cutting boards. They throw them out, because it thinks these will hurt them.

  However this is not true. The long chain molecules used in the final product are perfectly safe. They get all their useful features from being big molecules and being very inert. That’s why they are used in the first place. As such these molecules can’t interact with biologics at all. You can safely eat them, they will just pass through your body. They don’t interact with anything and are too big to get incorporated into anything.

  The issue with stuff like PTFE is the production. That’s where a lot of small PFAS molecules get used and after they’ve been used they can’t easily be used again. So it’s discarded as waste. But it turns out these smaller molecules can interact with biologics and not in a good way. And as they are still pretty inert, they don’t break down at all. Hence the term forever chemicals.

  Back in the day Dupont studied if those smaller PFAS molecules they were discarding into the world’s water by the boatload could do any harm. They quickly found out yes, it can do a lot of harm. But to not hurt the bottom line (number must go up), they kept it a secret. This has damaged the environment in a very significant way.

  When this came to light, they set out to design a new small molecule to use in the production. One that would be safe. So they did and used that, which satisfied the public for a time. However later it was proven this is a fantasy. The new molecule is just as bad as the previous one. And it turns out any variant of these kinds of molecules are just as harmful. That’s why we now collectively call this class of molecule PFAS. Dupont probably knew about this, as the properties that made them useful in the production are the same properties that make it so dangerous to biologics. However since stuff like PTFE is too important in our modern world, we kept making the stuff. Only recently have we found out how big of a problem we are creating with that.

  So when you have PTFE or similar items, please keep using them. The damage for these items is already done and the end product is safe. It would be a waste to have done the damage and then not even use the end product. But when buying new stuff, be on alert. Try to find out if PFAS was used in the production of the item and try to avoid where possible. There has been talk of laws in the EU which would require the label on a product to show if PFAS was used, so people can avoid it. But we aren’t there yet.

  If we were smart, we would ban it altogether. But like I said, too much of the modern world depends on these kinds of materials. So that’s probably not going to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There has to be more to the story than that, as medical tools using radiation have had terrible accidents, but are still used a lot all over the world. And for example every day there are terrible accidents with motorcycles and in some countries that’s basically the primary mode of transportation for most people.

  The true story has to be a bit more complex and nuanced?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think space opera can be sci-fi or fantasy? Star Wars is definitely fantasy tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being married to a honest to god actual Spice Girl (after ditching your first wife and kids) and still having the need to sexually harass your PA. There is something not right with that man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think my face scrub still has these. But I would have to check, it might be just sand they put in there. Works great tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself 'MechaHitler'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes sir, we finally fixed it. It now no longer denies the holocaust.

  Excellent work Jenkins! We’ve finally created the perfectly balanced and fair AI!

  Well there is this one little hiccup sir. It now recommends a second holocaust and calls itself MechaHitler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gelatine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I love those. Especially the rainbow candy is excellent!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gelatine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good to see more and more vegan candy being sold. These days I’ve even come to expect it. When it isn’t advertised on the packaging I check the ingredients and more often than not I see they are in fact vegan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they meant people don’t know how these models work in practice. On a theoretical level they are well understood. But in practice they behave in a chaotic way (chaotic in the math sense of the word). A small change in the input can lead to wild swings in the output. So when people want to change the way the models acts by changing the system prompt, it’s basically impossible to say what change should be made to achieve the desired outcome. And often such a change doesn’t even exist, only something that’s close enough is possible. So they have to resort to trial and error, trying to tweak things like the system prompt and seeing what happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barbers HATE this one simple trick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  3 years? I’ve been bald for 20 years and I’m 300K down the hole, when does this trick kick in exactly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that the LTT Noctua screwdriver?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sir, you really should use your axe to drive screws. It doesn’t even work and damages the axe. Also this is a Wendy’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporations are saving the planet!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? I never heard that before. What would they care about how their caps are? I can’t see it having any impact on them at all. A lot of people got pissed about it when Coca Cola was one of the first to change the caps in line with the regulation, so if anything it hurt Coca Cola.

  Also even though large corporations are almost always totally evil, it’s not impossible for them to do something good as well. Probably not for the right reasons, but still, one thing doesn’t exclude the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earned my belly today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t the proper technical term a “spaghet”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I stop itching?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What did the doctor say? You may have a fungal infection, where the welts and itch aren’t caused by dryness or the scratching, but by the fungus. It’s actually really common and can be extremely annoying if left untreated. Some miconazole nitrate cream can really help out with this, just a few weeks of applying twice a day and it’ll clear up.

  But never take medical advice from the internet, go see a doctor and ask them what to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be honest whose actually working today and who is goofing off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m only working half day today and to be fair it’s more like hardly working than working hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah these are the dicks that cried terrorism when Tesla was “attacked”