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Frezik

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  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • You can think that, but you'd be wrong. A ChatGPT search uses 10x the power of a regular Google search.

    https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/ai-has-environmental-problem-heres-what-world-can-do-about#%3A%7E%3Atext=A+request+made+through+ChatGPT%2C+an+AI-based%2CGoogle+Search%2C+reported+the+International+Energy+Agency.

    Google has quietly removed their net-zero pledge from their website:

    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/google-quietly-removes-net-zero-carbon-goal-from-website-amid-rapid-power-hungry-ai-data-center-buildout-industry-first-sustainability-pledge-moved-to-background-amidst-ai-energy-crisis

    This stuff isn't being built with renewables.

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • When a family in the global south uses coal to cook their food, they release CO2. When a billionaire flies around the continent on a private jet, they also release CO2.

    Do you consider the two to be equivalent in need or output?

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • People downloading stuff for personal use vs making money off of it are not the same at all. We don't tend to condone people selling bootleg DVDs, either.

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • I’ve never heard anyone say “we need less data centers” until ai came along. What, all the other data centers are totally fine but the ones being used for ai are evil? If you have an issue with the drastically increased power consumption for ai you should be able to argue a stance that is inclusive of all data centers - assuming it’s something you give a fuck about. Which you don’t.

    AI data centers take up substantially more power than regular ones. Nobody was talking about spinning up nuclear reactors or buying out the next several years of turbine manufacturing for non-AI datacenters. Hell, Microsoft gave money to a fusion startup to build a reactor, they've already broken ground, but it's far from proven that they can actually make net power with fusion. They actually think they can supply power by 2028. This is delusion driven by an impossible goal of reaching AGI with current models.

    Your whole post is missing out on the difference in scale involved. GPU power consumption isn't comparable to standard web servers at all.

  • AMD preps 10 % GPU price rise amid memory-chip shortage

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  • It's not like AMD created this situation. It's pretty well documented, and the culprit is OpenAI plus the three companies that make all the DRAM. Mostly OpenAI.

  • Why are "love potions" always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant?

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  • Because humans are really, really hung up about sex in general, and we make it complicated. The idea of a potion that cuts right through all the bullshit sounds pretty good to just about everyone at some point in their lives.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • A bit of Perl code from the late 90s/early 2000s that worked something like this (working from memory, untested):

     
        
my $hits = `grep $search_string $file`;
my @lines = split /\n/, $hits;
my @real_hits;
for( my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@lines); $i++ ) {
    my $line = $lines[0];
    if( $line =~ /$search_string/ ) {
        push @real_hits, $line;
    }
}

    Let me explain a bit about what this does. Instead of reading a file line-by-line and using Perl's regex engine to match, it uses backticks to call out to the shell for grep. Those are split up by line. Then go through those lines (in a C-style for loop, not the perfectly good foreach version that Perl has had for a long time) and now we use a regex to match that line. You know, just in case shell grep didn't do its one job.

    If anything, I'm probably making this code look better by declaring variables with my and following use strict standards.

    This was written by a guy who was the main programmer before I was hired. I was told he was a real piece of shit. He often had some checks in his code that, if not passed, threw messages to the client like "WE HAVE DETECTED YOUR HACKING AND LOGGED YOUR IP ADDRESS WE'RE GOING TO GET YOU". Never met him personally, but his code is a pretty good example of why everyone came to hate Perl.

  • not possible

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  • This man is probably from Wisconsin, went to CampNCN, and thinks fucking in the forest there is kinky.

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • That conflicts with my own theory. Back in 2013, Half Life 3 was quietly released as an easter egg hidden inside a random indie title somewhere on Steam and nobody has noticed yet.

  • functions

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  • No, no, they're saying Kotlin seams together the fun.

  • CEO of Roblox Says Child Predators on the Platform Are an "Opportunity"

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  • You want to go back and reword that?

  • What's your favourite story from history that is actually false or exaggerated?

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  • There was a gap in [some military capability] during the Cold War, and the USA was losing it. Almost anything you stick in there, Russia was behind. They sometimes implied otherwise, but it's rare that they ever were. Occasionally, they used everything they had to just about match.

    By the 1960s, their navy was pretty good, though. Don't let anyone tell you they were just a bunch of vodka drunk idiots. Not at that time, anyway.

    At the opposite end of what this thread is about, Dr Strangelove is far more correct than it should be.

  • How much of your interest in something is subtly based on esthetics?

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  • Water cooling computers. Pretty much all aesthetics. It's expensive, hard to maintain, and isn't that much better than decent air cooling these days. Looks really cool, and I still want to do a glass tube build.

    Would not recommend to anyone else. You really have to want to do this just because.

  • DAE in their 30s/40s/50s not really feel like an adult?

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  • Yup, everyone in the world is just winging it. Everyone.

  • How much money do you think those generic porn sites that just link to other porn sites make?

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  • Before Pornhub, quite a bit. The better tube sites pushed the bottom feeders down.

    BTW, if ID verification takes root in a few more big states, those type of sites are going to pick up again. They don't give a shit about following the state-by-state rules. If they do get shut down or blocked, they'll just spin up another one. Some people will use VPNs to access Pornhub anyway, but that takes a level of tech savviness.

    You can't ban porn, you can only ban (nominally) ethical porn. Yes, there are ethical issues with Pornhub. It has fewer issues than the bottom feeder sites that don't verify their pictures or videos at all.

    Similar situation to abortion. Can't ban that, either, you can only ban safe abortion.

  • What tropes are constantly used about groups of men or groups of women, even though it is obviously false?

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  • Just watch how many try to "start" a campfire by using gasoline. Which tends to eat all the oxygen so nothing else has a chance.

  • What tropes are constantly used about groups of men or groups of women, even though it is obviously false?

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  • Big Bang Theory is stuck in some '90s ideas of nerds.

    Back then, people would joke that guys would never find a girlfriend while playing DnD. Now I have a pair of friends who got married and originally bonded as part of our DnD group, and that seems completely normal.

  • Nvidia and AMD could kill some low- to mid-range graphics cards as memory shortage crisis intensifies

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  • To sell at a loss, or at least very low profit? Low end GPUs tend to have tight margins to begin with. Why stick limited DRAM in there when there are products that need it that can actually be sold for profit?

    I guess they can be a loss leader. It's not a sustainable business model, though, and this DRAM shortage is projected to last a while.

  • Nvidia and AMD could kill some low- to mid-range graphics cards as memory shortage crisis intensifies

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  • DRAM shortages affect everything. There's no wiggling out of that through alternative GPUs.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    Frezik @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    Frezik @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    A natural leader is someone who is seen by others as a leader. It is not the same thing as a good leader.