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Comment on Your cookware got worse on purpose: who owns Pyrex and All-Clad now in ~food
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Comment on How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use? in ~enviro
vord LinkBear in mind that global energy consumption typically grows on the average of 1-3% annually. 2% of the global energy usage for a tech that defacto did not exist 10 years ago is somewhat...Bear in mind that global energy consumption typically grows on the average of 1-3% annually. 2% of the global energy usage for a tech that defacto did not exist 10 years ago is somewhat outrageous.
Another way to phrase this is "AI has more than doubled the amount of new energy buildout required."
Or another way: AI is consuming resources that should otherwise be directed at converting all the oil/gas home heating and cooking to electric.
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Comment on Why socialists should embrace luxury apartments in ~society
vord Link ParentYes,but in my neck of the woods they're building gold-crusted shells that sit unused for years while the shit-covered ones go up to match gold-crusted rent minus 20%.Yes,but in my neck of the woods they're building gold-crusted shells that sit unused for years while the shit-covered ones go up to match gold-crusted rent minus 20%.
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Comment on Boycotting palm oil in general is actually bad for the environment in ~enviro
vord Link ParentSome people have tried their hands at assassination of world leaders and gotten surprisingly close. Be the change you want to be in the world.Some people have tried their hands at assassination of world leaders and gotten surprisingly close.
Be the change you want to be in the world.
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Comment on The coming loop in ~comp
vord (edited )LinkI hadn't been able to come up with proper words for this, but yes. The exception handling and overabstraction of functions. Things that make it easy to feign competence. Once had Claude vibecode a...I hadn't been able to come up with proper words for this, but yes. The exception handling and overabstraction of functions. Things that make it easy to feign competence.
Once had Claude vibecode a class. Came out to be 1000 lines. Once I stripped away all of the useless abstractions (defined as function definitions that get called precisely one time ever), ancient method calls, and overcomplicated exception handling I had cut it down to 300.
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Comment on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is threatening to deport witnesses of its latest shooting in ~society
vord Link ParentI more or less give up on that when it hits that point. At a certain point you can't cure a bone infection, you have to amputate. But in this case it's because free markets, authoritarianism,...I more or less give up on that when it hits that point.
At a certain point you can't cure a bone infection, you have to amputate.
But in this case it's because free markets, authoritarianism, bigotry, conspiracy, and religion have all been tightly coupled into a big ball of hate known as American Christianity.
And there is a reason they call them holy wars.
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Comment on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is threatening to deport witnesses of its latest shooting in ~society
vord Link ParentMaybe it's because you're kinder than I, but mine has been varying shades of '"fuck off if you can't comprehend how wrong this is." It's almost as cathartic as telling Boomers who are demanding...I just have no more words to say to people who aren't as horrified, at least for now.
Maybe it's because you're kinder than I, but mine has been varying shades of '"fuck off if you can't comprehend how wrong this is."
It's almost as cathartic as telling Boomers who are demanding tax breaks from property taxes that they already get tax breaks if their income is below average.
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Comment on China is dealing with its own manosphere in ~life.men
vord Link ParentOh I get that the men themselves are not to blame, merely their parents who were shortsighted enough to not see the potential problems of rejecting female babies. Or to put another way: Don't...Oh I get that the men themselves are not to blame, merely their parents who were shortsighted enough to not see the potential problems of rejecting female babies.
Or to put another way: Don't blame the women (as manosphere bros tend to do) for the patriarchal tendencies of your parents.
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Comment on China is dealing with its own manosphere in ~life.men
vord Link ParentOh yes, woe are the men who are without women because their parents saw female children as inferior.Oh yes, woe are the men who are without women because their parents saw female children as inferior.
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Comment on Readers rate poems worse when they believe they're written by AI, despite their ability to detect AI being no better than chance in ~humanities.languages
vord Link ParentOr how literally everything Kevin Spacey was in is now essentially unwatchable even though many things are objectively top-tier. Doesn't matter how good if there is no soul.Or how literally everything Kevin Spacey was in is now essentially unwatchable even though many things are objectively top-tier.
Doesn't matter how good if there is no soul.
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Comment on Readers rate poems worse when they believe they're written by AI, despite their ability to detect AI being no better than chance in ~humanities.languages
vord Link ParentI guess...but especially in the case of poetry it feels....lazy? I guess I'm getting at there is a wide gulf between leaving gaps with nuance and context for a reader to fill in with their own...I guess...but especially in the case of poetry it feels....lazy?
I guess I'm getting at there is a wide gulf between leaving gaps with nuance and context for a reader to fill in with their own imagination and experience, and just a husk.
Kind of like multiplayer games that are only fun if you play with friends....how much is the game being good, and how much is 'playing with friends' doing the heavy lifting.
And perhaps our shift in disliking an AI work retroactively maybe has some innate forgiveness of flaws for a human effort but not that of an emotionless machine.
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Comment on Readers rate poems worse when they believe they're written by AI, despite their ability to detect AI being no better than chance in ~humanities.languages
vord Link ParentThe point of seemingly half of modern art is the visceral reactions people are having to it.The point of seemingly half of modern art is the visceral reactions people are having to it.
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Comment on Readers rate poems worse when they believe they're written by AI, despite their ability to detect AI being no better than chance in ~humanities.languages
vord (edited )Link ParentThe whole point of writing is that transmission of meaning from one human to another. It is the closest thing we have to telepathy. Having the AI finish it off is like the author saying "eh you...I think meaning is created in the recipients brain, right?
The whole point of writing is that transmission of meaning from one human to another. It is the closest thing we have to telepathy.
Having the AI finish it off is like the author saying "eh you get the idea, anyway here's Wonderwall" halfway through.
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Comment on Microsoft PowerToys in ~tech
vord Link ParentBeing able to use 'rename' on Linux was almost a good a life improvement as proper cross-device I/O. It baffles me how bad Windows is at transferring thousands of small files to this day, even...Being able to use 'rename' on Linux was almost a good a life improvement as proper cross-device I/O.
It baffles me how bad Windows is at transferring thousands of small files to this day, even compared to BTRFS, the goto 'slow' filesystem.
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Comment on Are we burning it down by proxy? in ~talk
vord (edited )Link Parent+1 to 250th. Definitely a factor. And I think the 'on fire' is simply because it is quite literal in this case. Often with a side of property damage and personal injury. It's hard to pass up a...+1 to 250th. Definitely a factor.
And I think the 'on fire' is simply because it is quite literal in this case. Often with a side of property damage and personal injury. It's hard to pass up a good opportunity for double-meaning.
A tiny firework that'll sparkle for about 1 minute costs on the order of a movie ticket. An hour of fireworks will easily run $500. In the terms of value per minute, it's roughly on par with a $0.50 slot machine.
I'd say it's a pretty valid question on the whole. Right now feeding and housing my family alone is costing me on the order of 50% of our household income. And we're right in that median in a fairly low CoL area. And I even downsized my housing costs.
And I say this all as someone who loves fireworks. It saddens me to see the current state of affairs. I live in an area that is pretty enthusiastic about them, to the point it would seem a constant barrage from about July 3rd till July 6th. But this year it was mostly over and done after a few hours on the 4th.
But the income level trends below national average here. And it shows.
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Comment on Are we burning it down by proxy? in ~talk
vord (edited )Link ParentK-shaped recovery. People with assets are doing more or less fine. People paycheck to paycheck hurting evermore.K-shaped recovery. People with assets are doing more or less fine. People paycheck to paycheck hurting evermore.
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Comment on US Federal Communications Commission approves test of space mirror to light night sky despite outcry in ~space
vord Link ParentThe reason conservatives are hellbent on destroying education is that it makes it much easier to grift people with scams that can be disproven with highschool-level physics.The reason conservatives are hellbent on destroying education is that it makes it much easier to grift people with scams that can be disproven with highschool-level physics.
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Comment on Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh in ~comp
vord Link ParentGot about 2.5 GB of vendor source code distributed via zip file (no source control). I want summarized and embedded using various models. They release monthly, and once I have a baseline going,...Got about 2.5 GB of vendor source code distributed via zip file (no source control). I want summarized and embedded using various models.
They release monthly, and once I have a baseline going, the diffs should be more manageable.
Especially since then we build a customization layer on top, and their impact analysis tools leave much to be desired.
I've got a nice little MCP brewing which allows far better diff. I'll probably be able to swing some budget to speed up the process because it's proving useful, but still.
I've been doing my PoC on a tiny little workstation doing CPU embeddings at about 200 token/s.
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Comment on Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh in ~comp
vord Link ParentSo, this would be excellent for batch use cases that don't need realtime response. I have a giant backlog of stuff that falls under 'Launch a job and come back to it 2 weeks later' which is low...So, this would be excellent for batch use cases that don't need realtime response. I have a giant backlog of stuff that falls under 'Launch a job and come back to it 2 weeks later' which is low priority enough to not spend actual money on.
If something like this would let me slowly churn through that backlog while helping others do the same (and perhaps improving the tech as it goes), I'll check it out.
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Comment on Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’ in ~society
vord Link ParentClarance Darrow is the earliest known (though often incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain):Clarance Darrow is the earliest known (though often incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain):
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
It's almost like having a mandatory "zero questions" warranty period of 3 years, and a "reasonable usage" clause of 10 would eliminate an awful lot of straight-up garbage from polluting our lives.