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- Comment on they did the math 🦀 1 week ago:
Ah right. DRAM also requires a capacitor instead though, and I don’t know how you’d represent that with crabs. Maybe it’s possible.
- Comment on they did the math 🦀 1 week ago:
It also equates 1 bit to 1 logic gate, which I’m not sure it’s possible to create memory using that few gates unless it’s read-only. All memory cell circuits I know of require at least 2 logic gates.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 2 weeks ago:
Do you by chance have a PhD in food science?
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 2 weeks ago:
They were paid basically minimum wage, so they weren’t treated the best. They were doing important work, and I personally have a lot of respect for it, but it was (and still is) an uphill battle against sexism.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure of the timeframe of this, but it could be referring to the time when calculations were done by women by hand: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Computers
- Comment on it really do be like that 2 weeks ago:
When I think of digital signal processing I think of things like audio and Fourier transforms. In my experience there’s quite a bit to graphics programming that’s different from that. A lot of shader code is linear algebra / matrix math, and physics equations for light. There’s also a lot of thinking about memory layouts and how to reuse calculations as much as possible.
I say this as someone who does a lot of graphics programming in my job but failed “Feedback Control Systems” the first time through.
- Comment on For your consideration 2 weeks ago:
The bananas on the left are just closer to the camera. Everyone knows bananas are all the same size.
- Comment on Equations can't hurt your feelings 2 weeks ago:
Finally, I’m almost done!
Part 17 is as much work as part 1-16
Fuuuuu - Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 3 weeks ago:
People need to work to live, which requires looking at job postings. Shocking, I know
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 3 weeks ago:
Well the study we’re commenting under calls out that press releases and job postings are also becoming increasingly LLM-written. You can’t avoid those simply by touching grass.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 5 weeks ago:
This might work on the scale of a building to even out its own power usage throughout a day, but to make a difference on a city grid scale, you need an insane amount of height and/or weight.
Check out Pumped Water Energy Storage. It’s the same concept but uses water as the weight. Doing the math on the Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant active calacity, it stores over 100 billion pounds of water.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure the AI datacenters would have a few GW to spare if we put the LLMs on pause.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 5 weeks ago:
Is that using numbers for carbon capture from the atmosphere? Carbon capture directly on the exhaust of a fossil fuel power plant would probably be an order of magnitude more efficient. Obviously you can’t sustain everything by only using fuel combustion, but you could probably reduce to total emissions per kWh quite a bit without even looking at renewables.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 1 month ago:
Speech-to-text set to the wrong language or something?
- Comment on Thank you for your service 2 months ago:
Reply-all:
Guys, stop responding to this thread with Reply-all!
- Comment on Same 2 months ago:
With how much Factorio I’ve played, I’m down to less than $0.10/hr with the Space Age expansion. I’m nowhere close to done.
- Comment on Same 2 months ago:
2 of those games are from 2022 and 2023
- Comment on A delicate balance 2 months ago:
It’s certainly an argument I’ve heard a lot when talking about inconsistencies in the Bible. Usually it’s blamed on translation, missing context, or exaggerated retellings. It was written by many different people who weren’t necessarily talking to each other after all. I have a hard time taking any of it seriously.
- Comment on You'll never see it coming 2 months ago:
I’m going to file this under the category of philosophy similar to “what if we’re living in a simulation?” and “parallel universe” theory. As far as I’m aware we have no evidence that there’s even such thing as a false vacuum, so this is all just speculation based on some theories.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 2 months ago:
These don’t seem to be particularly new panels. $600 and only 97% of the sRGB color space (= ~78% DCI-P3), meanwhile a similarity priced LG “QNED” can do 90-95% of DCI-P3. I’m not sure can even call those TVs HDR, they’re only 8-bit color. None of these models can even remotely compare to a brand new OLED TV.
- Comment on A ton of bollocks, more like 2 months ago:
You’re thinking of a mammogram , a maritime is a long-distance running event over a distance of about 42km.
- Comment on Diamond market 2 months ago:
It really is unfortunate that someone spending the time to craft a well written comment explaining something looks so much like a ChatGPT response. It’s what they trained it to do after all…
- Comment on Diamond market 2 months ago:
Diamonds turn to coal under pressure? I thought it was the other way around. i.e. formed from coal under high pressure.
The fact diamonds can burn is pretty crazy, but it makes sense since they’re mostly (entirely?) carbon.
- Comment on oh man 3 months ago:
I agree that it’s possible to arrive at the conclusion “pain is bad” as an individual, but I guess what I’m arguing is that there’s no absolute hard line on what is and isn’t ethical. Each individual person might have their own personal line, but there is no guarantee that line will be the same as another person’s. Case-in-point, a psychopath is someone with reduced or no empathy for others. They may very well not consider pain in others bad at all.
- Comment on oh man 3 months ago:
How does that study account for the fact a high income individual is significantly more likely to have access to a doctor to diagnose them with a personality disorder?
- Comment on oh man 3 months ago:
Statement #3 is hearsay. I would argue the only thing you can know is that you personally do not like pain. There is no absolute good or bad, only what aligns or doesn’t with your passions.
The Golden Rule of “treating others as one would want to be treated”, is a logical conclusion that comes from experiencing the world and seeing that there’s a high probability that others will return actions in kind. It’s not perfect since everyone has different preferences (just look at the variety of sexualities and kinks out there).
- Comment on oh man 3 months ago:
Something I’ve come to realize recently is that everyone has selfish motivations, some people are just a lot more careful about how those motivations effect others. Personally I worry quite a bit about how I might be inconveniencing others with my actions, and tend to stay rather isolated as a result.
- Comment on oh man 3 months ago:
I feel like I’m learning a decent amount from this thread. I definitely consider myself a (overly) rational person. I haven’t really thought about it before, but obviously I’ve still got some passions driving things.
If I was to put it into words, I’d probably say I’m passionate about learning how things work and finding elegant simple solutions to problems. Which is generally tied to my selfish goal of having more free time to just experience the world without responsibilities.
Thanks for inspiring me to think about this, maybe I should go read some more philosophy…
- Comment on bestchem club 3 months ago:
There’s cleary only one Oxygen, it should be formatted
C10 H14 OOr better yet, C~10~H~14~O - Comment on Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected 3 months ago:
This is a bit difficult than MTBF like on harddrives. Batteries are usually warrantied to 80% capacity because it’s a wear thing, not a random chance of complete failure. A battery isn’t going to last twice as long as another one by chance, this is all about determining the average or worst-case operating range the battery will be in and using that to figure out a warranty period where they think all cars will fall within.