xthexder
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- Comment on A simple solution, really 1 week ago:
The implication and “punchline” here is that millennials only have $300/year of free spending money. It’s self-deprecating/morbid humor.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 2 weeks ago:
You do not need to be passing people if they’re already going 100mph…
- Comment on Bruh, chill 2 weeks ago:
I’m confused about this part:
back into right lane
This implies you started in the right (non-passing) lane and moved out of it to let them pass. Unless you’re from a country that drives on the left, in which case sorry for the confusion.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 2 weeks ago:
What highways are there with a 100mph+ speed limit? I’d love to visit.
I thought the highest in the US was 80mph, which means at least 30mph over. I thought you could start getting your vehicle impounded and get reckless driving charges at that point. It’s a little more than common speeding - Comment on Bruh, chill 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been following this advice myself, but maybe with a bit of an ulterior motive… Being the second fastest car on the road, maybe a mile or two back from the fastest car on the road means they get pulled over and I don’t.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 2 weeks ago:
It’s like none of these people have taken road trips before. Depending on traffic density, you can be passing cars continuously for hours on a 4-lane highway (2 each direction). If there’s room to move to the right without slowing down, then yes, move over and cruise on the right lane. You don’t need to weave in and out of the passing lane every single car you pass.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 2 weeks ago:
Did you get the lanes mixed up, or are you saying you’re moving into the faster lane to let them pass you on the right? Passing on the right may not be illegal in the US, but it’s definitely less safe and it’s illegal in parts of Europe. I would never move left to let someone pass, if they can’t figure out how to go around on their own, that’s their problem.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 weeks ago:
Anything that’s per-commit is part of the “build” in my opinion.
But if you’re running a language server and have stuff like format-on-save enabled, it’s going to use a lot more power as you’re coding.
But like you said, text editing is a small part of the workflow, and looking up docs and browsing code should barely require any CPU, a phone can do it with fractions of a Watt, and a PC should be underclocking when the CPU is underused.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 weeks ago:
It sounds like it does save you a lot of time then. I haven’t had the same experience, but I did all my learning to program before LLMs.
Personally I think the amount of power saved here is negligible, but it would actually be an interesting study to see just how much it is.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t even say which direction it was misleading, it’s just not really a valid comparison to compare a single invocation of an LLM with a continuous task.
You’re comparing Volume of Water with Flow Rate. Or if this was power, you’d be comparing Energy (Joules or kWh) with Power (Watts)
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 weeks ago:
Just writing code uses almost no energy. Your PC should be clocking down when you’re not doing anything. 1GHz is plenty for text editing.
Does ChatGPT reduce the number of times you hit build? Because that’s where all the electricity goes.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 weeks ago:
Asking ChatGPT a question doesn’t take 1 hour like most of these… this is a very misleading graph
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 5 weeks ago:
You’re just saying, human-written software can have bugs.
That’s pretty much exactly the point they’re making. Humans create the training data. Humans aren’t perfect, and therefore the AI training data cannot be perfect. The AI will always make mistakes and have biases as long as it’s being trained on human data.
- Comment on NO TO AI 5 weeks ago:
It’s certainly lossy
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 1 month ago:
It’s probably graded by a computer, and a) or d) is a fake answer, since the automated system doesn’t support multiple right answers.
I’m going to go with 25% chance if picking random, and a 50% chance if picking between a) and d).
If it’s graded by a human, the correct answer is f) + u) - Comment on Living the dream 1 month ago:
Vengeance.js is the latest JavaScript framework, and this candidate has 3 years experience! (Vengeance.js was released 6 month ago) /s
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 1 month ago:
My opinion is that including trans people in this sort of study actually reduces the bias, because they’re the only people who will have experienced the social impacts of presenting both male and female at different times. All cis-gendered people will be inherently biased towards their own limited experience.
- Comment on Somebodys got a case of the Easter Mondays 1 month ago:
Most of those seem like nonlinear relationships, so it still doesn’t make any sense still. The undergrowth would only start becoming an issue when the height gets taller than the egg diameter.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 months ago:
Based on some rough calculations… no. A precision of 0.0000000000001 ohms is 1000x less than the resistance of 1um of copper with a diameter of 1cm (A piece of wire 10,000x wider than it is long).
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 months ago:
This is exactly how high precision resistors are calibrated. A laser is usually used to notch out bits of the resistor to tune it after it’s made.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 months ago:
You could get exactly 6.1854838709677 for an instantaneous moment by heating up a 6ohm resistor.
- Comment on they did the math 🦀 2 months 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 🦀 2 months 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 months ago:
Do you by chance have a PhD in food science?
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 2 months 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 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 months ago:
People need to work to live, which requires looking at job postings. Shocking, I know