brucethemoose
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- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 19 hours ago:
Not sure I understand you but I think I get it?
Like, most of what AI bad is the cultism and corporate shit. Like literally shaving 2% off costs to drain a town’s water or something, or proselytizing scaling up transformers and while ignoring the efficiency/scaling papers that keep coming out (because that would break the grift).
…At the same time, the absolute energy cost is ridiculously overstated compared to, say, global aluminum or steel production.
And then you have the ridiculous politicization. An example I often cite is a TV series that was ‘fan remastered’ and (as one component in a long chain) upscaled with an oldschool GAN that cost peanuts to train. Beloved years ago, but all of a sudden the fandom hates it because it has something to do with ‘AI’.
- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 1 day ago:
See this comment: lemmy.world/post/38090104/20233592
But the TL;DR version:
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Launching anything into space is heinously expensive.
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With very generous math, you’d need a radiator like a mile across to cool a space data center, but practically? Probably larger.
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Datacenter hardware is unreliable and goes obsolete quickly, and any kind of maintenance in space is basically cost prohibitive.
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There are other smaller yet still crippling engineering challenges, like bit flips from radiation (which gets move severe as lithography shrinks; look up Nvidia’s research on this), assembling large structures in space reliably, and extremely difficult/expensive networking.
And most of all… Solar is dirt cheap on Earth, compared to that.
It’s like saying “air conditioning is difficult” and proposing “I know! Let’s live under the Antarctic ice sheet!” That’s not hyperbole. It might be more practical, actually…
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- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 1 day ago:
- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 1 day ago:
The really hilarious thing is evaporative cooling (that takes so much water) is simple penny pinching over a closed loop system. That’s all.
…Yet Bezos and Musk are talking orbital datacenters?
Pick a lane?
- Comment on iguananauts 2 days ago:
Let me emphasize that iguanas (and all sorts of lizards) are everywhere in Southern parts of Florida.
Anecdote: I once disrupted an ant mound against a wall, and a swarm of lizards came out of hiding to gobble the runners up like a scene out of freakin’ Jurassic Park!
- Comment on iguananauts 2 days ago:
Why would you eat them!? They eat mosquitos!
- Comment on Are you friends with any AI bots? 2 days ago:
I mean, it depends on your hardware and the model’s size/intelligence.
Worst case for me is many seconds of preprocessing followed by 4-5 words a second.
But you can get almost instant responses + way faster than you can read too.
- Comment on Are you friends with any AI bots? 3 days ago:
I’m in a 24GB 3090 + 128GB RAM.
With full 300B GLM 4.6, I typically run 12K-28K context with different settings. I could do more than 28K, but the higher quantization starts to become a problem. And I get 5-6 tokens/s text-generation doing that.
With GLM Air? I can get a lot more, closer to 64K.
With smaller models that’s no issue.
I only get 3-5 questions in before I run out of tokens.
IDK how you’re prompting it, but you should clear the thinking block after every question, and that should leave plenty of tokens.
What are your inference server settings?
- Comment on Are you friends with any AI bots? 3 days ago:
I’ve used local LLMs as sounding boards.
I… Don’t really have friends to do that with at the moment, and I can bounce thoughts off them I wouldn’t even tell family or a therapist, as much as I want. Not gonna lie, it’s pretty intimate, and I got some insights I never would’ve arrived at in my own head.
But to emphasize:
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This is totally within my own desktop.
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I am perfectly aware I am talking to a tool. “Friend” isn’t even in the same universe.
The general public’s “LLM literacy” is incredibly poor though, which is by design since online services like chatGPT hide all the knobs that would reveal the machine behind the curtain.
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- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 4 days ago:
Want to use equipment? Grind chore for the XP to meet the level requirement.
Want to beat a quest handed to you early? Grind XP
Want to complete side quests? All of the boilerplate fetch/kill quests.
I mean this respectfully, but you were holding it wrong.
First off, Odyssey was too big, but I enjoyed it! The voiced side quests were great, especially those heavily involving Kassandra. The Atlantis DLC was sublime. But:
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You don’t worry about equipment beyond your level!
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Leave future quests in the journal!
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Fetch quest? If you’re bored, skip it! TBH I Cheat Engined some money in.
Odyssey requires no grinding, as it has waaay too much filler as is. It is a game that’s utterly miserable if you give into completionist impulses, but pretty neat if you don’t.
…Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t particularly enjoy the combat, and the main story is so dull I don’t even remember it, aside from the Atlantis bits. It’s not a masterpiece. But I remember the experience quite fondly.
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- Comment on 4 days ago:
Pandora has been and hopefully will always be fabulous.
Whatever the ‘music DNA’ system they use predates a lot of algorithms and works incredibly well.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
…People listen to ads with their music?
- Comment on Why are some shows so dark? 5 days ago:
What’s your exact watching setup? Like TV, room, player, source?
There are likely ways to mitigate this, but it all depends on your setup.
- Comment on Why do each gaming fraction (pc, consoles, mobile) hating each other? 6 days ago:
There’s a lot of hate for mobile because it does feel like literally millions of folks are abused and exploited by them. Sure, there’s neat games buried in the App Store/Google Play, but… the sheer volume of literal scams is unreal.
That, I get. I got no issue with the neat stuff though.
All the other snobbery is folks people being immature snobs. And the cross-brand ‘rivalry’ isn’t so extreme anymore.
- Comment on JD, you dog. 1 week ago:
You know…
If JD wants to run for president, to be blunt, having a Hindu wife is a liability.
And the longer he’s with a (white) Christian, the better it looks.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 1 week ago:
I’ve been auto shadowbanned from a technical community, more than once. No idea why. It’d be nice to have a conversation with a mod like that, at least.
It seems others have too. Whenever I go back to check, it’s like all the brainpower has been sucked from the sub.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I mean, does anything in The Finals or this game feel like slop?
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 1 week ago:
That’s it, sorry.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 1 week ago:
Yeah, that sounds dreamy. It could certainly work.
And yeah, the problem is not just Microsoft but Mojang. Mojang is an extremely conservative/careful dev, even before they got bought by MS. It’s why the game hasn’t enshittified too bad, but also why development seems to move kinda slow for arguably the biggest game on Earth.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 1 week ago:
The MultiMC dev came out as a raging anti LGBT, right? That’s why it was forked into Prism.
Man… there’s been a lot of drama in the MC modding scene.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 1 week ago:
I meant the other way around, eg a Java client connecting to the bedrock ecosystem.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 1 week ago:
I thought it was compatible with a translation layer?
I guess that’s a big technical hurdle.
I get that. It’s like saying “just install Linux to run this,” but weird thing is OP already installed Linux, so I’m assuming their technical proficiency is pretty high.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 1 week ago:
Do you play on a server?
I haven’t found fun modded ‘communities’ since like 1.7.10. All Forge modded servers I’ve tried either seem to be ‘commercial’ servers with zero render distance and basically no community, or ghost towns.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 1 week ago:
Genuinely curious; why play Bedrock instead of Java Edition when Bedrock is so much trouble on linux?
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 1 week ago:
It has. There have been major rewrites of parts of the codebase, like Sodium, Cubic Chunk, server frameworks, just to start.
The issue is that any major modification is inherently incompatible with other major modifications, hence most persist for one version (or a few) before the devs burns out maintaining it. There are two solutions to this:
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Get Mojang to pull in the optimizations. Thus far, they have been uninterested in this (though some controversy over Optifine may have left a bad taste).
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Pull the changes into a modding framework. Understandably, Fabric/Forge aren’t willing to pull in a huge overhaul they’d have to maintain.
Some modifications (like Sodium) minimize vanilla changes to prioritize compatibility, and are popular to the extent that some other mods implement workarounds. But this is rare, and it’s still problematic.
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- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 1 week ago:
It’s GLM 4.6 underneath, which is a good model and has a really helpful “default” tone without a system prompt. And it’s open weights! I host it locally, sometimes.
But what really sets the website apart is its “deep research” tool, specifically. It’s just good at scouring the web for references, relatively speaking.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 1 week ago:
Look, I like off-roaders! Right? Desert racing trucks are the coolest thing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nR1-J676ao
And that includes solid axle/mixed variants like the rock crawling Pro4 trucks!
speedhunters.com/…/if-a-trophy-truck-rock-crawler…
Old land rovers and land cruisers are equally cool, hence they still use them in Africa almost exclusively.
…But lifted full sized trucks are so boring. They’re literally everywhere in this part of Texas, to the point where they advertise mass conversion shops on billboards. They’re usually macho assholes on the road, and even stock-ish ones tend to be customized and slob into parking spaces or stick out of places.
I loathe them. I couldnt care less about them. Hence, I know what older RAM 1500s look like, but I don’t really keep up with the style changes for the RAMs/Chevys + GMCs/Toyotas or whatever, other than observing how ridiculously big and tall their front grills have gotten.
…Hence this one threw me off. The grill is tiny! It makes it look small, when in reality the owner/shop likely ripped it out for that front skid plate (which looks way better).
- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 1 week ago:
Discussing conspiracies is basically the worst case for mainstream LLMs. They’re both extremely sycophantic (so they try to figure out and tell you what you want to hear), and not grounded in real references.
If you must, use something like z.ai’s deep research mode, with a single even, neutral question.
- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 1 week ago:
That’s because it got mixed up with the very real and muddy “lab leak vs natural jump” debate.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 1 week ago:
RIP my truck taxonomy skills.
