absentbird

@absentbird@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you know???.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s all made up. The most power hungry data center in the world consumes 150MW of power, and that’s from a massive 11 million square foot facility in China that’s significantly larger than any other data center.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you know???.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People say this, but almost every time the time interval is left off it’s hours.

  Either way, the numbers in this meme are clearly made up. Most image generation uses fewer than 10 watt hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you slice it??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So like the size of a horse?

  The average horse is about half the height and weight of the average giraffe. Giraffes are just a really bad unit of measurement, males weight about 400kg more than females and there is a wide height difference over their global population, they are technically four different species we just all call giraffe 🦒

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang, what a mean cow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, banning it is wild. I could understand setting it to opt-in, like a lot of websites do for adult content, but removing it entirely is just backwards and hateful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cry cry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because Edge is just modded Chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cry cry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s from Finding Nemo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares a family moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Word

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parallel Empires⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can do plenty of work on an air. I have one because it was a gift, but I find it pretty convenient. It’s so small and portable. For serious work I have my desktop, but the air is great for emails and programming on the go, homebrew runs my entire workflow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parallel Empires⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The air is still very thin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same for the PNW, but it’s don’t mind keeping a low profile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is a little funny, because the Appalachian mountain range is part of the same mountains as the Scottish Highlands: youtube.com/shorts/c_JWEipGwgs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is the companies building the data centers; they would be just as happy to waste the water and resources mining crypto or hosting cloud gaming, if not for AI it would be something else.

  In China they’re able to run DeepSeek without any water waste, because they cool the data centers with the ocean. DeepSeek also uses a fraction of the energy per query and is investing in solar and other renewables for energy.

  AI is certainly an environmental issue, but it’s only the most recent head of the big tech hydra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When people say this they are usually talking about a very specific sort of generative LLM using unsupervised learning.

  AI is a very broad field with great potential, the improvements in cancer screening alone could save millions of lives over the coming decades. At the core it’s just math, and the equations have been in use for almost as long as we’ve had computers. It’s no more good or bad than calculus or trigonometry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Count yourself lucky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And a little compartment for dry ice to slowly sublimate into the ventilation system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah, one Bayonetta could take on the entire wizarding world with both hands behind her back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I must have misremembered. I knew their clothes had charms in them. It makes sense that it wouldn’t be something most people would need outside of a conflict.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that just the killing curse with extra steps? Magic is a lot harder to evade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  During the Dumbledore’s army arc, I think book 5. I don’t really care enough to go back and find the quote, but it was a fairly significant plot point in the resistance movement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate JKR too, but she literally did. Wizard clothes are enchanted with protego charms which turn away any mundane attacks, and wizards really have no reason to fear muggles. During the witch trials some would allow themselves to be burned at the stake because they liked how the flames tickle. It’s very much a ‘magic must defeat magic’ setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the books it explains that wizard robes have charms against physical attacks woven into the threads. They’re wearing full body bulletproof vests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It wouldn’t even get through a wizard’s robes, they’re enchanted with protego charms (at least according to the books)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Advertise⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who has ever seen a yellow Canada tour bus? Pretty much the only yellow busses in US and Canada are for school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They never should have ripped the solar panels off the Whitehouse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t they just start accepting ACH to get around the payment processors? Or is that overly complicated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon breaks up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we just don’t like guns.