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- Comment on They're F*ing trying again 4 days ago:
I don’t know why you’re being hostile. Options are good, I didn’t ever say that it would fit every scenario.
- Comment on They're F*ing trying again 4 days ago:
Check out Briar and Meshtastic
- Comment on He's never wrong 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen a hat man, but I get migraine with aura and sometimes “see” a moving shadow sort of shaped like a person out of the corner of my eye. Of course, if I try to look directly, there’s nothing there.
- Comment on We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a jump. They’re both bad for the same reasons, they both burn methane and leak into the air before combustion even happens.
I didn’t say there was not a such thing as a buffer zone, I said there’s no buffer zone in the case of inversions in valleys. An inversion traps the gas in the lower levels because of the flipped temperature graident. Here’s a picture of an inversion in the Wasatch Front:
Those are heavy gasses. That’s not fog. That is pollution. Pollution primary from refineries and gas power plants, along side vehicles.
Kevin O’Leary is building a natural gas powered data center in this valley. Those gasses will get trapped. This discussion isn’t necessarily about alternative fuels, it’s about whether natural gas has harmful effects. It does, especially when it gets trapped in inversions. Yes, if he was building a data center with nuclear power, that would probably be ideal. But none of his data centers are doing that, and they’re in places that suffer from inversions. He (and the natural gas companies) are going to get more people sick.
- Comment on We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here. 2 weeks ago:
Just fyi, asthma is not “off topic”. Natural gas is one of the leading causes. I tell you this as someone who now has life long asthma, likely because of my family’s natural gas stove.
A “buffer zone” doesn’t do anything when an inversion happens, because an inversion traps the bad air at lower levels (you know, where people breathe) and the bad air spreads much further because of that.
- Comment on We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here. 2 weeks ago:
Scrubbers cannot possibly capture all of it. It’s not just an engineering hurdle. It’s physics. Just like burning it can never be 100% efficient, scrubbing it cannot either.
Even if it were possible to somehow scrub 100% of the CO2 and other methane byproducts, it would be unbelievably expensive. Not only is it something that frankly shouldn’t even be focused on any more when we already have cheap, green, renewable energy, but do you expect the capitalist billionaires to care enough to pay for the new scrubbers (which, by the way, in this context, do not even exist?)
- Comment on We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here. 2 weeks ago:
It does not burn totally clean. All extracts of gas and oil, including that of natural gas (which is methane) are not 100% pure and do not burn at 100% efficiency. If that were the case, there would be no byproducts, such as leftover methane. It also turns into CO2 when burned, which while not as harmful to the environment, is not something you want built up during an inversion and can contribute to climate change.
Even if it were some how burned at 100% efficiency, there is an even bigger source of pollution before it ever gets to the power plant: leaks.
Methane is the main component of natural gas; it makes up 70% or more of raw natural gas in the ground and well over 95% of the processed gas we burn for energy. When burned, this methane turns into CO2—but before then, it can escape into the atmosphere from all parts of gas infrastructure, like valves and pipes. And those leaks, too, need to be counted when we calculate how much natural gas is contributing to climate change.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that about 6.5 million metric tons of methane leak from the oil and gas supply chain each year5—around 1% of total natural gas production. At this rate, methane leaks would account for around 10% of natural gas’s contribution to climate change, and CO2 emissions for the other 90%.
In a 2022 study focused on gas production in New Mexico, a group of Stanford researchers estimated that leaks equated to more than 9 percent of all production in the area, based on aerial surveys.7 A 2023 study suggested methane emissions were 70 percent higher than U.S. government figures from 2010 to 2019.8 Plata says there’s no current consensus on the magnitude of methane leaks.
“Leaks are so poorly quantified,” Plata says. “Nobody knows that number for sure. It’s hard to sense methane comprehensively and finding those pipe-based leaks can be trickier than it sounds.”
Leaks can start and stop irregularly, in different places along the natural gas supply chain, making them hard to spot even as more methane-sensing satellites are put into space. For now, we’re largely dependent on scientists, industry, or citizen volunteers trying to find leaks one at a time, with equipment that is not consistently accurate.
Methane has a much shorter lifespan than CO2, but traps much more heat while it’s still floating around in the atmosphere. We’ve previously covered the challenge of comparing methane to CO2 at Ask MIT Climate, but in short, the EPA and other organizations usually say methane is about 28 times more warming than CO2—if you look 100 years in the future. Over 10 or 20 years, though, methane is 80 to 100 times more warming than CO2.
Natural gas is still a pollutant in multiple ways. While it’s cleaner than coal, it is still a contributor to greenhouse gasses, both while burning and in transit to customers (including power plants). “Natural gas” is a greenwashing marketing term from big oil companies. It has been shown to warm the climate in multiple ways (CO2 and methane) and is a contributor to children getting life long asthma. It should not be used at all, but especially not in a valley that gets intense inversions which trap the gas.
- Comment on We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here. 2 weeks ago:
Ohhh, I forgot that he had multiple.. what a scumbag.
- Comment on We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here. 2 weeks ago:
Natural gas still causes pollution, just less than coal.
I grew up with natural gas, and if you didn’t turn on the hood it would get nasty inside. It also made our pots and pans turn black during long cooking sessions.
Here’s more info: https://www.psehealthyenergy.org/gas-stoves-and-indoor-air-pollution-explained/
A 2024 study from Stanford and PSE Healthy Energy scientists estimates the annual societal cost of NO2 exposure from gas and propane stoves is $1 billion. Burning natural gas and propane has also been shown to generate benzene, a known human carcinogen. A 2023 study from Stanford and PSE Healthy Energy scientists found that a single gas cooktop burner on high could raise indoor levels of benzene above those in secondhand tobacco smoke.
And that’s just from indoor stoves.
The primary component of natural gas is methane. Methane is a colorless, odorless, and highly combustible gas. It is also a powerful climate pollutant. In addition to methane, natural gas contains pollutants which are known to be toxic, linked to cancer, and can form secondary health-damaging pollutants that may impact air quality and human health.
That was part of the natural gas grift: because it’s slightly better than coal, and it has natural in the name, it must be clean! It fooled a lot of people, unfortunately and understandably.
- Comment on We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here. 2 weeks ago:
Kevin’s data center is going to run on natural gas generators in a valley which already suffers from horrible inversions every year. The Wasatch front valley has some of the worst air quality in the world during the winter.
Nuclear is too expensive for the capitalists building these. They’d rather pollute than pay more money for nuclear.
- Comment on demand your snacks back 3 weeks ago:
Slop
- Comment on Where's the fucking filling? 4 weeks ago:
Have you noticed that there isn’t really a store brand for hot pockets? I don’t know if it’s just my area or if it’s Nestlé doing legal bullshit to stop any other companies from making something similar.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yes, so-called “reasoning” LLMs just talk to themselves. Adding this and calling it reasoning was the LLM industry’s way to print more money by confusing (tricking) normal people and investors. “AGI is right around the corner, we already having reasoning models.” The same industry stole the “agents” terminology from standard computing as well, because to most of the population, this makes them sound more capable than a normal LLM. It’s an infinite money glitch, or at least, it has been. I hope that the money is starting to run dry, given the new token restrictions being implement.
- Comment on SBA #144 Nosferatu! 4 weeks ago:
It is. In fact, Lucas Cruikshank (the guy that played Fred) is still making videos, just not as Fred (and with much more gay and queer humor): https://youtube.com/user/lucas
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Out of these options, Forgejo is my favorite for sure.
- Comment on Mint 1 month ago:
Bamboo looks way better than blackberry, I made sure to plant a ton of it in various parts of my yard.
- Comment on I love this, they are so deep in their own bubble 1 month ago:
I’d argue that the students know this, and is part of the reason they’re booing. LLMs have given execs the excuse they needed to cut headcount which has caused the job market toxicity. Of course, LLMs are not ready to replace almost anyone except for those executives.
- Comment on Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job 2 months ago:
A new report by the AI company Writer
Into the trash, then.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Suit yourself but I think it makes Nebula have better quality. It’s quality over quantity.
- Comment on Meanwhile in California 3 months ago:
So fuck everyone else that didn’t, according to you? The vast majority can get fucked? How nice of you.
- Comment on And no paper towels to use on the handle 3 months ago:
shit tickets
lmao
- Comment on A research scientist at Anthropic has been using LLMs to black hat software and he's spooked 3 months ago:
I’m tired of the bullshit ads disguised as “experts” and “studies”
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 3 months ago:
KDE’s is different (and better) in that it seemingly has no cap on the size you can make the cursor. You can get your cursor bigger than your display.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 3 months ago:
Agreed, but that doesn’t mean I won’t celebrate it.
- Comment on They Said Self-Hosting Was Hard! 4 months ago:
Yeah. Usually videos like this also make no mention of security implications and how to best secure your setup. It’s part of why shodan has so many vulnerable, public facing endpoints owned by individuals.
- Comment on Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so. 4 months ago:
Agreed. I don’t see LLM services making an actual ROI any time soon unless something drastic changes.
- Comment on Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so. 4 months ago:
The primary financial issue with LLMs taking people’s jobs is in the cost of operation, mainly for the LLM companies. They still have not made an ROI, not even close, and that’s with massive government contracts. I personally think that there’s one of three possibilities here. Most of the LLM companies could go under (but they may be “too big to fail” at this point), the LLM companies could start to charge far too much for the quality of the outputs causing some companies to back out, or the LLM companies will, by some miracle, get a ROI through a more efficient model.
The models are enshittified at the start, since they’re basically just hallucinating with guardrails. There’s not any way to make them truly deterministic. Even the “agents” that run through multiple iterations of code to find the “best” solution are lacking. This is because they cannot “think” logically.
My personal opinion, though, is that they’re simply using it as an excuse to fire workers and pump up company stock value. I don’t believe they actually think that LLMs can fully replace devs and engineers. So yes, while LLMs are taking jobs right now, it’s not because they’re good at what they do or anything like that.
- Comment on AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet 4 months ago:
Honestly, as a tech worker who will likely lose their job when it bursts, I hope it happens soon. The sooner it happens, the less devastating it will be. We’ve already gone off of the cliff, now it’s just a matter of how far we’re going to fall
- Comment on Salesforce CEO Says AI Enabled Him To Cut 4,000 Jobs 10 months ago:
Didn't Salesforce have a massive breach recently?
- Comment on Bunnyhop elsewhere, streamers: EA are making Battlefield 6 more strategic, less run-and-gun following the beta 10 months ago:
They should make it less rootkit filled while they're at it
