Liz
@Liz@midwest.social
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 2 weeks ago:
Depends on if you get into barefoot style shoes or not.
- Comment on Do it 3 weeks ago:
The California High Speed Rail Songin my ass.
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 5 weeks ago:
I hope they haven’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Whoops. Point still stands.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I wish I had enough money to buy 25 acres without a clear idea of what to do with it.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 1 month ago:
It’s from this year.
- Comment on Sounds like a place I'd love to work for 1 month ago:
Taiwan?
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 months ago:
Here’s the thing, we scientists need our cheerleaders. We spend our time getting good at doing science, so it’s worth it to hire someone who is good at hyping and advocating for our work. Go listen to the recordings of James Webb trying to explain to JFK that we need to do a shit-ton of science before we can get to the moon. JFK just plain doesn’t understand the magnitude of what he’s asking for. He thinks we could do it in 6 months. This lady is our champion.
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 2 months ago:
Go kick a window in your house right now. If you don’t live in a highrise, you can almost certainly kick it out.
- Comment on my version is better 2 months ago:
To be clear “up above in my head” are the actual lyrics, but I only learned that fact a few weeks ago. I like my version better.
- Comment on my version is better 2 months ago:
Yeah my bad, that was a little ambiguous. Very funny to accidentally blow this person’s mind though.
- Comment on my version is better 2 months ago:
'Cause I’m in too deep
And I’m trying to keep
up above in my head
All the thoughts in my head
'stead of going under - Comment on At this rate, why not. 2 months ago:
If it gets the job done, I’m willing to make that compromise.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 3 months ago:
A lot of the efficiency gains in the last few years are from better chip design in the sense that they’re improving their on-chip algorithms and improving how to CPU decides to cut power to various components. The easy example is to look at how much more power efficient an ARM-based processor is compared to an equivalent x86-based processor. The fundamental set of processes designed into the chip are based on those instruction set standards (ARM vs x86) and that in and of itself contributes to power efficiency. I believe RISC-V is also supposed to be a more efficient instruction set.
Since the speed of the processor is limited by how far the electrons have to travel, miniaturization is really the key to single-core processor speed. There has still been some recent success in miniaturizing the chip’s physical components, but not much. The current generation of CPUs have to deal with errors caused by quantum tunneling, and the smaller you make them, the worse it gets. It’s been a while since I’ve learned about chip design, but I do know that we’ll have to make a fundamental chip “construction” change if we want faster single-core speeds. E.G. at one point, power was delivered to the chip components on the same plane as the chip itself, but that was running into density and power (thermal?) limits, so someone invented backside power delivery and chips kept on getting smaller. These days, the smallest features on a chip are maybe 4 dozen atoms wide.
I should also say, there’s not the same kind of pressure to get single-core speeds higher and higher like there used to be. These days, pretty much any chip can run fast enough to handle most users’ needs without issue. There’s only so many operations per second needed to run a web browser.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 3 months ago:
You have the same agency as that rock.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 3 months ago:
We reached the physical limits of silicon transistors. Speed is determined by transistor size (to a first approximation) and we just can’t make them any smaller without running into problems we’re essentially unable to solve thanks to physics. The next time computers get faster will involve some sort of fundamental material or architecture change. We’ve actually made fundamental changes to chip design a couple of times already, but they were “hidden” by the smooth improvement in speed/power/efficiency that they slotted into at the time.
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 3 months ago:
It really depends on the field. In some areas PhDs make less than bachelors.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 4 months ago:
And left their car parked in the photo.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 4 months ago:
And that they would be mostly right-wing folks, which has generally been true, in part because the bush administration deprioritized going after them.
- Comment on We need to go back! Back to the terminal! 4 months ago:
But the opposite is true when you’re by yourself. If you’re staring at the terminal, literally infinite commands are possible. If you’ve got a GUI, the designers had to spend a little time thinking about what all the operations in the program were, and how to organize and access them. You, the user, then get to navigate this mini-help-guide that is the GUI in order to figure out what you need to do. Yes, it’s more work for the programmer, but that’s the entire point of programming. Do a little more work up front in order to save yourself and others a lot of work down the road.
- Comment on Hope you had a great christmas 4 months ago:
We used to do vertical in Chicago. You drive the livestock to the top floor, butcher them there, then use gravity to move them around.
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 4 months ago:
- Comment on Anon is SpongeBob 4 months ago:
Or each person has evolved in concert…
- Comment on Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs 4 months ago:
Any word on if this impacts nutrition?
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 4 months ago:
It’s a consumer co-op (barely) not an worker co-op.
- Comment on Even better than a cart of apples 5 months ago:
Clearly you weren’t paying attention in English.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 5 months ago:
Obviously if he did say no, they wouldn’t make him eat it. But the thing is, he’s not gonna say no, because of the implication.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 5 months ago:
I’m literally taking hydroxychloroqine right now. There’s no difficulty in accessing it. Not unless you consider needing a prescription difficult.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 5 months ago:
You’re hanging out with the wrong people.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 5 months ago:
Didn’t BlueSky come up with their own federation system because… Fuck you?
I mean, what was wrong with using the ActivityPub standard?
