gens

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[–] gens@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Water has to be cleaned. It is renewable, not free. My city has many sources, but most places where they build datacenters do not. It is a real problem

Either way the biggest proble, IMO, is the pressure on the electric grid. If the asshats building the centers would cooperate with others, there would be much less problems.

As for power usage, yea its a lot but still not an insane amount. The image and video generation uses a LOT more then text.

[–] gens@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cache lines are 64 bytes though? Pages are 4k.

[–] gens@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Just because the situation is shit does not mean this is ~~SPARTA~~shitposting

[–] gens@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Inits are simple. If you know gnu make, it's about as complicated as you can make an init.

SystemD is not just an init. That's the problem.

[–] gens@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Ah yes. Safety knives. Safety buildings. Safety sleeping pills. Safety rope.

LLMs are stupid. A toy. A tool at best, but really a rubber ducky. And it definitely told him "don't".

[–] gens@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

Soooo, it's like a little scar that nobody will notice?

[–] gens@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not really. It's up to the software, soundcard, and/or recording.

Stereo headphones are surround. The reason laptop speakers are not is because they are in front of you. Headphones are one for each ear, separate.

Our brain is very sensitive to phase difference between sound in either ear. That is how we can tell sound direction. It's like triangulation, except the third variable is the shape of our ears (is it comming from the front or the back, see HRTF again).

There is no such thing as surround headphones. There can not even be such a thing. All headphones are surround. It's either sound card drivers, software in the chain, the recording itself, or just marketing. Get "normal" headphones and check out some directional audio videos on youtube.

Openal is an audio library used by some older games and they patched HRTF into it to make it sound even more surround.

Decent headphones that are comfortable are better then even more expensive full room setups, although just for one person.

Edit: Funny enough the last time I explained this was to an audio engineer. Took him a bit, but he got it when I used sharks ears as an example.

[–] gens@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Stereo headphones are surround sound. It's how ears work. You percieve position by how late the sound comes to one ear compared to the other. There is a bit more, but I don't want to write on the phone more. Google HRTF for that part.

[–] gens@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: The US is always at war.

[–] gens@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Hahaha. Most here making excuses why they don't read manuals.

[–] gens@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The current limitations of LLMs are built in how they fundementaly work. We would need something completely new. That is a fact.

Honestly the thought of med students using them to pass exams scares me.

Sure, use them to replace CEOs of some unimportant companies like facebook. But they are not for jobs where other peoples lives are at stake. They inherently halucinate (like many CEOs). It is built in in how they work.

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