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wischi ,

Not if you payed for an “apple” but got compost. But of that’s your thing you could try to eat it 🤣

wischi , (edited )

First time I read about it and even more surprised that for 38,000$ they don’t even talk details. They talk about videos, audio, photos, etc. but how much storage space?

Update: Ok looks like it’s based on the business/creator plan … so 50GB. There isn’t even a bulk discount because the creator plan is 25$/month, so just 30,000$ per 100 years 🤔 The entire “deal” is just nuts.

wischi ,

The extensions should be back online: discourse.mozilla.org/t/…/38

wischi ,

According to their forum the extensions are back online in Russia: discourse.mozilla.org/t/…/38

wischi ,

Your brain is also “just a Chinese room”. It’s just physic, chemistry and biology. There is no magic inside your brain. If a “Chinese room” is fast enough and can fool everyone into “believing” that it’s fluent in chinese, than the room speaks chinese.

wischi ,

The same is true for your brain. Show me the neurons that are fluent in Chinese. Of course the LLM is just executing code. And if we have AGI it will also just be “executing code” but so does your brain. It’s not exactly code (but maye AGI will be analog computers, so not exactly code either) but the laws of physics dictate what your brain does. The laws of physics don’t understand Chinese, the atoms and molecules don’t understand Chinese. “Understanding Chinese” is an emergent property.

Think about it that way: Assume every person you know (execpt you) is just some form of Chinese Room … You first of all couldn’t prove that and second it wouldn’t matter at all.

wischi ,

No shit Sherlock

wischi ,

There are a lot of YouTubers just playing with them, but I think Jim Browning is the only one actually taking them down.

wischi ,

The problem is that using those tools no matter how energy efficient will add to the total amount of energy humans use, because even if an AI generates an image faster than a human could, the human still needs 100W constantly.

This doesn’t mean, that we shouldn’t make it more efficient but let’s be honest, more energy efficient AI just means that we would use even more AI everywhere.

wischi ,

True, but It’s still not what I meant unless they kill those humans. The employees that did that work before still need the 100W. It might be that they can now do something else (or just be unemployed) but the net energy usage is not going down.

wischi , (edited )

It depends what you mean by useful. Most humans are (at least at the moment) more versatile than even the most advanced AI we have. But you have to keep in mind that there are jobs with pretty mundane tasks where you don’t really need the intelligence and versatility of a human.

wischi ,

Assassination Classroom (2015) ?

wischi ,

And now everybody together… C O E V O L U T I O N

wischi ,

So finally they have a bot that closes everything because “duplicate” or “opinion”

wischi ,

This also happens when the video was just uploaded recently and YouTube hasn’t finished encoding all the different resolutions.

wischi ,

Ok if it’s up for two days and still not showing better quality than something different is going on. YouTube is typically pretty fast with encoding videos and most of the time all resolutions are finished between 15min and 1h after uploading the video, so it’s maybe not that in your case.

wischi ,

There is a leading space in the string itself, so OP is either a top tier troll or put in no effort at at and either way deserves the hate 😄

wischi ,

Jesus, take the wheel legs

wischi ,

“Man, what do I look like? A charity case? I don’t need your hand-outs! I’m an adult!”

youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ&t=33s

wischi ,

It’s a multiple of two, you should be fine.

wischi ,

Capitalism in a nutshell.

wischi ,

There is very likely some step to sit on 🤣. To empty the water you just need a hose and do the same trick people use to steal gasoline (or a pump if you want to be fast and fancy).

wischi ,

red deitsch oida

wischi , (edited )

That’s exactly what I did and never looked back. Just installed code-server + a few vs code plugins. Automatically synced via some some scripts that push and pull+merge git commits, done. No need for one of those million note taking apps. I also installed polyglot notebooks for vs code to embed code into notes.

wischi ,

Probably a quick flash and it’s gone 🤣

wischi ,

Looks way too much like natural selection than a coincidence.

wischi , (edited )

Mutations happen by chance but the result is not random, because natural selection is not random.

Update: Regarding your first part: A lot of people misunderstand the role randomness plays. Evolution is not random and not a coincidence but a consequence of any system that makes imperfect replicas in an environment that rewards (or punishes) certain traits.

wischi ,

I don’t think it was designed but that’s nothing evolution is concerned about. Evolution is (as the name implies) about evolving systems and doesn’t really say anything about how the first replicating “system” came to be because that’s abiogenesis and not evolution.

wischi ,

Node: You fill up ecosystems hard drives.

wischi ,

y2k38 will be even funnier than y2k and y3k I guess.

Alabama calls nitrogen execution method 'painless' and 'humane,' but critics raise doubts (apnews.com)

Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney Thursday and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen, in the nation’s first execution attempt with the method....

wischi ,

If it’s pure nitrogen it’s as painless as it can get. Make sure there is no O2 in there, get rid of exhaled CO2. Simple. But still, your country should think about death sentences in general. If you think nitrogen is too inhumane just shoot them im the head with a shotgun from a close distance, that too should do the trick.

wischi , (edited )

That’s not how it works. Your body can’t detect a lack of oxygen but only build up of CO2. If you replace the air you breath with pure Helium, N2, CO, etc. you will just painlessly black out and die.

wischi ,

Fast and painless are not the only criteria. Looking at how america typically kills it’s citizens it also clear that it has to look peaceful and respectful. Thats why they put a bag over people getting electrocuted and why they don’t just fire a shotgun at your head from a close distance.

wischi ,

Crews holding the car basically have to check. Failing to do so is called “unsafe release” and there is typically a penalty for that.

wischi , (edited )

But K.I.T.T. actually delivered on the full self driving part.

wischi OP ,

I’m not sure if I’m too stupid, but how so?

wischi OP ,

Did you read the post? The problem I have is redefining the kilo because of a mathematical fluke.

You certainly can write a mass in base 60 and kg, there is nothing wrong about that, but calling 3600 gramm a “kilogram” because you think it’s convenient that 3600 (60^2) is “close to” 1000 so you just call it a kilogram, because that’s exactly what’s happening with binary and 1024.

If you find the time you should read the post and if not at least the section “(Un)lucky coincidence”.

wischi OP ,

Did you read the blog post? If you don’t find the time you should at least read “(Un)lucky coincidence” to see why it’s not (and never was) a bright idea to call 1024 “a kilo”.

wischi OP ,

Pretty obvious that you didn’t read the article. If you find the time I’d like to encourage you to read it. I hope it clears up some misconceptions and make things clearer why even in those 60+ years it was always intellectually dishonest to call 1024 byte a kilobyte.

You should at least read “(Un)lucky coincidence”

wischi OP ,

I tried to make the title the exact opposite of clickbait. There are no unanswered questions on purpose. No “Find out if a kilobyte is 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes”. I think people are smart enough that I not just reiterate for 20min why a kilobyte is 1000 bytes but instead go into more details.

The main problem is probably that people won’t sacrifice 20min of there time on something they are not sure if it’s a good read but the only thing I can do is trying to encourage them to read it anyway.

There are not ads, no tracking, no cookies, no login, no newsletter, no paywall. I don’t benefit if you read it. I’d like to clear up misconceptions but I can’t force people to read it.

wischi OP ,

You should read the blog post. It’s not a matter of option.

wischi OP ,

So why don’t they just label drives in Terabit instead of terabyte. The number would be even bigger. Why don’t Europeans also use Fahrenheit, with the bigger numbers the temperature for sure would instantly feel warmer 🤣

Jokes aside. Even if HDD manufacturers benefit from “the bigger numbers” using the 1000 conversation is the objectively only correct answer here, because there is nothing intrinsically base 2 about hard drives. You should give the blog post a read 😉

wischi OP ,

True and that’s what the article is about. You should check out the interactive diagram in the “(Un)lucky coincidence” section.

wischi OP ,

Binary prefixes (the ones with 1024 conversations) are used to simplify numbers that are exact powers of two - for example RAM and similar types of memory. Hard drive sizes are never exact powers of two. Disk storing bits don’t have anything to do with the size of the disk.

wischi OP ,

That’s true but the entire disk size is not an exact power of two that’s why binary prefixes (1024 conversation) don’t have any benefit whatsoever when it comes to hard drives. With memory it’s a bit different because other than with storage devices RAM size is always exactly a power of two.

wischi OP ,

I don’t get feedback just because you read it. I’m thankful for feedback but my sentence was accurate. I don’t benefit if you read it.

wischi OP ,

❤️ Thank you for taking the time to read it.

wischi OP ,

❤️ Thank you for taking the time to read it. And thank you so much for pointing that out, you are completely right and I totally didn’t think about that while writing the article, probably because negative exponents are pretty rare in computer science (as in milli-bytes, etc.). I’ll fix that in a few days. Thanks again for pointing that out.

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