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  • LLVM

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  • Reference counting.

    They pay a lot of attention to preventing cache misses and branch prediction failures, which is how they get away with reference counting and still being fast.

  • Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel.

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  • I checked. The IEA says airlines generate about a gigaton of CO2, and it's still growing since the dip of covid, which is perhaps where your infographic authors got their screwy figures, which are, like I suggested, the wrong order of magnitude.

  • Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel.

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  • Picked at random, It also claims this:

    Why does nighttime AI use burn dirtier energy? Fossil fuel dominance: Coal and gas supply up to 90% of overnight electricity. Solar drop-off: Solar disappears after sunset, while wind delivers only ~30% capacity at night. Peak carbon hours: Between 2–4 AM, grid intensity rises to 450–650 gCO₂/kWh, compared to 200–300 gCO₂/kWh in the afternoon.

    This is complete bullshit in the UK, where energy is greenest in the small hours of the night when demand is low and the wind turbines are still turning. Least green and most expensive is late afternoon and evening, when energy usage spikes.

    Let me reiterate. AI is crap. AI is a massive waste of energy, but your website has its calculations off in terms of order of magnitude when it comes to comparing the airline industry pushing tons of metal fast and hard into and through the sky with AI pushing a bunch of electrons through a bunch of transistors. Seriously, way off.

  • Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel.

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  • Just because something has a pretty infographic doesn't make it true.

  • LLVM

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  • That would work!

  • LLVM

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  • New kid on the block, roc, has it right by splitting application code from "platform"/framework code, precompiling and optimising the platform, then using their fast surgical linker to sew the app code to the platform code.

    Platforms are things like cli program, web server that kind of thing. Platforms provide an interface of domain specific IO primitives and handle all IO and memory management, and they also specify what functions app code must supply to complete the program.

    It's pretty cool, and they're getting efficiency in the area of systems programming languages like C and Rust, but with none of the footguns of manual memory management, no garbage collection pauses, but yet also no evil stepparent style borrow checker to be beaten by. They pay a lot of attention to preventing cache misses and branch prediction failures, which is his they get away with reference counting and still being fast.

    A note of caution: I might sound like I know about it, but I know almost nothing.

  • LLVM

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  • Great optimisation, awwwful compile times.

  • What's a personal weakness you possess that is entirely not relevant to your daily life?

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  • Absolutely. I watched a great video explaining how it does it and felt like I understood for five minutes, and I know it's something about putting loops through loops through loops forever, and yes it absolutely does unravel if it's not secured at both ends, but the way it threads the new loop through the old loop with a wheel that keeps turning in the same direction all the time, that is just pure magic and has no right to be possible in regular three dimensional reality.

  • British TV Station to Air Marathon of Trump's Lies as He Visits UK

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  • Channel 4, you are as British as it gets. Thank you.

  • Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel.

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  • Yeah, AI is shit and a massive waste of energy, but it's NOTHING compared to the energy usage of the airline industry.

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    JD Vance says it's a “statistical fact” that the left commits more political violence.

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  • Every right wing accusation in a confession.

  • AI fabricates 21 out of 23 citations lawyer sanctioned reported to state bar [pdf]

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  • AI makes crap up almost as much as Donald Trump.

  • A Berkshire Heir Is Spending Millions to Stop Newsom’s Redistricting Plan

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  • Munger is a Republican, but his crusade is far more about fighting gerrymandering than party preferences.

    Interesting that we're not hearing about him pouring his vast wealth into opposing the heinous gerrymandering in Texas and other red states.

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  • You've got to be a little bit careful, surely, because then one squared is ten in the sense that log pi is about half.

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  • I think if it's to scale, Jupiter is way offscreen, like in another room in your building far away.

  • ill be at your house in 10 minutes. how will you entertain me?

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  • Hang in there. All the best for getting all good with everything.

  • Armed drones to be deployed at schools to stop mass shooters

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  • You're right there. Yes.

  • Armed drones to be deployed at schools to stop mass shooters

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  • You said

    To me, these aren’t a bad idea.

    and yet you also said

    The devices—operated remotely by a team in Texas

    in the very same post.

    I wouldn't want some bored trigger happy gun nutjob from Texas playing shoot the bad guys with pepper spray on a games console where my kids and their multi ethnic friends are the NPCs.

  • Armed drones to be deployed at schools to stop mass shooters

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  • I'm pretty sure they meant that the gun regulation, help and free healthcare would be progress, not so much the drugs and the drones.