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Frezik

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  • Trump Envoy Busted Plotting With Russia to Sabotage Ukraine

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  • The distinction with a difference is that anyone can flatter Trump's ego the exact same way. Mamdani seems to have done it. There's nothing particular about Russia that makes it work.

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • Where were you when I complained we needed additional transmission lines to keep bringing more renewable energy online?

    I've strongly argued for this in the past.

    All these tech bros with AI datacenters are putting their spare couch change together to build HVDC lines across the continent, right?

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • You can think that, but you'd be wrong. A ChatGPT search uses 10x the power of a regular Google search.

    https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/ai-has-environmental-problem-heres-what-world-can-do-about#%3A%7E%3Atext=A+request+made+through+ChatGPT%2C+an+AI-based%2CGoogle+Search%2C+reported+the+International+Energy+Agency.

    Google has quietly removed their net-zero pledge from their website:

    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/google-quietly-removes-net-zero-carbon-goal-from-website-amid-rapid-power-hungry-ai-data-center-buildout-industry-first-sustainability-pledge-moved-to-background-amidst-ai-energy-crisis

    This stuff isn't being built with renewables.

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • When a family in the global south uses coal to cook their food, they release CO2. When a billionaire flies around the continent on a private jet, they also release CO2.

    Do you consider the two to be equivalent in need or output?

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • People downloading stuff for personal use vs making money off of it are not the same at all. We don't tend to condone people selling bootleg DVDs, either.

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • I’ve never heard anyone say “we need less data centers” until ai came along. What, all the other data centers are totally fine but the ones being used for ai are evil? If you have an issue with the drastically increased power consumption for ai you should be able to argue a stance that is inclusive of all data centers - assuming it’s something you give a fuck about. Which you don’t.

    AI data centers take up substantially more power than regular ones. Nobody was talking about spinning up nuclear reactors or buying out the next several years of turbine manufacturing for non-AI datacenters. Hell, Microsoft gave money to a fusion startup to build a reactor, they've already broken ground, but it's far from proven that they can actually make net power with fusion. They actually think they can supply power by 2028. This is delusion driven by an impossible goal of reaching AGI with current models.

    Your whole post is missing out on the difference in scale involved. GPU power consumption isn't comparable to standard web servers at all.

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  • If you didn't know this, it'd be weird how many academics are in the Epstein files. Once you do know it, it's obvious.

    Oh, and Robert Maxwell was legitimately a badass in WW2. Everything terrible about him starts after that.

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  • I had a 370Z for a while. I dunno if they did this on the 350Z, but they stuck a very heavy flywheel on it that does terrible things for throttle response. Makes it as smooth as a V8, and that's obviously a cop to people who aren't buying it for performance. You can cut the flywheel weight in half and still have a perfectly functional car for regular road use.

    The shape of the trunk makes a difference. Yes, the 350Z/370Z trunk is larger on paper, but the Miata's is shaped nice and square. Easier to drop things into.

    Felt like sitting in a bathtub. Has much worse rear visibility than a Miata (even with the top up).

    Its oil cooling isn't sufficient on the track without upgrades. Engine will go into limp mode after a couple laps. Can be fixed, of course, but a Miata is pretty close to track ready out of the factory.

    Traded the 370Z for an NC Miata and have never looked back. On any kind of twisty track, the flywheel issue prevents the 370Z from being able to use its extra power; I don't think my track times are significantly different between the two.

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  • I once did a track day with a Nissan GT-R, Ferrari 588, Lamborghini Gallardo, and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Excepting the 911, I would have been just as happy to have been in my Miata that day.

    Supercars are vastly overrated. Even the 911 is a tough sell against the cheapness of the Miata.

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • So you bring out "this is my second language" after telling someone else "you might want to put more effort into reading". No, that does not fly. You put "sorry, English is my second language" first. Lashing out like that is not a good look.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • A bit of Perl code from the late 90s/early 2000s that worked something like this (working from memory, untested):

     
        
my $hits = `grep $search_string $file`;
my @lines = split /\n/, $hits;
my @real_hits;
for( my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@lines); $i++ ) {
    my $line = $lines[0];
    if( $line =~ /$search_string/ ) {
        push @real_hits, $line;
    }
}

    Let me explain a bit about what this does. Instead of reading a file line-by-line and using Perl's regex engine to match, it uses backticks to call out to the shell for grep. Those are split up by line. Then go through those lines (in a C-style for loop, not the perfectly good foreach version that Perl has had for a long time) and now we use a regex to match that line. You know, just in case shell grep didn't do its one job.

    If anything, I'm probably making this code look better by declaring variables with my and following use strict standards.

    This was written by a guy who was the main programmer before I was hired. I was told he was a real piece of shit. He often had some checks in his code that, if not passed, threw messages to the client like "WE HAVE DETECTED YOUR HACKING AND LOGGED YOUR IP ADDRESS WE'RE GOING TO GET YOU". Never met him personally, but his code is a pretty good example of why everyone came to hate Perl.

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • I can't load a stress how bad your proofreading is. Don't blame that on others.

  • Pentagon says it's launching 'thorough review' into Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly

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  • They should try finding an inexperienced lawyer who is willing to do anything for Trump, and then promptly embarrass themselves in front of the judge and news media. It's going so well with Comey.

    Edit: lol, I posted this just before reading that the indictments against Comey and James have been dismissed due to the prosecutor being improperly appointed.

  • Why is climate action stalling, not ramping up as Earth gets hotter?

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  • China is the only major country still building new coal power. The UK, meanwhile, closed its last coal plant in 2024.

    The US needs to give up on drill-baby-drill. Germany needs to stop closing perfectly functional nuclear plants. The US especially needs to get out of car-based infrastructure, though even Europe isn't ideal.

  • What's an unscientific opinion that you firmly hold?

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  • That conflicts with my own theory. Back in 2013, Half Life 3 was quietly released as an easter egg hidden inside a random indie title somewhere on Steam and nobody has noticed yet.

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Proposal For A Millionaire Tax

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  • Millionaires are not going to move away from NYC when the stock exchange is right there, the big buildings are right there, and the port is right there. NYC is important because of where it is and what it has. A 2% tax on high incomes is not going to change that.

  • functions

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  • No, no, they're saying Kotlin seams together the fun.

  • Trump, 79, Posts Early Morning Meltdown Over Approval Ratings

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  • Nothing substantial beyond rumors. It just wouldn't be surprising. I had some kind of hope that Melania had sheltered him from the rest of the family and he'd grow up different, but probably not.

  • Can anyone in IT confirm?

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  • That's weird to me, because accounting was one of the first fields to dive into computers. My grandpa started his career in the 1950s as an accountant, and ended it as an IT manager.