Feel like you want to sneer about something but you donāt quite have a snappy post in you? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota here and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Yesterday before bed I saw some galaxy-brained takes on PKM (personal knowledge management software) from a 7-day old account, and curiosity took over me. I was not disappointed. (sadly they deleted their account after I woke up: /u/Few-Elephant-2600 if youāre bored and have moderator API access)
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Honey can you preheat the porn generator?
Maybe you could pair it with this accursed AI of Things Smart Oven. Fun quotes:
Finally, I can experience Windows progress bars when baking potatoes:
Iām actually aware of businesses that already do exactly this, usefully
āticketsā is this Ethereum bullshit?
(this leaves me feeling incredibly
??????)this seems like JAQing behaviour?
[ed: once again wearing my Lemmy Ate My Formatting shirt]
Iām 99% sure this person eats only gig-work delivered food
yet another crypto argument getting run through find/replace
This is true, with the important distinction that presumably the next generation of GPUs will produce more calculation per unit of input energy, as opposed to proof-of-work crypto mining, where the coin generation is constant in time, by design.
i think that thereās *at least one supercomputing centre in germany that uses waste heat for heating buildings and not only their own
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Years ago a friend of mine asked me if I was interested in IoT/smart devices and I said I didnāt want to be locked out of my house if the wifi was out. His reaction indicated to me that he lost some amount of respect for me, and in turn I lost respect for him.
Since then Iāve only really seen IoT stuff in the homes of tech people, everyone else just DGAF. I think AI is following that same trajectory.
PS Years later pretty much the same exchange happened with brain simulated āimmortalityā, with the same mutual loss of respect.
PPS I currently have some smart lights installed. Once the initial novelty of having a bunch of RGB lights wore off, I pretty much just use them as normal bulbs, except with their brightness turned all the way down.
PPPS I also have some google speakers. None of them are in use.
at what point is ālarge amounts of heatā output considered the part thatās the waste?
Do they know that brake discs get hot because theyāre stopping a car from colliding with a wall?
But for electronics basically all heat is excess. Brakes are literally supposed to turn kinetic energy into heat. A GPU is supposed to solve linear equations quickly. The generated heat is because we donāt know how to not generate it. If I could power my oven with all the energy waste while playing Crysis I totally would.
Plus, heat of the brakes is also technically waste. Case in point, Formula 1 cars have specially designed systems whose purpose is converting energy dissipated during braking back into battery charge to power the hybrid engine.
My point was more about how you decide that the heat is the undesirable outcome compared to whatever the fuck the thing is meant to be doing. Brakes have a very clear purpose at the expense of the heat. GPUs being used as graphics processing units when youāre playing crysis have a very clear purpose to heat output ratio. Ya see wot I mean?
Yup, now I get the sneer, sorry for not catching on earlier.
To respond in this vein then: at least real art pieces I could burn for fuelā¦
@hrrrngh @dgerard
Thereās a company that wants to do this/is doing it with server-based hot water heaters.
Didnāt some soviet towns run central heating off power plant waste heat? āWhere do you live? OpenAiVille, we get free^M cheaper central heating, but the noise of the severfans running every day and night is deafening.ā
combined heat and power isnāt a technology unique to eastern block countries, but surely centralized city planning makes it easier to pump waste heat into municipal heating grid (or out to some chemical works or such). tbh it didnāt even occur to me that there are serious cities (population 100k+) that donāt have city-owned heating grid, even 50k towns and smaller can have their own CHP plants (tiny one, fits in shipping container or two)
and itās not just some towns no no no. it was implemented everywhere where it was practical. near big cities - these need both power and heat, so okayish coal is shipped to them by rail, burned there and provides both heat and energy. beijing for example runs on 10 or so large CHP plants iirc. near lignite mines - lignite is burned there (does not make sense to ship it anywhere else, too shitty) and nearby town has free heat. where thereās neither, either coal was shipped to be burned in heating plants, centralized or individual, or gas was delivered by pipelines also for heating, and energy was delivered from larger centralized facilities. if thereās fuckton of energy somehow, like in russian far east with their abundant hydropower, or nothing else is practical, in some places heating was electric
NYC has steam pipelines running around the city, doesnāt that use CHP plants?