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by revelio 3y ago
No, it's the other way around. The complaint being made by you and Gebru is nonsensical. The exact power characteristics of TPUs don't matter because as I keep repeating and you guys keep desperately trying to ignore, Google years
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by revelio 3y ago
"How do you know the business will not collapse"? That's a ridiculous question. Eventually all things die. The question is not will Twitter die but when, and so far the people predicting imminent demise were all completely wr
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by revelio 3y ago
I don't think UNIX is a virus, it's not like Windows is radically different. These types of operating systems have shapes largely defined by the hardware. Still, I definitely think you can do way more exciting stuff with OS design
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by revelio 3y ago
You can't build 2x the generation capacity (which is what you're suggesting) at economic prices anyone would today consider reasonable. Remember you have to be able to cover 100% of demand from non-renewable sources. It's not
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by revelio 3y ago
Ah yes, we'll just regularly distribute one time pads to our friends and family and they'll do the same to us. No biggie.
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by revelio 3y ago
It's hard to know if that's really true. I've been here years (not under this account) and can't say I noticed any obvious trend towards talking about the past more. Still, speculating is irresistible so here's my 2
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by revelio 3y ago
Given people were originally predicting collapse within days, how long do you need to draw conclusions?
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Interesting, thanks!
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by revelio 3y ago
> Galileo was able to defeat the Church which was the largest country in Europe The Church is not a country and never was? And Galileo was forced to recant then spent the rest of his life under house arrest. The Church defeated him. &
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by revelio 3y ago
The thread here started with the claim that "she has a Masters in Electrical Engineering, a PhD in Computer Vision, and has had a fantastic career". It's reasonable to expect given that description for her PhD to be actually
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by revelio 3y ago
Well, there's that too yes but I think that's not the main thing people mean in this context. The issue is that in most parts of the world a 100% renewable grid can't satisfy demand on a still night, and storage tech isn&#x27
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by revelio 3y ago
I don't think right wing media talks about Gebru's paper much one way or another. Please avoid the shallow dismissals. Unless you'd like every post you make to get a reply like, "wow guardian reader much? let me guess, y
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by revelio 3y ago
Yes hydro and geothermal are exceptions, but also irrelevant on a global scale. Hydro sources are already tapped and won't take us any further. When people say renewables in this context they mean the sources that can be scaled up. Pum
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by revelio 3y ago
The logic is clear but incorrect. It's not a correct comparison because it assumes a watt-hour used by Google is the same as an average watt-hour. They actually buy enough renewable power for all their DCs (just not always locally). Ho
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by revelio 3y ago
Well no, the grid is pretty stable today because fossil fuels are very predictable and base-loady. The point is that renewables aren't, so if you push too hard on renewables then you will have more outages due to losing control of the
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by revelio 3y ago
The problem is that for every politician you motivate by making things up, you also motivate another politician to stop listening to scientists in general. Maybe those other politicians are out of power at the moment, or not even in politic
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by revelio 3y ago
The people who are attracted to geo-engineering are probably the closest fit for what you want. You can argue that geo-engineering still requires global coordination. The types you ask for are quite rare. If you accept human nature for what
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by revelio 3y ago
> The earth is a sensitive system How sensitive exactly is called equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS). Climatologists compute it using global climate models and different climatology groups have different models, so they produce differ
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by revelio 3y ago
Renewables aren't cheaper than fossil fuels if you consider the cost of grid outages. This is an externality that is normally not considered when arguing they're cheaper.
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Denying recorded averages in this case is unfortunately very reasonable, because temperature graphs don't show recorded averages. That is a common misconception that governments are happy to encourage. Modern temperature graphs are the
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by revelio 3y ago
There are two ways to interpret your question: 1. If you mean what 1.5 degrees is above, it's an anomaly, which is defined as the difference from an average computed over a somewhat arbitrary time window. I think this one is defined as
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by revelio 3y ago
Google datacenters are run off green power, so it's deceptive to compare energy costs there to jet fuel. It implies that the carbon impact is the same, which isn't true, because not all energy is the same. As for being technical o
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by revelio 3y ago
> Same problem with facial recognition which simply didn't work on anyone with dark skin. That's an urban legend btw. The issue was actually that the person for whom it failed had the camera pointed straight up with a bright li
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by revelio 3y ago
Amazing that these people don't even pretend. Refugee advocates and labour organisers have what to do with AI research? Nothing? Like La Sombrita and how the attempt to design a bus stop somehow became connected to female empowerment.
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Chromebooks managed it, made by OEMs. The issue with Linux is pervasively user-hostile design in the name of GNU ideology, not Microsoft
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It's not clickbait unfortunately and the article shouldn't be flagged. Anyone who works closely with Windows in recent years knows that the OS is falling apart inside at a catastrophic rate. They seem to have entered some sort of
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by revelio 3y ago
The wrongness I'm pointing out is the Yale article, circa 2023. It makes false claims about the past, so what else are they saying that's false? Re: droughts and floods. Good example. These aren't getting worse. The media and
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by revelio 3y ago
Maybe? IntelliJ plugin API is pretty much infinite in scope, you can customize nearly anything. Not everything is well documented, mind you.
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by revelio 3y ago
That's exactly why people flag such stories, to prevent you learning things that might make you doubt the greatness of the prevailing ideology. Now, the really important thing to ponder is: what's currently being flagged to ensure
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by revelio 3y ago
How does VS Code increase usage of Office?

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