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You know, the laws of thermodynamics. Every machine generates heat. For example datacenters generate megawatts of it.

Even though you do have less greenhouse gases to trap the heat, you will be pumping more of that heat into the atmosphere, seas and oceans, warming everything up.

You're removing one aspect of climate change but not all aspects of it, still affecting the climate and ecosystems.

Also, for example, we still can't fly passenger and cargo planes with electricity for now, so you won't be able to remove all greenhouse gases, yet.

Look at the data [0]. Yes, energy production and heating is the biggest contributor, and even if you manage to remove it completely with the transportation sector via electrification, half of the emissions are still there.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

That comment was obviously LLM authored...

Wanna bet? =]

Or you can secure yourself a DLC one and try to feed it with the correct regime (liquid composition, temperature and flow rate). I'd say good luck.

These things get hot and are fussy about their requirements.

We've sufficiently developed electric cars, but they're not nearly the majority.

Just to further support your point, sufficiently developed electric cars' batteries still doesn't have the energy density of fossil fuels, so they can't replace any and every use case.

For example, can we carry or generate the energy these cars requires to move unimpeded like ICE vehicles yet? Or, did we improve the procedures and materials so these cars can be extinguished faster, more reliably and securely then their previous generation counterparts? Or did battery recycling methods became cheap and efficient enough yet, so we can reuse these batteries and at least not increase mining on our planet? Etc. Etc.

I'm not against renewables or electric cars, but even in their current form, we need to solve many problems to make them more practical and even less impactful when compared to their ICE counterparts.

I can relate, because I also try to understand whether the text I'm reading is written by a human or emitted by a model constantly, and I don't use any LLMs day to day.

On the other hand, I'm not new in the internet, and have relatively thick skin. I'm very amused today by the unintentional attention I got with my cloudy, morning brain.

Nevertheless, regardless of what we do, believe or say, we shall be kind first and remember https://xkcd.com/438/ dearly.

This is what I'm trying to do all the time, but I'm not perfect. Just a human, trying his best.

Recently Animats replied to one of my comments and brought "Megawatt Racks" to my attention.

I work at a datacenter. We provide compute resources to researchers, and while our datacenter is not small or low energy, one of our systems have Green500 certification and we try to do things as efficient as possible.

When I look at our racks, some of them are DLC BTW, and imagine each of them can pack a MW system now, I shudder. Not because of us, but what AI datacenters gonna do with that energy density and how much heat will these systems put out.

The funny thing is, In my whole life, this is probably the first time I have used that form, and I wrote it in a completely honest way.

I just want to bang my head to the keyboard.

Hey! Thanks a ton. I took that photo while waiting to board. I don't remember which airport though, need to look at its date. It's an old one.

Thanks again for everything!

Thanks for your opinion about my opinion of a service and its effects on my life.

If you can provide me your contact details, I'd love to send my similar comments to you and get them cleared by you to satisfy your standards of endorsement.

For your information and entertainment, ZeroGPT returns 97% human for that whole comment which I wrote while having my breakfast and my phone was laying on the table.

Unbelievable.

Yeah, that future is certainly here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-FXvRHHjXSU

I don't believe many understands the complexity of a self-driving car. It's not like programming a couple of agents with simulated sensors on a computer.

Thanks for your comment. Can you provide me some examples so we can discuss on it further?

Oh, this appeared late in my feed.

I personally like the ability to filter my own results by promoting, demoting or blocking certain domains to filter lower quality results further. Same for image search which can also filter out AI generated images.

Also, I find lenses very useful (which is a way to limit your search radius) to search for specific things in the specific parts of the internet. i.e. you can define a lens with specific websites for a subject, and if you need something precisely, you can only search these websites.

I recently started to use SlopStop reporting to weed out AI generated webpages from search results, too.

Lastly, all AI features are opt-in. No summaries, no widgets, no extra "bells and whistles" if you don't want on your result page.

If I wrote the features that I like, and god forbid I use a bullet list, then I'll be labeled as a LLM user or LLM again.

What do you want me to do? :)

I can answer your questions if you want? :D

Edit: Heh, I saw your other comment, too.

Generally, if you're targeting behavior of the people or the masses, you're targeting a societal problem.

People bullying other people is not a technical problem. People driving dangerously is not a technical problem. People shoplifting is not a technical problem. All of them have different reasons deep down, and preventing the symptom doesn't solve the problem.

When you effectively prevent bullying, the bully might damage something else or may do self-harm to soothe their demons. Same for people driving dangerously or have to shoplift to survive.

When you cure the root problem, which is generally harder BTW, the problem you're technically trying to prevent disappears, too.

Hope this helps.

Didn't I? I have given a direction as a reply. Telling that the road you're planning to go down is not the right one. I have offered you a pruning pattern for your decision tree in your mind, urging you to think on what you have proposed and look at it with a critical eye.

I have offered you to look for other examples, or find a way which has been traveled less or at least ponder on "why?" of this comment. Somebody else did down below, asked for clarification. Somebody beat me to it with a much better example then I can think at that very moment, adding more context and information into my comment.

I don't know you, your circumstances or preferences, hence dictating the way is neither the wise thing to do, nor it's my responsibility to begin with, since you didn't ask me about my opinions about the right way in the first place.

There's help everywhere who dare to look, or explore the the thing they have found and ponder on it. You have a mighty thing in your skull. A brain, a mind. Use it and explore its potential. It might not be easy in the beginning, but it'll be rewarding at the end.

At least, I can promise that to you.

Yeah, I figured the same thing after reading my comment and chuckled. :)

It's a funny claim about me, who doesn't use any LLMs for writing, coding or reducing any kind of mental or manual load.

My comments are on the open, and I can answer any question or comment you have about any of them. :)

No offense taken though. Made me smile while drinking my tea. :)

I believe you register your device with Microsoft so Windows can automatically obtain and install drivers for them when they are plugged in.

What LG sent in for installation is not a simple .inf or .sys/.dll file. They sent in a whole bag of software which does all the nasty things, and Microsoft doesn't vet or care about the software installed as the "driver" of the hardware.

Kagi is not only an ad-free subscription. It’s a mental budget booster. Knowing there are no ads and results are higher quality removes a mental load I didn’t know I was carrying.

It’s possibly the single most impactful thing in my digital life.

Thanks for everything, and please keep doing what you’re doing.

There are so many things I can write about this, but I’ll keep it short:

Technological solutions to societal problems is one of the shortest paths to hell.

So, no, thanks.

Then, that’s the wrong paper. I’ll find it and link it as a reply to this comment. Probably tomorrow morning.

It proved that it was technically feasible, and was "privacy preserving".

Didn't their paper disproved by reversing the perceptual hashes to reveal blurred version of the images being hashed, and Apple basically said "that's fair, it's not as robust as we wanted, let's visit this later"?

If not, I'll happily stand corrected, but please share sources.

Addenda:

- Apple's original paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20210807165030/https://www.apple...

- Paper breaking the hash: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06628

Edit: The second one is the wrong paper. I’ll find and link the correct one tomorrow. Keeping the link for transparency.

He's a great DIYer and explorer of sounds, so that part is true.

However, he's not a sole YouTuber who imitates 80s music to put out videos. The videos are a mere side product.

He builds stuff, experiments and sets up museums[0], or even restores old cars[1]. When I first stumbled upon him, he was restoring old musical instruments in a warehouse and that place was a makeshift museum of sorts.

I believe he doesn't care if his musical output or taste doesn't meet someone's expectations, he's just being himself, and I like him being just that. Maybe he is not breaking new musical grounds, but he's thinking very outside the box while being a tonal copy of somebody else, and this is certainly something.

He would probably buy one of these, or clone it himself, just because he wants to, and this makes him the target audience of this squarely.

[0] https://www.lookmumnocomputer.com/projects#/this-museum-is-n...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@lookmumnoengine

Let's not insult Vogons, shall we?

Nope.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I'll disagree kindly with you on that "Nope".

The great irony is they still sport their "Code is Poetry" mantra on their website [0].

If code is poetry, Wordpress is a new genre of it, probably?

[0] https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Philosophy

Or look like you're opening things by writing open standards which point out to Microsoft internal documents of closed file formats.

Then, try to standardize them.

You're exactly right. Let me support you by adding some examples:

- Look Mum No Computer: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLluPQLh1xzlLcJd9CbAxE...

- Caught in Joy: https://www.youtube.com/@CaughtInJoy

They just show their stuff, and what they can do with these. No talent, just show. /s

But the most obvious alternative to a filesystem would be formatting a whole hard drive as an sqlite database.

At the end of the day, you'll be chasing pointers inside that SQLite database, where you store tables, indexes and such. Interestingly, this is how a filesystem works. Tables, indexes, redirections and fields. Very much like a database. EXT4 is a table of redirections, nothing fancy [0].

[0] https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/understanding-ext4-disk-layou...

I didn't make such claim, and there's no need to comeback with such force. A file is a good abstraction of what a "casual" user works with. E-mails, documents, images, videos. These are great applications for files. Also, while some people hate UNIX's "everything is a file" approach with a passion, it's a great way to allow people to explore what's behind the wallpaper they see every day.

You know what, these big databases and object stores are living on bog standard but scalable filesystems most of the time. Ceph, ZFS, Lustre, etc., and sharded/stored as files. There are some very high performance and bespoke systems out there [0], yet they also provide POSIX compliant filesystem views outside, not because they are sacred, but because it works.

Filesystems provide great utilities for making abstractions other than files, by using files as universal containers you can play with. Again, while they are not sacred, they are an important building block, and they're here to stay. Creating a custom storage backend, throwing away all filesystem stuff is a fool's errand, since filesystems handle much more than providing a tree and some attributes on that file/folder hierarchy. Since they are the first level on top of physical storage devices, they also take care of the device underneath them (e.g. TRIM, FFFS (Flash Friendly File System), etc.).

It's a great irony that E-Mails are already stored as human readable databases on disks.

[0] https://docs.weka.io/4.3/weka-system-overview/filesystems