I stand corrected, thanks for the context!

Probably autocorrect going from Melania to Melanie.

Ask him to share the passwords to all his bank accounts, when he refuses to just highlight that there are plenty of non-illegal things that you want to keep hidden.

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Just like every other trek series it takes a bit to grow the beard.

I thoroughly enjoyed Lower Decks, just because it’s a comedy doesn’t mean it isn’t serious sci fi with real stakes like any other trek show. It highlights how absurd the writing of trek throughout can be and still rolls with it, still treating that absurdity with the same seriousness as everything else crazy in the universe.

A super computer isn’t just a single computer, it’s a lot of them networked together to greatly expand the calculation scaling. If you can imagine a huge data center, with thousands of racks of hardware, CPUs, GPUs and RAM chips all dedicated to the tasks of managing network traffic for major websites, its very similar to that but instead of being built to handle all the ins and outs and complexities of managing network traffic, it’s purely dedicated to doing as many calculations for a specific task, such as protein folding as someone else mentioned, or something like Pixar’s Render Farm, which is hundreds of GPUs all networked together dedicated solely to the task of rendering frames.

With how big and complex any given 3d scenes are in any given Pixar film one single GPU might take 10 hours to calculate the light bounces in a scene to render a single frame, assuming a 90 minute run time, that ~130,000 frames, which is potentially 1,300,000 hours (or about 150 years) to complete just 1 full movie render on a single GPU. If you have 2 GPUs working on rendering frames, you’ve now cut that time down to 650,000 hours. Throw 100 GPUs at the render, we’ve cut time to 13,000 hours, or about a year and a half. Pixar is pretty quiet about their numbers but at least according to the Science of Pixar traveling exhibit during the time of Monster University in 2013, their render farm had about 2000 machines with 24,000 processing cores, and it took 2 years worth of rendering time to render that movie out, and I can only imagine how much bigger their render farm has gotten since then.

Source: https://sciencebehindpixar.org/pipeline/rendering

You’re not building a super computer to be able to play Crysis, you’re building a super computer to do lots and lots and lots of math that might take centuries of calculation to do on a single 16 core machine.

I would do a stir fry with something like these, slice them into coins, toss in a hot pan, add in some veggies like green beans or snow peas, and stir fry until tender. Then do some kind of flavorful stock or a seasoned soy sauce thickened with a bit of corn or potato starch. That’ll likely help with the blandness of the soy sausages.

The standards of today are still significantly better than even a hundred years ago. I mean think back to the time of windmills and watermills, to drive massive grindstones. It used to be grinding wheat carried very substantial risks that the flour would have strait up chunks of grindstone that broke off from the milling. London would have regular cholera outbreaks because they were dumping human waste into the Thames where their drinking supply was pulled from. Once they stopped doing that, cholera was dramatically reduced

At a certain point there are just acceptable risks to the regulations we have to the manufacturing processe we have and we as induviduals just need to be moderately careful with preparing our foods. Washing fresh fruits and veg is always a good idea, cook your food to proper temperatures to kill off enough bacteria, wash your hands when you prepare food, don’t prep raw meats on the same surfaces as fresh veg. If you get salmonella because you cut up raw veggies for a veggie board on a cutting board that you prepped raw chicken on no amount of regulation is going to protect people, and that’s with salmonella already quite rare in a lot of manufactured product, something like 1 in 20 or 1 in 25 at your average grocery store.

Unsafe? No, it was well below any regulations for unsafe dosages. However it was detectable above the average baseline which is valid cause for concern because more contamination could happen. It ended up that there was a steel scrap smelter near the shrimp packing facility that somehow got medical equipment that uses cesium-137 got into the scrap and as it was smelted down, a detectable amount of cesium got released into the air and ended up on the shrimp.

No real world politics crammed into it

My guy the original trilogy was about the Vietnam War that was literally happening in the 1970s when New Hope was released, the prequel trilogy was about the neoliberal stagnation and subsequent war on terror in the late 90s and early 2000s, the sequel trilogy is the one devoid of cultural relevance to any ongoing events and it suffered because it wasn’t relevant to anyone.

Zachary Leeman covered pop culture and politics at outlets such as Breitbart, LifeZette, BizPac Review, HollywoodinToto, and others. He is the author of the novel Nigh. He joined Mediaite in 2022.

Dude wrote for Breitbart, of course the nazi saying nazi shit is “shocking” his paycheck depends on him not believing nazis would say nazi shit.

Sometimes the theatrics of shutting down a nazi site is just as important as the actual shutting down of a nazi site.

It’s not the “having children” part the jedi forbid, it’s the growing of attachments that distracts from the light side of the force and tempts people to justify the small atrocities they would commit to protect the ones they love that grow to bigger atrocities.

Disrupt Venezuela for long enough to let corporations re-privatize that nation’s oil reserves for US business interests while everyone is distracted by a multi year long trial process that ends up going nowhere, Maduro gets released or pardoned.

Unfortunately even the high end expensive stuff is still built for planned obsolescence in mind, still built to break after 10 years and the only options available, whether you go to big box store, specialty places, or direct from manufacturers, all have planned obsolescence built in and are more expensive to repair than just buying a new one. The $400 dishwasher and the $1400 dishwasher will still both only last 10 years.

I broadly agree with your analysis, the luddite comparison is apt and I think you’ll find that quite a few people on here do in fact understand they were anti exploitation, not anti tech. And yeah the root problem of all this can be boiled down to “capitalism requires profit at all costs” but I’m so frustrated with the absolutely correct answer being “because capitalism” but with no real actionable plan at the present moment to actually mitigate the harm beyond, “end capitalism and share resources fairly”

I don’t think lemmy users are necessarily naive, I think that most of us are tired of everything collapsing around us and are looking for literally anything that can give us even some modicum of relief from the horrors.

I also don’t hate AI because it’s new technology, hell I found a lot of the early experiments by people online into neural networks and training them. I enjoyed the CaryKH and Jabrils and CodeBullet videos building small neural networks to race cars around a track or play flappy bird or get massive high scores in tetris and 3Blue1Brown and Numberphile and Computerphole videos breaking down how the math and computer science theory worked. I hate that it’s only use has been to flood the internet with randomly generated garbage at best, and is now just a tool of mass misinformation on a scale unprecedented in a time of economic instability in a deeply divided world where there are dozens of countries with enough nuclear warheads to end the planet 30 times over.

Unfortunately we can’t wait for that secret third thing to reveal itself. We can’t sit around hoping that letting the capitalists run rampant will bring us that secret third thing before our air becomes unbreathable, our climate is inhospitable, and our lakes and rivers and aquifers are tainted with toxic chemicals and heavy metals.

I’ll always side against the oppressor, the one with the power. Personally I don’t hate religion because it’s religion, I hate religion because it’s used by the powerful to lie to the masses and manipulate them into behaving how the powerful want you to behave, monarchy was the ruler ordained by God because God is a king and rules over all creation and the monarch is God’s tool of power over the world, just like how in the west capitalism is ordained by God because God loves freedom and the free market and that is the best way to care for his people.

As far as I can tell, these pastors weren’t particularly harming anyone this is just ideological crackdown.

Ralphie, with the hubcap in the snow.

Because you’re defending the person who kept prompting the water and energy wasting machine over and over to get the look how they wanted to instead of being moderately competent with photoshop. Just because someone put a lot of time and effort into refining a prompt doesn’t take away from the fact that prompting the water and energy wasting machine is wasting water and energy.

It’s very “boys will be boys” coded.

The entire problem is that llms are trillions of dollars dropped into a money pit, wasting water, pumping carbon into the air at a faster rate than ever to do exactly what a 14 year old with a cracked copy of Photoshop could do.

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