toasty228

5 ms·

1.
by toasty228 4d ago
Monday: Skynet is coming next week Tuesday: oopsie we ran out of compute Wednesday: btw we should really slow down or _something_ Thursday: anyone got $7b to loan? Friday: we just cured cancer (maybe?) Saturday: We just invested 5b in nvidi
2.
by toasty228 4d ago
Reddit is probably 80% bots by now, you thought wrong
3.
by toasty228 4d ago
Why would you bring sea water if you're hundreds of km away from the sea? Either the entire world is stupid and has been for decades and you're a genius. Or your 5 minutes take on the subject is completely unrealistic and you&#x27
4.
by toasty228 5d ago
If you can't do that it definitely is a sign you don't exercise anywhere close to enough, I know 80+ years old who could still do this
5.
by toasty228 5d ago
It was a real workload from my day job, a modest merge request, I asked for a review and for an implementation plan to fix the findings, nothing crazy. It's the most simple thing I could think of that wasn't an artificial benchmar
6.
by toasty228 5d ago
> You are not wrong, but there is no reason to assume that things can't change. No reason to assume that we can change either. 99.99% of progress we enjoy today came from burning non renewable shit, if you think we can change paradi
7.
by toasty228 5d ago
There are plenty of places built around water for obvious reason which are now experiencing droughts at an increased rate... It's not a problem for most of us yes, but it's a problem for more and more people. https://ed
8.
by toasty228 5d ago
Ah ok, then drought aren't a problem I guess? Guess what happens when you pump ground water faster than rain water replenishes it? Guess what climate change is disturbing? This your your typical HN take, aka "I thought about a ran
9.
by toasty228 5d ago
I'll tell that to the dude who pees in my staircase every other week, I must be just confused and too rich to understand.
10.
by toasty228 5d ago
Sure buddy, now go make me a solar panel without using fossil fuel, including mining, refining, processing, etc.
11.
by toasty228 5d ago
Most clothes, food, medicine, every bit of plastic you own, the tools used to make your heat pump, the rebar in your apartment walls, etc. none of this exists without fossil fuel, or at least not at this price/scale
12.
by toasty228 5d ago
I'd wager 90% of things you own and do wouldn't exist without fossil fuels, including your heat pump and your apartment
13.
by toasty228 5d ago
Looking at physical markers Europe has been in degrowth for 20 years, less things produced, less sqm of new building, less tonnes transported by freight, the GDP is saved by maths tricks and hopium
14.
by toasty228 5d ago
Unless you're ready to give up on a lot of convenience this is just not happening.
15.
by toasty228 5d ago
There is no clean energy, we don't know how to build any of the "clean energy" harvestors without using massive amount of fossil fuel.
16.
by toasty228 6d ago
Every single article and banchmark say pi saves token by default, the more I add extensions the more token hungry it gets. pi used 2-3x the tokens of codex. pi with subagent pkg used 8x-10x the tokens of codex. I don't see how adding b
17.
by toasty228 6d ago
A bit off topic because I'm not using local models, but I recently benchmarked codex vs pi vs omp with my workload and found codex to be both faster and more token efficient than pi/omp. There was not a single case for which pi wa
18.
by toasty228 6d ago
It's web only? No cli?
19.
by toasty228 6d ago
> For example, etiquette (being respectful to your opponent), patience, logic, etc… but one of the best things they learn is how to lose. That's valid for pretty much every kids sports/games though
20.
by toasty228 6d ago
Then let's keep on fucking the planet, and let's keep on moving 70kg of meat over 30km per day on average with 2500kg of steal, 400kg of battery, etc. super efficient and sustainable!
21.
by toasty228 6d ago
The only thing depressing is the current state of the world, especially in regard to pollution and resources usage. You're free to be an egoistic brain dead consumer, most people are, so go for it! Ignorance is bliss as they say
22.
by toasty228 6d ago
Many things are "nice", a lot of these things aren't compatible with long term sustainable living on earth though
23.
by toasty228 7d ago
Of course there is a crease https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1wbx1wo/there_is_a_cr...
24.
by toasty228 7d ago
We've done(ish) the first 80%: long straight roads and grid cities in south USA getting 350 days of sun per year. The last 20% will be tough. There are 1.3b vehicules in the world, most of the aren't in the US, most places will ne
25.
by toasty228 7d ago
> Is your point that busses aren't profitable? Why do they need to be? Because late stage capitalism brain rot doesn't allow for nuanced things such as "public services". They'd rather have everyone spend 50k on
26.
by toasty228 7d ago
Depends at the scale you're looking at. How much money is wasted by 30 people driving 30 cars when a bus could take them all? Taking into account car wear, gas, etc. Low density public transport work very well in places where people si
27.
by toasty228 7d ago
I'm in a 200 inhabitants village in eastern Europe, we have 3 bus stops in the village (so at most you're 10min away from a stop), the bus goes to the closest city every hour from 4:30 to 22:30 except on Sunday (every two hours fr
28.
by toasty228 7d ago
That's how you know no one in charge has a real life, they're all so disconnected from the reality of the bottom 90% that they think this is how we live. Same with the "airpod live translation" thing, they probably spent
29.
by toasty228 7d ago
$19 iems sound better than airpods, the bar is that low, but normies don't care, most probably listen to spotify on auto and get 96kbps anyways. When the batteries invariably die after 2-3 years they'll send another $150 to Tim Ap
30.
by toasty228 7d ago
From hunting mammoths to being intimidated by inanimate slabs of metal and glass, what a time to be alive

More ›