Where were you when I complained we needed additional transmission lines to keep bringing more renewable energy online?

I’ve strongly argued for this in the past.

All these tech bros with AI datacenters are putting their spare couch change together to build HVDC lines across the continent, right?

You can think that, but you’d be wrong. A ChatGPT search uses 10x the power of a regular Google search.

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/ai-has-environmental-problem-heres-what-world-can-do-about#%3A~%3Atext=A+request+made+through+ChatGPT%2C+an+AI-based%2CGoogle+Search%2C+reported+the+International+Energy+Agency.

Google has quietly removed their net-zero pledge from their website:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/google-quietly-removes-net-zero-carbon-goal-from-website-amid-rapid-power-hungry-ai-data-center-buildout-industry-first-sustainability-pledge-moved-to-background-amidst-ai-energy-crisis

This stuff isn’t being built with renewables.

When a family in the global south uses coal to cook their food, they release CO2. When a billionaire flies around the continent on a private jet, they also release CO2.

Do you consider the two to be equivalent in need or output?

People downloading stuff for personal use vs making money off of it are not the same at all. We don’t tend to condone people selling bootleg DVDs, either.

I’ve never heard anyone say “we need less data centers” until ai came along. What, all the other data centers are totally fine but the ones being used for ai are evil? If you have an issue with the drastically increased power consumption for ai you should be able to argue a stance that is inclusive of all data centers - assuming it’s something you give a fuck about. Which you don’t.

AI data centers take up substantially more power than regular ones. Nobody was talking about spinning up nuclear reactors or buying out the next several years of turbine manufacturing for non-AI datacenters. Hell, Microsoft gave money to a fusion startup to build a reactor, they’ve already broken ground, but it’s far from proven that they can actually make net power with fusion. They actually think they can supply power by 2028. This is delusion driven by an impossible goal of reaching AGI with current models.

Your whole post is missing out on the difference in scale involved. GPU power consumption isn’t comparable to standard web servers at all.

What it needs is for the rig you have now to be basically playable. If it’s playable on Windows, it should be playable on Linux. Losing a couple of fps is frankly not a big deal if it’s still overall playable.

Setting aside some anti-cheat issues, it mostly is. Nvidia has some abysmal inconsistencies in a few titles.

And yet there’s still LTT forum idiots posting on how “Steve is just running a drama channel”.

So you bring out “this is my second language” after telling someone else “you might want to put more effort into reading”. No, that does not fly. You put “sorry, English is my second language” first. Lashing out like that is not a good look.

A bit of Perl code from the late 90s/early 2000s that worked something like this (working from memory, untested):

my $hits = `grep $search_string $file`;
my @lines = split /\n/, $hits;
my @real_hits;
for( my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@lines); $i++ ) {
    my $line = $lines[0];
    if( $line =~ /$search_string/ ) {
        push @real_hits, $line;
    }
}

Let me explain a bit about what this does. Instead of reading a file line-by-line and using Perl’s regex engine to match, it uses backticks to call out to the shell for grep. Those are split up by line. Then go through those lines (in a C-style for loop, not the perfectly good foreach version that Perl has had for a long time) and now we use a regex to match that line. You know, just in case shell grep didn’t do its one job.

If anything, I’m probably making this code look better by declaring variables with my and following use strict standards.

This was written by a guy who was the main programmer before I was hired. I was told he was a real piece of shit. He often had some checks in his code that, if not passed, threw messages to the client like “WE HAVE DETECTED YOUR HACKING AND LOGGED YOUR IP ADDRESS WE’RE GOING TO GET YOU”. Never met him personally, but his code is a pretty good example of why everyone came to hate Perl.

I can’t load a stress how bad your proofreading is. Don’t blame that on others.

That conflicts with my own theory. Back in 2013, Half Life 3 was quietly released as an easter egg hidden inside a random indie title somewhere on Steam and nobody has noticed yet.

No, no, they’re saying Kotlin seams together the fun.

There was a gap in [some military capability] during the Cold War, and the USA was losing it. Almost anything you stick in there, Russia was behind. They sometimes implied otherwise, but it’s rare that they ever were. Occasionally, they used everything they had to just about match.

By the 1960s, their navy was pretty good, though. Don’t let anyone tell you they were just a bunch of vodka drunk idiots. Not at that time, anyway.

At the opposite end of what this thread is about, Dr Strangelove is far more correct than it should be.

Water cooling computers. Pretty much all aesthetics. It’s expensive, hard to maintain, and isn’t that much better than decent air cooling these days. Looks really cool, and I still want to do a glass tube build.

Would not recommend to anyone else. You really have to want to do this just because.

Lesbians making pies? Lesbians eating pies? Lesbians made into pies? I’m so confused by this headline.

Yup, everyone in the world is just winging it. Everyone.

Before Pornhub, quite a bit. The better tube sites pushed the bottom feeders down.

BTW, if ID verification takes root in a few more big states, those type of sites are going to pick up again. They don’t give a shit about following the state-by-state rules. If they do get shut down or blocked, they’ll just spin up another one. Some people will use VPNs to access Pornhub anyway, but that takes a level of tech savviness.

You can’t ban porn, you can only ban (nominally) ethical porn. Yes, there are ethical issues with Pornhub. It has fewer issues than the bottom feeder sites that don’t verify their pictures or videos at all.

Similar situation to abortion. Can’t ban that, either, you can only ban safe abortion.

Those Ford-branded Toyota’s are pieces of shit, anyway.

Toyota Motorcycle?

Some years ago, they had to raise the limit on the number of classes in an Android app in order to let Facebook work. That should tell you everything.