Lucerne

Or literally every city in Europe

I mean you can help it. We humans got to where we are because we can literally adapt to any situation. If you really wanted to, you could practice speaking and also initiating to speak and then do it, removing the “quiet” label from you.

Disclaimer, I’m not saying that this is a worthwhile goal or that being quiet is a problem in any way. If someone likes being quiet, then they should be allowed to be quiet without a judgemental asshole saying such things like they did to you. As long as you’re a kind human trying to be good, I’d want my children to turn out like you :D

It’s easy to understand once you realize that most people think police is only about “being the one to call in an emergency when a bad guy tries to hurt you”. In that line of thinking it’s the same as “the one to call in an emergency when a fire is trying to hurt you” or “the one to call in an emergency when an injury/disease is trying to kill you”.

How did you even get the idea you’re not “useful”? When I look at your profile, all I see is 90%+ upvoted posts, not that upvotes necessarily matter very much.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66240489

These OnlyFans ads are getting intrusive

At the end Rom was made “king” of Ferenginar ;)

I don’t really get it, don’t the colors highlight the repeating patterns? How can it not have repeating patterns with clearly repeating patterns like that? They’re probably using some useless definition of “repeating”, right?

I like my rice mixed with sauce

My salads often contain corn or nuts. There’s simply no way the shoveling abilities of a fork is harder than having to pick up small pieces with chopsticks.

And even the big leaves, how is stabbing down once and getting 5 leaves at the same time harder than doing more motions to “grab” the same amount of leaves?

How would they find out if you put it back immediately after using?

The joy of AuDHD oftentimes

Why not try a challenge for how long you can go without a shower?

I helped develop Unciv.

Have fun.

You probably simply never noticed. Maybe the grocery chain you buy at. Maybe a particularly flashy packaging of a food item in said grocery store. Maybe an outrageous fun sex toy you saw in porn. Maybe you’re subscribed to a Patreon somewhere. Maybe you have a t-shirt of your favorite show. Do you really make all these decisions completely conscious of all advertising you saw before, making sure that you do not miss any better alternatives with worse advertising?

No person can think so much about all their decisions to spend money. No one can be so perfectly conscious of every single sensory input. Advertising works on everyone, you just don’t even notice when it works on you.

I taught my gun to walk, now I don’t have to carry it anymore :D

But so a gun doesn’t help either. It just means they call SWAT and take you down with superior numbers and firepower, doesn’t it?

The only real place where a gun helps is in an actual civil war, or possibly against a single non-governmental bad guy (with risk of being shot yourself as well).

My understanding is relatively deep, so let me explain.

Don’t you think that if everyone used their own hardware for it, it would use at least as much energy? There is nothing inherent about data centers that make them consume more energy. Processing is processing and it needs some amount of power to run a transistor, which does not majorly change, unless you use very old hardware without certain technological advances, which is much more likely with hardware at home!

In addition, what you’re forgetting as well is that not everyone has even close to the required hardware to run these models. They require a certain amount of RAM, and if you don’t have that, you’re out of luck because it is so slow to run without enough RAM as to be useless, and most people do not have that amount necessary.

So, if everyone switched to running their AI locally, there’d be a lot more graphics cards and other computer parts bought, which guess what, need resources to be produced, resulting in potentially other kinds of environmental damage, along the same way as new data centers, but obviously some kind of different damage.

And then the data centers use their hardware all the time, while if you run your model at home, your hardware is only used occasionally and otherwise just sits there, so you need a lot more hardware in general because of all the unused capacity everywhere.

It’s the same principle as other environmental relief efforts, if everyone needs to buy their own car and drive it, that is much worse than just everyone using public transportation. Once you make something communally used, it requires less resources per person, even though for example a train is much more expensive than a single car. But same as you’re not serving a single traveller per train, a single data center does not serve one person. So theoretically, data centers are the better environmental choice.

What the real problem is, is not these data centers, data centers in general are good. The problem is unnecessary data centers, same as an individual buying unnecessary hardware for themselves. If you use AI, you don’t save any energy by running it yourself. The only argument for running it yourself is the increased privacy and not supporting these big corporations that do actually build unnecessary data centers, because AI should not be used for so many things that it is used for. So running it yourself is probably still better, but only if you already have the hardware anyway, but not because of reduced resources, but other reasons.

I thought the issue was how much energy it takes to run, not how much it takes to train.

And if the problem is how much it takes to run, a data center will likely be better because they have an optimized environment for it and economies of scale, running it locally will likely be less efficient and take more energy.

No, men are obviously evil

Why?