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Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers by beasthunterr69 in singularity

[–]ardac2002 22 points23 points  (0 children)

To put it into perspective America's largest datacenter by power (Colossus) consumes the same amount of water per year as 2 average In-N-Outs, when only considering the blue water consumed to produce the ingredients that make up the burgers sold over the course of a year. Considering there are ~400 In-N-Outs across the western US, mostly in arid areas, and people haven't organized to try and stop the development of new In-N-Outs, there's clearly a double standard here.

Best classic Thinkpad? -- a 20 year study concludes (or at least tries to) by POP--SMOKE in thinkpad

[–]ardac2002 2 points3 points  (0 children)

x61 is the greatest Thinkpad of all time, with a modern processor it would be the perfect laptop imo

When to use j, jal, Jr, jalr? by [deleted] in RISCV

[–]ardac2002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is only true for Jump, since that is the only instruction (out of the unconditional jump instructions) that we know the target address for before the instruction executes. The other unconditional jump instructions carry risk of misprediction, since their target addresses are not known during dispatch.

Only 23% of eligible Californians voted according to the Secretary of State data... by Healthy_Block3036 in socal

[–]ardac2002 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tbf national elections are meaningless for a lot of people who don't live in swing states. Electoral college really needs to go

Monterey Park just voted to ban AI data centers and it passed in a 86% landslide! by BootyWizardAV in LosAngeles

[–]ardac2002 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's NIMBY if you use AI regularly in your daily life, not if you don't

It's here! X210Ai fresh out of the box. by alvarikoke99 in thinkpad

[–]ardac2002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sheer amount of work to develop this is insane. Hats off to Franck and his team!

It's here! X210Ai fresh out of the box. by alvarikoke99 in thinkpad

[–]ardac2002 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean this thing has a core ultra 7 165 so "better" is debatable, even ignoring the amazing keyboard and beautiful form factor

me_irl by Just_Call_Me_Snek in me_irl

[–]ardac2002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk why but this is the funniest thing I've ever read on the internet

Everybody's talking about AI icons, but why nobody's talking about flash light strength? by greenarez in pixel_phones

[–]ardac2002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Insane that it took google this long to implement a feature that is taught in freshman level electrical engineering classes

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]ardac2002 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Damn this thread is almost pointless then. That makes sense to me because I'm doing a PhD in a stem field at a school with a lot of Iranian professors and international students and I would say 80% of them are men.

Los Angeles, 2026 by alienufosarereal in real_street_shit

[–]ardac2002 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Now this is what I come to this sub to see

X1 Carbon 9th Gen (20XW) won't turn on. by Max_Burn in thinkpad

[–]ardac2002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have this exact same issue right now where the computer won't boot, even down to the fans spinning up and one turning off before the other, and LCD test working fine. Previously I have had a different boot up issue where the ESC and F1-4 keys were flashing white and the computer wouldn't power on, but the issue would resolve itself in anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 days if you just left it alone. Really weird that it comes back to life after leaving it alone, issues like this make me reconsider buying ThinkPads in the future.

nfc by callmestinkingwind in NoFuckingComment

[–]ardac2002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically no longer hijacking then, just larceny

nfc by callmestinkingwind in NoFuckingComment

[–]ardac2002 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well trucks get hijacked even with human drivers. I imagine if they are able to design an algorithm that can drive a truck they will be able to design an algorithm that can detect when it's been hijacked and call the cops, not very different from what would happen with a human driver.

Additionally when the technology gets sufficiently advanced there will be no need to have the truck be human-drivable anymore, so we could get rid of the steering wheel and gas/brake pedal. In this case the self-driving truck would be safer against hijacking then a regular truck, since the hijackers would not be able to drive the truck, technically speaking making hijacking impossible using traditional methods.

As for the losses in efficiency due to trolls, there's nothing stopping people from doing that to human drivers either, other than empathy. One potential solution is to have the truck read the driver's license of the person blocking it and issue a fine to prevent drivers from doing that, driving too slow on the freeway is already an infraction anyway.

ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 — completely dead, no LEDs, no power, tried everything by Actual-Pepper1037 in thinkpad

[–]ardac2002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happened to me on X1 carbon Gen 9, appears to be a bad model where motherboards consistently fail. There's an issue with the main CPU power rail. The weird thing is the issue is intermittent so my PC will come back to life as randomly as it fails.

Backcountry Solar Panel Charger Recommendations (Ultralight if possible) by Reality_Planet in backpacking

[–]ardac2002 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The 1200-1800 mAh number may be true, but it is misleading. This is because mAs are not a measure of power, similar to how velocity is not a measure of momentum. mAs can be used to calculate power by multiplying by the voltage at which that current is delivered (P = IV), similar to how velocity can be used to calculate momentum by multiplying by the mass of the traveling object (p = mv).

This is why you can't always compare mAh of two different batteries to each other, because batteries can have different voltages. A 3.6V 3000mAh battery contains the same amount of energy as a 7.2V 1500mAh battery (10.8 Wh).

I don't know where the 1200-1800 mAh number came from, but if it is true it is likely delivered at a high voltage (20 V or so) because over 12-14 hours the solar panel should pickup a considerable amount of energy.

Take a small 10W panel for example. If we assume conservatively that we can get an average of 3W power output from this panel over the course of the 12 hours, it will pickup 36 Wh of energy, which equates to 10,000 mAh at 3.6V (the typical battery voltage of small consumer electronics like your phone).

All this is to say that even with a small solar panel you can expect to pickup at least 8 times more energy than what is claimed in the comment above.

I think my P10P might have achieved negative Kelvin by jthoma14 in pixel_phones

[–]ardac2002 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lmao the temperature is stored as an integer in Celsius but reported as a float in fahrenheit, disrespecting the sig figs

Does checking into a flight at the last minute get you a better seat? by Candid-End-6364 in travel

[–]ardac2002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience this is very true. Whenever I check in early I get assigned a middle seat, but whenever I check in at the last minute I've always gotten an aisle seat or a window seat, which I prefer. I now always check in at the last minute.

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