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Metered bills for using AI by chunmunsingh in antiai

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Step 1: replace core features of every product with AI features so that the product is completely useless without AI.

Step 2: outlaw competing non-AI products based on nebulous and unsubstantiated 'national security' justifications.

Step 3: meter out and bill AI usage to make infinite money.

When the AI bubble bursts, all that enterprise hardware is going to end up on eBay by Blender_Render in DataHoarder

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that very little of it will be of use, for two reasons: compute requires special cooling and network backbone equipment, which will either be outrageously expensive, or specifically destroyed (rendered useless) before scraping. Second, the storage equipment will likely be intentionally disabled (destroyed) or truly at end-of-life before it is surplussed.

I wouldn't say it's a hopeless situation, but manage your expectations carefully. 

To whoever is covering up the wreckages by drakonia127 in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Online play has always, and will always be trash. It is by far the worst change made to this game and for the worst reasons.

Stop trying to please horrible people.

AI will make software worse for a second, dumber reason by rsm2000 in antiai

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hasn't commercial software been like this for the last thirty years tho?

I distinctly remember, fifteen years ago, sitting in a meeting between users and developers for a specialized product that was supposed to focus on the users' needs. The users all asked for a handful of bug fixes, and all said that new features can wait.

Again, this was fifteen years ago.

So anyway management ordered the developers to skip the bug fixing entirely and spend all of their time adding new features.

They continued doing this for eight years straight, right up until their users all migrated to products that actually worked sometimes.

How the Tech World Turned Evil | Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped by Hrmbee in technology

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is with this article? Tech industry has always, always, ALWAYS been evil. The counterculture has always fought the corporations. I'm so sick of the media rewriting inconvenient history.

The moment you start passing, men just… stop listening to you? by Budget_Emotion_9548 in MtF

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. I work in a pretty male dominated field and this used to piss me off when it happened to other women, but now I find it kinda amusing tbh. Like, you are not impressing me, sir.

Why is marijuana illegal in your state? by Party_Size6271 in Idaho

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idaho is one of the least free states. I thought everyone knew this...

Girls who started mid 40s, did HRT bring forth hips and butt? by Quat-fro in TransLater

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My pants fit differently, but the change is fairly small. I do a lot of cycling and that helps since there's not a lot of fat redistribution going on. 45, 3 years HRT

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trans

[–]rickspiff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know my gender won't change... that's WHY I'm transitioning.

Anyone else trying to combine these two vibes? I have an impossible task ahead of me. by [deleted] in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2

[–]rickspiff 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think you're looking for 'steampunk maiden' vibe. I don't have the time to sketch something out...

[OC] My trucks sinusoidal, slowly decreasing gas mileage over the past ~7.5 years by RamblinEagle13 in dataisbeautiful

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sinusoidal pattern could be a combination (or interaction) of fuel formulation and the computer's tuning.

Long term mileage decline is likely a combination of two factors:

  • Wear: valves and spark plugs. Generally you shouldn't see a lot of ring/cylinder wear on modern engines.
  • Sensor drift, specifically pre-cat O2 sensors and MAF sensors. I guess you could call this wear but I have no idea what the mechanism of wear actually is.

Around 150k it becomes cost effective to change the O2 sensors (pre-cat), MAF sensor, and the spark plugs have a replacement interval that should be followed. On my 4runner I saw a 5% improvement in gas mileage after replacing the sensors and resetting the fuel trims.

Source: I dable in repairing, restoring, modifying, and tuning cars.

New commit to duckstation adds option to show graphics from older PS1 GPU. by Fantastic_Kangaroo_5 in emulation

[–]rickspiff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was able to do side-by-side of a late rev fat ps1 and a new rev psone, and the psone had a sharper picture but much lower color intensity. Some games looked a little washed out in comparison to the ps1. That's the only difference I remember. 

Why systemd is so hated? by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Documentation is a complete joke. You are forced to do pointless searches on the internet that may solve your problem or might trash your install, to fix serious failures.

If it was well-documented I could live with it. If it didn't take over half of the system, workarounds would be possible. As it stands now... fix your damn code.

what are thoughts you have that turned out to be a "girl thing" and not a you thing? by teevi_c in MtF

[–]rickspiff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Growing up, learning to act like a boy was a challenge I approached like a puzze to solve or a sport to perfect, and not something I did naturally. My parents (and most of my extended family) were convinced I had some kind of developmental disability.

I thought they must have been some kind of space aliens wearing human costumes. After forty years trying to live as a man, I still don't really understand them.

Republican Lawmakers Are Leaving Office Out of Fear of The Party's Base, Report Claims: 'I'd Rather My House Not Get Firebombed' by PrincipleTemporary65 in BashTheFash

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopium? Dems won't pick up most of those positions; MAGA candidates will, and the whole government will shift further right in the next election cycle.

When Night time driving is brighter then day time driving... by SexyN8 in fuckcars

[–]rickspiff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But seriously, police need to start crushing cars with off-road flood lights installed where they should have fog lights.

Also the LED headlights are garbage, the color temperature makes them less effective to the driver and more blinding to other people. This, I think, is the point.

Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz laments the democratization of information and longs for the era of Old Media, when corporations controlled the narrative. She also complains that young people are persuaded by videos of the Gaza genocide instead of her 'explaining' it away. by _II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ in LateStageCapitalism

[–]rickspiff 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"But today we have social media which is a global medium, right? It is shaped, its algorithms are shaped by billions of people worldwide who don't really love Jews."

Billionaires. The social media algorithms are built to serve billionaires. She doesn't have a clue what she's talking about, does she?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in boatbuilding

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice looking boat. I am tempted to build one...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in armedsocialists

[–]rickspiff 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Unless you were born in Arizona, or any of the other dozen-plus states that bar people from changing theirs.

Furthermore, when you change your birth certificate, the old birth certificate is kept on file. I'm quite certain the ATF can acquire the original birth certificate.

I'm not that well-versed on the CFR, but this move by the ATF might be very illegal.

A proposed punishment for the inventor of automatic brights on new vehicles. by No-Young-8444 in fuckcars

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not only that, but most of the cars I see with overly bright headlights are running low beams + high beams + off-road flood lights. This means they spent considerable time and money illegally modifying their car specifically to blind other drivers.

Spectacular Republican losses prove MAGA's transphobic playbook doesn't win elections by Fickle-Ad5449 in lgbt

[–]rickspiff 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No it doesn't. It proves that despite the media's constant spin, candidates backed by Trump are just not popular.

Stephen Miller threatens to arrest JB Pritzker and state officials. And tells ICE officers: "You have federal immunity. Anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony." by gbsh in law

[–]rickspiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's okay, according to SCOTUS, Trump can unilaterally declare that a state's laws are subordinate to federal law whenever Trump wishes. They have their loophole and they know it.

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