Posts by VonLugersButter

Trump can't quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it

Re: What?

Sorry about that

Re: What?

"not clear" is an understatement. The Orange blob's spraying of shite in all directions is the plan. Some of it will stick, most won't. Doesn't matter anyway, he'll achieve his main goal of disruption... all the people potentially affected by this are consuming their resources deciphering the ramblings then coming up with a plan to counter, because you can't risk ignoring it. Meanwhile Blobby can go about whatever he's doing in the background.

Blobby and his crew having an opinion of semis? FFS, it's way beyond their combined IQ level. You just can't pop up a fab like a four seasons landscaping warehouse. Here's to Europe with U.K. taking a continued technical lead over the Muppet farm.

Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest

Re: Stop building more junk

A lot of all sorts of problems solved if Arsebook, Twitter, Insta, Snapchat etc were all turned off. I can't think of a single societal benefit to any of them. The occasional catch up with someone is far outweighed by the damage they are doing.

AI's power trip will leave energy grids begging for mercy by 2027

"how not to destroy the planet?" I think we already know that and we don't need an Nvidia GPUd data centre to figure that one out.

Be far more interesting to see what % of these data centres are used for actual good... curing cancer for example. And what % goes towards the bullshit stuff... porn, AI generated ads, AI generated click bait rabbit holes, etc.

The billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on a mission to fight Tesla's FSD

Re: Really really unhackable

Mine is better. It has 2 cups and a string.

Not to mention where he gets the time... especially as he's holding down a second job with McDonalds and all that doling out of fries he's doing.

So much for green Google ... Emissions up 48% since 2019

This is a strange one. Energy companies are not giving Google power for free, so the ROI on ML/AI functions alone would be interesting. We'll only know in a few years if it stands alone or, in Google's case, it's propped up by their search business.

Exactly

That train keeps coming though, and it's called Jevon's paradox. Have a look at Dr Peter Garraghan's talk on the matter, basically if we make systems more efficient we just fill it up or build more systems.

The whole video is good but the reference is around the 20 minute mark...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYVb2Lo3Jtw&list=LL&index=136&t=1280s&ab_channel=LancasterUniversity

The really depressing thing about this is that not all energy consumed is going for a greater good or scientific endeavor. A significant chunk has to be going towards the same-old thing, popping ads up in your face to make you buy something you really don't need.

Dublin debauchery derails Portal to NYC in six days flat

Re: It's stupid

Or that this wouldn't have been the reaction on the Irish side!

Destroying offshore wind farms is top priority for Trump if he returns to presidency

Re: Worse.

"including an outright ban on electric cars" Hopefully Trump will continue this theme just for the battle with that other knobhead Musk.