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Womble

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  • Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill controversial Data Center

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  • You could even do district heating. Use the hot water output from the data centre and sell it cheap for piping into appartment blocks for heating.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • Its an urban planning and transport issue essentially. Medium density housing (think 4-6 story blocks) allows enough people to live in an area that it becomes feasible to have trams/light rail serving that area.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • You're right that there's orders of magnitude difference, but its the driving that's far more! One query to a chatGPT type model uses roughly 1Wh of energy, which is about the same as is released in burning one droplet of gasoline.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • No I'm a meat eater who is anti-car! I'm more getting at how people have latched on to the energy use of AI models without realising the huge energy usage that goes into their daily lives.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • Yeah, I too hate those hypcrites who complain about the massive environmental impact of AI, then drive a 10 mile round trip to buy a burger made from a cow raised on soy.

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • Just FYI, this use of republic is not recognised in political science and as far as I've seen is only used by americans justifying why their system is undemocratic. Republic just comes from "res Publica" (public affair) and means the head of state is not a monarch but a member of the public. There are very democratic republics like Finland and there are very undemocratic republics like the PRC. The way you describe a republic would apply to countries like the UK or Sweden, which are constitutional monarchies, not republics.

    Representative democracy is a better term for what you are talking about, where the population elects representatives who are able to advocate for them and take the time to become subject matter experts on running the country (idealy).

  • Big Tech’s Net-Zero Goals Are Looking Shaky | Emissions are “going through the roof” because of A.I., according to new sustainability reports.

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  • I dont think AI has much to do with them dropping the greenwashing, it's kissing the ring to Trump. If Harris had won they would still be going just as hard on AI but trying harder to keep the green messaging going.

  • EU could earn €1 trillion by fully taxing aviation, private jets included

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  • If the tax is on fuel then it wouldnt matter where they are registered, they'd be getting refueled in the EU and so would pay the tax.

    wouldn't this result in airlines dumping the extra cost on customers

    yes, partially. If the increase in tax results in a particular flight being £50 more expensive for example they will rise prices by an amount. But it likely wont be the full 50 as airlines are already charging what they think the optimum price is, the price going up is likely to result in less sales.

    It also incentivises the airlines to be more fuel efficient (and so less damaging to the climate), and punishes worse offenders like private jets more as the use more fuel per passenger mile.

  • A 2003 complaint about Half-Life

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  • The most annoying thing is there is a trivial to implement way to close to halve these stupidly inflated sizes: make the highest resolution of textures a free DLC that you optionally install

  • We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe

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  • Yes, i find it difficult to believe that they mess up a dozen line algo that is in their training set in a prominant place with no complicating factors. Despite what a lot of people here think, LLMs do have value for coding. Even if the companies selling them make ridiculous claims about what they can do.

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    GOG NSFW Giveaway

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  • Presumably the devs have to agree to it. I dont think gog cn just decide "were going to give away this game we dont own for free"

  • Russia to spend $1.1 trillion preparing for 'upcoming large-scale war,' Ukraine's intel chief says

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  • I mean, they already are, just for recruitment to the army rather than factories. There's plenty of stories of people being rounded up by police, put on trumped up charges and being given the option of jail and abuse there or signing up to go to the front line.

  • GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship

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  • Thats pretty funny given the current "save the children" censorship in the uk that is going on.

  • We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe

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  • I find that very difficult to believe. If for no other reason that there is an implementation in the wiki page for Levenshtein distance (and wiki is known to be very prominant in the training sets used for foundational models), and that trying it just now and it gave a perfectly functional implementation.

  • ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

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  • Yep, and when you click a button that liteally says "make this discoverable on search engines" which is off by defualt, its the later.

  • ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

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  • Eh, public services have been getting pay increases across the board to make up for the ridiculous tory freezes on wages for a decade. for example, just two months ago there was a 4% increase for teachers and doctors in england, is that also Keir bribing teachers to get them on side?

  • Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery

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  • It would be nice to see a price/GWh of this (along with running costs, it says they save 1 Million per GWh, how much were the running costs before!?), but any improvement in battery tech is definitely a good thing.

  • American vehicles are huge. Now Trump is pressuring Europe and Asia to allow the U.S. to export cars that don't meet local safety standards

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  • "AI helped me make this graph" Could just mean they got AI to write some matplotlib to plot real data. Though it is pretty slapdash to just state that with no further explaination.