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Zarxrax

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  • YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality

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  • It would not make any sense for them to be upscaled on the fly. It's a computationally intensive operation, and storage space is cheap. Is there any evidence of it being done on the fly?

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  • I don't remember if it was 2nd or 3rd grade, but I just memorized them. My grandmother bought flash cards and drilled them with me every day until I had memorized them all.

  • Is the game show "Deal or No Deal" rigged?

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  • In the early days, game shows were sometimes rigged. Then laws were passed in the USA requiring fair play. So, no I don't think it's rigged. I don't watch the show often, but I have definitely seen people lose.

  • Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection Release Date Trailer | September 9

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  • Spoiler: the sequels aren't better

  • ELI5 stablecoins

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  • Basically, yeah

  • ELI5 stablecoins

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  • Think of it like casino chips for crypto. If you want to buy lesser known cryptocurrency, no one is trading directly for dollars, the trades are happening from one crypto to another. You spend your actual cash to buy in, then you can cash out when you are done. But if you are trading all the time, looking for opportunities, you don't want to just leave everything parked on some random cryptocurrency, because it's highly volatile. Stable coins are like the casino chips because they hold a relatively stable value, so you have your money in those and it's ready to trade whenever the need arises.

    Stable coins can hold a stable value because they are usually backed by some actual assets like money and securities and stuff.

  • Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

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  • I think this is a bad faith argument because it focuses specifically on chatgpt and how much resources it uses. The article itself even goes on to say that this is actually only 1-3% of total AI use.

    People don't give a shit about chatgpt specifically. When they complain about chatgpt they are using it as a surrogate for ai in general.

    And yes, the amount of electricity from ai is quite significant. https://www.iea.org/news/ai-is-set-to-drive-surging-electricity-demand-from-data-centres-while-offering-the-potential-to-transform-how-the-energy-sector-works

    It projects that electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours (TWh), slightly more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan today. AI will be the most significant driver of this increase, with electricity demand from AI-optimised data centres projected to more than quadruple by 2030.

    I'm not opposed to ai, I use a lot of AI tools locally on my own PC. I'm aware of how little electricity they consume when I am just using for a few minutes a day. But the problem is when it's being crammed into EVERYTHING, I can't just say I'm generating a few images per day or doing 5 LLM queries. Because it's running on 100 Google searches that I perform, every website I visit will be using it for various purposes, applications I use will be implementing it for all kinds of things, shopping sites will be generating images of every product with me in the product image. AI is popping up everywhere, and the overall picture is that yes, this is contributing significantly to electricity demand, and the vast majority of that is not for developing new drugs, it's for stupid shit like preventing me from clicking away from Google onto the website that they sourced an answer from.

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    True or false

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  • If you are referring to large language models, no. They just generate words that mimic natural language.

  • Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30

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  • I have windows 11 and I don't have recall enabled.

  • What meals do you cook when very low on money?

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  • I started eating a lot of chickpeas recently. Buy them dried, boil them for a couple minutes them let them soak in the water for a few hours. Then either roast them in the oven or if I'm lazy, toss them in the microwave for like 5 minutes, then add some seasoning. I snack on them between meals, or also toss them into things like soup or curry.

    Also if you want a different take on ramen, boil them until they are al dente, drain the water and then stir fry with some cheap veggies or whatever.

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    Is hummus anything like peanut butter?

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  • You know, you could just buy some and try it. It's not expensive.

  • Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

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  • What do you mean? Did your phone already have damage to the screen, or they were making you preemptively pay in case the screen broke?

  • Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

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  • I was going to opt for a battery replacement, but I called the local store that does the replacement, and they told me that it's common for the screen to break during the battery swap process. And if they break the screen, I would be on the hook for the cost to replace it, around $160. I don't know how that is even legal in the first place, but it certainly turned me off from wanting to let them change my battery. And mailing the phone in for a battery swap would leave me without a phone for weeks...

  • Have you ever cheated on a test?

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  • I don't believe I have ever cheated on an exam or big test, but there were a few cases in college where teachers would leave answers for homework or projects unsecured, and I did make use of it whenever I came across it.

    One such case was in an introductory computer science course. We had a weekly lab session where the teaching assistant was giving us an overview of using the Unix systems at the university. At one point early on, he was teaching about file and folder permissions, and gave us all access to his personal folder. And... Then he forgot to lock the permissions back up. His folder was fully accessible for the entire semester, and he posted full solutions to every programming project there.

    I remember another course where the professor would send us a link to the solutions to the homework problems, after he finished grading the homework. But I learned that I could just change the URL to access all of the future homework answers.

  • Vibe Coding

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  • Well since I just program for a hobby, I am able to complete things to the point that they meet my own requirements. If I need error handling for something, I can just ask the LLM to add error handling, it typically works out quite well.

  • Vibe Coding

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  • I consider myself a bad hobbyist programmer. I know a decent bit about programming, and I mainly create relatively simple things.

    Before LLMs, I would spend weeks or months working on a small program, but with LLMs I can often complete it significantly faster.

    Now, I don't suppose I would consider myself to be a "vibe coder", because I don't expect the LLM to create the entire application for me, but I may let it generate a significant portion of code. I am generally coming up with the basic structure of the program and figuring out how it should work, then I might ask it to write individual functions, or pieces of functions. I review the code it gives me and see if it makes sense. It's kind of like having an assistant helping me.

    Programming languages are how we communicate with computers to tell them what to do. We have to learn to speak the computer's language. But with an LLM, the computer has learned to speak our language. So now we can program in normal English, but it's like going through a translator. You still have to be very specific about what the program needs to do, or it will just have to guess at what you wanted. And even when you are specific, something might get lost in translation. So I think the best way to avoid these issues is like I said, not expecting it to be able to make an entire program for you, but using it as an assistant to create little parts at a time.

  • A mess of its own making: Google nerfs second Pixel phone battery this year

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  • It looks like I can go to a local repair shop to get the battery changed out. Anyone have experience with that option?

  • Anyone here "quiet" ADHD?

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  • When I was a kid, it was just called ADD, attention deficit disorder. Then at some point they slipped the hyperactive in there, and it made everyone think that it's just energetic kids. Then you got pushback in the media saying it's just excusing people not wanting to discipline their kids. And that's why I never even considered that I might have it until after I flunked out of college.

  • PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation

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  • Fracturing support for a legacy format makes so much more sense than actually supporting a modern format like JXL, right?