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Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 1) 47

In another article I had a conversation about what 'intent' means. They were trying to defend self driving companies and sent me the legal definition of intent (to injure). As it turns out, a self driving company that releases 80% tested driving code and not knowing entirely what it will do in real situation completely falls under the definition of intent of someone is injured.

Comment Re:As an alternative (Score 1) 76

Yea, when the market has stupid prices for stupid reasons this is the likely response. People will only replace phones, tablets and PC that actually fail, not just to get a trendy newer model. Fortunately there is little reason upgrade as the only difference with older models is the addition of AI features that few buyers actually care about, and, with exception of live translation, are not needed on the device itself.

Comment Re:Ram is wasted by the vibe coder generation (Score 1) 76

My first computer had 128B of RAM (MC6802) and 2KB EPROM. When programing in machine code using a hex keypad it felt like a reasonable amount of RAM. Now this machine is using 59GB of it's 64GB, mostly due to Firefox and it's web extensions to block ads etc. While some of the demand makes sense I can't help but wonder how much waste there is with layer upon layer of code that assumes RAM is cheap.

Given that a large percentage of the current AI investment is "me too" investment that will fail, then hopefully there will be a healthy drop in price from the oversupply for the real AI needs.

Comment Re:Say no to emulation, bridges, etc. (Score 1) 40

There is a middle ground. Apple and Qualcomm have released ARM CPUs with some hardware x86 translation like the entire Mx line up and the new Snapdragon X series chips.

Errr no. There are insanely minor hardware accelerations at play here. Virtually all of the translation on the M series is handled by Rosetta 2 - a software emulation layer.

I wouldn't call ARM a niche platform considering many consumers probably own more than one ARM device and fewer of them own an X86 device these days. Gaming is one of the last strongholds of X86 only software but with efforts like this, that may change.

Context matters, ARM gaming is insanely niche, far more niche than Linux gaming providing the context includes recognising that tapping on a touch screen is not "gaming". The reality is if you create a game you want to reach the target audience, that is Windows x86. Many people consider the border of "niche" to be some 15% of market adoption. ARM currently is 0.0fuckall% of the gaming market.

Comment Re:Has Climate Doom Modeling Turned Into Clickbait (Score 1) 118

Are we meant to treat every climate-catastrophe model like holy writ now?

You realise what this story is about right? The answer is no. The entire premise here is that bullshit gets retracted from publication.

We’re developing materials, energy systems, geo-tech and carbon-capture methods that simply didn’t exist when the early models were written.

You're an optimist, but in the past 30 years we have developed fuck all. We've only taken existing developments and mildly improved them. Not only have we in 30 years not stopped a catastrophic rise in emissions thanks to our new inventions, several of them (AI, crypto, etc) have contributed massively towards them, wasting energy without any practical benefit to society massively cancelling out any improvement.

At this point, someone should write a paper on whether these legacy models are even relevant given today’s technological progress

At some point you should read those "legacy" models. You may find that many of them aren't even old enough to walk unassisted without mama yet. Not only that, but no model spits out a single number. They spit out a range that is based on different development trajectories, and those (the most optimistic of them) include radical new technological development.

I'm sure fusion power is ready any day now.

Until then let's just focus on the 20+ year promise of carbon capture that is currently producing 0.000fuckall% carbon offsetting. What wonderous technology we have /s

Comment Re:Two main issues not highlighted (Score 2) 57

If the data center is almost justifying its own power plant, then build both of the damn things in rural dirt.

Who said build? Datacentre companies are bitching about not having power made available to them. They don't want to build it. They can in theory put themselves off grid if they were willing to pony up the cash, but it's easier to be the government for a handout and saddle the public with the high cost of power.

Comment Re:Fair weather friends (Score 1) 57

The key reason why we are seeing across the board rollback of green initiatives and green policies is that they get in the way of building more data centers.

Sorry buddy but that is horseshit. The war on green predated AI. It was stupid then, and it's stupid now.

Also, fundamentally, you can't build industry of any kind - be it steel production or data centers - on renewables.

Fundamentally that's also bullshit especially for steel production and datacentres especially which can be configured to load follow and gracefully shed performance to suit energy, but in general the cost of sustained renewable generation using wind+solar+storage is now cost competitive with building a coal plant. In fact many actual heavy industry sites are migrating precisely to this very thing, including quite a few in Australia where these companies historically run their own power plants. Turns out running heavy industry from renewables is winning on cost. That said I realise Australia != UK, but then heavy industry and the UK don't go hand in hand anymore either.

You really need to update you knowledge of the industry.

Comment Re:This is a MAJOR problem (Score 4, Insightful) 118

Science is allowed to be wrong, if there even was any science behind the people you are going on about. You don't look at mistakes from the past. You look at what is believed now and from that feel free to point out any mistakes you see, because that's the whole point. Again, science is allowed to be wrong.

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