todd_bonzalez

@todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We live in hell

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia to cap game streaming hours on GeForce Now instead of raising fees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The government of China has legal limits on how many hours per week minors are allowed to play video games. A US based company putting a time cap on the amount of cloud GPU you’re allowed to use is not even remotely the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but imagine if microplastics had terabytes data on them. Finding plastic fibers in your testicles is a bummer, but finding the Lord of the Rings trilogy Director’s Cuts in 4K? That would be pretty rad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is correct. You don’t need potable water for cooling systems. Releasing vapor returns natural water where it came from, without adding any more heat to the environment than you already were.

  The environmental cost of AI needs to be measured in gigawatt hours, distributed over different energy generation methods.

  Adding heat to the system isn’t a big deal if you’re powered by solar energy, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ultrium media has a lifetime of 30 years after the first write to the cartridge, and that’s assuming you write to it up to the maximum number of full writes (260).

  Assuming you write to your cartridges once, store them (and the drive) in an airtight dustproof box, and don’t expose them to extreme temperature or humidity, you’re pretty much guaranteed to have complete data integrity after the 30 year mark.

  At that point, you can probably transfer all the data into your petascale holographic storage installed at the base of your skull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for helping me make the decision to uninstall Firefox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep telling older people who seek IT advice from me that knowing how your computer works is like knowing how your car works. And then I tell them that they’re the morons who think the engine is magic, and never change their oil until the car’s in the shop with issues and the mechanic finds what looks like mud in the engine.

  Boomers hear that message, it turns out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humane AI Pin is a disaster: Founders already want to sell the company⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell is a “cell phone replacement”? We repeatedly reengineered phones from voice carried over a telegraph wire, to a screen covered with sensors that fits in your pocket.

  Aside from a brain implant, what possible innovation is left other than tweaking with hardware and upgrading silicon?