New server means a new #introduction
Hi, I am a design executive in Europe who started as a backend developer in Missouri.
My life has taken many turns, but I’ve always benefited from the advantage of being a white cishet male who is stereotyped as credible. Hopefully, I leave this planet more equitable than I found it.
I strive to apply critical analysis to everything yet also find solidarity with everyone.
While I value “strong opinions, weakly held”, I do indulge in strongly-held opinions on a few issues. I’ll thread them here so you can make an informed decision on whether to follow or block me:
@hmans FWIW, I deal regularly amazingly capable people with blind faith in meritocracy. Thanks, survivorship bias.
But I think your definition of “actual merit" probably includes emotional intelligence. So, yeah.
Global data center energy use is set to triple this year, from 15TWh last year to 46TWh this year.
That's an increase on the order of what Serbia or Ireland consumes in a year.
Given that most of this demand is being driven by Nvidia GPU systems for AI compute and Nvidia is manufacturing capacity limited right now, with all available hardware being installed, we can expect that growth rate to continue, adding another ~30TWh next year — except that the next generation of hardware consumes even more power, so it could be more like an additional 40TWh, another Denmark or New Zealand. If Nvidia gets over their supply chain crunch, this could go much higher, assuming the market and grid can support it. Even with only linear growth, this would put us at ~285TWh by 2030, approximately the same as all of the UK.
It won't, of course — it's an obvious bubble and the infrastructure simply isn't there to support this, but it's a catastrophe in the making regardless.
@dymaxion but by then we’ll have a SiNgUlArItY to figure out a way to make it all sustainable. Duh.
@StillIRise1963 I am very happy with Kagi. I’m worried whether they have a sustainable business. But: zero ads, no data sharing, and the highest quality search results I’ve found.
The voyager stuff is cool, but where are the hard debugging details. How did they isolate the problem to that specific chip?
They're moving the logic somewhere else, cool. Is it replacing/diminishing other functionality? Was voyager created/born with the ability to hotfix software or was that hacked on.
Don't leave me hanging! Turn this into a Netflix drama
I am adopting “ass lipped” as my preferred Trump insult.
https://mastodon.world/users/StillIRise1963/statuses/112317584812102659
@csilverman i am confused by it and ready to fire a UI designer.
@Cdespinosa I will never look at that empty socket the same way again.
Hello fedi. i am trying to solve the "fetch all replies" problem once and for all that makes the fedi feel a lot more desolate and with a lot more reply guys in it than it should be. this is take two, where before i had it triggered by a button, but now i think it should happen on the server-side whenever you expand a post. can anyone help me out figure out how to make this more efficient by only fetching posts that the server doesn't already have? i am not sure what the best strategy would be, and if anyone with experience doing efficient rails and SQL stuff could give me some pointers that would be gr8. the patch is actually extremely simple it just needs a few nice things to make it not DDoS everyone.
https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/pull/44
Issue that describes approach: https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/issues/43
Wiki page: https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Fetch_All_Replies
How to destroy a computer: https://hans.gerwitz.com/2024/04/20/neoludd.html
@lindarosesmit @RobertM@woof.group Er ist offensichtlich unzufrieden mit seinem kuchen.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/17/undercover-st-louis-police-23m
St Louis thugs went on a rampage at a protest, attacking based on no grounds. Oops! They attacked an undercover thug. Some of the attackers were jailed for this, which is good. But what we really should demand is that thugs be jailed for rampaging against innocent people even when those are not actually thugs in disguise.
@bunchjesse did you salvage this post anywhere? I think it holds up well. https://web.archive.org/web/20120514020057/paramore.is/think/entry/writing-code-that-is-easy-to-change/
I think this is the sort of attention-seeking journalism that inflates a niche into some broad cultural signal, but, still: I hope “ortho bro” takes off as a slur. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/orthodox-church-right-wing/
Naturally, I agree with this article wholeheartedly. But I also want to appreciate the straightforward writing style and total lack of clickbait nonsense in the headline.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/
Folks, just remember that Mastodon has no algorithm artificially promoting content. The only way this site works is if you boost my posts repeatedly, and report everyone else's
This brings me an inexplicable amount of joy. I feel Orlo.
https://mastodon.social/users/CrustaceanSingles/statuses/112111614831971546