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  • Computational-Fluid-Dynamics simulations are RAM-limited, iirc.

    I’m presuming many AI models are, too, since some of them require stupendous amounts of RAM, which no non-server machine would have.

    “diminishing returns” is what Intel’s “beloved” Celeron garbage was pushing.

    When I ran Memtest86+ ( or the other version, don’t remember ), & saw how insanely slow RAM was, compared with L2 or L3 cache, & then discovered how incredible the machine-upgrade going from SATA to NVMe was…

    Get the fastest NVMe & RAM you can: it puts your CPU where it should have been, all along, and that difference between a “normal” build vs an effective build is the misframing the whole industry has been establishing, for decades.

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  • Whether true or not, I don’t know.

    I DO know, however, that humans are not institution-puppets without any internal-motivations.

    IF they did do so, THEN that doesn’t mean Al Jazeera was in any way complicit.


    Apparently there’s some problem at The Washington Post, now, with the guy in charge of the news-room having participated in a crime, & now is ejecting people who have journalistic-standards…

    Does that mean they all are guilty of what he did?

    How could it?

    We’re in an age where considered-reasoning is being displaced by dogwhistle ideology/prejudice, & it’s required for humankind’s survival, that we get competent in journalism’s methodical & careful discernment.

    All of us.

    Our kind’s life IS at stake, this century.

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldAre We in an AI Bubble?
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    Realistically, it’ll take 2 decades to hammer-out AI to the level that it’s truly-mission-trustworthy.

    Right now, everybody’s “high”.

    It’s the same with all technologies…

    Remember a few years ago, when somegody discovered you could power things with steam?

    Remember the hype?

    The whole coal industry, remember that?

    The business with the invention of the horseless carriages?

    The invention of the wheel was before my time, but I’m sure it was hyped on Myspace or something, back in the day…



  • Power-consumption.

    Also, the vibration produced by the 2.5" drives is less, but they’re more-sensitive to it, to begin with.

    I’d not even consider spinning-platter drives, nowadays, though:

    SATA SSD’s for a NAS strike me as being the sanest choice.

    Samsung what are those called, Evo drives?

    excellently-high MTBF, ultra-short ( compared with rotating-platters ) seek-time ( literally orders-of-magnitude quicker ), etc.

    I don’t know of ANY reason to go with spinning-platters, nowadays.

    ( & I’m saying that as a guy stupid-enough to have not realized this in time, & who spent money on such a thing, when SSD’s really were the answer )



  • This is the perfectest demonstration of how Kahneman1 mind, imprint->reaction mind, ideology/prejudice mind, works to displace considered-reasoning Kahneman2 mind.

    There’s no point in appealing to considered-reason within any ideology, left or right, religious or ideological or political…

    The imprint->reaction has already defined everything.


    The only antidote to such is to have invested, through the previous decades, heavily in competent unbiased education, to make considered-reason/Kahneman2 mind the automatic default for more of the population.

    Too bad it’s too late…

    “proletariat dictatorship” / “populist dictatorship”

    both displace considered-reason.

    Yes it’s war: it’s war against considered-reason because ideology’s addiction to its own supremacy is all-consuming.

    It’s too bad…


  • My experience is that USB storage sometimes breaks-connection for no discernable reason.

    That if one REALLY wants to do USB storage, then put it inside the housing, and don’t use one of the external-connectors, use something you can permanently-fix, so nothing can even sneeze in its direction.

    This mayn’t help you with your puzzle, but it’s bedrock and unchangeable, in my experience.

    USB-storage is an unreliable joke.

    ANY revision of it, that I’ve tried.

    hth…


  • Malnutrition creates life-long damage/harm when it harms growing children.

    It doesn’t require outright-starvation to damage an entire-population’s viability.

    No matter: evil does what evil does, & when it claims that “the bible” justifies it, well, that’s just icing on the cake, isn’t it?

    We can see the “Christians” in the US & Islamist “Muslims” proving the same principle, can’t we?

    And the “Buddhists” who genocided Tamils, & “Hindus” who butcher whomever they’re ideologically-intolerant-of at the time…

    There is no “religion” which is the cause of this: it is caused by our animal-ignorance mind, which the Abrahamic religion called “behemoth”, usually translated as “the beast”.

    You can even see the book of Isaiah railing against such things.

    Human-nature won’t change until most of our kind are extinguished, right?

    Some other species might have had an instant-and-violent-reaction against doing what Russia & Israel are doing…

    Our accommodating of it … insults God/Life, doesn’t it?

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  • I’m banned-for-life from there.

    Russia invaded/desecrated/butchered Ukraina, & I remember what the vids showed of Mariupol ( sorry spelling ).

    I made a comment on there to the effect that if Putin was the pusher of the war, then making things as politically-difficult for Putin in the election would be a Good Thing™.

    ( to me, the obvious implied-point is that it might have ended an immensely-wasting-of-life war that people other than Putin weren’t so interested in, and that, by definition, must therefore be a Good Thing™ )

    Anybody who pushes Russia’s butchering of Ukraina as something which cannot be spoken-against, is fucking terrorist-at-heart.

    Just my opinion, but there I’ve no right to such opinion.

    The beauty of this?

    It perfectly demonstrates how segregation-of-ideologies allows positive-feedback-loops, which produces extremism.

    Left, right, political, religious, moneyarchist, legalist, nationalist, sexist/genderist, ALL ideologies are self-amplifying.

    There’s a book on the US’s political-segregation ( “The Big Sort” ) & it looks like that mechanism, ideological-segregation, has only 1 outcome: butchery/war.

    So, given the evidence, it looks like the whole world is going to be butchering everybody within a … decade or so.

    Amplification, feedback-loop, polarization, and nothing is countering its controlling of the process of this world

    it’s got an outcome.

    And if our world’s population won’t stop/prevent the “drunk driver” from force-crashing our “bus” with all our world’s peoples in it … well, then we get crashed/killed.

    The Great Filter.


    WHEN one has cancer, THEN is it right to KILL that cancer??

    WHEN one is newly-infected with rabies, THEN is it valid to prime one’s immune-system to as violently as possible defend one’s life against rabies?

    Or should we just make-nice, live in making-believing, & hope that our hopium works??

    What Russia’s been doing to Ukraina, what Hamas got Israel to be doing against the Palestinians & all the journalists…

    do we let rabies overrun our world’s life?

    Will the US allow rabies to overrun its life?

    ( yes, obviously.

    The others … likewise.

    Therefore, Universe’s Natural Selection is looking to be … “pruning” our world from the worlds-in-Universe-with-civilized-life-on-them, this century … isn’t it? )

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  • No: once a corporate-culture gets sufficiently divorced-from-reality, then they “have their heads up their asses” sooo far, that they commit blunders unless they “get a reality-check”.

    Committee-culture’s fungus-minded.

    The problem is that the frame-of-reference is relative, so a corporate-culture which is still immersed in outer-customers’ reality is only one “degree” divorced-from-reality.

    However, if the “frame-of-reference” of a culture is other sociopathic cultures, … then … then outright psychopathy becomes recommended/pushed/evolved, in order to compete among the misperceived-context ( which is only other-sociopathies ).

    So, it’s an escalating positive-feedback-loop.

    Sociopathy breeds sociopathy, & when enough of the corporate-frame-of-reference is sociopathy, then psychopathy becomes primary, & eventually it is normal & ruling.

    The increasing polarization in political-sphere, in religion/fundamentalism-sphere, in moneyarchy-sphere, in legalism’s increasingly shameless contempt-for & eradication-of moral/natural law, the increasing polarization of class-system/monarchy among those in-love with that, the bolder & bolder violent authoritarianism…

    it’s all part of the SAME gorgon/hydra, just that each “serpent” is going in its own direction, but the fundamental change in human-unconscious is one of “fuck considered-reasoning: I’m going with ideology-enforcing!!”…

    it’s less intellectually-taxing to be ideological/prejudiced “believer” than it is to remain loyal to considered-reasoning…

    there’s less moral-anxiety within ideology/prejudice/belief than there is in considered-reasoning…

    Overwork unplugs one from the push/pull cycle, the work-hard/rest-deeply cycle, which considered-reasoning requires…

    & Microsoft is only 1 single example of progressing-through-sociopathy-into-psychopathy among our countless corporate world-possessors.

    DarkHexad dimensions of human-evil:

    Narcissism / Machiavellianism / Sociopathy-Psychopathy / Nihilism / Sadism / Systemic-Dishonesty.

    Can you see how the more one immerses oneself in DarkHexad as a means of “winning”, the more one’s frame-of-reference normalizes that all?

    It’s just “drift”, but in frame-of-reference, is all…

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