Why is it always the ones you most expect?

Please let me off this ride, it hasn’t been fun for 10 years now, please

I’ll check on it after a nap

Yes as a millennial who has never had a lot of money, there is one thing that’s engraved in my soul: NEVER WASTE FOOD!

I have heard Samsung is bad so often on the internet, but my personal experience is different. I’ve used a Samsung washing machine for almost 10 years now and it still works and looks like the day I bought it. It’s very easy to use, has a large front loader door, is quiet and power efficient (as far as that’s even possible with a washing machine). Never regretted it.

My brother also has a Samsung washer and dryer, because he loved how large the door was on my washing machine, so he bought one as well. It has served him fine for about 5 years now.

But hey, maybe I’m just lucky with the one I’ve got.

Before this one I had a Beko washer and dryer. I was unemployed at the time and didn’t have a lot of money, so I wanted a cheap model. The salesman in the store said it was bad (this was a long time ago, when they still had salesmen) and would break within a couple of years. But they did upsell an extended warranty for 5 years, which my mom paid for so I could afford to get the washer and dryer. Those units had served me very well for over 15 years. I did have to repair them a couple of times, but nothing major and some normal wear items. I sold those when I bought the Samsung as an upgrade. I switched to natural air drying instead of a dryer for environmental reasons, so I didn’t buy a new dryer.

I heard the guy who founded the company was a real smeghead

Well that’s sort of half right. Yes you can run the smaller models locally, but usually it’s the bigger models that we want to use. It would also be very slow on a typical gaming computer and even a high end gaming computer. To make it go faster not only is the hardware used in datacenters more optimised for the task, it’s also a lot faster. This is both a speed increase per unit as well as more units being used than you would normally find in a gaming PC.

Now these things aren’t magic, the basic technology is the same, so where does the speed come from? The answer is raw power, these things run insane amounts of power through them, with specialised cooling systems to keep them cool. This comes at the cost of efficiency.

So whilst running a model is much cheaper compared to training a model, it is far from free. And whilst you can run a smaller model on your home PC, it isn’t directly comparable to how it’s used in the datacenter. So the use of AI is still very power hungry, even when not counting the training.

They believe in eugenics, they are the worst of the worst.

If you don’t want to be associated with fascism, MAYBE DON’T ACT LIKE A FUCKING NAZI

That’s no news, I knew of Grant before he ever joined the Mythbusters. Sometimes I see something that reminds me of him and it saddens me to think I live in a world without Grant. That man made the world better, just by existing. RIP

There is only one thing to do: Call Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, get the Mythbusters back together and have them figure out if this is possible. I don’t care what it takes, it must be done.

Oops that was a typo, that should have been can’t

Who fucking cares at this point? Trump has done so much worse things by now. He can’t legally be president for a third term, so it’s not like it’s gonna impact his re-election. Most of the world already hates the man and think he is vile and disgusting. What is one pee tape going to change.

The pee tape could release today and be barely in the current news cycle. One camp will say “This just confirmed what we already knew”, the other camp will say “Fake news”. And tomorrow it will be forgotten.

No, it has to be something way worse than a simple pee video.

Most of his books are standalone, but set in the same universe yes. They kind of follow each other, but can also be read as standalone books.

Pushing Ice is one of the better ones imho, I love that book. The first book I ever read from him was Revelation Space and it blew my mind. One of the absolute best books I’ve ever read. He has a way of creating a universe that feels absolutely real and logical, yet be completely different from the world we know.

Another good one is Redemption Ark.

And if you like stuff like this I can also recommend Fred Saberhagen, his books are excellent. They are old but hold up pretty well.

Check out the works of Alastair Reynolds, he loves to apply this principle in his books. Great on world building and describing the weirdest parts of large civilizations.

For more a meta/review/fermi paradox talk point of view check out the content from Isaac Arthur, he also likes to point out this when discussing things like the fermi paradox and sci-fi in general.

This is a well known concept in sci-fi where civilizations massing in the tens of billions will have all kind of weird outliers. But at such a scale, even the really weird ones can form groups of tens of thousands or even larger. In sci-fi storytelling this is often used to explain weird behavior that probably wouldn’t make a lot of sense otherwise.

It also comes up in the fermi paradox a lot. For example aliens always want to stay at home and not be noticed or interact with anyone. But at a certain scale of civilization that doesn’t hold water. Even if 99.99% of a given alien species think that way, there would stil be at least a million of them that think otherwise and would be willing and able to act on it.

So it makes perfect sense for all the Predator people to be really normal and the hunting cult is a hobby that got out of hand.

I think we have bigger problems than Tesla if when the U.S. goes to shit.