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How much electricity does running your local models take?

I worked with networked attached storage systems at pib scale several years ago and we referred to things in gib/tib because it was significant when referring to the size of systems and we needed to be precise.

That being said, I think the difference between mib and mb is niche for most people

If you have history turned off and you’re not signed in, the number of videos they show on the home screen is already zero

LLMs have definitely helped me reduce my social anxiety when writing, especially in a technical work setting. I don’t use it like the respondent in the article though, I would feel really embarassed to not edit an llm’s output to be in my own voice. But I feel it helps provide me with some structure in whatever I’m trying to write when I don’t have the mental energy or wherewithal to provide it myself.

I was able to get a new install of Rocket League working recently using Heroic Launcher! https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

Something to consider is that BTI kills many species of Diptera, not just mosquitoes.

There is at least Laricobius nigrinus for HWA, which has been identified as a method of biocontrol.

Would it be better to make patents have shorter lifespans before entering the public domain from companies of a certain size? Maybe that would level out the playing field and allow small players to be more competitive against behemoth corporations and patent trolls.

Are there any companies arbitraging this % difference by collating lots of different businesses transactions into larger sums to then move into a particular currency for business owners who transact in non local currencies?

The "3nm process" has no bearing on the actual size of the gate's or anything like that and is purely a marketing term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_nm_process gives a reasonable summary in its introduction.

My remembrance of the specific quantum effects that you're thinking of are from quantum tunneling[1] of electrons. The problem occurs when the gate size gets small enough that electrons can pass through without the transistor being switched on, which starts to happen around 3nm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling

I wonder if it would be a possibility to relay electricity across the US with large battery stations from big solar farms, or if the loss in transit + the expense of the batteries would make something like that intractable.

Looking at the repo[1], it uses pytorch so you may be able to. Pytorch released GPU acceleration for Apple M1 earlier this year in v1.12. Looking again at the environments.yaml file they require pytorch v1.11 so you might not be able to upgrade without issue.

[1]https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion

Pyenv[1] solves the multiple versions of python problem in my experience. You can install the version of python you want and then can set that version globally, per directory, and then use that versions pip or take it further and use a virtualenv/poetry shell.

1: https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

The news and social media can cause tons of anxiety and stress when they consistently report on the many terrible things happening all of the time.

It doesn’t mean they’re not important, it’s just that it’s ok to take a break.

Sometimes people need that break from the eternal flow of news and social media so that their mental health isn’t impacted and so there is time to process what’s going on.

The US Government did precisely that with the CHIPS Act (2021). It allocated something like $40B for US manufacturing of semiconductors and $10B for R&D [1]. Intel is planning a megafab in Ohio that is estimated will cost $100B when it’s completed. The State of Ohio is giving $2B for the first two plants that are estimated to cost $20B [2].

Chip companies are making new fabs in the US and the US gov is helping to sponsor them.

[1] https://www.nist.gov/semiconductors/chips-act

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/business/2022/04/14/intel-neg...

calendar year, see: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_ibonds_gl...

If you have a smart phone it’s too late.

One way to lower your risk of ticks is to manage the parts of your yard you use most. Mowing paths into your yard instead of mowing the entire yard can help and allow the other parts of your yard to grow, planting patches of yard with native plants and allowing plants to grow instead of turf.

If you can find a way to attract Opossum they are net tick destroyers. Keeping out deer will only help so well, as small mammals(chipmunks, mice, etc) are primarily the sustainers of tick populations.

5 years of security updates, 3 years of feature updates.

On the page it says on the 12th footnote, "Feature drops for at least 3 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US. Your Pixel will receive feature drops during the applicable Android update and support periods for the phone. See g.co/pixel/updates for details."

On https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705 it says, "Guaranteed Android version updates until at least: October 2024" and "Guaranteed security updates until at least: October 2026" for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

So they hypothetically could extend it to more than 3 years of feature updates and 5 years of security updates with the nebulous "at least" wording.

In the fine print (footnote #28) it says 3 years of feature updates.

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_6_pro?hl=en-GB

[EDIT] On https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705 it says, "Guaranteed Android version updates until at least: October 2024" and "Guaranteed security updates until at least: October 2026" for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

Taxonomically moths aren’t butterflies. Butterflies are in a different suborder, Rhopalocera, and moths are in the suborder Heterocera. They are all a part of order Lepidoptera. Additionally, there are moths that aren’t nocturnal, like some species in the family Uraniidae.

DigitalOcean has a terraform provider you can use for an IaC approach

Are there any foss initiatives to making these metadata bits portable?

It might be temporary but it gives some time for phones that are more respecting of individual privacy to develop and propagate. Maybe Librem and Pine will become better and ship more new/better phones before the inevitable occurs. Maybe a new manufacturer will enter the mix that respects user freedoms and privacy.

The bee hotels we have typically attract non-native mason bees which are later parasitized by parasitoid wasps. It may be better to encourage plants that have pithy stems and leave them over winter (if you are in area with winter) so that bees can use them to nest.

Planting wildflowers with genetics native to your region is among the best things you can do to support pollinators.

Hasn’t PoS been something “in the works” for ETH for something like 6 years now[1]? I don’t think anything guarantees its delivery in early 2022, it all seems like hopeful speculation until they deliver something.

[1] This stackexchange question dates back to 2016, the earliest evidence I could find of ETH proposing PoS. https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/9/why-does-ethe...

100 years? It’s already happening today. There are definitely salaried tech workers who are being pushed to work more than 40 hours right now. Some may not know any better, others may feel pressured because they don’t want to look for other work (when they probably should), and so on. These protections would help workers today.

Meat for everyone, at all meals all of the time isn’t sustainable. Demand for meat is among the things that drives farmers to produce meat and supermarkets to stock their shelves with it.

Many people want to eat meat at every meal when that is not necessary. There are more sustainable ways to produce meat for consumption and a more sustainable amount of consumption of meat that people could do. Would producing meat more sustainably drive the price up causing people to eat meat less?

Anyways, eat more vegetables, kids.

I wish I had something like this for my iPhone that would automatically soft delete duplicate photos, picking out the sharpest one. Maybe an app exists already but I haven’t looked super deep for it.

I think when people say things like, “I will live with the time I’m given” they often mean that they will live however long they can, with medical intervention, while the cost of that intervention and additional years it provides isn’t too high. So it’s likely they will still take advantage of the current technologies that have the potential to extend their lives, as long as the price it imposes isn’t over some cost threshold. Though, I suppose some people will simply do whatever they can to stay alive no matter the cost since they value their lives above everything else. Others will shun the life saving measures and die.