Jobs that keep supporting and propping up the system we live in.

The last live theater performance I saw was “Puss in boots” from Tieck, the last performance I played in. I watched it from the stage.

What does panda_abyss last letter of their first sentence + second letter of the second to last word of their first sentence + the third letter of the third to last word of their second sentence + the fourth letter of the fourth word of the first sentence say, friend?

Absolutely agree. It’s still wrong that it’s associated with the mission, and it’s not “absolutely bonkers” to not really think about the personal email client you use.

You don’t understand. Their personal device can be trashed immediately without any drawbacks to the mission.

If I go on a 10 day hike to the most remote location on Earth, and bring my yoyo to have some fun with, I really don’t care if it breaks on my hike, and the hike is not affected except for my not having fun with my yoyo.

I don’t think the phone in my pocket is “associated with my job” when I’m working, just because it’s in the same location. Do you?

I mean you can help it. We humans got to where we are because we can literally adapt to any situation. If you really wanted to, you could practice speaking and also initiating to speak and then do it, removing the “quiet” label from you.

Disclaimer, I’m not saying that this is a worthwhile goal or that being quiet is a problem in any way. If someone likes being quiet, then they should be allowed to be quiet without a judgemental asshole saying such things like they did to you. As long as you’re a kind human trying to be good, I’d want my children to turn out like you :D

It’s easy to understand once you realize that most people think police is only about “being the one to call in an emergency when a bad guy tries to hurt you”. In that line of thinking it’s the same as “the one to call in an emergency when a fire is trying to hurt you” or “the one to call in an emergency when an injury/disease is trying to kill you”.

How did you even get the idea you’re not “useful”? When I look at your profile, all I see is 90%+ upvoted posts, not that upvotes necessarily matter very much.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/66240489

My understanding is relatively deep, so let me explain.

Don’t you think that if everyone used their own hardware for it, it would use at least as much energy? There is nothing inherent about data centers that make them consume more energy. Processing is processing and it needs some amount of power to run a transistor, which does not majorly change, unless you use very old hardware without certain technological advances, which is much more likely with hardware at home!

In addition, what you’re forgetting as well is that not everyone has even close to the required hardware to run these models. They require a certain amount of RAM, and if you don’t have that, you’re out of luck because it is so slow to run without enough RAM as to be useless, and most people do not have that amount necessary.

So, if everyone switched to running their AI locally, there’d be a lot more graphics cards and other computer parts bought, which guess what, need resources to be produced, resulting in potentially other kinds of environmental damage, along the same way as new data centers, but obviously some kind of different damage.

And then the data centers use their hardware all the time, while if you run your model at home, your hardware is only used occasionally and otherwise just sits there, so you need a lot more hardware in general because of all the unused capacity everywhere.

It’s the same principle as other environmental relief efforts, if everyone needs to buy their own car and drive it, that is much worse than just everyone using public transportation. Once you make something communally used, it requires less resources per person, even though for example a train is much more expensive than a single car. But same as you’re not serving a single traveller per train, a single data center does not serve one person. So theoretically, data centers are the better environmental choice.

What the real problem is, is not these data centers, data centers in general are good. The problem is unnecessary data centers, same as an individual buying unnecessary hardware for themselves. If you use AI, you don’t save any energy by running it yourself. The only argument for running it yourself is the increased privacy and not supporting these big corporations that do actually build unnecessary data centers, because AI should not be used for so many things that it is used for. So running it yourself is probably still better, but only if you already have the hardware anyway, but not because of reduced resources, but other reasons.

I thought the issue was how much energy it takes to run, not how much it takes to train.

And if the problem is how much it takes to run, a data center will likely be better because they have an optimized environment for it and economies of scale, running it locally will likely be less efficient and take more energy.

I feel elevated by your comment.

You can already secure boot if you want. But like always, you gotta set it up yourself in a complicated manner :D

Understood :) I just didn’t know that, and it sounded very problematic at first.

To the first part, this is no reductionism or whatever, I’m just asking a question.

To the second part, thank you for explaining your terminology, for me “death to [country]” meant “to the whole country, including the people”. I would have used “dismantle the government of [country]” instead, to say what you mean.

Are there stats for how much voting eligible users there are, and how much of them actually vote on governance topics, or see (click on) governance topics?

The countries you wish death for are roughly 90% proletariat. How can you want death for the one, but not the other?

If you cannot differentiate the German government from me or the people of Germany, then I can’t help you. “Full” is something entirely different. I hate what my government is doing.

There is plenty of proletariat within the USA, Germany and Israel. Should they live long or die?

That is good and I did not know that.