morbidcactus

morbidcactus , 16 days ago to Technology in I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity

I'm a data engineer/architect and it's the same over here, I get asked constantly "how can we stuff AI into this solution?", never "should we consider using AI here? Is there a value?", my view, people don't understand their data and don't want to put in the effort to understand their data and think that it'll magically pull actionable insights from their dataswamp, nothing new, that's been a constant for as long as I recall.

Like I totally understand the draw of new and exciting, but there's so much you can do with traditional analytics, and in my view you really need to have a good foundation before doing anything else.

morbidcactus , 17 days ago to Technology in How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work

I'm also thinking that way wrt to "we need more fast charging for EVs to work", I recall that plugging into a standard outlet will get you something like 5-8 km an hour, slow charging is totally acceptable for most people's usages. If you're in an area where block heaters are the norm you already have outlets at parking spots, if I could commute to work and plug it in, covers most commutes in a 8 hour day, even those of us who rarely go in and live 70k away I'd be getting most of my range back. For the amount I drive, level 1 charging is more than sufficient.

I think a compact with 2-300 k range would suit me just fine, would cover the odd longer trip and I'll totally grab a rental for anything longer, like I already do it I need to move a fridge.

morbidcactus , 25 days ago to Technology in Raspberry Pi launches its IPO

If you want a SBC, a lepotato works really well, supposed to be more performant than a 3B. I used as an alternate to a raspberry pi for a klipper setup, running armbian on it now.

There are updated versions of it as well if you need more performance, but they're cheaper than an equivalent pi and importantly, purchasable which was an issue when I was putting together that printer.

morbidcactus , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in Floor Time

That's something that hit me the first year after being diagnosed a few years ago, it's an executive function disorder so not at all surprising but it still made me realise just how much of my personality is ADHD

morbidcactus , 1 month ago to Technology in The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates

A lot of industry does use grey water or untreated water for cooling as it's substantially cheaper to filter it and add chemicals to it yourself. What's even cheaper is to have a cooling tower and reuse your water, in the volumes it's used at industrial scales it's really expensive to just dump down the drain (which you also get charged for), when I worked as a maintenance engineer I recall saving something like 1m cad minimum a year by changing the fill level in our cooling tower as it would drop to a level where it'd trigger city water backups to top up the levels to avoid running dry, and that was a single processing line.

morbidcactus , 1 month ago to Technology in New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

KeepassXC seems to register as DRM protected content (I think...) for me, kills moonlight streams while it's up so at the very least using a password manager (which you already should be using) would be protected?

I already daily drive debian on my lab computer and laptop, guest I'll be swapping my desktop over in the not to distant future...

morbidcactus , 1 month ago to Technology in Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs

Windows on arm was a thing, I had a surface 2 rt about a decade ago, too bad it never felt like microsoft ever really fully committed to the idea imo, and yeah x86 apps wouldn't run on it (though there was an emulation tool apparently, was community developed). Market was definitely there (though I'm not sure how big it was, probably a cross over with netbook users), they just fumbled it like they did windows phone in my view.

morbidcactus , 1 month ago to Technology in Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail

Reading the article, reducing the shriller frequencies by 12db is still pretty nice, looks like it's designed for electric blowers which are already way quieter than gasoline powered ones, already generally in the hearing safe range. 2db overall should still be noticeable though, be generally less annoying.

morbidcactus , 1 month ago to Technology in Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail

12 dB is a pretty decent reduction if your goal is hearing protection, 100->88 is also bringing it to something that absolutely needs hearing protection to something that's borderline acceptable for an 8 hour shift depending on your local laws, mine say 4 hours but still, way more comfortable to use.

morbidcactus , 1 month ago to Memes in ts moment

I don't think that's unpopular at all, I only ever used vent in highschool and uni, some of the groups I ran with even went back to vent from TS becauae of the sound quality. It was simple and easy to use and pretty much everyone had it.

morbidcactus , 1 month ago to Technology in Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED

Anecdotally, pretty much every time I'm searching for information on reddit a number of comments are redacted or even the op is deleted. The only reason I didn't purge my comments is in case someone might find them helpful.

morbidcactus , 1 month ago to Memes in Firefox community things [HELP]

Just browsing documentation can have me hitting that number of tabs easy. I tend to open stuff in new tabs so I can flip back and forth. Also if I'm searching for error messages I like to open in new tabs so I don't have to continuously go back and forth. I won't kill a tab until I know I'm done with it, I have a tab sleep extension to save resources for long idle tabs. Tab groups are a nice feature that I would love in Firefox to help clean things up, I tend to use new windows and virtual desktops to compartmentalise tasks.

morbidcactus , 2 months ago to Technology in That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit

My 1020 was my favourite, had it in lemon yellow. Was the first phone I had with a camera bump, took really nice photos for a phone at the time and even shot in raw. I would love another phone with a polycarbonate body.

morbidcactus , 2 months ago to Memes in sIGmA BeHaiovouR

Afaik that's actually something steam does though, tools like Depot Downloader combined with SteamDB to get the metadata for a target version totally work, I've used that in the past to downgrade Skyrim before disabling auto updates. You can do it through the steam console as well.

morbidcactus , 2 months ago to Memes in sIGmA BeHaiovouR

TruBy9 worked well, I didn't expect ultrawide support so thats actually great.