He’s going to mess up and try to nuke bikiki bottom isn’t he?

Poor patrick.

Delusional people having trouble accepting reality, again.

On one hand, you’re right.

On the other hand, you’re missing the point.

Jobs aren’t the the goal of life. People need to remember that. Our current system of distributing resources is broken if we don’t have enough jobs, but we could change the system rather than forcing everyone to work when it’s not needed.

British Columbia, $0.12 canadian dollars for Tier1 rates

The simple answer is most desktop PCs will not come even close to that at idle. Even just having a few case fans may draw more than that, without involving the CPU at all.

Laptop devices can do that in some cases with their extra power management features.

That being said, do the math to see if it matters. The difference between 10w and 40w is 0.7kwh per day, at least where I live that’s about 7 cents or about $25 per year.

In my case it would be more expensive to purchase a dedicated low power device than it will save me in 4-5 years compared to just using something I already have laying around.

You’re 98% of the way there.

There is only one force on earth that can counter the US military, and that is the US citizenry.

Despite how little power people think they have, the citizens of the united states in large enough numbers can stop the US military dead in it’s tracks. Preferably through democratic means, but they could also do it physically if they wanted to.

Americans outnumber their military by over 100 to 1, and with enough cultural pushback, you’d see a lot of those military members resigning, refusing orders, or just strait up walking out on top of that.

Until when? The world wars are clear evidence that eventually violence is the correct response.

Where’s the line?

I mean, the same could have been said for computers when they first came out. Most people had no idea how to improve their workflow by using one, and only as training and new software was developed did it manage to get reproducible results across the population.

The AI companies are definitely a bit ahead of where they should be right now, these last couple of years have happened too quickly for people to adapt their thinking.

There are specialists (myself included) that are implementing some absolutely transformational automations using these things. That being said, my job for the last 15 years has been automating and streamlining business processes, so this is just an extra tool in my kit to boost those automations to new levels.

I built a simple one the other day using a basic prompt integrated into an existing longer work automation process that’s probably going to eliminate an entire FTE worth of admin work for that task, and it only took about 3 hours to implement.

The question then becomes, are the remaining staff on this task “using” co-pilot because the process they support has it integrated? They’re not typing or pasting things into co-pilot themselves, they’re not developing prompts, but if you removed it, the workload would go up.

If you had to re-invent everything that came before you, there would never be any progress.

Humans achieve progress by learning from other humans.

I actually learned O notation from an interview question for a job I applied for, I’d never actually had a program run too slowly before that.

Repetition doesn’t improve programming in many situations. Even when you get stuck. I could write a bunch of nested if statements every single day, and If they work, I wouldn’t get stuck and ever learn that there can be better ways to do it in many cases.

Especially for people like me, who self-learned and didn’t take any courses, I simply don’t know what I don’t know.

Everything from O notation to Object oriented programming is abstract in a way that you can’t accidentally learn it. I had to find these concepts and learn them, and not because I got stuck.

Companies and workers are both scared of these systems, trying to figure them out, and yet completely uneducated on how to use them.

If you want to sell it at $30 a seat, you need to teach every single seat how to make $30 or more in gains a month by using it.

And a 1 hour lunch and learn isn’t going to fix that.

These systems shouldn’t be priced per seat, and regular users shouldn’t be doing almost anything with them until they get trained.

California can do without the federal government if they want to, and it may come to that.

We’ve always been at war with <insert whoever>

I have a couple Tapo cameras set up with HA, I had to use the tapo app initially to set up but once they’re set up you can ditch it and run the system entirely locally. I saw someone had a way to configure them locally too, but it wasn’t simple enough for me to bother and I was fine with the one time step.

They’ve just seen what happens when they push hate, and here they are pushing more hate.

It’s a bold strategy.

… What?

Did you forget your /s tag

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Busses

The vms are for home assistant and a linux distro with a gui. Docker is hosting a bunch of workflow, database, and ai related stuff.

I’m using a laptop, so swapping to 64GB means a pair of 32gig sticks for like $300. It’s likely a better choice to offload the work to a dedicated server, I can probably put together something for less than twice that cost.

Chrome is using 12GB right now, and I’ve got 8GB allocated between two VMs, and another 3GB to Docker. So of my 32, I’m currently at 9GB before I launch a game. Plenty of games want more than that.