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ikt, 2 months ago

@gerrymcgovern How many did it get right vs how many questions did it get wrong?

And secondly can it be trained to get the questions right? If it can then it's useful

ikt, 2 months ago

@JetlagJen @gerrymcgovern Do they need to be trained on the underlying meaning if you simply feed them a training set that accurately supplies the rules and regulations? If they're fed 'food cannot be given to customers if it is unhealthy' then surely it will go rat bites in cheese = unhealthy = no

A spokesperson for Microsoft, said the company was working with city employees “to improve the service and ensure the outputs are accurate and grounded on the city’s official documentation.”

ikt, 2 months ago

@CenturyAvocado Are the results any better over here?

ikt, 2 months ago

@martijnbraam I thought systemd already had a deadline built in?

ikt, 2 months ago

@Anachron @danct12 @martijnbraam 😂 lmao

systemd-deadlined-check-deadlined-workingd

ikt, 2 months ago

@compost @Gargron AI has no impact on the climate, the source generation of power is what impacts the climate, a server farm running on wind power and batteries has no impact

ikt, 2 months ago

@lucybeahere @compost @Gargron

> Except that demand for power is increasing much faster than can be accommodated, and as a result fossil fuels are being used more

Where are you seeing this?

Solar has drastically reduced the demand for power in EU/USA and most first world nations.

ikt, 2 months ago

@compost @lucybeahere @Gargron > by 2025, increase production by 50,000 oil-equivalent barrels per day.

If our cars run on electricity and that electricity is green then who cares, they can mine as much as they want, nobody is going to buy it and they'll stop doing it

> That creates a higher demand for fast-fashion

If I squint I can kinda see it I guess, we're already working on that problem though

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/16/fast-fashion-french-bringing-shein-and-temu-to-heel-can-britain-follow-suit

ikt, 2 months ago

@compost @lucybeahere @Gargron I disagree, I think it's a silly rule

> Content created by others must be attributed

That is going to create a lot of mod work for something that isn't and hasn't been enforced anywhere else on the net

But I assume they've thought about that I guess

It'd be nice if there was a blog post or further explanation why this has suddenly come up and to the reasons behind why they're doing this

ikt, 2 months ago

@lucybeahere @compost @Gargron Interesting article, I want to see if there's any others or if this is just 1 newspaper looking for a bit of a bite

My understanding is that the IRA/inflation reduction act was massively increasing green spending to a ridiculous degree, that even Europe was getting mad about it.

It doesn't line up having electricity shortages with such massive spending on renewables

ikt, 2 months ago

@lucybeahere @compost @Gargron I mean it was an extrapolation based on a prediction of a trend that may not even be there...it's even in the thumbnail "(forecast)"

I want more electricity usage and renewables should be there to fill in the gap

You can see Australia's usage here: https://opennem.org.au/energy/nem/?range=all&interval=1M&view=discrete-time

It isn't set in stone, we could be reading an article in a year going "How Record Renewables Investment Keeps Americas Electricity Costs Low"

ikt, 2 months ago

@lucybeahere @compost @Gargron > All of those houses need power

If they have solar power they should be a net positive? Most home solar installations are outputting multiples of power required for the home

With home solar (paired) batteries on the rise and what appears to be extremely quickly heading into solar style just plain good economic sense the average home should be a net positive

Battery prices just fell off a cliff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cbm9Cz6OdQ

ikt, 2 months ago

@lucybeahere @compost Sorry replied to the wrong person, I can see how it may be possible, but that would be an obscene amount of demand

https://about.bnef.com/blog/global-clean-energy-investment-jumps-17-hits-1-8-trillion-in-2023-according-to-bloombergnef-report/

> Investment in the US jumped 22% year-on-year, to $303 billion, as the effects of the Inflation Reduction Act started to be felt.

I'm just struggling to believe the Biden team came up with the inflation reduction act, one of the greatest policies I've ever seen and you'll still increase fossil fuel demand, that would be absurd

ikt, 3 months ago

@krisfreedain I could have sworn they made a big fuss about tearing that down

ikt, 3 months ago

@simon @mike we have an oncall rotation for pretty much every operations department, from software to networks to systems and every level in between

we use opsgenie so if something comes through to the NOC for our higher up teams we can move the alert over to them

ikt, 4 months ago

@danslerush https://mastofeed.org/ I use for https://mastodon.au/@RenewEconomyRSSFeed works great :)

@Barredo

ikt, 4 months ago

@kev welcome to the club, you won't miss going to petrol stations at all 💪

ikt, 4 months ago

@scottsantens the question is where do you get the money, I don't want to even think how this would work in developing countries where there is no money

ikt, 4 months ago

@DavidM_yeg @scottsantens Certainly but the wealthiest get richer because they provide services people love, people love Amazon, they love Google, they love Microsoft, and they especially love Apple and the products they all produce, so it makes sense that the people around those companies and products get richer

how do you propose to raise their levels of wealth to distribute without taxes?

ikt, 4 months ago

@LLS I'm not sure the market cares about what I value billionaires at, the market is deciding, these companies are all beholden to share holders as well and CEO's can be kicked quite easily (See Steve Jobs at Apple)

If the market feels like having tech billionaires is a problem they are free to shop elsewhere, however I suspect the market aka consumers aka most people prefer the convenience of these products over the tech billionaire problem.

ikt, 4 months ago

@Stevenheywood @LLS You'll have to explain how much tax we are talking

A UBI would be received independently of any other income. If the level is sufficient to meet a person's basic needs (i.e., at or above the poverty line)

The taxes that would need to be raised for UBI would be absurd, in Australia $1000 a month would be unlivable so lets go with poverty level

$611 per week / $2444 per month = $31772 per year = 857 billion 844 million

Australia's federal budget is $600 billion

ikt, 4 months ago

@Stevenheywood @LLS I'll be honest, just thinking of the inflation from that makes my head spin

We're still recovering from the covid era stimulus and that wasn't half of 1 year of ubi and we've had to reign in spending quite a bit since then

ikt, 4 months ago

@LLS @Stevenheywood you tell me what the economic impact of giving billions and trillions of dollars to people would be...?

for reference we are getting stage 3 tax cuts in Australia and people are unhappy because it means if money goes to poorer people they will spend it and increase inflation again... so im seeing this part of ubi play out in real time