LurkingLuddite

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[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Nope. Wrong.

BOTH are not "real" things, as far as you describe. They BOTH describe phenomenon we have no precise explanations for.

Dark matter: Many (NOT all) galaxies rotate or otherwise act like they have a LOT more mass around them than we can observe. Mostly visible by further out objects rotating faster than they should. If there were only as much mass as we can see, outer objects should mostly be waaaay slower.

Dark energy: The furthest distances in the universe are accelerating away from us. That acceleration requires energy from somewhere. It does NOT happen within galaxies, but of course we can see millions of galaxies with the ultra-sensitive telescopes we have today.

In BOTH cases, we do not have a detailed explanation for, but we DO have MANY observations that confirm the effects. They are BOTH real phenomenon, and neither have solid explanations, yet. Hence the "dark xxx" names.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The problem is Dark Energy is the majority of energy in the universe, by ~3x (very roughly, I of course forget the exact proportions).

That immediately excludes ALL energy given off by stars/etc, as not only is it way more than would ever be possible, but traditional energies would DECREASE the expansion rate, not accelerate it.

There is also the massive problem of how it appears: between galaxies. NOT within galaxies, but on a larger scale. If it were caused by stars, it would be concentrated around denser galaxies, not literally the opposite of that.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 10 points 3 months ago

Too bad 98% of people who will see this movie have no fucking idea why west africa would be in conflict...

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 67 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

I mean... Totally valid question!

IMO, it'd almost certainly be a terrible idea because all the ring has to do is get to someone else. If they lose track of that chicken for a second, I bet it'd run it's ass off and find some other creature/character that'd be easier to influence than Frodo.

Remember: It is not the petite, easily overpowered nature of Hobbits that made them a good choice. It was their peaceful, carefree nature: They are WAY less temptable by the idea of power and control than others.

So... While the worst damage a chicken would be likely to do directly would be to peck out the eyes of Sam and Frodo while they slept, it would still be foolish to put the ring in control of anything more temptable or less driven to destroy the ring than Frodo.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 23 points 3 months ago

I mean, I could understand some horndog weirdo being disappointed, but mad? Definitely the kind of people that need to be on a list... On that list when you're in front of a judge for SA anything? Congrats, you get the max!

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 74 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If they were .ml, hexbear, or several other instance users... Yea. Their instances are echo chambers for their own dumbass ideologies.

Different instances have different ideologies and cultures they prefer, which cannot happen on twitter or other monolith services.

You'll just have to learn to ignore the absolute braindead takes rampant from some instances, and don't feel bad for blocking the cretins that don't care for human rights.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

When used for much of the fancier stuff, like AI, it's not running in python. Python is just setting up all the other stuff and making the calls to shove the models onto the GPU and configure and blah blah... You're just writing the program that uses the ML libraries that make other types of programming do the real work, like CUDA or the other one I forgot the name of, or even Vulkan, or what have you.

So while Python is slow, things written in it do not have to be slow.

Similar to Godot's language. It's terribly inefficient, but it's meant mostly to respond to human time scale events, not to have complex computation-heavy systems written up in it. And similar to Python with AI tools and whatnot, Godot's graphics side is still running hot and fast in the GPU with dx/vulcan even while the language the UI and game logic is written in is inefficient.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Inceldom is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Why do you want to listen to a bunch of whiny losers pretending it's not their gross attitude and inability to take responsibility for their own lives that makes them undatable?

As for white guys getting picked more, IF it's even true, it's likely just the same old stupid shit of people trying to marry into money or opportunity.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A "server" is just any computer serving up digital services through a network. It can be anything from a tiny IoT device (Raspberry Pis are/were popular amongst hobbyists) to a huge expensive specialized computer sitting in a data center rack, or really all the way to super custom hardware. The "what" is way less important than the "why".

It's all about what the server is doing. Usually, the "service" is HTTP traffic (the web/internet/etc), but it can be anything.

It works exactly like any other computer, but of course after decades and decades of development, there is a huge variety of specialized hardware made for 'serving' up ... all sorts of services. Specialized web servers, specialized database servers, specialized storage servers, specialized "AI" servers, etc etc etc. Many modern day services use several of these specialized devices together to provide services that can handle millions+ of users. While tying all those specialized devices together can get really complex, they're still just computers that are really good at specific things.

The only thing that truly defines a 'server' as far as hardware is concerned is how specialized/optimized the hardware is for serving up those services.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Many people have unjustified feelings. I'm not babying sensitive fools or people who hear one thing and think another.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social -1 points 3 months ago

If you need reinforcement on this topic, you are already too stupid to deserve consideration.

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