After a few months, I’d get laid off and have to look for other data center work.
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Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Harry Potter creator and terrible fucking human says to commit sexual harassment on womenEnglish17·11 days agoIt’s not unique. Orson Scott Card is generally considered a jerk. And Frank Herbert had some issues.
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•US question: Would you approve of your state seceding from the Union, declaring independence from the United States? I think California, Oregon, and Washington would, and probably Colorado too.English8·13 days agoNew York has quite a bit going for it. I think we can stand up for ourselves. I think Jersey, Connecticut, and Vermont would join us right out of the gate. I’d certainly support secession.
Additionally, NY plus CA seceding would put way too much pressure on the remainder for the rest of the states to manage the federal government. If Texas secedes for the opposite reasons, that’s the end of it.
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t SayingEnglish51·16 days agoWell, I work at an AI hyperscaler. I can tell you how much my facility uses, and how much each rack uses, but don’t have any way to determine what the customer is doing on that server. Or even which servers a given customer is using. Is it being used heavily for queries? How many? Of what kind? We don’t know. Only what the rack/row/pod/hall is consuming.
Also, does the network gear overhead count? How do you apportion that?
We have no visibility into the customer workload. Some of our customers use our systems for scientific research. Drugs, etc. How do you tally that?
I’m not saying that it is impossible, just that if the customer won’t pay for that report, we’re not going to spend money to build the systems to produce it.
Do I agree? No. But I’m just a grunt.
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t SayingEnglish92·16 days agoA problem is that the information is not in the hands of the company selling the AI. The actual hardware is often owned by service providers and independent data centers.
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Republican National Convention Sued for Sending Unhinged Text Messages Soliciting Donations to Donald Trump’s Campaign and Continuing to Text Even After Trying to Unsubscribe.English15·19 days agoI received a bunch of these texts
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you think the most famous phone number of all time is ?English1·19 days agoThanks
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you think the most famous phone number of all time is ?English2·19 days agoI’ve never heard of it.
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are the USA heading towards civil war?English2·21 days agoOuch.
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Americans that are in the armed forces, What is the current feeling inside it?English9·25 days agoI’d like to know if there is are general differences between the branches. Like, is the Air Force more liberal?
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the modern design trends you hate most?English1·29 days agoRed and green go well together. Perhaps a natural foresty color.
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the modern design trends you hate most?English31·29 days agoColors. Society has been getting more monochrome for years. And now black and white houses are all over.
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.English11·2 months agoNVL72 will be enormously impactful on high end performance.
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Those of you that have negative sentiments towards AI: What would you want to happen right now?English3·2 months agoSo, a lot of our AI customers have no real use for LLM. It’s pharmaceutical and genetics companies looking for the treatments and cures for things like pancreatic cancer and Parkinson’s.
It is a big problem to paint all generative AI with the “stealing IP” brush.
It seems likely to me that an AI may be the only controller that can handle all of the rapidly changing parameters needed to maintain a safe fusion process. Yes it needs safeties. But it needs research, too.
I urge much more consideration of the specific uses of this new technology. I agree that IP theft is bad. Let’s target the bad parts carefully.
New construction work is also much easier than repairs. Commercial is better than residential.
HVAC is a bit of both.
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•You're being sold as an action figure. What 2 accessories do you come with?English4·2 months agoI feel seen.
Xaphanos@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•[Opinion] Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sicknessEnglish9·2 months agoIt already works like this. Audits perform this function. Failing a mandatory audit generally goes very poorly for financial companies. The unintended result is falsified audits - something my former company did (still does?) every year. The banks and the Fed never found out.
The only logical way.
Also, when you find that the first five episodes have lousy sound quality, you skip those.