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adnan

@adnan@1210.nl

From the old internet

Originally from New Delhi, India. Now living in the Netherlands. I gossip about news, current events and programming.

Born at 333ppm

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gamingonlinux, to random
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Google AI just telling people to drink piss. Perfect, no notes.

https://x.com/dril/status/1787041991391584549

adnan,
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@gamingonlinux Can’t believe that arc search (Kagi is the search engine) is better!

mikewas, to random
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Why does your credit score drop when you pay off a car loan?

A friend of mine was furious the other day, when he saw that paying off his car loan caused his score to drop about 40 points.

Why does this happen?

Two reasons.

👇

adnan,
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@mikewas yes! That explains why people who pay off their loans before time and deny lenders their interest income have a lower credit score.

carnage4life, to random
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It looks like along with the departure of Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, OpenAI has disbanded its superalignment team whose mission was to “control AI systems much smarter than us.”

OpenAI’s flirtation with AI doomerism is officially over and they’re now just another startup.

adnan,
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@carnage4life I wish Sam had gone to Microsoft so that all of this would have been clear to the world. This is a Microsoft subsidiary and it should be treated as such by press and regulators.

norootcause, to random
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The hard thing about distributed systems is that "turn the whole thing off and on again" isn't an option.

adnan,
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@norootcause You could keep crashing / force exiting each microservice randomly … like once a week.

partim, to random
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I could fly to Dublin in less than two hours (net). I could do the trip with fast trains and boats in a day.

Or I can stick to slow trains and take three days.

Either way, the journey starts here. And now.

adnan,
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@partim which service do you use to plan your rail journeys? Is NS International sufficient?

adnan,
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@partim ICNG will take you all the way to Breda. Eurostar has been surpassed

BM_Visser, to random Dutch
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Last week, the Netherlands had, on average 4 hours per day with a negative day-ahead power price.

Until now, the Netherlands had 155 of such hours this year, compared to 65 last year in the same period, and 31 in 2022. A significant increase. We see this in most European countries.

The expansion of solar and wind occurs much quicker than the increase of power demand. Consequently, negative and near-zero power prices, with significant curtailment of solar and wind, will become more common.

adnan,
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@BM_Visser Haven’t really seen negative electricity prices. I don’t really want to buy solar panels.

sushubh, to random
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How Jawaharlal Nehru University became India's best - The Week

https://www.theweek.in/theweek/specials/2024/05/18/how-jawaharlal-nehru-university-became-india-s-best.html

adnan,
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@sushubh Affirmative admissions. Really affordable student life. And a high quality of campus life that meant that the best people wanted to work there. It is a virtuous circle.

carnage4life, to random
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The story of DeviantArt, a community site now overwhelmed by content from AI bots and which is itself selling user content to train AI, reads like a cautionary tale for Reddit.

The saving grace is there’s no Reddit alternative for users upset about their content being sold to AI companies

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

adnan,
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@carnage4life Fediverse fans like me will tell you that Reddit’s moat isn’t as deep as they think.

ruari, to random
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Not an everyday sight for most people. And yes I'm posting while I cycle.

adnan,
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@ruari is this still inside Oslo city limits? 😀

cassidy, (edited ) to random
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I got an air quality sensor and air purifier, and have learned:

• opening the windows is the most effective way to decrease particulate matter

• our humidifier pumps out hazardous levels of particles when using tap water (oops)

• waking up w/an irritated throat and sinuses goes away with clean air!

• high particulate matter is correlated with nosebleeds in kids—and our kid gets chronic nosebleeds

I am happy to have learned all of this but also feel like an idiot for learning it so late. 😭

adnan,
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@cassidy if you were in Delhi India, opening the window is the most effective way to kill your purifier. 🤪

Hawaii, to random
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Heated floors: Why Koreans love the floor: The cultural secret behind ignoring sofas

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-05-18/culture/lifeStyle/WHY-Why-Koreans-love-the-floor-The-cultural-secret-behind-ignoring-sofas/2049113

adnan,
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@Hawaii this is my favorite way to sit for TV or even when close friends are visiting. I feel more relaxed. I might be Korean. 🇰🇷

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Trump has said FOUR times that he will withhold federal funding from schools that require vaccines. Not just COVID. ALL.

This is most schools. This is hitting me where I work. This will lead to children dead from measles. It's obvious, inevitable.

Someone on here said they just couldn't bear to vote for Biden to keep Trump from office since at least under Trump there were better masking rules.

I hope that person sees this.

Worse is worse.

edit: because I don't know measles from smallpox

adnan,
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@futurebird Can’t wait for anti vaxxers to become political force in the rest of the world too. Right wing nutters copy from each other.

sushubh, to random
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OpenAI just dissolved its team dedicated to managing AI risks, like the possibility of it 'going rogue'

https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/openai-just-dissolved-its-team-dedicated-to-managing-ai-risks-like-the-possibility-of-it-going-rogue/articleshow/110217530.cms

adnan,
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@sushubh It seems to me that AI is an inherently dangerous technology. Like nuclear fission technology. Sure you can use it for power generation, but it was mostly used for weapons.

Theorem_Poem, to random
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These berries will end as a cup of coffee somewhere.

adnan,
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@Theorem_Poem coffee estate vacation sounds like a dream. How long is the drive in the mountains? I ask because I get very sick on those roads.

adnan,
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@Theorem_Poem that is not bad. I am ok for about 45 minutes to 60 minutes.

TechDesk, to ai
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When OpenAI created its “Superalignment” team in summer 2023, the goal was for it to “steer and control future AI systems that could be so powerful they could lead to human extinction,” reports @engadget. “Less than a year later, that team is dead.”

Jan Leike, one of the team’s leaders, who quit earlier this week, posted a scathing statement on X showing the internal tensions between the safety team and the wider company.

“OpenAI is shouldering an enormous responsibility on behalf of all of humanity,” he wrote. “But over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.” Engadget has more.

https://flip.it/PRqSl5

#AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #Tech

adnan,
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@TechDesk @engadget Satya Nadella wants to make Google dance I guess.

WAHa_06x36, to random
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Trying a sip of German elderflower liqueur, and am immediately overwhelmed by the urge to move into a cottage and spend all my days sitting among the trees in a neverending summer.

adnan,
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@WAHa_06x36 I love the idea of a “neverending summer”.

conorh, to random
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During lunch a friend mentioned that you can just supply a HTTP URL to vim on the command line and it would use curl to download that resource and allow you to edit the content. I jokingly asked whether if you enter :w it would then issue a HTTP POST back to the origin which is of course ridiculous.

It issues a PUT

adnan,
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@conorh vim supremacy 💪

adnan, to random
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The Maestro cards are not working again in Netherlands 🇳🇱 They were down for 3 hours yesterday too.

mathowie, to random
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https://phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.

Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.

I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.

Boosts are rolled up into a carousel of toots you can view with sideways scrolling
Threads are shown grouped together and single posts from threads are indicated as such.

adnan,
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@dan613 @mathowie I like the boosts carousel. I wish I didn't have to scroll horizontally to read all the 10 posts in the carousel.

HonkHase, to ChatGPT German
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Shtfck 😳🔥😔

consumes 25 times more than

"Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence () is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations."
https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

adnan,
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@HonkHase I am certain I use ChatGPT 25 times less often than I use Google. Google has been converting my typos in the address bar into searches unnecessarily for years now.

FluentInFinance, to random
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My credit score dropped when I paid off my car.

My credit score dropped when I paid off my student loans.

The system punishes you for not owing any money.

They told me: "You should get more loans to increase your credit score."

The system is predatory and wants you to be in debt.

Credit scores are one of the biggest scams.

adnan,
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@FluentInFinance What is this “credit score” supposed to represent? Is it for the banks to know whether you are a desirable customer? Someone who pays backs their loans early is probably not a profitable person for them.

gedeonm, to random
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What I’d like from today’s Apple iPad event:

  • Camera on the long side of the iPad (where it belongs)
  • Longer battery life
  • Faster processor (duh)
  • To not have Sherlocked 🙏
adnan,
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@gedeonm that will buy you a nice meal. It isn’t nothing

jwz, to random
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Is Xcode actually a program, or a fractal zipbomb of nested installers?

Software update: "New Xcode!"
I fill with dread.
Two hours later: Finally launch Xcode.
Xcode: "Oh, did you want a compiler?? Update tools! Update components!"
Two hours later: press "Run".
Xcode: "Suddenly you have no simulators! Those old ones, they were no good! Download a single simulator!"
Four hours later...

adnan,
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@jwz macOS needs a new package manager 😀

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