i got a little clip on bluetooth earphone (singular) for listening to my tangara with whilst cycling (and still being able to hear cars, etc). i got the chance to try it out on a long ride yesterday and it was really nice, made the ride just fly by honestly. i think next week ill focus on implementing handling avrc events so that i can pause and skip tracks whilst riding :)
This was a fun one, so let's do it again. What is something you've learned that seems unlikely, even though you know it's true? Here's one I think about a lot:
Sight, while being something something many people are born with, is not an innate ability, but something we learn to do. People who were born blind or were blind for a long time, who get sight, have to learn to see.
@jacqueline just like post-call surveys; "how was your experience with [employee name]?"
nuh uh, you're not gonna trick me into giving you an excuse to pay your already-underpaid employee any less; I'm giving the guy I talked to a 10/10 even if he's rude and unhelpful
If you are attempting to try out a #Linux desktop for the first time because you've had enough of Microsoft's shit but are feeling a need to scream in order to express just how frustratingly weird and annoying this operating system is...
I'm here for you. I promise to do my best to both validate your emotions and guide you towards the knowledge you need to be free.
@jpaskaruk and for anyone getting into Linux, remember that any desktop that you like and which works for you is perfectly fine, and don't let anyone pressure you into using a different one unless you're curious about others.
@jpaskaruk that being said, also don't be afraid to try new desktop environments! I didn't know how much I would love a tiling window manager until I installed and booted up #Hyprland!
@oxiurus@jpaskaruk wow, thanks a bunch! I've been looking for an alternative to #hyprland (the window manager itself is great, it's just that the community and maintainers are kinda toxic IMO).
I spent today switching to / configuring #niri, and I gotta say I really like this infinite-workspace concept, and my #Waybar setup worked out of the box.
I am once again mentioning that for 55 of my 55 years of life, I have largely not given a shit about sports.
But cis people being bigoted fucks about trans women in sports has forced an activity that I have always found to be loathsome and boring into my awareness.
And they've left me with the conclusion that far too many cis people are as loathsome and boring as their bigoted, obsessive opinions about sports.
The creator of the format, Steve Wilhite, pronounced it with a soft “g.” Apparently this pronunciation is even specified in the tech specs for the format. He was riffing on a Jif peanut-butter advertising slogan, “Choosy mothers choose Jif,” by saying “Choosy programmers choose GIF.”
If you insist that “GIF” be pronounced with a hard g, because of some misguided insistence that acronyms must follow the pronunciation of the expanded phrase, missing the joke, AND ignoring the tech specs, for God’s sake, then I will insist that you also use the following pronunciations:
COVID: | ˌkōvīd | (“covyde”), as the “VI” is short for virus, with a long i.
SCUBA: | ˈskəbə | (“skubba”), as the U stands for “underwater,” which is pronounced with a short u.
LASER: | ˈlasir | (“lasseer”), as the A stands for amplfication (short a), the S for simulated (“sss” not “zzz”), and the E stands for emission (usually a long e, but debatable, okay)
YOLO: | ˈyōlwə | (“yole-wuh”) as the final O stands for “once”, with the o taking on a wuh sound.
POTUS: | ‘pätyo͞os | (“pot-use”) as the O stands for “office” (ah) and the U stands for “United” (you).
"ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search. Additionally, a lot of water is also used in cooling for the servers that run all that software. Per conversation of about 20 to 50 queries, half a litre of water evaporates – a small bottle, in other words."
AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030
Training GPT3, took 1,287 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity.
@gerrymcgovern and, to be clear, just because the water is evaporated into the atmosphere does NOT mean it is instantly reusable.
If you draw water from an aquifer faster than that aquifer's recharge rate, the sediment surrounding the reservoir will compact and subside, leading to a permanent capacity reduction. This is already happening to aquifers around the world: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41933-z
A new approach from astronomers seeks to use tidal disruption events—bright and fleeting phenomena—to locate and study the universe’s first stars, known as Population III stars, using the upcoming #NASARoman: https://bit.ly/3JP2spx