vithigar @ vithigar @lemmy.ca

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What drives me crazy about the use of water for datacenters is that it isn't necessary. Unlike growing crops where the water is a non-negotiable requirement of the endeavor just by its very nature, you can cool a datacentre without continuously consuming water.

It just so happens that by a completely insane series of circumstances it's the cheapest way to do so. You could run the servers in the datacenters at a lower power limit. You could use non-evaporative cooling. You could build the datacentre in a colder or less arid climate. But no, all of those options either cost slightly more or generate slightly less money, so they aren't even considered. Couple that with the fact that a significant proportion of that consumption is in service of prompts that no end user ever actively asked for, like the LLMs responses being generated many thousands of times per second by Google searches. It's just this utterly pointless pissing away of resources.

Reads an article about people falling for the doorman fallacy, immediately falls for the doorman fallacy.

Oh, I haven't purchased any of the revised 2024 material but I still follow it and am playing in a campaign being run by a friend.

I don't feel like it's worth giving up regularly seeing friends I've had for decades just to avoid WotC materials on principle.

They changed True Strike significantly in the 2024 rules making it no longer a waste of an action for regular attacks.

New Strike lets you attack as part of the casting using your spellcasting stat in place of str/dex for the weapon, optionally changes the weapons damage type to radiant, and adds cantrip scaling to your weapon damage.

The one use case for original True Strike to give advantage on leveled spell attack rolls and reduce the chance of wasting a spell slot (or other consumable) on a miss is gone though.

No, the initial versions of Edge used a new engine that was different from Internet Explorer's Trident engine.

Edge has been Chromium based since 2020.

Similarly, Batman: Arkham Origins is a Christmas game.

I am so incredibly glad that I find the "yes man" attitude of most LLMs to be extremely off-putting and actively discourages me from using them

No? I very much don't believe it is.

Sure, that's not a problem. Calling a legitimate sensitivity an "allergy" for the sake of expediency isn't a problem. It's still a legitimate dietary concern that needs similar handling.

I guess I'm more averse to lying then this supposed "average person" then.

I'm okay with that.

Fair point! Any electrical component that is not a superconductor is technically a resistor in addition to whatever else it does.

I literally said that I do get it corrected unless doing so is a huge inconvenience for me.

I don't lie about why I need special treatment.

I have preferences for things I don't like on my food and ask for removals or substitutions regularly. Sometimes those requests are forgotten or ignored and I will get it remade, or maybe I just suck it up and deal with it if it's takeout and I'm a half hour from where I got the food. Not once in my entire life have I considered telling people I have an allergy.

So yes, I have thought about why a person might feel like they have to lie about severity, and my conclusion is "that person is a self-centered asshole."

That's a fair point. Handling such request is part of the job, and if someone isn't willing to do that then they aren't doing their job correctly. I can definitely appreciate that perspective.

It's unfortunate in both cases that someone with a preference and someone with an allergy don't always get the appropriate response, but I still maintain that someone without an allergy saying that they do is just making things worse.

Yes, a person who asks for no onions shouldn't get onions, but a dislike doesn't require workspace and utensil sanitization to the same degree as an allergy.

Someone saying they're allergic but then getting food prepared on a surface that was just used for the thing they're allergic to can still have a reaction to it, but it's perfectly fine for someone who just didn't want it on their food.

Telling someone you're allergic when you're not either creates an enormous amount of extra work for the kitchen staff to avoid cross contamination, or reinforces not taking it seriously because they don't and nothing bad happened. In both of those scenarios the person lying about being allergic is an asshole.

That Karen telling people she's allergic is a contributing factor to why people don't take allergies seriously.

Incandescent lightbulbs are literally this.

"Wolfthorn" is orange, lychee, coconut, and pineapple. At least according to my search just now.

It's impossible for an ISP to guarantee speeds though, because it's not just their connection that's being used.

Do they use this to weasel out of reasonable expectations of connection quality? Yes, absolutely. But they also can't do anything about the speed of the server you're downloading from.