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Comment · 3 months ago
Nbd sun will provide power for a few billion years still

Not the political hill to die on

Comment · 3 months ago
Oh well ok I will get right on raising taxes. So simple I should have done it sooner.

FairTax is regressive and does nothing to stop a trillionaire from launching dick rockets to nowhere. Each rocket and launch using more resources than a poor person will their entire life.

Comment · 3 months ago
Right; I already covered that explaining the runtime energy use of tech is not the real issue. It's the endless production.
Comment · 3 months ago
We have to do less

There has been a lot of debate over AC use. Everyone chiming in only discusses runtime energy use.

The biggest issue is mining and manufacturing, and the moving of all the materials, parts, and such.

Every AC has sheathed wires and circuit boards.

Every airplane, car, phone, network router, refrigerator... same expansive mess creation.

Gamers complaining about disc less games despite that problem pipeline and waste.

Complaining about RAM prices despite the problem pipeline.

No one is focused on the lag effects, externalities, of billions using up an endless supply of technologies and dumping airplane smog in the atmosphere. Etc, etc, etc

Thermodynamics makes it pretty clear that energy is not gone just hanging out in the atmosphere.

Thermodynamics means we may be fucked even if we slow down; that energy in the atmosphere can only go from atmosphere into oceans, glaciers, and permafrost. There's a lot of potential energy in the Earth to release as it absorbs the heat already in the atmosphere

Comment · 3 months ago
Am training a JEPA inspired model on my entire system.

BPF programs collate process lists, memory, cpu, network, storage and video buffer/frames into a model

I can then browse it with a custom Vulkan powered browser and recreate the observed states in a 3D space.

The fundamentals work. I recently moved into runtime testing sussing out edge cases.

Aside from the nonsensical code to interface with the mess that is Linux, the model and browser code is clean geometric transformation.

Rather than save the context from the filesystem I label snapshots of text files in the browser. All text is treated like geometric data.

Comment · 3 months ago

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